{"id":2454510,"date":"2020-02-13T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=320819"},"modified":"2020-02-13T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:02:00","slug":"meet-your-liftie-michael-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/meet-your-liftie-michael-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet your Liftie: Michael Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aspen Highlands liftie Michael Johnson poses for a portrait at Thunderbowl Lift on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong>
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Name:<\/strong> Michael Johnson or \u201cMJ\u201d<\/p>\n

Where you from:<\/strong> New Jersey<\/p>\n

Lift location:<\/strong> Highlands Thunderbowl or Exhibition, usually.<\/p>\n

Years as a liftie:<\/strong> First season <\/span><\/p>\n

What brought you to Aspen?<\/strong> I was doing trail work all year before the wintertime in Colorado and I needed a winter job. I didn\u2019t know how to snowboard when I moved out here in November and now I can. I moved out here to snowboard and have a job.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where do you live?<\/strong> Across the street from Aspen Highlands<\/span><\/p>\n

What has surprised you about Aspen?<\/strong> It\u2019s been sort of what I expected, but I didn\u2019t know there were four mountains in the area or about the Highland Bowl. <\/span><\/p>\n

What did you think about the Bowl?<\/strong> I hear it\u2019s an unusual thing for a mountain like this to have, but it was awesome to hike up there and be able to snowboard down. I thought I was going to do the Bowl at the end of the season, but I guess just going out every day I got better. <\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s your best night out in Aspen consist of?<\/strong> Probably some concert at Belly Up that\u2019s not super expensive and then hit the bars afterwards. I go to Escobar or Silver City. The shows at Belly Up are pretty cool. <\/span><\/p>\n

Have you had a memorable interaction with a guest?<\/strong> A local named Beavers gave us a Banquet with peanuts and a 10 dollar bill attached to it. He\u2019s really cool.<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s your best tricks for staying warm?<\/strong> Buffs really help, having something around my neck.<\/span><\/p>\n

How do you choose the music to play at your lift?<\/strong> I am playing the music right now! It has to be appropriate, but I put stuff that I like or stuff that I know lots of people know and like. I have like Johnny Cash and EDM music and then I\u2019ll have like rock music. All kinds of stuff. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Aspen Highlands liftie Michael Johnson poses for a portrait at Thunderbowl Lift on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times Name: Michael Johnson or \u201cMJ\u201d Where you from: New Jersey Lift location: Highlands Thunderbowl or Exhibition, usually. Years as a liftie: First season What brought you to Aspen? I was doing […]<\/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-2454510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 15:52:57","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\/2454510","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=2454510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}