-Dave

Times are changing.

I think I’m going to let it go. I haven’t had a messy head of hair in over a decade. Now if only I could grow facial hair.

Thanks to Jeanne for the first bottle of my collection here in Aspen.

Urge to get a dog rising.

It’s like snapping into 100 Slim Jims, applying Old Spice deoderant to every square inch of your body and funneling a gallon of Red Bull while Shaun White high fives your free hand.

• 2006 - Joined Freeskier Magazine.
• 2007 - Freeskier.com V3.0 Launches
• 2008 - Winner of the Ski Area Management “Sammy” Award for Marketing Leadership
• 2009 - Freeskier Magazine Podcast is Voted a TOP 10 Video Podcast by Apple
• 2010 - Featured Speaker for Tahoe Snowcial 2010 with McHammer
• 2010 - Joined Aspen/Snowmass as the Internet Marketing Manager
• 2011 - ?

For 2011, I plan on changing the way that PEOPLE interact with a brand. A brand is not a stand-alone entity, it’s not a mission statement or some piece of copy at the bottom of an email signature. It is comprised of individuals. All with differing opinions, thoughts and talents. The good, the bad and the unknown.

To 2011 and beyond.

Aspen/Snowmass Blog

Aspen, CO – To help local businesses stay one step ahead in these difficult economic surroundings, the Aspen Chamber Resort Association hosted the inaugural Aspen Business Expo on Tuesday, November 16 at The Hotel Jerome.. The theme for the 2010 Aspen Business Expo was “Growing Your Business in Today’s Economy.”

The keynote address—“Aspen Skiing Company: Leaning Into the Recession”—was presented by David Perry, senior vice president at the Aspen Skiing Company, and Auden Schendler, the vice president of sustainability at the Aspen Skiing Company. Local experts like Aspen Skiing Company’s social media and online marketing guru David Amirault and Charlie Bantis from Vectra Bank contributed to three informative and compelling panel discussions entitled “Tips to Grow Your Business,” “Next Steps in Social Media applications for Business,” and “Financing & Access to Capital.”

The Aspen Business Expo also presented a valuable opportunity for the 300+ attendees to network with business owners and entrepreneurs during the Expo Trade Show that followed the panel discussions. 40 local, regional, and national businesses attended the expo as exhibitors and the Hotel Jerome was packed with people throughout the day.

Snowmass Mountain from the Snowmass Rec Center.

Fall in Colorado.

Hanging Valley Wall, a very bad-ass place to ski at Snowmass. Bring your A-Game.

This is “The Cirque” at Snowmass.

Waiting for the bus doesn’t suck as much when you have a view like this.

Dream come true.

@ozskier I’m going to save that photo for use next time I run into those who do not consider resources alongside results.

I’m downright lethal with hardware this fast. It’s going to be one hell of a ride here in Aspen. Buckle up.

2400 miles to Colorado. Let’s do this.

My parents have an iPad, they’re both in their mid 50’s and have integrated it into their daily lives without any technological or operational hurdles.

Sure, it cannot do everything that my laptop does; Flash is nowhere to be found, my entire suite of content creation applications (Adobe CS5 Web Premium, Final Cut Studio, etc) are nowhere to be found and it doesn’t have a physical keyboard. You know what it does have? A 10+ hour battery, fantastic pre-installed apps and a zillion more on iTunes, a low sticker price, 64gb of storage, 3G access (my iPhone is jailbroken and acts as a hotspot), a tiny charger that also works with my iPhone and a total weight just shy of 2 pounds when you account for all the “accessories” that you need.

Riding the MBTA Commuter Rail from Providence to Boston, armed with nothing more than my iPad. Music, news, chat and whatever else I need for the 1.5 hour train ride. My MacBookPro would cook my crotch and die towards the end of this journey.

It’s the ultimate device for a road warrior. No longer do I pack up my laptop for a personal trip where I’ll be gone for a couple of days, it sits alone at home on my kitchen table. It is liberating to not worry about an expensive piece of hardware that contains your life’s contents and files. Being able to grab the iPad, a charger and fly out of your house on a whim is terrific. You know that if something bad happens, it isn’t the end of your life. When it all boils down, the cost of replacing my $2500 laptop and the data that sits on it (Yes, I have a backup) far exceeds the cost of buying a new iPad and syncing it with my Google Enterprise account and iTunes.

Reading the “paper”.

For those of you that bitch about the iPad’s shortcomings, and believe me it’s far from a perfect device, you have to appreciate all the things that it allows you to do. The ability to leave your laptop at home and still have 95% of what you need to get shit with such an ultra-portable device is worth the money.

Maybe in another post I’ll write about the way it’s changing media consumption and application development. For now, remember to try one the next time you’re at the Apple Store.

Even Leroy likes the iPad

Takes after his father.

Congratulations, it’s a girl!

See you in a few weeks, Highlands.

Photo by Jeremy Swanson.

Took a hike with the Matthews family up Locke Mountain. Since there’s a boundary-to-boundary policy at the mountain this season I wanted to show them some secret stashes they could tear up this winter. Now that the kids are a bit older I think they’re ready to start venturing off the map.

Snow on Mount Washington! Winter isn’t far away.

Hiking up Locke with the Matthews fam in tow.

The snowguns did their yearly marketing appearance once the temps dipped low enough to make a snow-like substance. Photo by Nick “The Hammer” Lambert.

USGS Marker at the top of Locke Mountain.

Two of my favorite things on one hat. Love it.

Details coming soon.

Yes, I know that I have two other bikes, however I can’t ride my road/race bike around the city for errands and Large Marge is entirely too heavy and slow to run errands. The District will allow me to zip around the city, get to work, friends houses and leave my car parked wherever it is that day.

2010 Trek District

Where we’going we don’t need chains. Yes, I took the belt-guard off.

It was a beautiful day on Saturday, so I took it down to the bay for a little cruise.

Back Bay at the Christian Science Reflection Pool. The lame wheel reflectors are now history.

It’s a city bike, so you ride it in the city, I guess.

It sticks out like a sore thumb, granted it’s a very good looking sore thumb.

Then again, it could end up a comedic goldmine.

Prepster
Really a chimera of two existing groups, the prepster is someone most likely raised in the suburbs and very preppy, that moves to a very hipster centered city (Brooklyn, Portland, Austin), and due to scene exposure adopts certain hipster trends whilst retaining the preppy spirit. Specific examples are skinny jeans with boat shoes, or skinny Nantucket red jeans, cardigans, and keds (although arguably of preppy origin, now adopted by the hipster). The prepster has the ability to flow seamlessly between the two scenes, adopting the traditional seersucker and polos while home, and looking very trendy at loft parties in Williamsburg. This emerging scene has been officially typified by Brooks Brothers new Black Sheep line, designed by Thom Browne, and the new J. Crew Men’s store being created with help from Jack Spade. The major difference between the prepster and hipster is money and cleanliness.

Well, no argument there.

Good thing I have ice-cold air conditioning in the VW.

I feel truly blessed to have the privilege to be making applications for this magical device.

Buy them for $15 each, right here.