Ajax

We left Highlands and headed down to Aspen Mountain (aka Ajax) around 2:30pm. Ajax is right on the South side of the town of Aspen. It is a very steep mountain. There is not a single green run on the mountain, and most of the blue runs are difficult blues. There are 3,267 vertical feet and 673 acres of terrain. There is a gondola that goes all the way from the bottom to the top in 15 minutes. We skied the gondola 3 times and a couple other chairs as well. We caught one gondola at 3:35 and got to the top at 3:50. It took 8 minutes to ski all the way down to catch the gondola before it closed at 4pm. After two days of hard skiing and hiking it was tough to ski that fast. My ears popped on the way down. That has never happened to me while skiing before. Our next run took 40 minutes to get all the way down. My one complaint about Ajax was the low elevation of the resort (base 7,945, top 11,212) created some poor snow conditions this late in the season. Some east facing runs were pretty crusty. Other than that it was a pretty cool place to ski.