Each time we travel we have a choice. We can be a tourist or a traveler. In my younger life I was always a traveler. I backpacked through South America, teaching English along the way, exchanging room and board for language lessons and trying my best to speak Spanish. Later, even on short vacations, I’d…
Spring is the busiest time of year at my job, so when everyone else in Telluride flies off to the beach in Mexico or Hawaii, I get to stay here and wallow in self-pity. This year seemed especially bad, with the bipolar weather alternating between snow and mud. I avoided Facebook entirely because I didn’t…
One of the most common criticisms I hear about raising kids in Telluride is the lack of culture. This always puzzles me because I’m fairly certain that if I lived in a city, I wouldn’t be taking my children to the symphony, the opera or the local Korean meat market. But I’m open to criticism…
The Telluride Ski Resort formally closes this afternoon. It’s been a strange year on the mountain. Personally, it was a short but great year for me. On March 19 & 20 I had two of my best days of skiing this season. TASP had several sessions of riding with military veterans in the Winter of…
For me it was a short ski season: we were away from Telluride from last September until mid-February, and we had to leave again with over a week remaining in the season. But, it was a good short season. Susan and I returned to Telluride to new snow, sunny days, and more snow. And my…
Parenting is a pretty selfless endeavor. Most of the time. But there are days, when it’s sunny and warm, and I just need to get out and put my skis on, that I actually force my kids to ski. They are only four and two years old, so by ski, I mean “ski.” They put…
Sometimes if feels as if powder days are like the string of Telluride boyfriends you had in your twenties. Which means for some of you, the boyfriends you have right now. And just like with those irresistible boys, with powder days, you must learn to differentiate between those with promise and those that deliver. Take…
Is it lower levels of dopamine, the neurotransmitter that creates the so-called “adrenaline rush?” That’s one theory about what drives extreme athletes to risk their lives for the sake of adventure. In his book, “On the Ridge Between Life and Death,” mountaineer David Roberts described traits he once shared with his comrades: compulsive, driven, self-absorbed,…
There seems to be two names for many things in Telluride—the actual name and then what everyone calls it. Sometimes I find myself in hilarious situations as I recommend restaurants and give directions to visitors or tourists in town and on the Mountain. Turns out the local dialect does not always translate directly. Case in…
There are currently partly cloudy skies with increasing cloudiness throughout the day. Western Colorado will see the southern portion of a split trough arriving on WNW flow bringing some snow into the western San Juans later today and by mid-afternoon the flow will spread moisture into the 4-corners. Should see a rain/snow mix in the…