Wow, last week we were blogging about Indian Summer and this week, we are talking snow. This first major snowstorm of the 2010-2011 in Aspen/Snowmass is predicted to dump 9-15 inches of snow over the next 24 hours, which is great news for those of us who are eager for the ski season to begin. We only have 31 days until the resort opens and the lifts start running! Hope you plan on joining us this winter!
This continues to be a fall to remember in Aspen, Colorado. The colors have lasted for weeks and the sun is still shining! The snow will soon be here so enjoy the amazing weather while it lasts! This photo was taken this past weekend on Independence Pass where the Aspen gold is as bright as ever.
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Aspen-Snowmass is well known as one of the premier ski destinations in the United States, and now adds the distinction of being the location of one of the highest elevation pre-historic animal finds. On Thursday, a bulldozer operator working on a project in Snowmass Village, Colorado found the remains of a 10,000 year old Woolly Mammoth. The discovery is historic in nature and is being heralded as “one of the most significant finds in Colorado.”
Well-preserved bones, including rib bones, a femur, the end of a tusk and parts of the mandible have been removed from the site. Unlike most other prehistoric animals, their remains are often not literally fossilised - that is, turned into stone - but rather are preserved in their organic state. This is due in part to the frozen climate of their habitats, and also to their massive size. Woolly mammoths are therefore among the best-understood prehistoric vertebrates known to science in terms of anatomy.
Mammoths were common on the Colorado Plateau until about 8,000 years ago, according to the Page Paleontology Science Center, which studies paleontological discoveries on the plateau. They are believed to have gone extinct amid changing weather patterns and other factors.
Read the full story in the Aspen Times.
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