{"id":2451144,"date":"2019-11-14T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/clubhouse-chronicles-at-home-on-the-stapleton-training-center\/"},"modified":"2019-11-14T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T03:40:00","slug":"clubhouse-chronicles-at-home-on-the-avscs-stapleton-training-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/clubhouse-chronicles-at-home-on-the-avscs-stapleton-training-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Clubhouse Chronicles: At home on the AVSC\u2019s Stapleton Training Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.6285714285714\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-316080-561\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/avsccolumn-atd-111519-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/avsccolumn-atd-111519-1-1008x1024.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy | Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy<\/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\/11\/avsccolumn-atd-111519-1-1008x1024.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/avsccolumn-atd-111519-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/avsccolumn-atd-111519-1-1-732x1024.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times | AVSC executive director Mark Godomsky\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>AVSC executive director Mark Godomsky<\/strong><br \/>Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times<\/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\/11\/avsccolumn-atd-111519-1-1-732x1024.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"AVSC executive director Mark Godomsky\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/avsccolumn-atd-111519-1-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/avsccolumn-atd-111519-1-2-1024x728.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times | The Stapleton Training Center opened for the season on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>The Stapleton Training Center opened for the season on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times<\/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\/11\/avsccolumn-atd-111519-1-2-1024x728.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"The Stapleton Training Center opened for the season on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/avsccolumn-atd-111519-1-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/avsccolumn-atd-111519-1-3-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times | AVSC race director Pat Callahan works on the nets on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019, at the Stapleton Training Center at Aspen Highlands. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"12\">\n<p><strong>AVSC race director Pat Callahan works on the nets on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019, at the Stapleton Training Center at Aspen Highlands. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times<\/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\/11\/avsccolumn-atd-111519-1-3-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"AVSC race director Pat Callahan works on the nets on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019, at the Stapleton Training Center at Aspen Highlands. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/clubhouse-chronicles-at-home-on-the-stapleton-training-center\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/clubhouse-chronicles-at-home-on-the-stapleton-training-center\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">The Aspen Valley Ski &amp; Snowboard Club kicked off our sixth season on the Stapleton Training Center at Aspen Highlands on Saturday, Nov. 9, with our earliest opening yet. It\u2019s been an exciting couple of weeks on my morning commute up valley, waiting to come around the corner and see Highlands come into view, noting the progress each day: piles of snow building up and eventually flattening out to blanket the looker\u2019s left side of Aspen Highlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">For those of you who may not know where the training venue is, it\u2019s the Golden Horn and Thunderbowl trails on Aspen Highlands. It\u2019s long enough, wide enough, steep enough, and safe enough to run an International Ski Federation (FIS) sanctioned downhill race. It is an incredible resource, and one we\u2019re so grateful to have in the backyard of the AVSC Clubhouse. But more than that, it\u2019s home to our AVSC athletes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Stapleton Training Center is much more than an Alpine training and race venue, especially this time of year. Our teams come together to make a plan that works for everyone. This past weekend, there was plenty of open space to work on technique through freeskiing and drills. Our freestyle and snowboard teams slid rails and boxes and practiced their halfpipe tricks by launching off a quarterpipe into an airbag. Alpine racers trained in slalom and giant slalom courses. Mogul skiers tore through a line of bumps and jumps. We\u2019re exploring solutions for our Nordic teams, who have had a few days on snow thanks to the city of Aspen and Aspen Nordic Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Training at home is a big deal for us. The value is unquantifiable; our athletes are able to maintain their normal patterns \u2014 school, sleep, family life \u2014 and get world-class, early-season training without leaving the Roaring Fork Valley. Aside from removing a logistical burden for families, it translates to substantial cost savings as well. There are very few mountains that are open for early-season training in Colorado (Copper, Winter Park and Loveland are the only others to my knowledge). This doesn\u2019t mean that other clubs aren\u2019t skiing; it means that they\u2019re traveling. We are grateful to provide phenomenal training in the Roaring Fork Valley for our teams as well as visitors \u2014 national teams, ski academies and independent teams alike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Many thanks go out to the team, both at AVSC and Aspen Skiing Co., that worked to get the venue into the incredible shape that it\u2019s in. There\u2019s no certainty around the schedule with venue preparation; a string of sustained cold temperatures is all it takes. This means that without much warning, our crew has to be ready to spring into action. From the initial surface preparation (blowing and pushing snow) to the venue preparation (grooming, building jumps, prepping the airbag) to the safety precautions (installing safety fencing), it takes a great deal of hands to successfully and safely kick off the season. Thank you to all who made it happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Happy winter!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><em>Clubhouse Chronicles is a behind-the-scenes column written by the Aspen Valley Ski &amp; Snowboard Club that runs periodically in the Outdoors section.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/clubhouse-chronicles-at-home-on-the-stapleton-training-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard ClubCourtesy AVSC executive director Mark GodomskyAustin Colbert\/The Aspen Times The Stapleton Training Center opened for the season on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times)Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times AVSC race director Pat Callahan works on the nets on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019, at the Stapleton Training Center [&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":["post-2451144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 06:23:41","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\/2451144","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=2451144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}