{"id":2455087,"date":"2020-02-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=321594"},"modified":"2020-02-27T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T14:00:00","slug":"meet-your-liftie-nic-kingsbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/meet-your-liftie-nic-kingsbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Your Liftie: Nic Kingsbury"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Name:<\/strong> Nic Kingsbury<\/p>\n

Hometown:<\/strong> Apple Valley, Minnesota<\/p>\n

Lift location:<\/strong> High Alpine, Snowmass<\/p>\n

How old are you?<\/strong> 25. This is my third year as a liftie.<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s your Aspen story?<\/strong> I got here in 2015 to come up to ski and I haven\u2019t left. I never had been to Aspen before and I just fell into the culture. <\/span><\/p>\n

Where do you live?<\/strong> I live here in Snowmass to the commute is really easy. <\/span><\/p>\n

What has surprised you about Aspen?<\/strong> How friendly everybody is. Everybody really gets along. It\u2019s a great community to be a part of.<\/span><\/p>\n

When did you learn to ski\/snowboard?<\/strong> I learned how to ski when I was 4 years old at Keystone, actually, not Minnesota. When I came out here, I was a snowboarder but I\u2019ve switched back over to skiing. <\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s your best night out in Aspen consisted of?<\/strong> Going to a nice restaurant and then Belly Up. I\u2019ve got a couple of shows coming up in March that I\u2019m going to.<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s your most memorable interaction with a guest so far?<\/strong> I\u2019ve taken a few laps on my break with guests. They love it. Go out, do a lap and show them around a little bit.<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s your favorite thing about being a liftie?<\/strong> It\u2019s really mellow and nice and I get to see everybody on the hill and you meet a lot of new people most of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s your best tricks for staying warm?<\/strong> When every I get cold or bored, I always have a shovel in my hand. Staying active, keep moving.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Name: Nic Kingsbury Hometown: Apple Valley, Minnesota Lift location: High Alpine, Snowmass How old are you? 25. This is my third year as a liftie. What\u2019s your Aspen story? I got here in 2015 to come up to ski and I haven\u2019t left. I never had been to Aspen before and I just fell into […]<\/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-2455087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 01:06:10","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'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\/2455087","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=2455087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}