By D. Dion
It’s hard to hear my hiking partner as we try to chat over the growling San Miguel River, which is rumbling loudly, full of spring runoff. Late snow still covers most of Telluride’s hiking and biking trails, but not Keystone Gorge: This fun loop next to the river is one of the first ones to be clear of winter’s clutches. It’s also the latest addition to the list of great hikes around town.
By D. Dion
Telluride Snowkiting Instructor Mark Worth is a wind junkie. After spending winters here teaching people how to snowkite, he blows out of town and spends summers in Hood River Gorge in Oregon, where he teaches people how to kite surf. He owns his own businesses in both towns, Telluride Snowkite School and Gorge Kiteboard School, and leads something of a double life.
“The migration thing’s just become part of the deal. It’s really a challenge to deal with the logistics,” says Worth, “but the upside is that in the Gorge, in the summertime, it’s really sunny and dry; but in the winter, it’s cloudy and rainy, so it’s nice to be in Telluride where the sun is shining and the snow is falling.”
by Tracy Shaffer
What a wonderful morning! One of those where it’s a bit overcast and you’re wishing you’d never scheduled one of those outside meetings, especially on a Friday. You'd be oh so content to work from home.
The light looked silvery in my golden room as I roused myself, vowing to keep my commitment. I’d set up coffee and an interview with Brooke Young, Autism Specialist with the Colorado Department of Education to discuss autism: not something I would normally bounce out of bed for, but April is National Autism Month and Brooke is headed for the Telluride region to mentor a Model Autism Team. I write for Telluride Inside... and Out. You get the picture.
I headed downtown to one of 15 Starbucks in a five block radius, ordered my Joe, asking if any of the many blondes in line was Brooke. Feeling luckily out of luck, I sat down to write and enjoy my overpriced java, secretly hoping I was at the wrong Starbucks as I guiltily scrolled through my Blackberry to find her number. One minute later in walked Brooke, apologetic for having gone to the wrong Starbucks, along with Gina Quintana, Significant Support Needs Specialist, also with the CDE.
[click "Play" to hear Kristin Holbrook talk about cashmere] In Telluride, it is the quiet before the storm of summer activities, the perfect time for Spring cleaning, which includes swapping sweaters for t-shirts, cashmere for cotton – or maybe...
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Get anywhere near this human tornado and you will be blown away – this time to Mexico.
Brooke Young
The Telluride region's Autism Behavioral and Consultation Team (ABCT) received one of two model autism teams in the state just before Christmas.
The local team is headed by occupational therapist and yoga instructor Annie Ripper Clark. April is National Autism Month and in honor of the occasion, Clark's mentor at the State level, Brooke D. Young, Autism Specialist/Senior Consultant, Colorado Department of Education in Denver, pays a visit to the district – Telluride, Ouray, Ridgway, Norwood and the West End – the week of April 19.
Among the activities planned for Young's visit are a parent chat, and an assessment of basic language and learning skills (revised) training.
Brooke Young and friend,
Bill Carson
The Telluride region's Autism and Behavioral Consultation Team, headed by Occupational Therapist and yoga instructor Annie Clark, is working hard to raise awareness about the new protocols for affected families during the month of April, National Autism Month. Clark's mentor at the State level is Brooke D. Young, Autism Specialist/Senior Consultant, Colorado Department of Education in Denver.
A funny thing happened with the dawning of the new millennium. The neuro-biological spectral disorders that fall under the banner of autism, a brown-bagged diagnosis until then, suddenly infiltrated pop culture. The trigger was the publication of a book in 2003 with an improbable title: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," by Mark Haddon.
[click "Play", Kristin Holbrook talks about soft colors for Spring] Black may be the new black, but Telluride Inside...
It's a tangle of eye-popping acronyms – UnBOCS, ABCT, CO-MASP – that boils down to one simple thing: greater support for Telluride regional families with children affected by autism and related syndromes that fall under the banner of Autism Disorder Spectrum (ASD). The work of the ABCT goes stereo in April because April is National Autism Month.
Needle Rock is a mountain pillar in the Telluride region, climbing to 10,564 feet above sea level. Needle Rock – pun intended – is also the name of the town's only fiber arts store, as of April 20, comfortably ensconced in brand new digs: 320 West Colorado Avenue. (It's the little purple house set back from the road, originally a fabric and sewing store. What goes around....)
