Yes it is. We did that run early in the day and loved it. It was a guys trip with about 8 of us.....varying degrees of skill level, and for sure varying degrees of cardio endurance. Anyway, one of our buddies had to join us at lunch and we all bragged on that run and talked it up. So he's all fresh and says lets do it again. Keep in mind im in good shape so no worries there, but some of the others not so much but we all agreed to do it later if we had time.
I could tell some of the guys were kind of bailing toward the end of the day and about half of us headed toward the run (and hike!). We were pushing it toward 4pm and we had to hustle to get to the bottom (you know how long a run that is) so we could take that lift back up and traverse to the Snowmass Village base , ski rental return and vehicle..... needless to say, we were in go mode, but we had some 50+ newbies in tow.
A couple of the novice guys were really struggling and they sent us on ahead , knowing they would just have to get a ride back, no way they would make 4 pm cutoff. So 3-4 of us boogie down and wait right until 4pm for them to come barrelling down. We were having fun with the Lift Operator flirting with her to hold the chair and sure enough here comes our 3 old timer beginner buddies just hauling ass down like bats out of hell and we all hit cutoff at 4.
Good times, we laughed all night about those guys coming in hot. It was so funny watching them come down , we got on the lift when we pointed out our buddies and were above them as passed under....we were laughing our asses off