July 11 (Bloomberg) -- If you don't own a Gulfstream jet or know someone who does, it's a long, hard slog to attend the Aspen Institute's Ideas Festival. Do I choose a three-hour layover in Denver or take a four-hour drive on twisting roads over the Colorado Rockies? Once you arrive at 8,000 feet, you're sick, unless you're the extremely healthy Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, one of the speakers and author of ``You: The Owner's Manual.'' General Colin Powell was so lightheaded he was whisked off to the hospital. With Ken Lay having passed on earlier in the week in Aspen, you can't be too careful. After shaking the Rocky Mountain high, it seems normal to be at grownup camp where the major activity is listening and the minor dilemma is deciding whether you want to go to a screening of ``Sketches of Frank Gehry,'' produced by Sydney Pollack, best known for ``Tootsie'' and ``Out of Africa,'' or go hear Katie Couric, late of the ``Today'' show, who when asked about her notorious colonoscopy said she's now considering an on-air pap smear as the first woman anchor of the CBS Evening News.