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Learn How to Make Blueberry Brandy Crepes With Peaks’ Chef Lynn Tilyou

by Emily Brendler Shoff

 

The new brunch at the Peaks Resort is one of the best-kept secrets in town. Andy and I went up there last Sunday and were blown away. Once glance at the menu made us wish that we had gone mountain biking before brunch. How do you honestly decide between a poached egg with a root beer barbeque beef hash or a bacon waffle topped with duck confit and apple cider syrup? We couldn’t and so ordered both.   Squash Blossoms With Goat Cheese

We also ordered squash blossoms stuffed with goat cheese and an heirloom tomato and watermelon salad to start. Everything was as visually appealing as the backdrop view of Palmyra Peak from the deck. But as we know, the views of our mountain scenery are just the start; it’s what inside that matters. Everything Chef Lynn Tilyou concocted in her kitchen that morning was equally outstanding, a perfect balance of salty and sweet.

26 July, 2011 /
It might seem strange to vacation in Crested Butte when you live in Telluride. Why leave one small mining-turned-ski town for another small mining-turned-ski town? Some may ask—why leave Telluride at all in the summer?

Ice Cream on CB's Main Street

 Yet, like many Telluridians, my husband, Andy, and I crave adventure. We crave travel. We crave escape. Indeed, the very cravings that pulled us into this valley are the same that push us out from time to time.

 We needed to get out of our house for a while. To get away from our same routines. And most importantly, we needed to re-explore a town we hadn’t been to in few years and see how it stacked up to our own.

 We’d heard the biking in Crested Butte was amazing. As relatively new addicts of the sport, we were eager to get our wheels muddy and test its trails. When we’d been to the town several years before, we’d gone to this astoundingly good coffee shop called Camp 4 Coffee. Would it be as good as we’d remembered?

 

25 July, 2011 /
[click "Play", Kristin talks with Susan about "Red" and "Clutch for the Cause"]

 

Red Bag How goes Milan, so goes Telluride. At least according to fashionista Kristin Holbrook, co-owner of Telluride's ever popular Main Street boutique, Two Skirts.

Two trends emerged on the runways in Milan, Paris,  and New York: fur and red. (Someone must be watching HBO's "True Blood" for ideas.) Won't be seeing much of the former: fur is not too popular around these parts unless it is covering the body of a living thing, like, say a pet dog or cat. But red. Apparently that is a whole other story.

Kristin's story. She says that red in all its variations from Chianti to merlot will show in accessories such as bags from trendy designers such as Marc Jacobs. It's all about punching up the other two popular Fall color themes, grays and browns.

21 July, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Eileen's interview with Lo Snyder]

 

By Eileen Burns

Rope, Boots and Hat Grab your cowboy hat and boots folks, The San Miguel Basin Fair and Rodeo is in town and promises to be jam packed full of events and competitions for everyone in the family.  From the adrenaline rush of a pro cowboy taking a wild and thrashing 8 second bull ride around the arena, to little Johnny next door, hanging on with sheer guts, as he tumbles through his first mutton busting competition, Norwood Colorado is the place to be this weekend.  The fair grounds are located just 40 minutes from downtown Telluride, on Wrights Mesa.  The CPRA Rodeos will take place both Friday and Saturday evenings starting at 7:00 pm.  Entry fee to Rodeo is only $9.00.  There will be plenty of vendor stands with food, pop and beer, including the kids' favorites: sno-cones and cotton candy.

20 July, 2011 /

By J James McTigue

 


In Rome they’d throw people in a ring with a lion for entertainment; in Telluride we have The Lunar Cup. It’s an event that shouldn’t really be watched—it’s frightening and a little disturbing, yet at the same time, extremely difficult not to watch.

Lunar Cup has a little of everything—free-riders throwing back flips, skiers and boarders racing down a snow-covered scree-field, and even a little nudity. Former event organizer and current announcer, Herb Manning summed up the highlight of this year’s Lunar Cup saying, “Everyone came out fairly unscathed.”

So, what is Lunar Cup exactly?

18 July, 2011 /

[click "Play" to listen to Sasha Cucciniello's interview with Dr. Kent Gaylord]   by Dr. Kent Gaylord Sore throats are one of the most common reasons for coming to the doctor.  Sore throats are most commonly caused by a virus, but...

17 July, 2011 /

Note: Our good friend, Bean, husband to beautiful Helen, son of good friend Ed Bowers - now deceased - and Jane Bowers, nephew of longtime, old time Telluride locals Jim and Kathy Bowers, crossed from this world to the next last Sunday, July 9,...

15 July, 2011 /

 

It's hard enough to let your child ride a motorcycle for the first time. Imagine he or she grows up to be a professional motocross stunt rider, like Chas Burbridge.

Chas and some of his friends who live on the Western Slope are coming home to Norwood for the Freestyle Motocross Exhibition on July 16 (Saturday) at the San Miguel County Fairgrounds. The event is a fundraiser for the Wright Stuff Community Foundation and its Prime Time Early Childhood Education Center. Chas and the other professional FMX team members travel all over the country and world to stage events like these, performing in front of stadiums full of thousands of people, but this show will also be a homecoming for the local boys.

14 July, 2011 /
[click "Play", Susan speaks with Kristin Holbrook about Paige Hamilton's bags and "Clutch for the Cause"]

 

Coco_rust_web Relationships are everything in the town of Telluride. For better or for worse. The San Miguel Resource Center kicks in when interpersonal dynamics go on the fritz. It is the region's only nonprofit serving victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Kristin Holbrook, owner of one of Telluride's most popular Main Street boutiques, is a board member of the Resource Center. Last year, she hatched a plan for an unconventional fundraiser for the non-profit: Clutch for the Cause, launches this year on Thursday, July 21, with a cocktail party at Two Skirts, 4 – 7 p.m.

14 July, 2011 /

The following is from an on-and-off series about summer hikes by Deb Dion Kees, who blogs for Telluride HIking Guide.

IMG_1198Don’t look down, I reminded myself. I could feel my breathing get choppy, and even though we were above 13,000 feet in elevation, I knew it wasn’t from the exertion of being at altitude—it was fear. The serrated ridgeline, sharp and snow-covered, stretched out hundreds of feet ahead of me and I dug my trail running shoes into each icy step, hoping it would hold. Don’t look down.

It was probably a couple of weeks too early in the summer to do it, and I definitely should have brought an ice axe, but the Telluride Peak Traverse still ranks as my all-time favorite hike. The Traverse is one of the new routes in the upcoming third edition of Telluride Hiking Guide, and even later in the season, when the high alpine basins and the knife-edge of a ridgeline are no longer coated with stubborn spring snow, it is a serious adventure.

11 July, 2011 /