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Golf_pro The Telluride Ski & Golf Club welcomes Samantha Fritz as Head Golf Professional. Fritz is a PGA Class A Professional and comes to Telluride with extensive experience in the golf industry.

 Fritz graduated in 2007 from Ferris State University with a Bachelor’s degree in marketing and a concentration in Professional Golf Management. For the past three seasons, she has worked at some of the most elite resort facilities in the country, including The Club at Cordillera in Edwards, Colorado, and The Hawthorns Golf and Country Club in Fishers, Indiana. Fritz established and cultivated the women’s golf programs at both facilities. Through extensive lessons, clinics and relationships, she grew both into the excellent programs they are today.
09 June, 2010 /
[click "Play" for a "shorts" conversation with Kristin Holbrook]

DSC00279 The long and short of it is this: after a brief pause to refresh during the off-season, Kristin Holbrook of Two Skirts is back with Fashion Friday for the summer. Her subject: shorts.

Who wears short shorts? Short answer: everybody.

Shorts were everywhere on the runways of Paris and New York, but not your mother's gym shorts. Shorts have become ladylike, with styles for every age and stage of life. There were preppy shorts on the Luella runway, loose boxers from Chloe, and structured boxers from Marc by Marc Jacob. Prada and Paul Smith showed white (and structured). Gwyneth was spotted on the streets in walking shorts, a look that shows leg, but is decidedly polished.
04 June, 2010 /

Golf0114 Those addicted to the ground-based spheroid-impact phenomenon known as "golf" should get ready to rev up the motors on their carts. The greens are manicured and the tee boxes prepped. Telluride's 18-hole, par-70 golf course opened for business on May 28.

“The course is in great shape,” said Director of Golf, Sean Tannehill. “The crew has done a fantastic job, and we are looking forward to a full summer lineup of tournaments and events.”

The Pro Shop offers offers custom club fitting and the latest in equipment and apparel as well as lessons from PGA-certified professionals, Dan Smith and Carol Price.

04 June, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Annie Pace's conversation with Susan]

Annie4 The Telluride Yoga Center leads from strength, launching its summer season with an Ashtanga Yoga Intensive for all levels of practitioners led by certified instructor Annie Pace. The workshop takes place Friday, June 4 – Sunday, June 6.


With over 30 years of experience, Annie Pace is one of the most adept practitioners of traditional Ashantga Yoga, having received her Advanced B teaching certification from Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in 1995, a rare honor. And she continues to study extensively in India.
02 June, 2010 /

By D. Dion


When Sender Films brings their superior brand of climbing flicks to Mountainfilm in Telluride, they know they are getting an appreciative audience—often one full of climbers and adventurers who have been through the ascetic conditioning of sleeping in the cold at high elevations, burdened with just enough food and water to make the journey possible, or who have scars on their hands from jamming them into a crack as they ascend a wall. Sender has managed to dazzle these likeminded folks at past festivals, winning awards for films like “King Lines,” “Return to Sender” and “The Sharp End.”

But the mountaineering world isn’t the only one sitting up and taking notice of Sender: National Geographic International contracted Sender to produce a television series based on the film company’s popular work “First Ascent.” The film company has finished the six-part series and will show four of the programs at Mountainfilm in Telluride this weekend. “In the past we’ve done a lot of television stuff, but we’ve never produced our own series. It was different working for National Geo, but also similar, in that a lot of our films are sort of episodic. But it was a much bigger budget, more storyline, and we were creating a product that wasn’t just for mountain film enthusiasts and the climbing community,” says Nicholas Rosen, who co-produced the series with his partner Peter Mortimer.

26 May, 2010 /
[click "Play", Victoria Hoffman speaks with Susan about Annie Pace]

Annie-Pace-Flyer-June-2010 No doubt about: Telluride Yoga Center's Victoria Hoffman is one of the most popular yoga instructors in town. Hoffman instructs in the Ashtanga Yoga tradition, a system founded by  Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and popularized in the West by his disciples, among them, Annie Pace, a teacher's teacher – and one of Hoffman's primary influences.


Hoffman began studying yoga at age 12 as a student at the Rochester School of Ballet. Because she was a dancer, the poses (or asanas) came easily, but her teachers demanded more:

25 May, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Janet Curry speak about MBSR]

StillPoint FlyerTELLURIDE (2) Telluride local Judy Kohin was the original director of the Ah Haa School for the Arts, a local institution in the business of promoting personal epiphanies, hence the name. Recently Judy shared an epiphany of her own with Telluride Inside... and Out following a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program (MBSR) she attended at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.


"It was an eight-week program that met once a week with a one-day retreat. The experience was very powerful, and I believe the techniques I learned helped me turn the corner with my illness."

17 May, 2010 /
IMG_0497 Annie Clark, an Occupational Therapist and popular yoga instructor, heads the Telluride region's Autism and Behavioral Consultation Team (ABCT), designated a Model Autism Team by the Colorado Department of Education (CDE). Her group 's mission is to develop increasingly comprehensive family support inside and outside the school systems in five districts: Ouray, Ridgway, Norwood, the West End and Telluride.

April was National Autism Month, so Clark was on the run non-stop. And she does not plan to stop any time soon.  On Saturday, May 15, Clark (and her pup Nala) are participating in the 2nd Annual West Slope Autism Walk in Montrose. The event begins at the Johnson Elementary School at 9:30 a.m.
13 May, 2010 /

The Telluride AIDS Benefit (TAB) is pleased to announce that it will give over $100,000 to five HIV/AIDS charities in Colorado and Africa. TAB will distribute the funds to the Western Colorado AIDS Project, Denver Children’s Hospital Immunodeficiency Program, Brother Jeff’s Community...

10 May, 2010 /