Spring Sunday: First Mountain Quail
Growing up, there are certain markers that define your childhood. The first time you ride a two-wheel bike. The first time you catch a baseball. The first time you read a chapter b
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Jagged Edge Team: Elk Mountain Traverse
Win or, what the heck, just finish, we are talking seriously gnarly. The Elk Mountain Traverse is an extraordinary 40-mile backcountry ski race between the towns of Crested Butte
Spring Sunday: What’s So Great About April?
Each winter month in Telluride brings with it a different type of snow and different tempo. And although we all love a powder day, April corn may be the second most anticipated gra
Telski: Mountain Town Get Down
The Telluride Ski Resort welcomes the national reggae act, Iration, headlining the Mountain Town Get Down scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, March 28 and 29, 2015. Now in its se
Snow Sunday: Arriving in Telluride for the First Time
When I was 21 and a student at Colorado College, I caught a last-minute ride in a friend’s pickup to a place called Telluride. Toby was headed there for a bluegrass festival. “
Freesking World/Snowboard Tour Hits Telluride 3/4-3/8
Organizers announce the 2015 Freeskiing World Tour and Masters of Snowboarding Champions will be determined by which ski and snowboard athletes earn the most points at the Subaru F
Telluride Adaptive Sports Program: Rockin’ at the Opera, 3/6/2015
Have you seen a wounded Veteran skiing with someone in a blue jacket out on a black run on the Telluride mountain? How about a special needs kid from the reservation having a ball
San Juan Mountains Weather Forecast and Snow/Water from 2-26-15
Scattered light snow showers develop later today/tonight as the latest moisture over eastern Utah moves overhead. There will be a small break in the snowy weather early tomorrow fo
San Juan Mountains Weather Forecast ~ 2/25/15
The next few days, unorganized northwest flow will predominantly affect the northern and central Colorado mountains and the north side of the San Juans. Our mountains will see over
SNOW! It’s Back!
The “drought.” We’ve all been talking about it. Telluride enjoyed a great early snowfall. The mountain opened with good coverage, then got more snow so the Christ
San Juan Mountains Weather Forecast ~ 1/22/15
Snow has begun early this morning in the southern San Juans… The trough I’ve been describing being carved out across the desert southwest is deforming back to the west drawing
San Juan Mountains Weather Report ~ 2/21/15
An energetic NW flow is carving out a low-pressure trough over the intermountain west today through Sunday. This will most likely pinch off into a closed low over the desert southw
Snow Sunday: Living Without Snow
It’s a been a strange world this winter living without snow. Most directly, no new snow has limited activities such as skiing and Nordic skiing. As Jesse McTigue cleverly illustr
San Juan Mountains Weather Report ~ 2/19/15
I don’t want to say this too loudly, but indicators are pointing to a pattern change for the next seven to ten days. Tonight and tomorrow we’ll see invading clouds from the nor
Outing the Outlaw Spirit: Ski Burn Brings It!
Note: This is the first of what we hope will be a series of posts and images by long-time local Ingrid Lundahl, author of “Telluride: The Outlaw Spirit of a Colorado Town.” Mos
Snow Sunday: Bullwheel Cowboys and Other Chairlift Fails
Twenty years ago, when I moved to Telluride, my first job on the ski area was as a lift operator, bumping chairs. I did it because the job came with a ski pass. I didn’t realize
San Juan Mountains Weather Forecast ~~ 1/29/15
The storm for the next few days is an upper-level trough hovering along the California coast. A closed-low will form along the Mexico/Arizona border tomorrow night. It will then mo
Snow Sunday: Climbing Mountain Quail with Teenagers
To be honest, at the start, there wasn’t very much enthusiasm about hiking up Mountain Quail, a ski run perched at the outer edge of Telluride’s Black Iron Bowl. It sits at rou
Telluride Mountain Club: Promotes BCA Link Radios in Backcountry
In an effort to increase backcountry safety protocols, the Telluride Mountain Club promotes the use of Backcountry Access Link Radios. Over the past 20 years, Telluride Mountain Cl
San Juan Mountains Weather Report ~~ Monday, 1/12/15
The San Juans are currently between storms with partly cloudy skies and warming temperatures, but by this afternoon an upper level low pressure trough currently forming in the Grea
Snow Sunday: When It Snows… Ski
It’s Thursday morning December 18th. There are four or five inches of new snow, and a thousand reasons why I shouldn’t be in the lift line at 8:45a.m: The Christmas cards I hav
San Juan Mountains Weather Report, 1/10/2015
Clouds are beginning to move into the 4-corners this morning ahead of the next San Juan storm. By later tonight/Sunday morning scattered snow showers will increase as an upper leve
San Juan Mountains Weather Forecast~~UPDATE~~ Sunday. 12/21/2014
PRECIP WILL START SUNDAY MORNING BEFORE BECOMING MORE STEADY NOON ONWARDS WITH THE HEAVIEST PRECIP EXPECTED FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. SOME HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE A