Lifestyle

While all of the recent snowfall has been great for on-mountain shredding, it’s made the backcountry pretty damn sketchy. Sure, people are still “getting after it” in Bear Creek and beyond, but considering that natural avalanches are still prevalent, we’ve decided to wait a bit...

Supporting Pinhead's summer interns helps support the future of our country Ever wanted to study plants in Hawaii?  Or work to conserve native turtle habitats in Costa Rica?  Or maybe you would prefer sequencing DNA of poisonous spiders? Students interested in science with an adventurous spirit...

When you see someone ripping down the Mountain, jamming to their iPod, do you ever wonder what they’re listening to? I do. So I decided to ask. And who else do you ask such a question to but your Facebook friends -- a group of people who...

Play and childhood seem to be – or at least used to be–  synonymous. With the simple directive, “Go play outside," parents gave their children a free pass to a kind of freedom that is all too often left behind (and longed for) as we...

We planted and tended an apple orchard in the central New Mexico mountains while I was growing up. It was on the far side of the Manzano Mountains, made famous recently as one of the recurring backdrops in the TV series "Breaking Bad". Not famous...

Discussions of Community, Civility and Compassion kick off with Transition to a Slower Future: How Community Resilience and Slow Money could lead to less work and more fun! The Telluride-based New Community Coalition partners with the Wilkinson Public Library to create a Building Common Ground program....

Eric Johnson is a board-certified family nurse practitioner, who has worked at the Telluride Medical Center since 1997. During his tenure, he provided emergency and primary care. These days, however, Eric is focused on the upcoming Gary Wright Memorial Skin Cancer Screening Clinic. That event...

While Superman, Batman and Spiderman may be the most popular superheroes today, if you ask any Telluride local who their favorite one is, they’ll all give you the same answer: The Tellurider. Standing for environmental protection, historical preservation and, of course, skiing, The Tellurider used his...