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In the Beginning
I was there at the beginning. But I think I can be forgiven my fuzzy memories of the earliest Mountainfilm festivals. In May of 1979, our house on West Colorado Avenue rang with the delighted cries of… more →
Peter Shelton
In the Beginning
wrote 21 hours ago: I was there at the beginning. But I think I can be forgiven my fuzzy memories of the earliest Mounta … more →
The Gand Old Game
wrote 1 week ago: I was grateful they moved the mini cannon a ways down the left-field line. During the playing of the … more →
Before Civil Unions, A Gay Takeover
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Colorado’s recent acceptance of civil unions reminded me of a social experiment in little Alpine Cou … more →
Road Visions
wrote 3 weeks ago: One. Nevada. A few miles from the California line, heading into the setting sun on U.S. 6, I have to … more →
Drought Happens
wrote 1 month ago: Two weeks ago I listened in on an “open media call” regarding Colorado’s continuing drought. It was … more →
April Showers Bring . . . Déjà vu
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wrote 1 month ago: A late-season storm rolls through, a big one, the day after the Telluride ski area closes. A cruel i … more →
Houston NCECA Snapshots
wrote 1 month ago: Tim Rowan Steve Heinemann Steve Heinemann Masamichi Yoshikawa Sharbani Das Gupta Fellow SIUE alum Sc … more →
Hot Buttered Corn Snow
wrote 1 month ago: Powderhorn’s closing day on Easter Sunday delivered perfect corn. Corn snow, that is. There were ple … more →
All That Jazz
wrote 1 month ago: “The saddest blues song of all,” Mike Gwinn told his audience last Saturday evening, strumming an im … more →
Le Raid Blanc, Troisième Stage
wrote 2 months ago: Every mountaineering stage race needs its villain, and ours became the team from Piau Engaly. We wer … more →
Le Raid Blanc, Part Deux
wrote 2 months ago: From the sound of it, the randonée course Janelle Smiley faced at the World Championships in Pelvoux … more →
Le Raid Blanc: Old School Rando
wrote 2 months ago: As our team, representing the Smugglers’ Notch resort, lined up on the Italian side of the Matterhor … more →
New Kids on the Block, Part 2
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wrote 2 months ago: The town won its case against Don Nordlander and his mining equipment across the street from us on S … more →
New Kids on the Block
wrote 2 months ago: An obituary in the Montrose Daily Press did more than catch my eye; it brought on a flood of unpleas … more →
Slow Lift Movement
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wrote 3 months ago: People bitch about old, slow chairlifts, but they have their up-sides. Alta’s Alf Engen used to say … more →
Twitter Reviews - January-April 2012
wrote 3 months ago: Peter Shelton @LALOUVER (****) Totally tubular. Wish gallery was 2X bigger. Bladder, orifices, vesse … more →
A Fork in the Road
wrote 3 months ago: As the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade came and went last week, I thought, inevitably, about the abo … more →
X (Rated)
wrote 3 months ago: I had three reasons for going over to Aspen last Friday during the XGames. One was to meet up with s … more →
A Death in Colona
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wrote 3 months ago: We first saw her nibbling saltbrush outside the living room window. She was a small-to-medium sized … more →
