Colorado Cycling Music & Dance Telluride: Colorado Cycling Music & Dance Telluride
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Cycling, Music and More Take Over Telluride
Telluride is gearing up for a big week of fun next week. As of this weekend, the town’s sure to be hopping with pre-race partying for the USA Pro Cycling Challenge. The cyclists roll into town on Monday, August 20, a sight sure to be one of the most spectacular of their whole Colorado tour. There’s going to be excitement all day long in Telluride town park before the big finish. You’ll be able to follow the race from this drop-dead gorgeous setting on big-screen TVs, shop at the vendors’ mini boutiques, eat and drink beer to your heart’s delight. Did I say there will be live music, too? Oh, yeah—it’s going to be a fun day all around.
Colorado Cycling Shopping The Rockies: Colorado Cycling Shopping The Rockies
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Bike and Ski Race Cowbells from Alpen Schatz
Authentic Swiss Cowbells from Alpen Schatz
What’s a bike or a ski race without cowbells? Follow in the tradition of some of the great European sporting events and ring your bell to show your enthusiasm as the athletes pass. Did you know they prefer the din of ringing cowbells over cheers or other noises to root them on? That’s what I’ve heard.
Colorado Cycling Denver Podcasts Telluride The Rockies: Colorado Cycling Denver Podcasts Telluride The Rockies
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Pro Cycling Hits Colorado
Pro Cycling in the Rockies
“It’s one of the most exciting events in the world. You get a chance to see some of the world’s best athletes—certainly in cycling. You get to do it in beautiful places like Telluride, Vail and Aspen. The best part is it’s free,” says Shawn Hunter, CEO of USA Pro Cycling Challenge. Listen to more of what Shawn says about this exciting event that’s taking place in Colorado August 20-26 by clicking on the play button below.
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Colorado Denver Pet-Friendly Travel The Rockies Travel: Colorado Denver Pet-Friendly Travel The Rockies Travel
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Travels with Valentino
Valentino Checking in to the Sonnenalp
Valentino Checking into the Ritz
Anyone that knows me or reads this blog, likely knows that I’m a cat person. I’m a writer and a single woman, so of course I have two cats, Leo and Clara. I love all animals actually. I’d like to adopt a dog someday, but that will come the day I move out of my one-bedroom apartment. Plus there’s so much to know about taking care of a dog—they’re a whole different animal from cats!
I became a doggie-mom in training of sorts this past spring when I did a road trip to Denver (a six to seven-hour drive from Telluride) with my friend Mary Dawn. In the eight years I’ve known MD, she’s always had two Bernese Mountain dogs, gorgeous animals that have since become my breed of choice. I wanted to see the Yves Saint Laurent show in Denver and MD was headed to check out some puppies at Wagontale Bernese, breeders just outside of Fort Collins. (Her noble Smokie Bear had passed away just a few months prior and she was ready to adopt a new baby.) So we thought it made sense to combine our interests and make a trip out of it. Valentino, her handsome Berner, was to escort us throughout our travels. (How appropriate that a dashing fella by the name of Valentino accompany us to the YSL doings.)
Colorado Hotels & Lodging Mountain Living The Rockies: Colorado Hotels & Lodging Mountain Living The Rockies
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The Authenticity of Vail and Its Signature Resort: Sonnenalp
The Sunny Sonnenalp in Vail
Here in the Rockies, we often say that something looks alpine. Craggy peaks, above- tree-line tundra, high mountain meadows and even most forests look alpine. If it looks like the Alps, it’s considered alpine. Architecture can also look alpine. And so can interiors, clothing, table arts and more. Even people can appear alpine.
In Colorado, we have all these alpine looks and influences, not only because many of our mountains resemble the Alps, but also because many alpine people settled here. Yes, natives of the Alps in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and France are partly responsible for having made Colorado—and namely our mountain towns—what it is today. They opened ski resorts, ski schools, shops, hotels, restaurants, bakeries, bars—you name it. In so doing, they brought both savoir faire and European quality service and products to these burgeoning ski destinations. They infused our rugged towns, many originally founded on mining and ranching, with bushels of charm and authenticity.
Art & Culture Colorado Mountain Living Music & Dance Shopping Telluride Festivals: Colorado Mountain Living Music & Dance Shopping Telluride Festivals
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Telluride Blues & Brews Promises More Fun Than Ever This Year
This Year’s Blues & Brews Poster
Coloradans love to have fun. And many of our good times are had at festivals, a glorious tradition that was started in our most alluring mountain towns some forty years ago. Some of the greatest festivals have been founded in Telluride, Colorado, and I’m sure we’ll always rank as the frontrunner of all the festival towns. I can say with confidence that the biggest and best take place here in T-ride. It’s likely largely due to our spectacular setting. Have I told you that it’s drop-dead gorgeous here?
It didn’t take long for the rest of the country—and countless people across the globe—to catch on to our festivals. Now the calendar year is marked by Telluride locals and fans from afar by our remarkable happenings. Telluride Blues & Brews bookends the summer festival line up for a glorious three-day extravaganza the third weekend of September. This year, due to the calendar, it comes early on September 14th, 15th and 16th. That just means it promises to be extra sunny and warm.
Colorado Mountain Living Shopping The Rockies Travel: Colorado Mountain Living Shopping The Rockies Travel
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Mt. Evans: A Fine Summer Outing on One of America’s Fourteeners
My Friends and Me at Some 14,000 Feet
There’s a lot of talk about fourteeners in Colorado, especially in the summer when some people make it a goal of hiking a bunch of them. Fourteener refers to a mountain at least 14,000 feet tall. Colorado claims fifty-three of them and yes, there are folks that miraculously manage to climb them all. Some are known to be fiercely challenging, characterized by scree fields and dramatic precipices that have proved to be many mountaineers’ demise, especially on the descent.
I’ve always thought I’d like to climb one some day, however, I think I need to hone my hiking skills more for such an endeavor. (A six-hour climb to the summit of a fourteener is about what’s required for even the easiest.)
So when my hunny expressed his desire to go to Mt.Evans, one of the Rocky Mountain state’s most renowned fourteeners, last weekend, my ears perked up. It didn’t matter that a stop at this Front Range mountain would require a significant detour from the rest of our itinerary. I was mainly happy that he wanted to visit something since he’s the kind of guy that would much rather hike, ski or climb a mountain. Touring in the most touristic sense of the word typically eludes him.
Colorado Denver Restaurants: Colorado Denver Restaurants
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Celebrate Bastille Day at Randolph’s in Denver
Happy Bastille Day!
Yay! It’s Bastille Day! Time to celebrate the French and all the wonderful goods they’ve flourished on the world. Excellent French food and wine immediately come to mind.
I’m in Breckenridge now, on my way to Leadville, Colorado, the highest city in the United States perched at an elevation of more than 10,000 feet. Can’t help wondering if there’s a French restaurant in that old mining town. If not, I suppose I can content myself with a fine glass of French wine—that you can typically find easily enough.
