When you live in Telluride, skiing another Mountain is like having an affair. It’s new and exciting and you are ecstatic at the possibilities. At first, you admire everything it has that your Mountain doesn’t -- less bumps, more above-tree-line terrain, wider chutes. You rush to...
Ask anyone at Telluride Adaptive Sports Program, and you will hear that Jane Ekstein was a gutsy woman, wonderful to be around, and one who would work so hard to be able to enjoy skiing in these mountains she came to love. At a small, quiet...
In some towns moms get together for pedicures, coffee, yoga or spin. In Telluride, on Friday mornings, I make an effort to get together with fellow moms to ski. For Telluride moms, skiing provides a space to focus on one thing—getting down the mountain. There are...
The dreams of my youth were of wilderness and searching for its heart. Getting to the edge of wilderness where you could jump off and out of civilization usually involved a vehicle of some kind. The irony was that the wilderness was more accessible because of that...
Well, it’s safe to say that we’ve hit a bit of a hiccup this winter season. While last year started off slow and picked up in January, this season started on a high note and has since then fizzled - or melted - away. Sure,...
It’s easy to fall into a slump in a ski town when it doesn’t snow. The buzz around town is gloomy, and all anyone can talk about is why the storms aren’t coming. Global warming? Arctic pressure? La Nina? But one great activity you can still...
My five-year old daughter is playing ice hockey, a sport with which, until recently, I had no experience. As a former teacher, ski and soccer coach, it’s weird watching my daughter do something I know very little about: I don’t have tips, I don’t know...
Although the last couple of inches definitely freshened up the slopes, that two-week holiday drought, in addition to the holiday crowds (as light as our snowpack has been, it was better than most resorts), definitely wreaked havoc on the slopes. Almost every run is either...
“It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.” Mickey Mantle Substitute sport for game in the above quote, and Mantle pretty much nailed my naivety about skate skiing. For the past fifteen or so years, I’ve always owned...
Friday is a transition day of cooling temperatures and high clouds moving into the area. The first snowfall in a long while is due to arrive Saturday evening in the San Juan Mountains. The ridge of high pressure that has been parked in our backyard...
