JOHN NORTON
Knuckle draggers, pay homage: This ski industry innovator—who as Aspen Skiing Company COO in 2001 convinced the resort to lift its snowboard ban then, as CEO at Crested Butte, introduced “ski-free” programs and founded that resort’s adaptive program—was inducted into the 2023 Colorado Snowsports Hall of Fame.

WESLEY JACOBS
The creative Aspen native and 2010 founder of Bundles Gift Co has expanded, opening The Gift Box (465 S Mill St), a lifestyle boutique and full-service gifting studio. Our holiday conversation starter: Colorful activewear designed by partner (and Aspen Sojourner contributing fashion editor) Britta Briscoe—her former classmate at the Wildwood School.

RICH CARR 
A jury of industry peers chose the CCY Architects partner and principal as AIA Colorado Architect of the Year, noting his masterful skill at creating community hubs using inventive design—seen locally at the revamped Buttermilk Base in Aspen, Basalt River Park, and Snowmass Elk Camp Restaurant.

MARLEY REGAN
First employed as a teenager at Susie’s Consignments (600 E Main St), the lifelong fashionista injects similar youthful energy into the 34-year-old clothing boutique founded by Susan Harvey. A bright cosmetic facelift and merchandising system overhaul inspires us to purge our closets more often.

SEAN ROBISON 
An Aspenite since 2012 who cut his teeth in hospitality at Justice Snow’s and BB’s Kitchen, the Infinite Hospitality COO and operations director makes his mark on Restaurant Row with sway Aspen. The Florida native—who worked five seasons as a commercial salmon fisherman in Alaska to better understand food systems—is known for his out-of-the-box approach to hospitality.

EMILY OYER
Cooking the feast, of course, is the freshly appointed executive chef of Alpin Room midmountain on Snowmass. The former executive sous chef at Aspen Highlands’ Cloud Nine Alpine Bistro (who once helmed Jimmy’s, and the cannabis counter at Dalwhinnie Farms dispensary) and tattooed Food Network veteran (2021 Chopped 420 champion; Beat Bobby Flay 2022 contestant) riffs on Alsatian comfort dishes to beat the chill.