By BRETT MARTEL, Associated Press Writer Brett Martel, Associated Press Writer
Mon Dec 28, 5:33 pm ET
Long before settling amid the soaring peaks of southwestern Colorado, where she helped create a ski experience unlike any other in North America, Jen Brill learned to carve turns on blue ice at some of the better known ski resorts in the East.
"I remember seeing sheets of ice for hundreds of feet and just trying to hold on," Brill recalled.
No longer does Brill concern herself with what Eastern skiers sometimes refer to with a bit of humor and hyperbole as "bullet proof" ice.
At Silverton