TELLURIDE NEWB: BLACK IRON BOWL AND PALMYRA
Well, it’s safe to say that we’ve hit a bit of a hiccup this winter season. While last year started off slow and picked up in January, this season started on a high note and ha
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HEAD TO THE OUTDOOR RINK AT TELLURIDE’S TOWN PARK
It’s easy to fall into a slump in a ski town when it doesn’t snow. The buzz around town is gloomy, and all anyone can talk about is why the storms aren’t coming. Global warmi
8 TIPS FOR SKATING WITH YOUR KIDS
My five-year old daughter is playing ice hockey, a sport with which, until recently, I had no experience. As a former teacher, ski and soccer coach, it’s weird watching my daught
TELLURIDE NEWB: ROCK SKIS… AGAIN??!!
Although the last couple of inches definitely freshened up the slopes, that two-week holiday drought, in addition to the holiday crowds (as light as our snowpack has been, it was b
SNOW SUNDAY: IMPROVE YOUR SKATE SKIING
“It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.” Mickey Mantle Substitute sport for game in the above quote, and Mantle prett
SAN JUAN MOUNTAIN WEATHER: SOME SNOW?
Friday is a transition day of cooling temperatures and high clouds moving into the area. The first snowfall in a long while is due to arrive Saturday evening in the San Juan Mounta
SAN JUAN JON:THE CACTUS PHONE
As children we often visited our grandparents in southern Arizona where they worked a ranch about 25 miles southeast of Tucson. The trips always started with an announcement posed
TELLURIDE NEWB: GOTTA LOVE THE TELLURIDE LIFTIES
Due to all of the smiles, hellos and great attitudes, we couldn’t have completed our first winter season of the Telluride Newb without a tribute to the ski area lifties. They are
SNOW SUNDAY: THE NON POWDER DAY
It’s been over a week since Telluride has seen snow and there is nothing in the immediate forecast. Although there is still fun to be had on the ski area, it’s certainly not a
TELLURIDE NEWB: BEST OF NEWB, #2
Who says you need snow to kill it in Telluride? Though early season in November and early December was a bit dry (like the rest of the state), Telluride’s mini-park, See Forever
SAN JUAN JON: STARRY, STARRY NIGHT
When Shepherds keeping watch, saw a great sight As a child I was versed in stories of Wise Men whose learning of stars and planets revealed a great child would be born. These ear
TRAVIS JULIA PRESENTS WARREN MILLER
It’s producer Travis Julia’s annual stocking stuffer for the town. Thanks to Julia, Warren Miller‘s latest film is scheduled to be screened in its annual pre-Xmas
SAN JUAN MOUNTAIN WEATHER
San Juan Mountains Weather Report. Tuesday December 20, 2011… 09:10 As the low pressure system traveled east into the plains last night (southeast Colorado/northern New Mexico) i
TELLURIDE NEWB: BLAST FROM THE PAST
Around the time the World Cup arrives, Telluride gets a ton of snow; it just seems to be the yearly trend. Due to a mid-week dump, Lift 6, Revelation Bowl and Gold Hill opened to t
SEVEN TIPS FOR SKIING WITH YOUNG KIDS
Telluride is full of parents who want nothing more than their kids to love skiing as much as they do. So, it is with great care that parents broach skiing with their children and t
ARTS & ENVIRONMENT: TNCC, STEAMING BEAN LAUNCH NEW PROGRAM
The first “Local Libations” program, a collaboration between The New Community Coalition and Telluride’s Steaming Bean, takes place December 15, 2011 at 5:30 PM a
ESSENTIAL TELLURIDE WINTER GEAR PICKS
For folks living in mountain towns, essential winter gear puts function before style (but in the best case scenarios incorporates both) and isn’t limited to apparel, but is compr
TELLURIDE FINISH FIRST STAGE OF 2012 PRO CYCLING CHALLENGE
Telluride has been announced as one of the host towns for the 2012 USA Pro Cycling Challenge. The first stage will start in Durango, climb over 10,200+ foot Lizard Head Pass, and d
SAN JUAN JON: NESHKA, ASHI AND THE TAOS PLATEAU
Wildness does not go away because we bring it indoors. This is especially true of animals. Tom had two Malamutes, Neshka and Ashi, named for Eskimo heroes he had read about. He liv
JAMES COLT+NEW SNOW=GOOD DAY IN TELLURIDE
It snowed off-and-on for a few days in Telluride. I wouldn’t call it a blizzard, but when Monday morning dawned clear and cold, with about 4 or 5 inches of new fluffy snow, i
SNOW SUNDAY: FIVE SKI TIPS TO MASTER BALANCE
It’s ski season and the lifts are open — but only Lift Four, Lift Five and Lift Six to See Forever. What’s a ski bum to do with only a few groomers to cruise on? T
24 Hours of Moab Bike Race: Possibilities in the Desert
By Jesse James McTigue Moab, Utah is full of some of the most mind-boggling spectacles and seeming impossibilities. Flowers bloom among the arid, desert landscape; ro
Telluride Escape: Comb Wash, Utah
When the snow flies early in Telluride as it did last week, we like to escape to Utah. Last weekend, instead of heading to Moab, we decided to go to a place that we hadn’t visite
San Juan Jon: Wind River Thunder
by Jon Lovekin Happily exhausted, we lay down in the back of the truck with the Muz (our dog) snuggled between us. The night was cool, going on to cold. We had eaten