‘You are starting from Aspen’: Olympic snowboarder reminds AHS graduates of special upbringing

‘You are starting from Aspen’: Olympic snowboarder reminds AHS graduates of special upbringing

Gretchen Bleiler used Aspen as a launching pad, eventually taking her snowboard career to the Olympics and to superstardom. A 1999 Aspen High School graduate, the multi-time X Games champion in the halfpipe wanted to remind this year’s graduating class of their shared unique beginning. “You are stepping into a world full of unknowns. But you are not starting from nothing. You are starting from Aspen,” she said. “From mountains that taught you re…