Little Nell is located at the base of Ajax Mtn. aka Aspen Mtn. Little Nell is not so “little” anymore. I first visited Aspen in the early 80’s and Little Nell was modest by most standards. Then, the Silver Queen Gondola went in and changed the neighborhood.
Pat
Little Nell (a soppy character in Charles Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop) is indeed associated with Aspen. She was apparently a “lady of the night” for whose charms a local silver miner named his claim, which stood slightly uphill of the present-day five-star, four-season inn that bears her eponymous name.
Sliding a bit off topic of Little Nell, I’ m unable to resist: Beyond the question of the week your column mentioned two other fun things which set the gears in motion:
1) Sir Arnold Lunn organizing the first DH & SL at Murren
2) The standard measure of skill: skiing all 3 events (SL, DH, Nordic)
Laziness has led me to prefer gravity power (vs. brute force) and speed (GS, SG & DH) and since I rarely shy from occasional sarcasm; I concocted my (50+ years) standard reply about preferred race type:
“SL is merely an event: 1)Invented by an Englishman (Lunn) and 2) Improved by an Austrian (Anton Seelos). I do not harbor high expectations!! ”
Far beyond Anton Seelos’ racing skills, how many remember his introduction of the “Seelos Combintion gate (aka the “H Gate), the bane of the indecisive.
Yes, little Nell is in Aspen. Loved Gretchen’s addition. I was wondering where “little Nell” came from. Haven’t been there since the70’s! Yikes time flies. Probably wouldn’t recognize it now!
After breaking my achilles on Magnifico Slalom Hill in Aspen in early 60s, I worked at The Ski Barn repair shop at Little Nell. I was living on a ranch in Woody Creek with a couple of UVM Ski Team buddies.
Larry Heath
February 24, 2022 at 3:43 pm
Little Nell is located at the base of Ajax Mtn. aka Aspen Mtn. Little Nell is not so “little” anymore. I first visited Aspen in the early 80’s and Little Nell was modest by most standards. Then, the Silver Queen Gondola went in and changed the neighborhood.
Pat
February 26, 2022 at 4:04 pm
Little Nell (a soppy character in Charles Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop) is indeed associated with Aspen. She was apparently a “lady of the night” for whose charms a local silver miner named his claim, which stood slightly uphill of the present-day five-star, four-season inn that bears her eponymous name.
February 27, 2022 at 5:11 pm
Sliding a bit off topic of Little Nell, I’ m unable to resist: Beyond the question of the week your column mentioned two other fun things which set the gears in motion:
1) Sir Arnold Lunn organizing the first DH & SL at Murren
2) The standard measure of skill: skiing all 3 events (SL, DH, Nordic)
Laziness has led me to prefer gravity power (vs. brute force) and speed (GS, SG & DH) and since I rarely shy from occasional sarcasm; I concocted my (50+ years) standard reply about preferred race type:
“SL is merely an event: 1)Invented by an Englishman (Lunn) and 2) Improved by an Austrian (Anton Seelos). I do not harbor high expectations!! ”
Far beyond Anton Seelos’ racing skills, how many remember his introduction of the “Seelos Combintion gate (aka the “H Gate), the bane of the indecisive.
February 28, 2022 at 7:26 pm
Yes, little Nell is in Aspen. Loved Gretchen’s addition. I was wondering where “little Nell” came from. Haven’t been there since the70’s! Yikes time flies. Probably wouldn’t recognize it now!
March 2, 2022 at 3:23 pm
After breaking my achilles on Magnifico Slalom Hill in Aspen in early 60s, I worked at The Ski Barn repair shop at Little Nell. I was living on a ranch in Woody Creek with a couple of UVM Ski Team buddies.
Larry Heath