{"id":2440772,"date":"2019-02-19T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/history-a-sliding-scale-of-smass-east-coast-ski-conditions\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:40:00","slug":"history-a-sliding-scale-of-smass-east-coast-ski-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/history-a-sliding-scale-of-smass-east-coast-ski-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"History: A sliding scale of S\u2019mass-East Coast ski conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">The Feb. 19, 1969 Aspen Flyer reported on skiing conditions in Snowmass &#8220;Lower slopes at Snowmass-at-Aspen have excellent skiing, according to the Aspen Skiing Corp. Upper Slopes are rated very good. What this means, a gentleman from back East informed us, is that our &#8216;very good&#8217; is the East&#8217;s super-excellent. And our &#8216;excellent&#8217; \u2014 well, it&#8217;s out of this earthly world. By the same token, &#8216;excellent&#8217; in the East is sometimes only &#8216;fair&#8217; here. Got it? The Ski Corp.&#8217;s reasoning is that only perfect skiing should be called &#8216;excellent.&#8217; We agree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/snowmass\/history-a-sliding-scale-of-smass-east-coast-ski-conditions\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Feb. 19, 1969 Aspen Flyer reported on skiing conditions in Snowmass &#8220;Lower slopes at Snowmass-at-Aspen have excellent skiing, according to the Aspen Skiing Corp. Upper Slopes are rated very good. What this means, a gentleman from back East informed us, is that our &#8216;very good&#8217; is the East&#8217;s super-excellent. And our &#8216;excellent&#8217; \u2014 well, [&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-2440772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 03:33:17","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\/2440772","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=2440772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}