Aspen Peak - Niche Media - Aspen living at its peak
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FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF With Colorado Senator Gail Schwartz and Aspen Community Foundation Executive Director Tamara Tormohlen at the Hotel Jerome grand reopening benefit for ACF's Cradle to Career Initiative. Sporting Jet Set's latest ski fashions and a Bogner hat atop Ajax Mountain with local ski star and winter fashion model Darcy Conover, who wears a Toni Sailer jacket and Goldwin pants. ABOVE: At the Chefs Club Star Series Dinner at the St. Regis with French celebrity chef Mathieu Pacaud and Chefs Club USA president and partner Stephane De Baets. LEFT: Torre with Aspen Channel 82 interviews me at the Aspen Film Motion Picture Awards Party at the Caribou Club. at the University of Florida, I was living in the West for the first time, during an unforgettable summer that spawned my affinity for the mountains and my eventual move to Aspen. Standing on that incredible stretch of water, the iconic locale of the film A River Runs Through It (lucky for me, my guide may not have been Brad Pitt, but was nearly as appealing), I was introduced to the mystique of alpine waterways. I was no natural fisherwoman, however; my wrist was eventually duct taped to the rod to teach me correct form. I also didn't catch a fish, but what I did catch that day was mountain fever—the powerful lure of alpine living. And, as any Aspen local or visitor can attest, the Roaring Fork Valley is home to some of the best fly-fishing on the globe. In this issue we celebrate our two Gold Medal rivers with a poignant piece written by renowned photographer Pete McBride about fellow Aspenite and Olympic-ski-racer-turned-fishermen Andy Mill (page 122). Whether you take to the river this summer to fish, kayak, paddle, or raft, what ultimately makes Aspen such a vibrant community is its abundance of riches, not only found in our natural playground, but in town, too. Ask our cover star, Aerin Follow me on Twitter at Lauder, who first fell in love with @erinlentzAP and on Aspen when visiting her aunt and Facebook at facebook.com/ aspenpeak.magazine. uncle, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder, when she was just a teen. She now comes back with her own family every summer to enjoy our active lifestyle and her new mountain home. An Aspen summer is the local's best-kept secret (though word has certainly gotten out). Any given summer day may involve a trip to the farmers' market followed by a leg-burning mountain bike ride or river outing, al fresco lunch, a heady seminar at the Aspen Institute, and then live music either at the Belly Up or courtesy of Jazz Aspen Snowmass or the Aspen Music Festival and School. The only drawback is that summer is way too short, often the case with our most precious moments. Make the most of it! See you on the trails, ERIN LENTZ 30 PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBIN PROCTOR (SCHWARTZ)L EMILY CHAPLIN (PACAUD, TORRE) The first time I went fly-fishing was on the Gallatan River in Big Sky, Montana. A junior ASPENPEAK-MAGAZINE.COM 030_AP_FOB_EdLetter_SUM_Fall_13.indd 30 5/6/13 10:24 AM