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unusual facts about Aspen–Pitkin County Airport


Aspen–Pitkin County Airport

The Q400 is the latest, largest and fastest version of the Dash 8; however, this feeder service to Denver for Frontier was subsequently discontinued.


Alexander Platt

He was educated at Yale University and a conducting fellow at Aspen and Tanglewood.

Andrew Orvedahl

He performs at Comedy Works in Denver, and has performed at the Aspen, Las Vegas, Seattle, and Bridgetown comedy festivals.

Annie's Song

Denver "wrote this song in July 1973 in about ten-and-a-half minutes one day on a ski lift" to the top of Ajax Mountain in Aspen, Colorado, as the physical exhilaration of having "just skied down a very difficult run" and the feeling of total immersion in the beauty of the colors and sounds that filled all senses inspired him to think about his wife.

Aspen

Young aspen bark is an important seasonal forage for the European hare and other animals in early spring.

Aspen Achievement Academy

Afterward, the Bureau of Land Management, which manages these lands, was reported to be have conducted a review to determine whether to renew or terminate Aspen's access permit.

Aspen Airways

In the end, Mesa Airlines acquired Aspen's Denver hub and routes except for the Denver to Aspen route, stations and ground equipment.

Aspen Community Foundation

Founded by the Aspen Skiing Company in 1980 to promote philanthropy in the community, the Aspen Foundation, as it was originally named, raised funds by distributing ski passes to donors: a similar tradition that exists to this day.

Aspen Extreme

Aspen Extreme is a 1993 film about two ski buddies, TJ Burke (Paul Gross) and Dexter Rutecki (Peter Berg), who move from Brighton, Michigan to Aspen to seek a better life.

Aurgazinsky District

Oak, birch, linden, and aspen forests occupy about 18% of the area and a total of 27.3% is wooded.

Baikal Mountains

The mountains around Lake Baikal are densely wooded with Grey Alder, Eurasian Aspen, Downy Birch, Siberian Larch, Siberian Fir, Scots Pine, and Siberian Spruce.

Castleton Tower

The land initially went to an Aspen, Colorado land-developer with a local partner who planned to subdivide the land creating lots for residential housing.

Claremont Hospital

It is located at 401 Sandygate Road in the suburb of Crosspool and is currently owned by Aspen Healthcare, a subsidiary of United Surgical Partners International.

Colorado Relay

The majority of teams have 10 runners and 2 volunteers plus other support staff (Minimum 5/maximum 12 runners per team) who make their way from Georgetown to Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado with each team member running a certain number of "legs" determined by their teammates (each averages approximately 6 miles).

Dangermuffin

Dangermuffin has performed at some of the largest attended music festivals in the United States, including Wanee Music Festival in Florida, moe.down in New York, Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion in Tennessee, Taos Mountain Music Festival in New Mexico, Summer Camp Music Festival in Illinois, FloydFest in Virginia, Jazz Aspen in Colorado, and All Good Music Festival in Masontown, West Virginia.

Daniel Alfred Wachs

As a pianist, he has performed in such venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Salle Paderewski in Lausanne, and at such festivals as Aspen, Tanglewood and Verbier.

Dean Aspen

While at school Aspen performed in many productions, and studied Drama at Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College, as well as performing in productions with the Salford Quays company.

Devil's Gate Pass

Besides the dominant Artemisia tridentata (Big Sage) and Purshia tridentata (Bitterbrush) noteworthy large plants include Juniperus occidentalis (Western Juniper), Pinus jeffreyi (Jeffrey Pine), Cercocarpus ledifolius (Curl Leaf Mountain Mahogany), and the picturesque Populus tremuloides (Quaking Aspen).

Dewi Sukarno

In January 1992, Dewi became involved in a much-publicised altercation at a party in Aspen, Colorado, United States with fellow international socialite and heiress, Minnie Osmeña.

Diamond DA20

Diamond indicated the Aspen PFD was easy to incorporate into the existing instrument panel design because it mounts in a standard round instrument hole.

Dodge Aspen

In print and media actor Rex Harrison was spokesman for the Aspen, whose advertising campaign was inspired by the "Ascot Gavotte" scene in Harrison's My Fair Lady.

Eduard Schmieder

In the United States he has worked in music festivals at Aspen, Interlochen, Musicorda, Idyllwild, and in New York.

Electoral reform in Colorado

In 2007, the Aspen, Colorado City Council votes 5-0 to place a measure on the ballot to implement instant runoff voting in elections.

Ernst Haas

Haas also taught frequently at photography workshops, including the Maine Photographic Workshop, the Ansel Adams Workshop in Yosemite National Park, and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center near Aspen, Colorado.

Franz Heinzer

Heinzer won at the world's most famous downhill venues: Kitzbühel (3x), Wengen, Val Gardena (2x), Garmisch, Val-d'Isère, Aspen, Lake Louise, and St. Anton.

Frederick Albert Hale

Among them are the 1889 Woodbury Hall on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder; the Aspen Community Church, Cowenhoven Block, and Aspen Block, all in Aspen; and Longmont College in Longmont.

Gabriel Chodos

He has performed as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Holland, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and the Aspen Chamber Symphony.

Jethro Marks

As a chamber musician, Marks has performed at prestigious festivals around the world including Ravinia, Aspen, Tanglewood, Santa Fe, Mostly Mozart, and the BBC Proms.

John Casken

The recording has now been re-released on the NMC label, and there have been six further productions of Golem since 1989: Opera Omaha, 1990; Northern Stage (UK Arts Council/Contemporary Music Network Tour), 1991; Theater Dortmund, 1994; Aspen Festival, 2000; Neue Operbühne Berlin 2001; Opéra de Rennes and Angers Nantes Opéra, 2006.

John Gordon Purvis

an Aspen, Colorado detective named Gary White put the first crack in the Hamwi murder,

KAJX

The station is unique in that it partners with local cultural institutions like the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Aspen Writers' Foundation, and the Aspen Institute to broadcast and re-broadcast concerts and lectures to its entire listening public.

Katy Schimert

She was recently included in the group exhibitions: …drawling, stretching and fainting in coils…, Fest-Spiele+ 2007, Pinakothek der Moderne and Nationaltheater, Munich, Germany (2007); Sculptors Drawing, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado (2007); and Space Is the Place, organized by Independent Curators International and traveling to six venues throughout the United States from 2006 to 2008.

Lela Cole Kitson

Her father's upward move in the mining plant design and reduction machinery design led the family in 1896 to Chicago, Illinois, in 1900 to Aspen, Colorado, and in 1902 to Cananea, Mexico.

Machold Rare Violins

Machold had branch establishments in Vienna, Zurich (Geigenbau Machold GmbH and Cadenza AG), Alpnach (Bomalu AG), Bremen, Berlin, New York City, Aspen, Chicago, Seoul and Tokyo, buying and selling, among others, Stradivari and del Gesù violins.

Michael Pisaro

It has been selected twice by the ISCM jury for performance at World Music Days festivals (Copenhagen,1996; Manchester, 1998) and has also been part of festivals in Hong Kong (ICMC, 1998), Vienna (Wien Modern,1997), Aspen (1991), Chicago (New Music Chicago, 1990, 1991), Glasgow (INSTAL, 2009), Berlin (Maerzmusik, 2010), Sonorités (Montpellier, 2011) and others.

Populus tremula

The English name Waverly, meaning "quaking aspen," is both a surname and unisex given name.

Quemazon

A place called Quemazon typically is a high mountain valley or canyon with abundant aspens, specifically Populus tremuloides.

Rich Man, Poor Man Book II

Las Vegas and Aspen, playgrounds of the rich and famous and powerful, were two of the settings for the series.

Rock, Wood County, Wisconsin

The general character of this Township is 2d & 3d rate the soil is mostly poor loam & sand, the timber is mostly Birch Oak Aspen TamaracK & Pine the Pine is 2d growth & very poor.

Shimukappu

Shimukappu and Tomamu have a student exchange/sister city program with Aspen, Colorado.

Simon Keenleyside

He has work in private and corporate collections throughout the world including The BOC Group, Comme des Garcons, Hiscox, Marsh McLennan, Aspen Re, the Mario Testino collection and the David Roberts (art collector) Collection.

Ski boot

Boot designer Sven Coomer later improved the design with a corrugated tongue, and this technique was commercialized by Comfort Products, an Aspen, Colo. company owned by the ex-ski racer Erik Giese.

Swift Communications

In Fall of 2011, the Aspen Times re-enabled onymous commenting for users with an active Facebook account.

The Battle of Aspen

"The Battle of Aspen" was an article published in Rolling Stone #67, dated October 1, 1970 and written by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.

The Given Institute

The Given Institute in Aspen Colorado was built to house the Advances in Molecular Biology Conference sponsored by the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Todd Brooker

A younger member of the Crazy Canucks (Canada's downhill team) of the early 1980s Brooker won two World Cup downhill races at (Kitzbühel & Aspen) in 1983 finishing ninth in the season's overall downhill standings.

Tortious interference

Jesse Dukeminier and James E. Krier, Property, Fifth Edition, Aspen Law & Business (New York, 2002), pp. 31-36.

Uncle Duke

After the Republican revolution of 1994 Duke appealed to Speaker Newt Gingrich to help him open a low budget, privatized orphanage in Aspen called "Nothin' But Orphans".

Upper Piney Lake Trail

In summer, the aspen meadows along Piney River are filled with the blooms of red columbine, Aquilegia elegantula; lambstongue groundsel, Senecio integerrimus; lovage or osha, Ligusticum porteri; common harebell, Campanula rotundifolia; and wild rose, Rosa woodsii.

Woodmohr, Wisconsin

Sections 17, 18, 19, 20, 29 and 30, and parts of sections 7, 8, 16, 21 & 28 are covered with Aspen thickets and Oak Brush with a soil similar to the East side of the Township The remainder of the lands lying along the Streams in the center and South West part are mostly Bur Oak & Pitch(?) Pine Openings having a more sandy soil than(?) the more thickly timbered portions.


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