G4 Weekend

06/22/2012 - 06/24/2012

Snowmass

Gravity, Guitars, Gondolas, Games - Pull some G’s in Snowmass
June 22-24, 2012 - Snowmass Base Village

Half Price Single Day Lift Tickets (Friday - Sunday)

Grand Opening of Valhalla
New Gravity Logic Mountain Bike Trail - Features jumps, berms and bridges.

Friday, June 22

4:30pm - Goldsprint Series in Snowmass The Goldsprint Series, formerly known as Downhill Fridays, is back once again in Snowmass, inviting riders to clock their best time from the top of Elk Camp down to Snowmass Base Village. This seven-race series of downhill mountain bike races will be held June 22, July 6, 20, 27 and August 10. There will be a men’s, women’s and junior (16 & under) division. The course will follow the Vapor Trail and then alternate routes between a variety of trails on the lower half of Snowmass including Snowmass Way, Valhalla (formerly Gravity Logic) and Easy Rider (formerly Alpine Funnel). The route for each week will be announced on Wednesday prior to the race.

Registration will be open at the Snowmass Ticket Office until 4:30 p.m. The last gondola ride up to the course is at 5 p.m. and the race will start at 5:30 p.m. The cost for one race is $25 or $150 for all seven races. The weekly prize purse for each division is $100 for 1st place, $50 for 2nd place and $25 for 3rd.

5:00pm-8:00pm - Music with 'DJ Ronnie' with Cole St. Peter on drums.

Saturday, June 23

9:30am and 12:00n: Free Mountain Bike Experience Clinics
Call to register in advance (970) 923-8790 $20 Insurance will be required (payable on the day)

2:00pm – 5:00pm - Kids Zone presented by Camp Snowmass • Bounce house • Face painting • Discounted Euro Bungy jumping

2:00pm – 6:00pm - Base Village Beer Garden Benefitting Challenge Aspen 

2:00pm – 6:00pm - Kids Zone

3:00pm – 6:00pm - Live Music: David Jacobs-Strain
David Jacobs-Strain is a virtuosic slide guitar player and a storyteller with a passionate one-man show that is both humorous and deeply lyrical. A bridge between today’s indie folk troubadours and the delta guitar slingers of the 1930s, David plays with precision and sings with emotional abandon. He’s a six-foot-two Jewish blues singer from Oregon, a Stanford drop out in a trucker hat, and a left coast poet; one part Leo Kotke, one part Ken Kesey, and one part Robert Johnson, and on tour with artists as diverse as Lucinda Williams, Etta James, Bob Weir, and Boz Scaggs (for three summer tours


Don't forget to enjoy all of the usual Mountain activities... sand volleyball, disc golf and more!


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