Charlie Sheen avoided hordes of national media cameras outside the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen.  He and his wife Brooke were wisked away through an underground tunnel to their waiting escape vehicles., while the camera-men waited for naught.  AspenSpin was in on the ruse. Over 50 "media types" waited outside.  Entertainment Tonight , E!, The Indiser, TMZ , they all fell for the oldest trick in the scrolls.

Inside the courtroom Charlie handled his "procedural matter"-- a class 5 felony and 2 misdemeanors and will be back in Aspen on March 15.  The personal protection order separating Charlie from his love was lifted.  Brooke had the same far away look in her eye as  do many Aspen hotties--- when they are forced to fly commercial---- the double valium stare. Charlie looked slick in a black suit and tinted specs.

The courtroom was under super-high security--no cameras or phones allowed.   About 30 mamabers of the media were present, 10 Lawyers and only 4 form the public.

 The PR Spin startsKeep waiting for Charlie Sheen 

Attoney Yale Galenter, his wife and Diane Dimond 

A Poem by Ed Cross of the ASPEN POETS' SOCIETY.

                        To ski   

Lay the bladeRaconteur Ed Cross; slingin' verse, makin turns.

Carve the turn

Accelerate

Exhilarate

Controlled speed

Flowing motion

Racing

Down the mountain

Desperately

Senses reeling

A special feeling

To live, to be

To ski

High SocietySnowsports Industry Association (SIA) is a tighly knit group.  Its like a fraternity or a brotherhood/sisterhood bonded by POWDER and goretex.  A rite of passage for snowsports pros is attending the SIA Snow Show. SIA has always been in Las Vegas, until now, 2010 is the first time SIA held its trade show in Denver.   Ideally the brainiacs behind SIA would've found dates just prior to or after ESPN's X Games....but instead several "industry" people were takin' laps on I-70 instead of on the Gondola  in Aspen last week.  AspenSpin was one of them.

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We attended our first SIA trade show---as a pledge...... a virgin. Our boi-ieees at HIGH SOCIETY FREERIDE allowed us to freeride the admission fee and get a head start on next years stuff. We re-connected with our homies from INDO BOARD balance trainers----siiiiick.  About 18,000 people attended SIA in Denver.  We spent 3 hours (cause we drive fast) getting there, 4 hours back and only 3 hours at the show.  Was it worth it?? It was a long day.  We took some great pix, met some cool people, scored tons o' free stuff ... but we'd trade it all for one sick POWDER day.

See the pix, click  SNOW BIZ/SIA Virgin

Obermeyer Indo Board

Free Time Goods / Vintage Ski World    Gorsuch

SkullCandy

Everybody went BIG for X Games.  All weekend long, bruddah.  The lens of AspenSpin.com was workin' overtime.  Our best pix are on FACEBOOK.  Thaz how we roll now. If you're not on Facebook, get on it.   SquareSpace is so 2007.

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X GAMES / ASAP 

X GAMES / ALL ACCESS

X GAMES / THE HUGENESS

50 cent in Aspen. AspenSpin.com

Ghostland Observtory. Sick Show. AspenSpin.com

When AspenSpin.com refers to the Golden Triangle, we're usually talkin' 'bout Facebook, Twitter and our blog.  This weekend in Aspen, Colorado the Golden Triangle consists World Class Athletes, X Games and GOING HUGE.  Sunday 10 more Gold Medals were earned, a HIGH AIR WORLD RECORD was set ( yeah!!! P.O. ---froggy style, Allegiance represents) and a Winter X attendance record was set.  Despite copious amounts of Red Bull and Monster, AspenSpin's  motor is running slow today.  Click these GOLDEN pix (captions below) and look for A-Spin's ALL ACCESS re-cap tomorrow (editing 1000's of photos right now).   Thanks to ESPN, Aspen/Snowmass and all those kids---X Games 14 ---book it.  

1. Peter Olenick  GOLD  SuperPipe HIGH AIR w/ bro Michael.  Photo: AspenSpin.com

2. Eero Ettala  GOLD Slopestyle Snowboard w/ T. Hall   Photo: AspenSpin.com

3. PO goes WORLD RECORD in HIGH AIR.  Photo: Nate Abbott/shazamm/ESPN images

4. Kevin Roland (kev VEEN Ro Laaaan) GOLD Superpipe. Photo: Heather Rousseau/shazamm/ESPN

5. Tyler Walker  GOLD Mono X (sickest event) .  Photo:  Lars Eric Bakke/shazamm/ESPN

6.  Tucker Hibbert w/ wife Mandi.  5-time Sno-cross GOLD.  Photo: AspenSpin.com

7.  Levi Lavalle (w/ A. Party) GOLD Snomobile Knockout.  Photo: AspenSpin.com