{"id":2445590,"date":"2019-06-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=308287"},"modified":"2019-06-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T06:00:00","slug":"aspen-skiing-co-recognizing-elite-ski-bums-with-1000-day-pins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-skiing-co-recognizing-elite-ski-bums-with-1000-day-pins\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Skiing Co. recognizing elite ski bums with 1,000-day pins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.5539215686275\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-308287-893\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bigpins-atd-062119-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bigpins-atd-062119.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy photo | Mikey Wechsler, center, with green socks, was recognized by Aspen Mountain Manager J.T. Welden, third from right, and other Skico employees for hitting the slopes 1,000 days over the last 10 seasons.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"15\">\n<p><strong>Mikey Wechsler, center, with green socks, was recognized by Aspen Mountain Manager J.T. Welden, third from right, and other Skico employees for hitting the slopes 1,000 days over the last 10 seasons.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bigpins-atd-062119.jpg\" alt=\"Mikey Wechsler, center, with green socks, was recognized by Aspen Mountain Manager J.T. Welden, third from right, and other Skico employees for hitting the slopes 1,000 days over the last 10 seasons.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bigpins-atd-062119-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bigpins-atd-062119-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy photo | The 98 people who were skiing or riding at least 100 days for each of the last 10 seasons will receive this special 1,000-day pin from Aspen Skiing Co.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>The 98 people who were skiing or riding at least 100 days for each of the last 10 seasons will receive this special 1,000-day pin from Aspen Skiing Co.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/bigpins-atd-062119-1.jpg\" alt=\"The 98 people who were skiing or riding at least 100 days for each of the last 10 seasons will receive this special 1,000-day pin from Aspen Skiing Co.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/aspen-skiing-co-recognizing-elite-ski-bums-with-1000-day-pins\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/aspen-skiing-co-recognizing-elite-ski-bums-with-1000-day-pins\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">The best of Aspen\u2019s ski bums are getting their due.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Aspen Skiing Co. has created special 1,000-day ski pins for 98 people who have skied or ridden their snowboards for at least 100 days for each of the past 10 seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe realized at the beginning of the year that this was the 10th year of giving out the 100-day pins,\u201d said Xanthe Demas, Skico assistant public relations manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Upon that realization, Skico officials decided to recognize the folks who earned their 100-day pins each of the seasons. Special rectangular pins were made up that say \u201c1,000 days Aspen Snowmass\u201d \u2014 simple and to the point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">About 70 members of the elite club are Skico employees, according to Jeff Hanle, Skico vice president of communication. However, many of them hit the slopes even when they weren\u2019t on duty, so Skico felt they deserved the recognition. Hanle said he was aware of one ski instructor who was at Aspen Mountain just about every day for first tracks, regardless of whether he had clients lined up that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Roughly 28 members of the 1,000-day club were people who are simply passionate about hitting the slopes. The pins will be mailed to them this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The program has been low-key, with one exception. Skico officials tricked super ski bum Mikey Wechsler of Aspen into dropping by the base of the Silver Queen Gondola on Wednesday on the pretense of needing to interview him. When he showed up, Aspen Mountain Manager J.T. Welden and seven other Skico employees presented Wechsler with a replica big check but instead of a cash amount it said \u201c1,000 days Aspen Snowmass\u201d in large lettering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In a video made and posted by Skico, Wechsler said, \u201cFirst rule of being a ski bum: Quit your day job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He said he hasn\u2019t missed a day of skiing in the past nine seasons and estimated he has hit the slopes 1,600 days over the past decade. He was close. Demas did the math and found he\u2019s been up 1,666 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Wechsler is looking forward to more days on the slopes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cKeep piling the days up. As long as I have my health, I\u2019m going to keep doing it,\u201d he said in the Skico video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:scondon@aspentimes.com\">scondon@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/aspen-skiing-co-recognizing-elite-ski-bums-with-1000-day-pins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikey Wechsler, center, with green socks, was recognized by Aspen Mountain Manager J.T. Welden, third from right, and other Skico employees for hitting the slopes 1,000 days over the last 10 seasons.Courtesy photo The 98 people who were skiing or riding at least 100 days for each of the last 10 seasons will receive this [&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-2445590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 20:47:02","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\/2445590","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=2445590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}