# @aspensnowmass on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CYR_WGrLmZU
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17229279-aspensnowmass-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/75d6ec160b.jpg
- **Posted:** 2022-01-03T20:19:32.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Aspen Snowmass (@AspenSnowmass) — https://gondola.cc/AspenSnowmass

## Caption

In 1937, a full decade before Aspen Mountain would officially open, locals were lapping—and falling in love with—the town mountain with the help of a homemade boat tow. Built at the base, the tow was constructed by members of Aspen Valley Ski Club, and used “boats” (wooden toboggans resembling rowboats) connected by a steel cable to rotating terminals converted from mine hoist rigs from the dormant Little Annie Mine. The entire contraption was mechanized by a single Ford truck engine. The boat tow’s total length was 600 feet up the face of Aspen Mountain. There were two toboggans, hauling up to eight people at a time in snowstorms and in sunshine, proving that when we work together, we’ve always found a way to get to the top. #75YearsOfAspenSnowmass

(Photo: Courtesy Aspen Historical Society, Litchfield Collection)

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