Red Bull and Freeskier Jam at the Sky Hotel

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REDBULL / FREESKIER

X Games Aspen: Party Down in A-Town

There are an unbelievable number of parties and special events for X Games Aspen. It's impossible to do them all...but Aspen is a Party Town and I am Andy Party. I tried.

I scored enough wrist bands to choke a dinosaur but still, I could not do it all.  I attended all the parties that I was actually invited to and I crashed the ones that I wasn't.  I tried to use everything to my advantage, including years of experience at X Games.   First of all... I'm old enough to be the father of the entire " X Games demographic".  Second of all,  I know where all Aspen's back doors are and I'm friendly with most of the security guards and bouncers.   All this came to a head during the perfect storm that is X Games weekend.  I discovered a new trick this year... it's all about progression and style.   Several times I was stopped at the door, my wrist inspected and my lack of proper credentials exposed...even before they could shoo me away...I smoothly shouted "my kid just won the Gold Medal"...it worked every time.

So here's my party town photo essay from X Games Aspen 2014.

OAKLEY PENTHOUSE PARTY

ESPN PRESS CONFERENCE

FREESKIER / RED BULL PARTY at SKY

SAVOY on AJAX / ISVERA FASHION SHOW at BOOTSY BELLOWS

I-RECREATE HOUSE ( yeah, it's legal)

MONSTER PARTY at the SUNDECK

TIESTO w/ Axwell in WAGNER PARK

Oakley hosted athletes and media at a private penthouse. click for pix.ESPN's press conference at Buttermilk. X Games renewed for 5 more years in Aspen. Click 4 pix.It's a fact. Senders get chicks, especially at the Freeskier / Red Bull Party. Click 4 pix.I-Recreate. A private home, off campus featuring all the recreational weed you could handle. Click 4 pix.Savoy, a free EDM show at the base of Aspen Mountain. Click 4 pix.Monster hosted their annual bash at the Sundeck atop Aspen Mountain. Sh*t got crazy. Click 4 pix.Tiesto performed his EDM magic in Wagner Park. No one OD'd. Click for pix.

X Games 2013: Over-Stoked in Aspen.

LaValle scores BIG. Photo: Eric Bakke / ESPN ImagesIf you visit Aspen for Winter X Games you better prepare yourself to go BIG. Actually HUGE.  Whether you're an athlete competing on the mountain...a spectator... a life-style brand manager activating a product or just here for the party...there is no room for weakness.

Day one was ...as usual...siiiiiiiiiiiiick.   Levi LeValle won the Snowmobile Freestyle with a 120 foot Superman back flip.  It was the versatile sled head's 6th X Games gold medal and 9th medal overall.  Throwing a back flip on a 450 pound super-charged snowmobile is never easy...but LaValle and the sled-heads displayed their stuff to more than 430 million homes in 184 countries across the World. 

Aspen Spin spent the entirety of Day 1 at Buttermilk. We walked the X Fest to survey the swag. Buttermilk was over-flowing with action. Our favorite new sponsor is REPREVE, the offical recycling partner of X Games.  Repreve is a company who makes threads and fabrics from re-cycled plastic water bottles.  We've taken the pledge to GO GREEN...you should too.   We watched the athletes practice on the Super Pipe (22 foot walls), the Slopestyle course (craziest ride ever) the Urban Street course and the Snowmobile Venue.  Later in the day A-Spin crashed the Athletes tent (shhhhh)...for the full first-class VIP treatment.  Then after an all too brief disco nap...we partied...hard....like it was 1989.   FREESKIER, RED BULL and MARLEY'S MELLOW MOOD all threw simultaneous HUGE parties. In our role as AspenSpin we were required hit 'em all.

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BUTTERMILK Day 1  (Swag fest)

MARLEY's MELLOW MOOD  (Press Event)

RED BULL  (The Sky Hotel Buyout Party)

FREESKIER  (The Blowout from Boulder)

LaValle went HUGE to win Gold in Snowmobile Freestyle. Photo: Allen Kee / ESPN Images.Local Favorite Torin Yater-Wallace stoked to qualifu #2 in Ski Super Pipe (with a 90)Photo: AspenSpin. Click 4 more pix from Day 1 at Buttermilk.Jossi Wells and Colby James West performed at Belly Up at the Freeskier blow out. Click 4 Pix.Red Bull bought out the entire Sky Hotel for X Games. No Curfew, Bro. Click 4 pix.Marley's Mellow Mood cruised into X Games 2013 with a press event. Things may never be the same in Aspen. Click 4 pix.