X Games After Midnight: Full Contact Partying

After Midnight at X Games in Aspen it's all about the wrist bands.  In addition to the actual X Games competition there is an enormous party scene. It's kind of like a mullet...all business up front...all party in the back.  High School and college students drive to Aspen from all over the Rocky Mountain region.  The VIP and Sponsor's events are littered with corporate executives, agents, managers as well as the friends and family of the Athletes.  If you have the right "hook ups" there's never a dull moment at X Games and it's always open bar and heavy apps.

After 7 years of snapping and rapping, AspenSpin has developed some good connections at X Games.   This year especially we need to throw out some SPECIAL THANKs.   To everyone who hooked me up...thank you, thank you, especially ESPN, RED BULL, MARLEY's MELLOW MOOD, FREESKIER and REPREVE.  Repreve is the official recycling partner of X Games and hooked me up with a satchel full of GREEN BEANIES made from re-cycled plastic bottles. We distributed the Green Beanies to those people who proved that they are recycling and protecting the environment.  If you scroll down to our previous posts from X Games you'll see some of the sick events we attended...Red Bull Media events & parties, the raucous Freeskier party, ESPN's Film / Style / Music programs etc etc.  But Saturday and Sunday nights got fully out of control.  It was full contact partying. 

Click 4 Pix   Marley Safe House       Red Bull Closing Night

Unquestionably at  X Games Aspen 2013 the place to be late night was the MARLEY SAFE HOUSE. Live  music, entertainment, a young hot crowd who was ready to party and an open bar all housed at the former Crystal Palace.  Lines of 500 or more were turned away as the safe house filled to capacity around 11 PM.

On Saturday night the reggae superstar MATISYAHU free-styled in front of a packed house.  The Jewish reggae was flowing.  At around 3 am the VIP room opened.  It was mostly athletes and hot chicks plus 1 blogger. A. Party finally hit the rack at about 6 a.m.  On Sunday night KY-MANI MARLEY (son of Bob) and his band unleashed a reggae fire storm at The Marley Safe House.  He was joined by his son K.J. and others.  It was out of control.

Also Sunday RED BULL threw their X Games closing party with music from BUN B and DIPLO.  Yeah it was a HUGE deal.  The Ballroom at the Hotel Jerome was filled with Gold Medalists, team managers and friends of Red Bull...mostly hot chicks. 

So you get the picture. Party to Party...all night long.  Lets just say our wrist band quotient was high.

Click 4 pix.    MARLEY SAFE HOUSE    

                  RED BULL CLOSING NIGHT

Matiyahu backstage at the Marley Safe House in Aspen. Click 4 pix.Mellowing out in the VIP at The Marley Safe House in Aspen for X Games. click 4 pix.Ky Mani Marley brought the house down at Marley Safe House in Aspen. Click 4 pix.Diplo played Red Bull's closing night bash at X Games. Click 4 pix.Red Bull knows how to party. Closing night at X Games. Click 4 pix.Bun B brought the old school rap to Red Bull's cloing night bash at X Games. Click for pix.Late Night with the Japanese Snowboard Team at Marley Safe House. click 4 pix.

X Games 2013: Over-Stoked in Aspen.

LaValle scores BIG. Photo: Eric Bakke / ESPN ImagesIf you visit Aspen for Winter X Games you better prepare yourself to go BIG. Actually HUGE.  Whether you're an athlete competing on the mountain...a spectator... a life-style brand manager activating a product or just here for the party...there is no room for weakness.

Day one was ...as usual...siiiiiiiiiiiiick.   Levi LeValle won the Snowmobile Freestyle with a 120 foot Superman back flip.  It was the versatile sled head's 6th X Games gold medal and 9th medal overall.  Throwing a back flip on a 450 pound super-charged snowmobile is never easy...but LaValle and the sled-heads displayed their stuff to more than 430 million homes in 184 countries across the World. 

Aspen Spin spent the entirety of Day 1 at Buttermilk. We walked the X Fest to survey the swag. Buttermilk was over-flowing with action. Our favorite new sponsor is REPREVE, the offical recycling partner of X Games.  Repreve is a company who makes threads and fabrics from re-cycled plastic water bottles.  We've taken the pledge to GO GREEN...you should too.   We watched the athletes practice on the Super Pipe (22 foot walls), the Slopestyle course (craziest ride ever) the Urban Street course and the Snowmobile Venue.  Later in the day A-Spin crashed the Athletes tent (shhhhh)...for the full first-class VIP treatment.  Then after an all too brief disco nap...we partied...hard....like it was 1989.   FREESKIER, RED BULL and MARLEY'S MELLOW MOOD all threw simultaneous HUGE parties. In our role as AspenSpin we were required hit 'em all.

Click 4 SICK Pix:

BUTTERMILK Day 1  (Swag fest)

MARLEY's MELLOW MOOD  (Press Event)

RED BULL  (The Sky Hotel Buyout Party)

FREESKIER  (The Blowout from Boulder)

LaValle went HUGE to win Gold in Snowmobile Freestyle. Photo: Allen Kee / ESPN Images.Local Favorite Torin Yater-Wallace stoked to qualifu #2 in Ski Super Pipe (with a 90)Photo: AspenSpin. Click 4 more pix from Day 1 at Buttermilk.Jossi Wells and Colby James West performed at Belly Up at the Freeskier blow out. Click 4 Pix.Red Bull bought out the entire Sky Hotel for X Games. No Curfew, Bro. Click 4 pix.Marley's Mellow Mood cruised into X Games 2013 with a press event. Things may never be the same in Aspen. Click 4 pix.