Whiteout, lost in Aspen by Ted Conover
Love learning about new places that we've yet to visit. The author does a great job of describing the area in detail.
Starts out with a guy who drives for the Mellow Yellow taxi company-his friend owns the place. Aspen is a ski area and celebrities flock to the area to spend lots of money.
Like the regular talk he gives them especially about the bars and how much further the drinks effect you due to the high elevation of the town vs. others in CO.
He was there to write a story so he experiences the local businesses for himself.
Uses his resources to house sit and save money. He gets a job writing stories for the local paper.
Loved hearing about the mines, history of them and how they were acquired.
Enjoyed hearing how search and rescue works when one goes down via an avalanche.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). ( )

In which the noted chronicler of blue-collar work life repairs to the posh ski resort of Aspen and takes up employment as a cab driver. This premise is a tad weaker than his other occupational job anchors, such as prison guard and migrant worker, to begin with, and when he loses his job, the book loses most of its center. From then on the book deteriorates into a series of vignettes where he crashes parties and uses his journalist's badge to describe the lifestyles of the famous and rich. Conover is a good enough writer to make most things interesting, but even the best writer cannot make mountain biking, skiing, the nuances of Aspen real estate, and the musings of tycoons who are largely vacuous worth a reader's time. The book becomes more introspective and a little more interesting toward the end, but that really isn't Conover's long suit as an author. ( )