Telluride is a winter playground. The skiing is obvious. But what might not be so obvious, especially to the common visitor, are all of the other ways to explore this majestic valley, especially with kids and especially in the winter. Enter Eco Adventures. Based in the...
This is a story about seeds and the good and great things they germinate. Eric Earley knows all about seeds. Seeds were the central conceit of an Op Ed piece he penned for the New York Times. Earley grew up in the Oregon hills and mountains, where...
Soot deposited from a torch lighting the way dated the event to about 26,000 years ago. A boy of about 10 walked alongside a large canid, likely half-dog, half-wolf, inside the Chauvet caves in the Ardeche region in France, the site of some of the...
When you live in Telluride, going to a different ski mountain can feel illicit. In the words of fellow snow writer, Jesse McTigue, it can feel almost like "an affair". You see the new mountain with forgiving eyes, and everything is fresh and exciting. Andy and...
Like choir boys, the trio – general manager, Dave Ciani, executive chef Patrick Funk, and food and beverage manager/sommelier, Nathan Kaiser at The Peaks Resort & Spa – sang in perfect harmony. Their refrain, both a wish and a vision statement, articulated by Ciani:"To be...
The latest news from the Bleacher Report on Super Bowl 2014 has Denver winning. Read on...
[caption id="attachment_37517" align="alignright" width="225"] THEO at the casting call.[/caption] Kids and dogs. Stage lore says you never want to be the act that follows because both win hearts and minds just by showing up. And they did, in droves, mid-week at The Peaks Resort & Spa in Mountain Village for the "Rover"...
[caption id="attachment_37347" align="alignright" width="268"] Twinkee, photographed by Andrew Grant for "Rover"[/caption] Major event in support of Second Chance Humane Society takes place at The Peaks Wednesday, January 22, 3 – 6 p.m. Dogs, please bring your people! The backstory: The science is becoming abundantly clear. The statistics, however,...
Every November, folks check out the Really Big Issues: brining versus barding, tenting versus turning, organic or heritage. Clint and I decided to check out. Period. Plans for the holiday included a leisurely cross-country ski outing up at Trout Lake, followed by a day of...
[caption id="attachment_36071" align="alignright" width="300"] Mosier, foreground, down toward Hood River[/caption] Stay tuned…. There will be a Telluride connection… Always is. Mosier, Oregon: The population of Mosier, Oregon was not always 421. There were even fewer people, about 280 locals, living in the picturesque hamlet when Arlene Burns discovered the...
