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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Prudence Ivey

Horseriding, hiking and Hunter S. Thompson: summer in Aspen offers everything from ranch life to high culture

“This isn’t your typical mountain town,” say the luxury sportswear-clad couple I get chatting to over an iced coffee at the Local Coffee House in downtown Aspen after a week touring some of Colorado’s quirkier corners.

Having gorged on such two-lane highway treats as the UFO watchtower and nudist hot springs, I’ve been feeling inconspicuous in my psychedelic neon tie-dyed t-shirt, fitting right in on the Bustang (the catchy name for Colorado’s public bus system) which I boarded at the Kum & Go garage in Idaho Springs.

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