{"id":2441748,"date":"2019-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=301716"},"modified":"2019-03-15T07:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T13:22:36","slug":"closing-aspen-and-snowmass-cross-country-venues-is-premature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/closing-aspen-and-snowmass-cross-country-venues-is-premature\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing Aspen and Snowmass cross-country venues is premature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Dear city and town councils and editor,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In this fabulous winter, where we\u2019ve exceeded the prayers of a snowy winter (after last year\u2019s meager snowfall totals), I find it mind-boggling that the Aspen Cross Country Center and the Snowmass Cross Country Center will be kicked out of their stores to make way for their respective golf retail shops! As I understand it, the Snowmass XC center closes next week, March 20, and the Aspen XC center the week after!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We are a ski resort, with tourists traveling here from across the country and world to enjoy our famous alpine and cross-country offerings. Why would you close the two retail and rental cross country centers before the end of the ski season? I\u2019m sure that the Aspen Skiing Co, will be considering extending the season on their mountains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The golf courses will certainly open later this spring, due to the huge winter blanket of snow currently piling up on them. Let\u2019s keep the cross-country centers open at least until the first week of April, maybe longer!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Craig Ward<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/closing-aspen-and-snowmass-cross-country-venues-is-premature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear city and town councils and editor, In this fabulous winter, where we\u2019ve exceeded the prayers of a snowy winter (after last year\u2019s meager snowfall totals), I find it mind-boggling that the Aspen Cross Country Center and the Snowmass Cross Country Center will be kicked out of their stores to make way for their respective [&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-2441748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 09:36:07","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\/2441748","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=2441748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}