Telluride local Ben Clark with his trekking friends Jon Miller and Josh Butson spent Spring of 2009 in Nepal. The team posted five episodes of raw footage video shot during their journey on iTunes. Check it out: the episodes collectively show up first on iTunes' "New and Noteworthy" podcast page.
Telluride Inside... and Out has been posting the video segments over the past few months. This footage will be edited into a movie documenting the travel to climb 23,390' Buruntse in the Nepali Himalayas. Blogs and the video segments can also be found at www.skithehimalayas.com.
Ben Clark: "The series was released two days ago (February 28) and to have this overwhelming response, to be the most downloaded new show in the outdoor categoryand to be recognized by iTUNES blows my mind."
[click "Play" to hear Jon Turk's conversation with Susan]
On Wednesday, March 3, starting at 6 p.m., Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library hosts two back to back writing events chock-a-block with thrills and spills. Promise.
Program One, a joint venture between the Library and Between the Covers bookstore, features author/scientist/adventurer Jon Turk, who plans to read from his latest book, "The Raven's Gift."
The Inn at Lost Creek in the Mountain Village takes the hassle out of packing for a ski trip. In March, guests of the hotel get a free Premium Ski Rental package for every night of accommodation booked.
The package provided by Christy's Sports, located on the ground level of the hotel, is designed for beginner to intermediate skiers. The deal includes boots, skis, and poles or snowboard and boots, and guests get to choose from brands such as the 2010 Volkl AC Unlimited, K2 Sweet Love, or Ride Control.
As Telluride looks to a more sustainable future, is every old model new again?
On February 10, 6 p.m., The Telluride Historical Museum presents a lively, invitation only, slide show illustrating the unprecedented 1979 investigation of the gold standard for mountain communities: Zermatt, Switzerland.
In 1978 the Idarado mine, the last dynamic link between the mining town that was and the resort town yet to be, shut down. The ski company had changed hands: Ron Allred became the new Joe Zoline and the county planning process for Mountain Village got underway.
Telluride was a-changin,' but into what was still blowing in the wind.
Regular readers of Telluride Inside... and Out will remember that we have had the pleasure of a winter visit from our young friend, Andres Correa. Andres is from Chile and has been staying with the Demas family in the Ski Ranches. He, Damon Demas and I hiked in Arches National Park near Moab in late January. A few days later our friend Todd Hoffman offered an aerial tour of the Telluride region. Andres, Todd's friend John Fleming and I flew over the San Juan range, then flew above the canyon country just south of Moab. Clouds prevented our seeing Arches from the air, but it was a very good overview, and another example of why we love living in Telluride. Enjoy the video.
[click "Play" to hear Colin Sullivan's description of Billings' workshop]
Susie X. Billings is one of the fine artists in the muscular stable of the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art. She is also a regular teacher at the Ah Haa School for the Arts,
where she is offering an exclusive (only 8 participants/workshop)
workshop in an exotic location: Billings' Zacatitos studio located in
the coastal region northeast of San Jose del Cabo, Mexico, on the east
cape of the southern Baja peninsula.
The two "Mixed Media Painting and Journal Workshops" takes place
over six days and seven nights. The first runs from February 6 – 13
and the second, April 5 – 12. Home base is a beach home, but
participants will be visiting nearby arroyos, gardens, and seascapes
for inspiration.
To celebrate 51/2 months of wedding bliss, on January 6, Telluride locals Eliot Brown and Mary Sama-Brown, a broker with Telluride Real Estate Corp, headed to Las Vegas for a romantic getaway. Only Eliot and Mary did not have to deal with the hassle of booking a flight. The happy couple simply commandeered their own Twin Commander/Grand Renaissance 840.
Eliot's day job is operator and chief pilot of MayaAir, a Telluride-based air charter carrier. The Grand Renaissance became his airplane of choice for its all-around reliability and performance. This bird is just as strong and flexible as the acrobats in Cirque du Soleil, which the Browns saw on their trip. (Word is "Zumanity" is both funny and sexy, very sexy.)
Imagine yourself surrounded by green – not necessarily "green" as in sustainable – but the color green. My recent three weeks in New Zealand saturated my ocular senses and coated my brain cells green. As a long time high desert dweller the lush land Down Under was almost unimaginably green. Our region gets 10-14 inches of rain annually; New Zealand, averages over 300. Some places, like Milford Sound in the Fiordlands, gets about seven meters. (Do the math. That's over 21 feet). The only places that weren’t green were blue (water) and gold (sandy beaches).
But what about the other type of ‘green’? The one I spend my days in Telluride at The New Community Coalition thinking about non-stop? What about eco-green?
Editor's note: Going Places/Doing Things is a new feature on Telluride Inside... and Out. We invite locals and part-time locals to post their experiences on the road: the good, the bad, the ugly. We lead with a story by Jane Shivers, who travels often to interesting places and should be a regular contributor.
Jane, a part-time local, is the principal of Shivers Consulting, which provides counsel on marketing communications, leadership and executive coaching. Jane has more than 30 years experience in public relations and marketing after building her own agency in Atlanta and selling it to Ketchum, a global firm, in 1985. She was Director/Partner at Ketchum from 1985-2002.She is one of 70 women profiled in WOMEN WHO MEAN BUSINESS, a William Morrow book by A. Mikaelian.
It was love at first sight on Jane’s first visit to Telluride in 1978 and she has been a homeowner here since 1980. However, husband William Sharp's work as an international tax attorney means frequent trips to Zurich, Switzerland, where the following strange and wonderful post came about. With apologies to PETA, here goes:
Telluride’s Inn at Lost Creek is launching a Proximity Promotion with exclusive rates for its neighbors in the Colorado counties of Alamosa, Archuleta, Delta, Garfield, Gunnison, La Plata, Montrose, Mesa, Montezuma and Pitkin.
“In the current economy more people are staying closer to home and taking mini-vacations or weekend getaways,” explains John Volponi, General Manager at the Inn at Lost Creek. “Our Proximity Promotion makes it a little easier to take a well deserved break with special rates offered to people who are within driving distance of Telluride.”
