{"id":2455952,"date":"2020-03-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=322820"},"modified":"2020-03-18T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T11:00:00","slug":"history-spider-on-the-snowmass-nastar-course-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/history-spider-on-the-snowmass-nastar-course-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"History: Spider on the Snowmass NASTAR course, 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One b\/w photograph of Spider Sabich on the NASTAR race course circa 1970. Worked as Snowmass’ Pro skier in the early 1970s.<\/strong>
Courtesy photo\/Aspen Historical Society<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Vladmir \u201cSpider\u201d Sabich, the grandson of Croatian immigrants, learned to ski in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Nicknamed \u201cSpider\u201d as an infant for his gangly arms and legs, he raced for University of Colorado for Bob Beattie in 1962, made the U.S. National Team and competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics (5th in slalom). He then skied on the newly formed World Cup circuit in 1969-70 with four podium finishes and then joined the pro circuit in 1971 until his untimely death in 1976. He appeared in several promotional films, including \u201cSnowmass Dream\u201d and \u201cAspen Dream,\u201d and acted as Snowmass\u2019 pro skier in the early 1970s. Sabich is pictured here in the early 1970s running the new NASTAR Course in Snowmass-at-Aspen.<\/p>\n

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

One b\/w photograph of Spider Sabich on the NASTAR race course circa 1970. Worked as Snowmass’ Pro skier in the early 1970s.Courtesy photo\/Aspen Historical Society Vladmir \u201cSpider\u201d Sabich, the grandson of Croatian immigrants, learned to ski in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Nicknamed \u201cSpider\u201d as an infant for his gangly arms and legs, he raced for […]<\/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-2455952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 09:35:24","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\/2455952","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=2455952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}