Editor's Note: It's off season in Telluride now. Not a creature is stirring. But with May only weeks away, thoughts turn to the summer season. The kick off is Mountainfilm in Telluride. In the roll-up to the event, we continue to post timely blogs by...
Editor's Note: The dynamic duo of Billy Mason (who wrote this post) and Anna Zivian, scholars with an agenda to save our planet, posts weekly, stories about everything from what happened to bees to strawberries, the state of the ocean, and climate change. All of...
Springtime in the Rockies. Ah yes. We go from toasty warm, shorts and tank top weather to eight inches of snow, from dry roads to muddy ruts to icy pavement and back again in the blink of an eye. Telluride is quiet, but certainly not dead....
The news has migrated from the front page to back pages, but it's still news: Honeybees are dying. So many bees have bitten the dust the phenomenon has a name: Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). And to date, it has been hard to establish a definitive...
In the spring, when the weather in southwestern Colorado flips between winter and summer, often in the same hour, it can be hard to stay focused. Should we bike or ski? Spring clean or hunker down with that classic we’ve wanted to read for years?...
Coincidence? Serendipity? Call it what you will, while we were planning our road trip to southern Oregon to meet Kid 1 and family, the April Smithsonian magazine arrived with its lead story: "The Basque Revolution." The author, Jonathan Gold, wrote: "If you want American Basque food...
In Telluride, there is no single piece of ski gear more coveted than the perfect, vintage, ‘70s inspired one piece. Actually, there is -- a padded Obermeyer sweater, a neon Descente pullover jacket or a pair of Roffe slalom pants. They’re equally respected. The point is:...
Climatologists are able to explain why rain falls, clouds form, the patterns of atmospheric circulation, the movement of the ocean currents, and much more. Nonetheless, the transference and acceptance of this knowledge to the majority of society has taken centuries. Even though empirical evidence indicates...
Don't believe everything you read. Fashion editors may tell you bright clothes came back into vogue on the Spring runways in Paris and Milan, but I credit POC sports with jump-starting the trend. POC is a Swedish company whose mission is "to do everything [they] can...
If you’re a regular TIO fan as I am, I hope you’ve been reading the "Earth Matters" column. Anna Zivian’s latest story on strawberries is a disturbing revelation. I also hope you read yesterday’s "Hunting and Gathering: In the Garden" by Lisa Barlow. I've got...
