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==Production==
''The Other Side of Aspen'''s skiing and sex scenes were shot in [[Lake Tahoe]], California.{{sfn|Escoffier|2009|pp=140}} Producer and [[Falcon Studios]] founder [[Chuck Holmes]] regularly took skiing trips, and broughtelected theto film'sshoot casta andfilm crewfor withthe himstudio on one such trip to shoot scenes so he could claim the vacation as a [[write-off]].<ref name="SEED"/> The film's setting of [[Aspen, Colorado]] references the city's popularity as a destination for [[LGBT]] tourists; in 1979, the city was the first municipality in Colorado to pass a [[List of cities and counties in the United States offering an LGBT non-discrimination ordinance|non-discrimination ordinance]], and has hosted Aspen Gay Ski Week annually since that same year.<ref name="Queenstown"/>
At the time, gay pornographic films were typically eight- to 10-minute single-scene film loops that were shot and released on [[Standard 8 mm film|8 mm film]].<ref name="Out"/> ''The Other Side of Aspen'' was similarly shot as four individual scenes, though after filming concluded in Lake Tahoe, Holmes and Falcon co-founder Vaughn Kincey elected to shoot additional scenes of dialogue in San Francisco.<ref name="SEED"/> The dialogue scenes were placed between the sex scenes, giving the film a narrative with plot and continuity, and making ''The Other Side of Aspen'' the first [[feature film]] to be released by Falcon.{{sfn|Escoffier|2009|pp=143}}