Aspen, CO

One of the most interesting parts of Aspen was the name and how it is known. Everyone knows the resort as Aspen when indeed the resort consists of four mountains, and Aspen isn’t even the biggest. Snowmass is the biggest mountain there, but I had never even heard of it until a week before we got there.

Anyways, we got to the house we were staying at pretty late and unpacked in the dark.

Over the next couple of days I did some school work, and my mom got sick. When she felt better we went to Aspen. The conditions were pretty good, but nowhere near the heaven we found at Alta. One of my favorite parts was the heat. Since we were well into the season it was really warming up. Thanks to this none of us had cold toes or fingers the entire day.

The next time we went skiing it was at Snowmass. Except for being bigger it wasn’t much different. One of the major differences was the views at the top. They were gorgeous plus there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. We were at around 13,000 feet so we could see all the other mountains covered in snow.

One of the most memorable parts was a physics lecture by a theoretical physicist at the Aspen Institute of Physics. To be completely honest most of it just sailed over my head, but the main idea was that there was geometry to three of the four confirmed fundamental forces. His justification for this was that a graph showed that electromagnetism, the strong force, and the weak force, are all more influential at shorter distances than gravity is. He then proceeded to prove his point by showing a bunch of grids with dots on them. Then to top it off he showed them. Then to top it off he showed pictures that strongly resembled dream catcher designs.