{"id":2449354,"date":"2019-09-30T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=313661"},"modified":"2019-09-30T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T03:00:00","slug":"having-your-klaus-obermeyer-moment-is-an-experience-of-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/having-your-klaus-obermeyer-moment-is-an-experience-of-a-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"Having your \u2018Klaus Obermeyer moment\u2019 is an experience of a lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When you live in Aspen, eventually you get to have your Klaus moment. Mine came two years, seven months and five days after moving to this gem of a place.<\/p>\n

Putting together our monthlong series on life and living in the mountains \u2014 Longevity Project: Elevate Your Life \u00ad\u2014 it is a no-brainer, I said, that we have to ask Klaus Obermeyer his take.<\/p>\n

I was fortunate in my 30-year sports journalism career (before moving to the news side and an editor role) to interview a number of all-stars, hall of famers and Olympians. I covered all the major all-star games as well as Super Bowls, World Series, Stanley Cups and NCAA tournaments of every kind.<\/p>\n

But I have to admit the days before when I was working on my list of Klaus questions, I was a little anxious.<\/p>\n

Wanting to be respectful of his time, and knowing he\u2019s done just short of a gazillion interviews about \u201chow do you stay so young,\u201d I was really trying to keep my questions concise, on point and as fresh as possible.<\/p>\n

As soon as we set up in his office and got the camera and questions rolling, Klaus answered each query with his trademark gusto and energy. His thoughtful responses on a range of topics kept us going for nearly an hour.<\/p>\n

We wrapped up with Klaus showing me the focus needed in aikido, a Japanese martial arts he practices every day. Never would I have thought when I walked into his office that before I left the 99-year-old Klaus would be trying to pull down on my arm while I was putting my energy and focus into keeping it taunt.<\/p>\n

Part of my interview with Klaus will be shown at Tuesday night\u2019s Longevity Project event at the Mountain Chalet. After that, we\u2019ll post the video online.<\/p>\n

The rest of the interview, which includes Klaus\u2019 life growing up in Austria before moving to the U.S. in the late 1940s and how he started Obermeyer with $10,000 he borrowed from a Basalt potato farmer, we\u2019ll use for stories as Klaus celebrates his 100th birthday in December.<\/p>\n

Now that we\u2019ve meet in his office, I can only hope that we meet up on the mountain and I get to follow him down the hill. I know there\u2019s no way I\u2019ll be able to keep up with him, but it will be a privilege to try.<\/p>\n

dkrause@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you live in Aspen, eventually you get to have your Klaus moment. Mine came two years, seven months and five days after moving to this gem of a place. Putting together our monthlong series on life and living in the mountains \u2014 Longevity Project: Elevate Your Life \u00ad\u2014 it is a no-brainer, I said, […]<\/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-2449354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 14:39:16","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'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\/2449354","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=2449354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}