Browse: November 2007

The Plum Telluride season has started, and fittingly so, with the ski season. Telluride Ski Resort opened its door this week and Plum was there. Fresh Tracks ends November on Friday bright and early at 7:30 am. And beginning the month of December is the famous MorningNoon&Night show with two days of all the local personality Telluride loves, hosted by Jeb Berrier and Ramona Bruland.

Fresh Tracks runs daily this winter with ski reports, weather reports and ski area run reports. Check out the daily snow report on our website homepage. MNN takes on Saturdays and Sundays with in-depth interviews, local stories, events and all of the culture of Telluride. Don't miss our ski season kick off this weekend.

Soon the Telluride Ski Resort bullwheels start turning and so too, our skis. Telski expanded its terrain again with the inclusion of hike-to terrain off the summit of Palmyra Peak.

Ah, virtual shopping. Better than the elbow-to-elbow crowds in stores between Black Friday and the Holidays, and more dignified than the fistfights over that last Wii or PlayStation 3 on the shelves. Here are a few local web sites to help you max out your credit cards, Telluride-style.

Wait no longer, the Telluride Ski Resort bullwheels are turning officially beginning the 2007-08 ski season. The surprise came as many of Telluride's early season lift openings to come—a welcomed surprise.

Both makeshift Mother Nature and the real Mother Nature have boosted snow amounts allowing Telluride Ski Resort to open its doors for business on Nov. 30. Now not only do groomers lie ahead, but the 2007-08 ski season lies ahead.

Colorado Kite Force
12 Fawn Ct.
Silverthorne, CO 80498
(970) 262-5734

Colorado Kite Force in Frisco is a hotspot for the growing sport of snow kiting. Colorado's bluebird skies and gentle to moderate winds make for perfect conditions, and people are picking it up. Anton Rainold, owner of one of the only snow kite-specific shops in the country, tells us how it's done.

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While snowguns act as a makeshift Mother Nature and chairlifts sit still, Plum Telluride is gearing up for the winter ski season—weather or not.

Beginning Dec. 1, MorningNoon&Night is back live for ski season with all of the local personalities, the quaintest of Telluride stories, and the catchiest of insider information you'll need. Check out all local coverage coming at you from the base of Lift 4 with our hosts Ramona Bruland and Jeb Berrier.

Plum Telluride gives you ski reports, current events, top personalities, weather forecasts, and more. Tune in for the latest of Telluride's goings on. Following Fresh Tracks' initial special Thanksgiving show, we will be airing live Fresh Tracks each day once the lifts get rolling. Stay tuned...

It looks more like May than November outside. Ski country in Colorado and Utah has been plagued by warm temperatures this fall, and snowmaking efforts have been stymied, forcing Telluride and other resorts in the Western U.S. to delay their opening.

Resorts that are opening on time have just limited terrain available, and mostly manmade snow. Wolf Creek and Winter Park have less than one percent of their terrain open. Utah's Snowbird and Park City, and Colorado's Vail, Steamboat and Crested Butte are pushing back their opening days until colder temperatures will allow for at least enough manmade snow to cover the runs.

The next substantial storm isn't expected until the week after the holidays, but the weather forecast over Thanksgiving shows temperatures starting to drop.

We may have to wait a little longer for the Telluride Ski Area to fire up the lifts, but this winter 2007-08 there is more terrain to make the wait worthwhile. Telski has expanded its skiable terrain into Black Iron Bowl.

The Telluride Mountain Village gondola is back in motion for the 2007-08 winter season. Gondola use was suspended for a routine, biannual gondola maintenance off season but is back on track moving back and forth between Telluride and Mountain Village.

It's North America's only free gondola system linking two towns by a scenic 15 minute gondola ride. All three links of the gondola—Mountain Village Town Hall and free parking structure to Mountain Village Core, the core to Station San Sophia, and San Sophia to Telluride—run from 7 am to midnight every day.

If you're looking for a ride around the Mountain Village contact Dial-A-Ride, free transportation for guests and residents. A courtesy phone is located at the main gondola terminal in Mountain Village, or ask a Guest Service host to radio a shuttle for a ride.

Life as we know it grinds to a halt every off-season. Half the people in town leave to go biking in Moab or surfing in Mexico, the streets get quiet, and on weekends it feels like a ghost town. But there's lots of activity on the mountain as crews prepare the resort for the winter season.