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[double click to view in larger format]Telluride Regional Airport has been closed for construction since April, but is on schedule to reopen on November 4, 2009.It was a major project, including removing most of the famous dip in the middle of the runway, installing new...

01 October, 2009 /

[double click to view in larger format]When Telluride lost Jack Carey this past summer, we lost a friend, a cultural icon, a good man. On Friday. September 25, the Telluride Ski and Golf Company dedicated and re-named the familiar "Locals' Glade" the "Captain Jack" run.About...

29 September, 2009 /

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In Telluride, around the globe, who doesn't like a feel-good story about the triumph of the underdog, especially in times like these, when underdogs are really under the weather – and almost everybody is an underdog. That's why movies like "Breaking Away," "Rocky" and "Strictly Ballroom" get standing ovations even from the most jaundiced audience.

So Telluride, let's hear it for the girls: a local fiber artist and a local sculptor are winners at the World of Wearable Art Awards Show in New Zealand. But we will let Amy Jean Boebel and Sue Hobby tell it in their own words. See next page.

Note: Their garments were flashed on the screen at the International Media Breakfast.

28 September, 2009 /

by Sue Hobby and Amy Boebel

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After 26 hours of travel, we got to Wellington at 10 am.

The day we got in we went to the dress rehearsal for the show - it is held in a huge space and was packed with people taking advantage of the discounted tickets. The show runs two hours long without an intermission which they alert the audience to - so the bladder challenged can scoot out.  Sue, Luci, Jeanie, Helen and I bought a bottle of champagne and some cups and settled into the second row in front.

There are seven catagories of garments and our section, "Folded," includes 29 outfits. In total, there are about 165 pieces worn by 40 models

25 September, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear susan's conversation with Karen Korona]

Karen Korona pic

October 2 – 4, the Telluride Yoga Center, The Peaks Resort & Spa and Lorrie Denesik welcome yogini/healer/transformational teacher Karen Korona to town for an three-day intensive designed to enhance self-awareness and healing through yoga practices, including meditation.

Do you think sitting quietly for at least 10 – 20 minutes a day examining your thoughts as if they were butterflies is vintage Elizabeth Gilbert ("Eat, Pray, Love")? If so, you might want to, well, examine your thoughts.

One definition of yoga is mastering the field of attention. Meditation is the way, the payoff, of countless hours of asana (poses) originally designed to build strength and stamina to – guess – sit in meditation.

24 September, 2009 /

Telluride locals, Amy Jean Boebel and Sue Hobby are on the way to New Zealand. The sculptor and the fiber artist recycled and fashioned garments from aluminum steel that were accepted into WOW, the World of Wearable Art Awards Show, the most prestigious event on...

22 September, 2009 /

My six day hike began with a warm up outing through classic Valasian pastureland.  Our group of eight women stayed at the elegant Lindner Hotel in Lukerbad, home to 30 mineral spas.  We had coffee at a wonderful farm off of a carriage road that was tree lined with cows mulling along the pathway, cow bells and all. 

The 8 mile hike had an elevation gain of 2750ft.  We had lunch at Fluealp Kapelle with a lovely chapel on the far side of a suspension bridge spanning a small limestone ravine.  The descent was through a lush woods that ended at a hut where we celebrated with a cold beer and blueberry tart.

21 September, 2009 /