{"id":2440127,"date":"2019-02-05T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/snowmass-history-dropping-ribbon-on-owl-creek-cross-country-skiing\/"},"modified":"2019-02-05T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T23:40:00","slug":"snowmass-history-dropping-ribbon-on-owl-creek-cross-country-skiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/snowmass-history-dropping-ribbon-on-owl-creek-cross-country-skiing\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowmass history: Dropping ribbon on Owl Creek cross-country skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">&#8220;City fathers and Nordic aficionados from Aspen and Snowmass were on hand last Friday&#8221; recapped the Aspen Times in 1984 &#8220;for a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Owl Creek cross-country ski trail from Buttermilk to Snowmass. Maintaining that track as well as the track to be used for the Silverboom is the Aspen\/Snowmass Nordic Council.&#8221; The free trail system maintained by the newly formed Nordic Council was brought to fruition through board-negotiated winter easements to connect the two communities with seamless cross-country trails, a dream which began in 1984 and is still a reality today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/snowmass\/snowmass-history-dropping-ribbon-on-owl-creek-cross-country-skiing\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;City fathers and Nordic aficionados from Aspen and Snowmass were on hand last Friday&#8221; recapped the Aspen Times in 1984 &#8220;for a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Owl Creek cross-country ski trail from Buttermilk to Snowmass. Maintaining that track as well as the track to be used for the Silverboom is the Aspen\/Snowmass Nordic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2440127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 13:48:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}