![]() “Andy said he realized he didn’t have all the time in the world,” Gile shared. ![]() One bit of advice was not getting distracted by the party scene. He basically told me what he learned on the World Cup including what he figured out in his last year” of competition. Gile said he took away plenty from the October meeting that teed up before the opening races of the FIS World Cup in Soelden, Austria: “It was pretty sweet. “My message to Bridger was, you have to understand the difference between going fast and winning.” “You have got to win more than anybody else,” Mill shared. Third and perhaps most critical to success is having a desire for victory that encompasses all else. His second point focused on technique and the refinement of one’s skill sets. Much better shape than everybody else” and that you should feel as fresh at the bottom of the racecourse as when blasting out of the start gate. ![]() Mill explained his three-point plan to success that included consideration of “a lot of small things that need to be polished.” He emphasized to the younger skier, “you gotta be in great shape. “His big thing was to make every second count,” Gile recalled. Within minutes, Mill, who divides his time between Aspen and Florida, was sharing valuable life lessons and personal insights. Mill quickly made Gile, who can be reserved, feel comfortable. “I knew how he did at the Olympics….but I didn’t really know who I was looking for,” he continued. “Ya, haha, I didn’t really know who I was looking for” when the Red Mountain Grille meeting was arranged, Gile said this week. But when schedules this fall brought both men home to the old mining town, they convened over a casual lunch at the Aspen Golf Course. Courtesy photoĪndy Mill had sought through mutual friends a way to connect to fellow Aspenite Gile while allowing, “I didn’t want to be pushy.”ĭespite his sixth-place finish in the 1976 Olympic downhill (behind winner Franz Klammer’s breathtaking win), and a broadcasting career that took him across the globe, Mill wasn’t exactly a household name to Gile. And I feel like the skiing is there to do it,” Gile said Tuesday.Īndy Mill and Bridger Gile. ![]() “With getting a couple good runs under my belt in Copper, I’m excited to go to Europe and try to put two of them together. Gile is off to a fast start in 2021-22, having finished sixth and seventh in the opening giant slalom NorAm Cup events at Copper Mountain last weekend. With it came his elevation to the national squad’s B team. In 2019-20, Gile won the overall NorAm Cup, as well as the giant slalom and Alpine combined titles, which earned him the right to start in World Cup races last season. After building a technical foundation through Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club, Gile in middle school moved to Vail to attend their Ski and Snowboard Academy, finding the charter school’s scheduling flexibility and the pace provided by his classmates a benefit to his racing aspirations. That was followed by a featured appearance in the 2006 Warren Miller film “Higher Ground” which led to more media attention. ‘Make every second count’Īspen native Bridger Gile was a skiing prodigy whose earliest claim to fame was hiking and skiing Highland Bowl at age 4, becoming the youngest person at the time to complete that feat. All three will be inducted into the Aspen Hall of Fame Feb. Andy Mill will be inducted into the 2022 Aspen Hall of Fame class along with two other locals with longstanding ties to the community: theatre impresario Rita Hunter and EcoFlight founder and director Bruce Gordon. ![]()
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