Upcoming Summer Events In Aspen & Snowmass

Check out a sampling of 2009 summer events below, or click here for a complete schedule of summer events.

May:
16 - Ride for the Pass
17 - Aspen Cycling Criterium

June:
5-6 - Chili Pepper & Brew Fest
18-27 - Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Festival
19-21 - Food & Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen
21 - Bluegrass Sundays on Aspen Mountain featuring TBD
28 - Bluegrass Sundays on Aspen Mountain featuring TBD
21-26 - Aspen Summer Words, Aspen Writers’ Foundation
29-July 5 - Aspen Ideas Festival

July:
4 - Aspen’s Old-Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration
4 - Boogie's Diner Buddy 5 Mile Race, downtown Aspen
TBD - Boogie's Bash Gala
5- Bluegrass Sundays on Aspen Mountain featuring TBD
12 - Bluegrass Sundays on Aspen Mountain featuring TBD
18 - The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Race for the Cure®
19 - Bluegrass Sundays on Aspen Mountain featuring TBD
23 - JASummer Night Swing, Highlands Village
26 - Bluegrass Sundays on Aspen Mountain featuring TBD

August:
2 - Bluegrass Sundays on Aspen Mountain featuring TBD
3-4 - Vince Gill/Amy Grant Snowmass Club Charity Classic
7-9 - Blast the Mass, Snowmass Village
8 - Aspen High Country Triathlon and Duathlon
9 - Bluegrass Sundays on Aspen Mountain featuring TBD
16 - Bluegrass Sundays on Aspen Mountain featuring TBD
22 - The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Aspen/Snowmass Ride for the Cure®
23 - Bluegrass Sundays on Aspen Mountain featuring TBD
30 - Bluegrass Sundays on Aspen Mountain featuring TBD

September:
3-7 - The 37th Annual Motherlode Volleyball Tournament
4-6 - Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Festival
12 - 12 Hours of Snowmass Mountain Bike Race
17-20 - Snowmass Balloon Festival
17-20 - The 42nd Annual Aspen Ruggerfest
24-27 - The Meeting - A Celebration of Snow Film & Culture in Aspen
26 - Golden Leaf Half-Marathon Classic
30-October 4 - Aspen FilmFest

October:
7-12 - John Denver Week


Ongoing Summer Events:
Aspen Music Festival and School, June 25 - August 23
Bluegrass Sundays on Aspen Mountain, June 21 - September 6
Snowmass Rodeo, Wednesdays June 17 - August 19
Snowmass Summer of Free Music Series, Thursdays, July 2 - August 6
Aspen Saturday Market, June 19 - October 17, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., downtown Aspen

Highlands Extends Season Again This Year; Base Still 109"

Highlands announced this week it will again re-open for two weekends this month. (Why let all that lovely 36 inches that fell last week go to waste?)

Base snow is still at 109 inches, according to Aspen Ski. Co.'s website. Nine foot base!

Like last year, the four mountains received record snowfalls, even late in to the season, to everyone's delight! This year snow totals were equally impressive, if not down right record-setting.

Thus, keep on skiing, folks!

Here's the official statement from Skico's website with dates and lift rates.

Aspen Highlands will REOPEN for the weekends of April 18-19 and April 25-26! The Exhibition, Loge, Cloud Nine and Deep Temerity lifts will run daily from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. providing access to the entire mountain including Highland Bowl (conditions permitting).

The Merry-Go-Round restaurant will have a limited lunch menu and outdoor bar (weather permitting). Cloud Nine Alpine Bistro will also be open for lunch, reservations required.

With more than 25 feet of snowfall this season, the conditions at Aspen/Snowmass are the best they have been in many years. In addition to great skiing and riding, there will be live music, events and special packages available. More details will be announced shortly.

All Aspen/Snowmass season passes are valid as they are during the regular season. Adult lift tickets will be $39 per day, youth and seniors will pay $29 and children's tickets will be $19. As always children six and under ski for free. Current season passholders from any other resort in the U.S. will pay just $19 for their lift ticket.