Word: buttermilk
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...SHOES, BOOZE AND BUTTERMILK." AS A STUDENT at the University of Mississippi, Dan Goodgame had a professor who loved to relate the theory of supply and demand to those familiar objects of daily life. The lesson stuck, and today Goodgame brings a keen appreciation of the links between theory and reality to his job as TIME's national economic correspondent. "Economics is inextricable from politics," says Goodgame, who reported on Bill Clinton's sweeping economic program for this week's cover articles. "You can't really understand one without the other...
Sorry. It won't work. But that doesn't mean that Buttermilk isn't fun and exciting. The black Timber Doodle Glade run will certainly quicken your pulse as you maneuver through trees and moguls, cursing the inventor of the ski lift. When you get tired, take a nice, easy green or blue run down to the bottom...
...want a really low-effort ski trip, you can stay at the Inn at Aspen at the base of Buttermilk, where you can almost literally ski in and ski out. Or you can stay at Snowmass, the largest mountain in the area. Be warned--Snowmass is a separate community on its own, a short drive away from Aspen. Be sure to get a car if you're staying here...
...advantage of Aspen is that Ajax, Buttermilk and Snowmass are all run by the same company, the Aspen Skiing Company. Tickets and gear are interchangeable--you can buy a three-day ticket at one place and ski one day at each mountain for no increase in price, if that's what you want...
Interestingly enough, although the Highlands aren't considered the easiest slopes around these parts (see Buttermilk, above), they have the reputation as training slopes. Don't be surprised to see a number of small lifts, adorned with groups of three-and-four-year-olds bundled...