Don't forget to check the photo links when you stop by. I add new ones every few days. The latest is of Lake Granby taken from about 20 miles north west, and a couple thousand feet above. One of our forest road trips. We take as many as we can and have seen a lot of Colorado. We still haven't made it to Aspen, but it's on the trip list. We went to Vail last year, one of Colorado's famous resorts. Sounds like it should be one of those quaint little alpine ski villages. It's a mountain side crammed with over priced condos and an interstate running threw the middle of it. It probably was a nice place once.
Colorado has a few ski areas right on the interstate, Copper Mountain and A Basin are all that come to mind, but it makes them easy to access. No 11,000 Ft pass to cross like Winter Park and Mary Jane.