It was virtually the only hiccup during the trip for the Obamas, who skied Saturday at Buttermilk, said Pitkin County Sheriff’s deputy Jesse Steindler. The sheriff’s department assisted the Secret Service with three to six deputies at any given time, including driving the lead and tail vehicles in the motorcade.

“It was very uneventful,” Steindler said of the Obama family’s fourth straight Presidents Day weekend visit to the Aspen area. “It was very easy duty.”

Obama and her daughters arrived in Aspen on Friday afternoon. Steindler declined to say where they stayed. In past years, they have spent the weekend at the Tiehack home of Jim and Paula Crown, owners of the Aspen Skiing Co.