“The (Boot) Doctor is in the House” is a series from beloved retailer, BootDoctors, about mountain lore and stories where the good guys still win and ski powder. The big idea is to share the power of mountain life: style, gear, community and community outreach,...
"The (Boot) Doctor is in the House" is a series of stories from a beloved Telluride retailer about mountain adventures, mountain adventurers (profiles), community outreach and/or giving back. The BootDoctors' website here. This week, big-time skier Jesse James Mctigue writes about technical packs as gateways to...
I stand on a gravel switchback below Bridal Veil Falls with the Telluride Mountain School 11th and 12th grade students, fastening my climbing harness. It’s the first Friday of the school year and we’re going to do the Via Ferrata, a protected climbing and hiking...
Our camping plan usually goes something like this. The text comes in: Camping in Crested Butte next weekend? Our reply: Cool. We’ll be there. However, as “next weekend” approaches so do 100 obstacles. All the “to dos” I’ll leave not done: out-of-town friends who are in town; the...
It’s summer; it’s time to ride. For cyclists this means always. The family is going to Durango for the weekend? You ride to Dolores and have them pick you up. Grocery shopping in Montrose? You bring your bike and ride home. Meeting for dinner in...
Remember back in the day when there was no singles line in Telluride? Instead of being automatically funneled into the lift line and efficiently matched up with an incomplete chair load, you stood in line awkwardly, looked around, then yelled, “Single?." If there was a single,...
Each sport has its own rituals, its own culture, its own weekend routine. And for those of us who grew up as athletes, it is these weekend routines, more so than the competitions, that defined our childhood. For me that sport was ski racing, and...
What was true two years in 2013 when our regular contributor Jesse James Mctigue originally wrote this story is abundantly true today, as we look out our windows at our winter wonderland: Telluride always for Christmas. A colleague asked me if I was going to stay in...
Last week, I had a crappy week. I don’t mean “ski town crappy” in that it was off-season so my favorite yoga class was cancelled or the Butcher and Baker had sold out of all their sausage breakfast burritos or I couldn’t go backcountry skiing...
There are people who love Halloween and people who don’t. I don’t love Halloween. My dream Halloween would be spent camping and mountain biking in a tutu on the White Rim Trail in the Canyonlands with a group of friends and their kids. However, since my...
