Posts Tagged ‘Aspen hotels’

Kidtopia at Keystone Resort

February 11th
2010
by Becky Youman
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U.S. West activities destinations events and festivals family outdoor adventure

Now that all the Superbowl hype and fanfare is behind us, the buzz is building around another epic sporting event. That is of course the 2010 Winter Olympics, which will get underway tomorrow.  The big news today is the injured shin of designated Olympic darling Lindsey Vonn. I’m sure that the marketing machine at NBC will be able to find another big story to hype – be it Shaun White and his Double McTwist 1280 Whitesnake or perpetual Bad Boy Bode Miller and his, well, perpetual bad boy-ness.

Should the Olympics inspire any pint-sized skiers you might have at home, President’s Day Weekend is a great time to take the family and hit the slopes. A Colorado ski vacation might be just the ticket to grooming your ski grommet into being a future Olympian. Just think, book an Aspen hotel today, and you could be buying a ticket to host-country finalists France, Germany, or South Korea in 2018.

Children’s sports experts agree that one of the keys to instilling a love of any exercise instruction in kids is to keep it fun. If it’s wintertime snow fun you seek, look no further than Colorado’s Keystone Resort this weekend, where Keystone Kidtopia, a festival designed just for kids, will be in full swing.
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X Games in Aspen

January 25th
2010
by Becky Youman
posted in:
U.S. West destinations events and festivals

Although the Winter Olympics are still a couple of weeks away, people itching to watch hair-raising feats of skiing and snowboarding prowess can get their fill this weekend at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado. The X Games are returning to Aspen for the ninth year from Thursday, January 28 through Sunday, January 31. While Aspen hotels are starting to fill up, there’s still room for more adventure-sports loving spectators to book that Colorado ski vacation. The best part is that, unlike the Olympics, all X Games events are free and open to the public.

Touted as the premier winter action sports event in the world, the Winter X Games feature athletes from around the globe competing not only for gold, silver, and bronze medals, but also for cold hard cash. Winter X Games 14, or WX14 as this iteration is known, will be broadcast throughout the weekend on both ESPN and ABC.

Although some can argue that WX14 is no Olympics, an amazing 39 past and current Olympians will be going for the gold in Aspen this weekend. While the Flying Tomato, Olympic gold-medal winner Shaun White, is probably the most famous face to attend WX14, other well-known snowboaders include Gretchen Bleiler and Lindsey Jacobellis, both winners of silver medals in the 2006 Winter Olympics. (more…)

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