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[click "Play" to hear Senior Mahoney's conversation withSusan]

"We Skied It" premier at Sheridan Opera House, December 17, 6:00 PM & 8:00 PM

Poster final In the 1970s, Telluride was just finding its ski legs, a baby ski resort beginning to pulse thanks very much to a chap from Beverly Hills called Joe Zoline. At the time, half of Main Street was still boarded up and lots of folks were beating a path out of town muttering darkly because Idarado had just closed for business. The historic Sheridan Opera House, now nearly restored to its full Victorian splendor, was a wreck, a camping ground for derelicts with broken glass and upturned mattresses everywhere. But what of life before Zoline, See Forever, Spiral Stairs, and Milk Run helped put Telluride on the map?


About a year and a half ago, longtime local Larry Hopkins re-discovered gold in Telluride – celluloid gold – in the form of Senior Mahoney's 16MM home movies. Hopkins did not pass Go. He headed straight for the Telluride Historical Museum with his new-found treasure, where museum director Lauren Bloemsma and her team picked up the gauntlet.
14 December, 2009 /

The Telluride Nordic Association is putting on a 2 kilometer sprint on Saturday, December 12, 2009. The start/finish is at Adams Ranch Road and Mountain Village Blvd in the Mountain Village. Registration begins at 11:30 am, and all abilities and ages are welcome to...

11 December, 2009 /

Earlier this week we published a video of a coyote hunting mice on Telluride's San Miguel valley floor. Our friend Don Mitchell sends us these photos of moose near his home in San Bernardo, at the foot of Lizard Head Pass. I don't...

11 December, 2009 /
[click "Play" to listen to Susan talking with Bertrand Marchal]

Bertrand Longtime Telluride locals referred to them as  les deux Bertrands, the two Bertrands: Bertrand Lepel-Cointet, now deceased, worked the front of the house. Bertrand Marchal was the chef. Together, the two owners turned La Marmotte Restaurant into a local institution.

Bertrand Marchal spent his youth studying under some of the best chefs in France, at Michelin-rated restaurants such as Le Crocodile in Strasbourg and Boyer in Reims. Today, he operates his own catering company, Bertrand's Catering.
09 December, 2009 /

In Telluride we can get high speed internet. We can get home delivery of the New York Times. We can experience the most current movies and music (eg: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros last week). It's easy to think of this place...

07 December, 2009 /

by Kris Holstrom

Tn_EnglewoodSmall (1) The night was cold, but a small crowd gathered in Telluride at the east end of Colorado Avenue last night. Hot chocolate (the best!) was provided by Telluride Truffles. Conversations were wide ranging. What was this crowd gathered for? To spread the light.

Telluride downtown merchants have been meeting for the last several weeks and last night, the  tangible result: lights. Merchants really wanted to see the town lit up for the holidays, because bright lights equal upbeat, cheery. And we’ve always had the beautiful big tree full of colored lights at the West End of the commercial district to set the mood. But what about the East End of town? Nothing, nada, zilch, until Monday night, thanks to many who are lending a hand: business owners, council members, and people on the street are donating to purchase and fund new LED lights on the town lampposts and newly lit trees on the East end of Telluride's Main Street. These lights, purchased both through Timberline Hardware and the Telluride High School Y.E.S. Club, are LEDs or Light Emitting Diodes, and highly energy efficient.

02 December, 2009 /

by Eileen Burns


IMGP0760 (editor's note: I took one run from the top of Lift 6 down See Forever to the Beach. I happened to be riding the lifts and skiing with recent Telluride immigrant, Gaile Oslapas, who is a supervisor in the Children's Ski School. We stopped a few times on the way down to take in points of interest. Welcome to Telluride, Gaile)

Before cutting into this year's juicy Thanksgiving turkey, local Telluride skiers and guests took to the slopes for some early season carving as Telluride Ski Resort celebrated opening day.

27 November, 2009 /

by Kris Holstrom

IMG_1769 Imagine yourself surrounded by green – not necessarily "green" as in sustainable – but the color green. My recent three weeks in New Zealand saturated my ocular senses and coated my brain cells green. As a long time high desert dweller the lush land Down Under was almost unimaginably green. Our region gets 10-14 inches of rain annually; New Zealand, averages over 300. Some places, like Milford Sound in the Fiordlands, gets about seven meters. (Do the math. That's over 21 feet). The only places that weren’t green  were blue (water) and gold (sandy beaches).

But what about the other type of ‘green’? The one I spend my days in Telluride at The New Community Coalition thinking about non-stop? What about eco-green?
25 November, 2009 /