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FOCUSED - Montrose High School junior Riley Willis practiced at the Links at Cobble Creek on Tuesday in preparation for the state golf championship next Monday. (Photo by William Woody)
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Eighty-four prep golfers from around Colorado will be at Cobble Creek in competition Monday, Oct. 1, at the 2012 State 4A golf championship.
CYCLING CONVERT – Practicing what he preaches, runner-turned-biking enthusiast Kevin Chismire took a break on the mountain bike recently. Chismire hopes his brainchild, the Log Hill Lungbuster Challenge bike race, coming up Sunday,Sept. 16, will be a good fundraiser in the future for the Ouray County Historical Society, of which he is president. (Courtesy photo)
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The inaugural Log Hill Lungbuster Challenge, Ouray County’s first bike race, is also a fundraiser for the Ouray County Historical Society.
STRUNG OUT - Runners in the 2009 Imogene Pass Race negotiated the jeep road between Ouray and Telluride. (File photo)
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The infamous 17.1-mile race over from Ouray to Telluride over Imogene Pass takes place this Saturday, Sept. 8 with a sellout crowd of over 1,500 registered participants.
START TRAINING NOW – Following on the wheel of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, the inaugural Log Hill Lungbuster bike race is coming to Ridgway as a fun time trial and benefit for the Ouray County Historical Society. (Courtesy image)
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Following on the wheel of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, the first-ever Log Hill Lungbuster bike race takes place Sunday, Sept. 16. Start training now.
Cyclists approach the Stage 2 finish in Mt. Crested Butte on Tuesday afternoon. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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Sprinting through a cacophony of clanging cowbells and frantic fans, American Tejay Van Garderen of BMC Racing Team came out of nowhere with Christian Vande Velde on his tail for a thrilling Stage ...
TOUR DE MONTROSE – Riders passed in front of the Montrose Pavilion at the start of Stage 2 of the USA Pro Challenge. The seven-day stage race finishes in Denver on Sunday. (Photo by Peter Shelton)
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Stage 2 of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge left Montrose in a blur.
PRESSURE PUTT – Sam Barnes putted for par on the first basket at the Double Cabin Disc Golf Course in Mountain Village on Tuesday afternoon. The newly expanded course will be hosting a Professional Disc Golf Association sanctioned tournament this weekend. The tournament is open to all ages and abilities. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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The newly expanded 18-hole Double Cabin Disc Golf Course – a summer recreational gem of Mountain Village – is hosting the first annual Telluride Mountain Disc Golf Tournament on Friday and Saturday...
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Community ride hopes to celebrate cycling when USA Pro Cycling Challenge comes to town.
DOWNCLIMBING - A.J. Pastula committing to the descent into Portland Creek at last year's Ouray Canyon Festival. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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Each day of the Ouray Canyon festival, participants will don wetsuits and climbing harnesses, and head into the depths of Ouray's prolific canyon systems.
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In the last week of June, the rivers of Southwest Colorado were near record low flows, but in just five weeks, green has replaced brown and yellow.
SCRIMMAGE - Members of the Montrose High School football team began their 2012 season Monday afternoon during the first day of training camp. (Photo by William Woody)
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The Indians are in training camp for the next two weeks, a grueling time for players to condition their minds and bodies to the task before them – making the state 4A playoffs.
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Several elite athletes are expected to compete in this Saturday’s Mt. Sneffels Marathon/Half Marathon, including the Kenyan-born Robert Cheseret who narrowly missed a chance to compete in the 2012 ...
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For "Telluride Hiking Guide" author Susan Kees, hiking around the Telluride region is about much more than exercise. It’s about exploration.
OLYMPIC WEIGHTLIFTER Holley Mangold, with coach Drew Dillon and 14 CrossFit athletes from southwestern Colorado, shows her wild side at Hypoxia Gym in Ouray. She recently taught a clinic here to raise funds for her trip to London. (Courtesy photo)
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Weightlifting celebrity Holley Mangold stopped by Hypoxia Gym in Ouray to share a few pointers on her way to the London Olympics, where she’ll represent Team USA in the superheavyweight division.
GOAL! – Real Colorado Foxes goalie Roberto Perez with up-and-coming goalies Brendan Kelley and Connor Overly. Perez took a break from the Premier Development League semi-pro soccer playoffs to work with the Telluride Academy’s Mountain Soccer Program this week. (Courtesy photo)
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Soccer pro Robert Perez worked with local athletes in Telluride this week.
PSYCHED - A jubilant Hal Koerner with his medal around his neck, standing beside race director Dale Garland, moments after winning the 2012 Hardrock Hundred Endurance Run with the third fastest Hardrock time ever at 24:50:13. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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This year, a brand-new touchstone presided over the race’s beginning, and end, on a dirt street in downtown Silverton, awaiting its first kiss.
RIDERS participated in the 2010 Grin and Barrett bicycle ride fundraising event benefiting the San Juan Healthcare Foundation. (Courtesy Photo)
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Saturday's bicycle charity ride raises money to help cancer patients with non-traditional expenses.
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The Telluride Baseball Festival offers young players, ages 5-18, the combination of an instructional baseball camp followed by a competitive wood bat baseball tournament.
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Montrose Indians Head Coach Landon Wareham expects the tournament to bring in up to 300 players, parents and fans from around the Midwest.
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This year’s Hardrock drama unfolds from July 13-15, beginning at 6 a.m. on Friday morning and ending, for some runners, a full 48 hours later.
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BIG NEWS – Motion Picture Corporation of America CEO Brad Krevoy (at right), who is a producer of “When Calls the Heart,” and two of the show’s stars, Daniel Lissing and Erin Krakow (left and center), were among those who spoke at Tuesday’s press conference at the State Capitol. (Photo by Greg Clifton)
Law enforcement officials in San Miguel County are searching for the whereabouts of 33-year-old Matthew Busker, who was reported missing on Monday. (Courtesy photo_
ALL AMERICA CITY MANAGER – Montrose City Manager Bill Bell flourished the award Sunday evening in Denver. Montrose was awarded the title of All America City this weekend. (Photo courtesy Scott Shine)
TELLURIDE ACADEMY STAFF – Gathered for a pre-season photo just prior to the Monday, June 10, launch of its 33rd Summer Season. (Courtesy photo)
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER – Trish Greenwood, Ridgway Elementary School’s new principal (here with husband Jim Nowak), is returning to the school where she began teaching, in 1989. (Courtesy photo)
HEALTHY FAWN – Leave them alone, even if they seem to be abandoned. They more-than-likely are not. (Photo courtesy of David Hannigan, Parks and Wildlife)
HIGH TIMES – The Gold Belt Theatre was part of the “small empire” of vice developed by the brothers Vanoli in late Victorian Ouray. The Ouray County Historical Society Evenings of History presentation next Tuesday (June 18) will look at artifacts from the Vanoli Block, and what it all means. (Courtesy photo)
BEN WAYNE LILLARD, 1957 - 2013
DIXIE KEITHLY, April 3, 1931 – June 9, 2013