Aspen Ski­ing Co. is rak­ing in job appli­ca­tions this fall but lack of afford­able hous­ing is hin­der­ing their abil­i­ty to seal all deals.

Ski­co had rough­ly 1,200 sea­son­al posi­tions to fill, as it does every win­ter. Get­ting peo­ple inter­est­ed is no prob­lem. Appli­ca­tions were up 70% over last fall in mid-Octo­ber. That’s increased to about 90% now, said Jeff Han­le, vice pres­i­dent of communications.

But Ski­co has “a cou­ple hun­dred” posi­tions still to fill because of the age-old prob­lem of hous­ing, he said.

So Ski­co is prepar­ing to make a big push to entice exist­ing Roar­ing Fork Val­ley res­i­dents to come to work at least part-time. The com­pa­ny wants to har­ness peo­ple who, in the­o­ry, already have secure housing.

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