{"id":2452868,"date":"2020-01-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=318650"},"modified":"2020-01-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T07:00:00","slug":"thursday-was-busiest-in-what-aspen-skiing-co-calls-steady-consistent-holiday-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/thursday-was-busiest-in-what-aspen-skiing-co-calls-steady-consistent-holiday-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday was busiest in what Aspen Skiing Co. calls \u2018steady, consistent holiday period\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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People walk through the gondola plaza at the base of Aspen Mountain the day after Christmas.<\/strong>
Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Thursday\u2019s powder day under partially blue skies produced the busiest day on the Aspen-Snowmass slopes during a \u201cbusy, steady, consistent holiday period,\u201d according to Aspen Skiing Co.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Thursday) was the busiest day of the holiday period,\u201d Skico vice president of communications Jeff Hanle said Friday. \u201cIt was a little unusual to have it after New Year\u2019s Day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The busiest day tends to fall between Christmas and New Year\u2019s Eve, but that\u2019s subject to weather and when the holidays occur in the week.<\/p>\n

With the holidays on Wednesdays, it created a big surge afterward because schools were still out for several days. It helped that the ski areas received 6 to 8 inches of light, fluffy snow starting Wednesday morning into Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cSnow and sunshine bring people out in hordes,\u201d Hanle said. Thursday was not a record day, he noted.<\/p>\n

The number of skiers and snowboarders on the slopes dropped off Friday, signaling an end to the busiest period, he added.<\/p>\n

The holiday period this year was \u201cprobably as strong\u201d as last year but with a different pattern, according to Hanle. Skico officials also hope that a snowy Christmas and New Year\u2019s translates into bookings for the future.<\/p>\n

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

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

People walk through the gondola plaza at the base of Aspen Mountain the day after Christmas.Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times Thursday\u2019s powder day under partially blue skies produced the busiest day on the Aspen-Snowmass slopes during a \u201cbusy, steady, consistent holiday period,\u201d according to Aspen Skiing Co. \u201c(Thursday) was the busiest day of the holiday period,\u201d […]<\/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-2452868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 22:48:38","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\/2452868","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=2452868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}