The Gondolacast

On a foggy Monday morning with 6 inches of fresh snow, host Andrew Wickes surprises Aspen Next Gen commission members with the Mayor of Aspen for their second ride. They solve all of the community's problems in three gondola rides. Random skiers join in on every run. Cheers to the first lady (Leah Fielding) on the Gondolacast and to the first snowboarding Mayor of Aspen!

Alex Ferreira, back to back- X-Games ski halfpipe gold medalist and Olympic silver medalist talks growing up in Aspen, competing at the top level, which other ski resorts he would considering living at and much more. Your mom is from Jersey!

Get your beer here! Take a hot lap with Aspen Brewing Company founder, Duncan Clauss, as we dig into the roots of an iconic brand. Duncan dishes on his early days living in the taproom in downtown Aspen and we get down and dirty (or nerdy) on the beer industry as a whole.

Aspen natives and notorious newspaper columnists reveal the history of their rivalry, why a mountain in Alaska is named after one of their fathers, how surviving Aspen is possible with or without drugs, how to complete the "double diamond challenge" and much much more. Two epic laps on the gondola with some of Aspen/Snowmass' finest.

Aspen Mountain snowcat drivers, Pat Cooke & Darrin Carelli, help us trace the roots of a wave of Ohioans who have made their way west and now maintain the Aspen/Snowmass ski resorts. Currently there are 10+ with the count being as high as 13. These two studs talk about their experiences living in the World Cup racing cabin under lift 1A, pet peeves while operating heavy machinery and much more.

We ski "America's Downhill" behind Aspen native and World Cup racer Wiley Maple. A retirement announcement, World Cup stories, insights into the inner workings of The Freaks ski gang, his favorite philosophers, near death experiences and more all make it into the conversations on two bucket laps.

Aspen Town Councilman, Skippy Mesirow, takes responsibility for an instagram story that got him in some hot water. We talk about his recent journey to Costa Rica, in which his own death was revealed to himself. The Aspen housing crisis is solved. Almost. 3 hot laps with Skippy & the Gondolacast.

Join the Gondolacast as we take a couple lefts and rights with Aspen native and X-Games gold medalist Torin Yater-Wallace. Torin's roommate Chase DeMuelenaere shares what it was like to snowboard on Ajax the day it opened to snowboarders. Fellow ski extraordinaire, Aidan Sheehan, explains how to make it in Aspen. A friendly on the ride, Michael, gives us a history lesson on the Kaprun train disaster of 2000.