Aspen made its way into Jim's Heart in 1975, during a hiatus from college when he lived in Aspen for a ski season. His plan was to work at night and ski during the day and when the ski season was over he would return to college in Massachusetts and work in the family business. That's exactly what he did.

Aspen kept beckoning Jim to return and he would continually visit throughout the years to ski until he permanently moved here in 1996.  That wa...