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VIEW TO THE WEST
High Lunacy in Savage Basin
by Peter Shelton
Jun 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The Lunar Cup has a long history of craziness, but in its heyday it was also a serious professional ski race.
UP BEAR CREEK
If You Can Still Dance With It
by Art Goodtimes
Jun 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Fire bans and water call-ups. Western folks have been talking about over-stocked forests, and urban folks have been talking about climate changes, and it all seems to be coming together – unlike ou...
LOCAL PERSPECTIVE
Why We Fight: Lessons of Lawson Hill
by Seth Cagin
Jun 11, 2012 | 3 3 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
In a sense, Lawson Hill didn’t preserve community after all. It fostered new divisions.
Camping: The Joy, The Work
by Martinique Davis
Jun 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
A short weekend camping trip isn’t nearly long enough for this 4 year old.
Brian Eyster’s Top Ten Listens
by Watch News Staff
Jun 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Telluride Bluegrass Festival’s music guru Brian Eyster shares his own personal Top Ten List with The Watch.
Sounds and Silence
by Leslie Vreeland
Jun 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Concerts in Montrose, Ridgway and Ouray, and a handmade-quilt raffle, all in the arts this week.
VIEW TO THE WEST
Tips for Conquering Writer’s Block
by Peter Shelton
Jun 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Go to bed. Tomorrow is another day.
UP BEAR CREEK
Local Leader Appointed to National Forest Service Committee
by Art Goodtimes
Jun 07, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
JOAN MAY … It has been a singular pleasure to work with Joan on the County Board of Commissioners. She is bright, fair, of the deepest integrity and understands the difference between good govern...
DISPATCHES
There’s No Hiding Place Down Here’
by Rob Schultheis
Jun 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
"I wasn’t the only [Mountainfilm] attendee struck by the way reality here in Telluride resonated with the themes of global climate change, drought and a world gone generally awry.”
GUEST COMMENTARY
Outlawing Short-Term Rentals Will Lead to Further Gentrification
by Peter Yarrow
Jun 02, 2012 | 6 6 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Longtime Telluride part-timer Peter Yarrow weighs in on the short-term rental debate.
VIEW TO THE WEST
Myth of the Automatic Earth
by Peter Shelton
May 31, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Mountinfilm’s symposium on population brought artists and scientists together on growth, energy, women’s rights . . . and music.

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