The company was founded in 1946 by Friedl Pfeifer, an Austrian ski instructor and racing champion, Walter Paepcke, a Chicago industrialist, Judge William E. Doyle, James J. Johnston, and H. F. Klock.
In 1950, the company hosted the FIS World Alpine Championships, the first international skiing competition in the United States.
In 1993 the company assumed ownership and operation of Aspen Highlands, which was founded in 1958 by Colorado Ski Hall of Famer Whip Jones.
The company didn't pay dividends until it was bought by Twentieth Century Fox in 1977, which is when the ticket prices began to increase.
[3] In 2012, the Aspen Skiing Company built a 3-megawatt methane-to-electricity plant in Somerset, Colorado, at Oxbow Carbon's Elk Creek Mine.
The bill would prevent federal agencies from requiring certain entities to relinquish their water rights to the United States in order to use public lands.