Looking down onto Gondola Plaza after the organized ski run.
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Everyone got in on the action.
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Everyone got in on the action.
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The crowd grew larger after the ski part of the march.
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The crowd grew larger after the ski part of the march.
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Only in Aspen … ski poles double as sign holders.
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Only in Aspen … ski poles double as sign holders.
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The next generation was a visible—and welcome—part of the protest.
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The next generation was a visible—and welcome—part of the protest.
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Some protesters had the Capitol as their backdrop; we had Aspen Mountain.
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Some protesters had the Capitol as their backdrop; we had Aspen Mountain.
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Marchers began moving out onto Durant Street.
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Marchers began moving out onto Durant Street.
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Protesters didn’t hold back with their signs.
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Protesters didn’t hold back with their signs.
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Leana Fisher, who recently started the Indivisible Roaring Fork group, and daughter Charlotte.
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Leana Fisher, who recently started the Indivisible Roaring Fork group, and daughter Charlotte.
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“Mountain Women Take the High Road” read one sign.
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A women’s place was also in downtown Aspen, making a stand for equal rights and justice for everyone,
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A women’s place was also in downtown Aspen, making a stand for equal rights and justice for everyone,
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“Mountain Women Take the High Road” read one sign.
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As nasty as we wanna be …
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As nasty as we wanna be …
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Looking down onto Gondola Plaza after the organized ski run.
Women, men, kids, dogs, and even one very prominent bear (okay, a person in a bear suit) gathered at Aspen’s Gondola Plaza Saturday for the Women’s Ski and March, organized by locals Kim Masters and Heather Stevenson.
In what was likely the only planned skiing protest in the US, the afternoon began with scores of demonstrators riding the gondola to the top of Aspen Mountain for an exuberant ski en masse back to the base, as onlookers cheered from the sides of trails and from Lift 3 overhead. The skiers were enthusiastically greeted by hundreds of others who had convened in the plaza in the meantime, bearing signs (some attached to ski poles), costumes, and lots of pink hats.
The group then marched peacefully down Durant Street, turning on Galena to reach the Cooper Avenue pedestrian mall and continuing to Wagner Park. After many photos, some chanting, and hugs of solidarity, the demonstrators gradually dispersed as snowflakes began fluttering down from the sky.
