[caption id="attachment_32059" align="alignright" width="300"] Nice Brown (the fish, not Werner, though he is often tan)[/caption] If you have never been to the Gunnison Gorge, do yourself a favor and get there are fast as you can! The Gorge is one of the most spectacular whitewater, fly...
It’s June in the San Juan Mountains. The trails are dry, the mornings are warm and it's time to ride. But for many Telluride cyclists, June is also the month of pain. It’s the beginning of the season. We simply don’t have time in the...
Take a look at the Telluride Summer schedule: from Mountainfilm in Telluride over Memorial Weekend, now gearing up for Telluride Bluegrass, music and yoga weekends, on through Telluride Film Festival and Blues and Brews at the end of the Summer, one could be forgiven for...
[caption id="attachment_31611" align="alignright" width="300"] From fly fishing essay inGear Patrol[/caption] Once upon a long time ago, just after I arrived in Telluride in the 1990s, my newish husband Clint engaged the young son of a friend to teach both of us to fly fish. You know...
[caption id="attachment_31363" align="alignright" width="198"] Bell flowers[/caption] Learn to identify at least 45 native plants, scientific names, characteristics of plant families and how to “key out” and ID plants in the field and discover how to use natives in your home landscape and protect against invasive non-native...
Anyone interested in observing the movement of our visible planets against the backdrop of the starry night sky should take note of the unusual dance of Mercury, Venus and Jupiter over the next few evenings above the western horizon in twilight. I'm posting a few graphic...
I was on my mountain bike, speeding down a trail. My mind should have been sinuous singletrack before me. Instead, I found myself focusing on the harder sections of trail up ahead. Would I be able to stay on my bike for all of those...
Each time we travel we have a choice. We can be a tourist or a traveler. In my younger life I was always a traveler. I backpacked through South America, teaching English along the way, exchanging room and board for language lessons and trying my...
Spring is the busiest time of year at my job, so when everyone else in Telluride flies off to the beach in Mexico or Hawaii, I get to stay here and wallow in self-pity. This year seemed especially bad, with the bipolar weather alternating between...
One of the most common criticisms I hear about raising kids in Telluride is the lack of culture. This always puzzles me because I’m fairly certain that if I lived in a city, I wouldn’t be taking my children to the symphony, the opera or...
