{"id":2453677,"date":"2020-01-24T10:27:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=319665"},"modified":"2020-01-24T10:27:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:27:07","slug":"mountain-mayhem-new-month-new-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/mountain-mayhem-new-month-new-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Mayhem: New Month, New Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/01-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/01-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/01-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/01-2-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"><figcaption><strong>The Aerobics Queens in full 80s regalia. The Little Nell&#8217;s team scored all tens from the judges, taking second place in the Aspen Gay Ski Downhill Costume Competition.<\/strong><br \/><em>Matt Power photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A friend of mine was visiting from Los Angeles in December during a stream of social events including Canada Goose\u2019s \u201cOut There Cinema-Aspen\u201d screening on the upper gondola plaza Dec. 13, The World Snow Polo Championships hosted by the St. Regis with events also held at the W Aspen and on and on. \u201cAspen really just goes from one event to the next, right?\u201d he asked. The answer is yes, and as we\u2019ve entered the New Year and new decade, the steady stream of festivities has continued. Not to mention fun gatherings with the many international guests who come for extended visits in the New Year, especially so from Australia and Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Aspen Film\u2019s Academy Screenings moved from its traditional late December dates to Jan. 4 to 7, bringing award season contenders to the mountains for a showcase of some of the year\u2019s highest quality cinematic achievements. Wintersk\u00f6l, Aspen\u2019s annual \u201ctoast to winter,\u201d which dates back to a quiet January in 1951 when locals decided to celebrate Aspen\u2019s unique Nordic lifestyle with an eclectic weekend of festivities, took place from Jan. 9 to 12 this year with Wintersculpt, fireworks and more. Aspen Gay Ski Week \u2014 or simply Ski Week as those in the know refer to it \u2014 took the town by storm from Jan. 12 to 19. And now, we welcome all of the X Gamers \u2014 event producers, athletes, families, fans, press, musicians and more from Jan. 23 to 26.<\/p>\n<p>Happy 2020!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/mountain-mayhem-new-month-new-decade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aerobics Queens in full 80s regalia. The Little Nell&#8217;s team scored all tens from the judges, taking second place in the Aspen Gay Ski Downhill Costume Competition.Matt Power photo A friend of mine was visiting from Los Angeles in December during a stream of social events including Canada Goose\u2019s \u201cOut There Cinema-Aspen\u201d screening on [&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-2453677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 19:09:10","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\/2453677","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=2453677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}