The official ski season in Telluride opens tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day. Real enthusiasts have been hiking up to earn their turns for weeks around here with all the early season snow. But today, was Donation Day, the first chance to ski (limited) terrain by riding a lift...
"What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?" Erma Bombeck In a letter to his daughter, Ben Franklin proposed the turkey for the official...
[caption id="attachment_36188" align="alignright" width="200"] FOX[/caption] A recent survey, conducted by Best Friends Animal Society, the Utah sanctuary that's one of the leaders in the no-kill movement, shed light on pet owners' attitudes toward the sources of pets. The study focused on people 18 to 34 years old...
[caption id="attachment_36193" align="alignright" width="300"] Halloween Pumpkin, from Huff Post Healthy Living[/caption] I am a fairly regular reader of the Huffington Post and all its babies, such as Huff Post Healthy Living. This article about the (upcoming) traditional Thanksgiving food orgy caught my eye. It was not...
![Photograph of President Truman receiving a Thanksgiving turkey from members of the Poultry and Egg National Board and other representatives of the turkey industry, outside the White House., 11/16/1949 Harry S. Truman Library [National Archives Identifier 200138]](https://tellurideinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/truman-thanksgiving-s.jpg)
[caption id="attachment_36145" align="alignright" width="200"] Photograph of President Truman receiving a Thanksgiving turkey from members of the Poultry and Egg National Board and other representatives of the turkey industry, outside the White House., 11/16/1949Harry S. Truman Library[National Archives Identifier 200138][/caption]With snow fall comes the holiday season...
There are the obvious things one can be thankful for in Telluride. The beauty of elk grazing on the valley floor, wispy clouds playing hide-n-seek amongst the mountaintops, and of course, early-season snow. But, in the cracks and crevices of our valley’s magnificent geographic features,...
It’s not easy for an adult to pack a backpack for a week-long trip in the desert. It’s even harder to try and organize 15 middle school students and do this. But that’s exactly what the Telluride Mountain School does every year at just about...
[caption id="attachment_36071" align="alignright" width="300"] Mosier, foreground, down toward Hood River[/caption] Stay tuned…. There will be a Telluride connection… Always is. Mosier, Oregon: The population of Mosier, Oregon was not always 421. There were even fewer people, about 280 locals, living in the picturesque hamlet when Arlene Burns discovered the...
Thickening clouds are beginning to stream into the San Juans today with a moisture source stretching from Hawaii. The first wave of energy in the Great Basin should reach us by mid to late afternoon today bringing the potential of snow, 4-8″ with a bit...
