Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!

Santiago, Chile

For many years I'd wandered without any real concrete direction. I could compare this to waiting in a rail road station. We've all had long lay-overs and find how terrible waste of a day they are. Well in essence I was wasting my life. I was putting off important steps in life such as finding a home, getting married and pursuing a career.

I've had some rather devestating setbacks in life and perhaps it was a type of shell shock. -Experiencing a severe earthquake (8.2) with numerous daily aftershocks gave me a perspective on that. Maybe it was even like being bucked off a horse repeatedly, getting one's breath knocked out time and time again. Anyway, there was a point at which I just stopped getting back in the saddle. Perhaps a certain amount of convelescing was necessary, but then the convelescing began to stretch out a bit.

Something miraculous occured. Some lady finally found me to her liking enough to marry me. Shock! Well this has really put a new perspective in life. Now I find myself gazing at the horizon, trying to figure out how to have a home and a career too. Suddenly It's ocurred to me that I've been living more or less without purpose. So many of my dreams had been smashed and somehow I'd just stopped dreaming.

Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people perish...
Anyway, I found that making goals is absolutely essential to a happy life. It's the difference between your favourite meal prepared without any seasoning or the same dish prepared with a correct porportion of spices.
OK, I'm not going to say something stupid like finding a purpose outside of living for God is as important. I am going to say that God has created us to live and enjoy living. The best metafore I can come up with is comparing it to a well adjusted family. Ideally your children will take into consideration your desires for their life, but hopefully your desires for their life won't inhibit them from discovering harmless personal pursuits.

Anyway, quite suddenly I've rediscovered the joy of making achievable goals and discovering their limits. I suppose, -and this is because I also do a bit of sailing, -it was like I was out on the water without aim. This is an easy way to get lost (which isn't always a bad thing) and find yourself in for more than you're prepared for. Anyway, just because the wind and currents aren't going the direction you want doesn't mean you can't get there. If your destination is due west, but the wind is coming from due west, you can spend a lot of time tacking, zig-zagging with the bow of your boat pointed north-west and south-west. You can even find yourself fighting a current and needing to wait until the tides change or needing to plot a course outside of the current. A squal can come up and force you to strike all sails or you can be becalmed with all your canvas up, but not budging an inch, -except for the backwards direction an unfavourable current could be taking you. To get to a reasonable destination just takes a good combination of skill, patience and some providence.



So what happens if you find a goal is unreasonable? Find another goal. If you're out sailing, and find that no matter how hard you try, you're just not going to make your original destination in the time you've allowed, then it's time find another destination; you can't stay out on the water without direction indefinetly. If someone stomps on your dreams and causes enormous damage, don't give up, but put things back on the rails and get underway again.

Saabs, Hardshells and Folding Kayaks

I've been wanting to do a little solo river paddling for some time; ever since I did some on the Mohican all those years ago. It's so difficult to find people to go with you, especially if you aren't a hard core river rat. If I'm hard core anything material, it would have to be a Saab and Klepper guy.

I spent the last year not touching either while I was in Chile. I suffered withdrawal from the kayaking and so when I came back to the States, I found myself within a stones throw of the Colorado, on one of its not so hard core sections.

Some how one the guys I associate with here in the Grand Valley happens to also be a not so hard core 'yaker, who also happens to like to climb 14ers (Peaks in Colorado of over 14 thousand feet) and mountain biking. We have a few other areas in common, enough that I can tell we'll get along fine... except he likes hardshells. Oh well, no friendship can be perfect. Oh, he also told me I needed to sell my car and get a Colorado car. I've lived in Colorado longer than anywhere else, so I find this a bit perplexing. I've never missed a day of work in my life in Colorado on account of my Saab not being able to get there. In contrast, I've seen a lot of "Colorado cars" -AKA SUVs in the ditch shortly after a storm, -from my driver's seat. This ratio is usually about 10 to 1. But that is all another story.

Hardshell people tend to lose patience with folders for the amount of time it takes to assemble a folder. It takes me about 20 minutes, if I'm not rigging to sail. This is usually about 19:59 minutes too long for those of the non-folder persuasion. So I decided to assemble the kayak before we met.

One of the reasons I rationalized the ownership of a convertible was because I was a folder guy. Who needs to car top, if you can fit your 'yak in your trunk? Anyway, I have a special bike rack that fits into a hitch receiver for carrying bikes This same rack I've found works well for transporting oversized items that don't want to fit inside the car, -skis for example. It suddenly occured to me that the t-shape of the rack would support one end of the Klepper and with the top down, I could support the other end on the back seat. It worked fine.

I arrived right on time at our meeting place, -at my friend's house. He took one look at my 15.5 foot kayak and said "Dude, that'll never fit in the back of my truck!" A Ford half-ton? I don't know what he was talking about; tailgate down right? I offered to partially disassemble, but he didn't seem to hear me. Anyway, there really wasn't a way to accomodate his 'yak on "top" of my car.

Part of the benefit of paddling partners, aside from safety, is that you can leave one vehicle at the put in and another at the take-out. Obviously we're going to have to work on logistics a bit.

I also thought my new friend would know the Grand Valley a bit better than me. He really didn't know where to put in straight away and we wasted probably 45 minutes exploring river access. We ended up with what I had originally thought; put in at one State Park and take out at another. The only problem was that we had spent time wandering around in my car with the folder riding in back, so when we finally found a place to put in, it was getting late and my friend thought he wouldn't have time to run the nearly 7 miles in his shorter river kayak. The river was running at what I estimated was between 3 and 4 miles per hour, so I imagined it was going to take him nearly 2 hours to float it. It was 3pm, but I imagine it would have been another 45 minutes before we could launch his boat too. I debated and finally decided to go solo. He thought is was going to take me about 2.5 hours. In a sea kayak? Try an hour if I steam and an hour and a half if I take it casually. Anyway my buddy agreed to meet me 7 miles down river in 1.5 hours. So I put in at Palisades "River Bend Park" and planned to take out a "Corn Lake State Park".

This gave me time to go casually. I have to say that despite my desire for companionship, I was really enjoying myself. There wasn't anyone else on the river and despite a couple larger rapids and some sweepers, it was an easy go. As I went along, I thought of the early kayak adventurer Herbert Rittlinger. I don't think he ever paddled in the States, but he always paddled rivers in folding kayaks similar to the one I was in and often completely alone. It really wasn't a half bad trip.

I knew I'd be going right past my mom's farm, but I didn't know what it looked like from the river. I was about 30 minutes into my trip when I remember there were powerlines that crossed my mom's place which helped me spot it right away as I floated past. I could just see the top of mom's home. The bank there is a bit overgrown, -part the reason it hadn't occured to me to launch from there. I might explore it some other time.

The most notable thing about the whole trip was more the head wind, which slowed my trip a bit. My kayak kept wanting to wind cock. It was hard to tell if this was the handling characteristic from such a strong following current, but I'd never experienced such a heavy lee helm at sea, except when facing wind, which made me feel it was probably 90% of that factor. The other most notable thing was the barn swallows swooping in droves over the river. It just made the trip that much more enjoyable.

The trip was soon over and I met my friend at "Corn Lake". I think he was hoping to avoid paying the park entrance fee. Just as I was landing, some other guys came up as if to launch, being followed by the Park Rangers. Apparently they had tried to avoid the entry fee themselves. The rangers asked us for our park pass and then graciously offered to sell us one. Apparently the other guys had no intention of paying a park entry fee and bolted. The park rangers gave chase, leaving us to try to pay the park entry fee on our own. I dutifully waited for a short while, but also couldn't find a pen. In the end, we left without paying, but not because of intent, but for lack of a pen or a ranger to provide a pen.

Repealing the Chilean Tax on books.

For whatever reason Chile has value added tax on books. Of all the things I encounter in Chilean Society, this one rubs me the wrong way. Having a lifelong battle against my nemisis the TV, I naturally would like to see more people read. Since books have such a high tax here, naturally fewer people read anything more than newspapers and comic books. When people do need books, for example for school, they photocopy them. A textbook that would normally cost about US$40, can be photocopied and bound for around US$4. The government naturally doesn't get a penny of revenue from copied books. Of all the tax laws that shoot a society in the foot!

This one really hit me full in the face once. I had received a package from the US in which a friend was returning a book. The friend thinking she was doing me a favour decided to shrink wrap the book. The parcel needed to pass through customs. The customs agent thinking the book was obviously a new book estimated a tax. The tax came out to be as much as the original price of the book! I was outraged but there was no convincing the agent the book was in fact used!

Personal Goal Setting

An article going along with the previous post: (From mind tools)

Personal Goal Setting

Find Direction. Live Your Life Your Way.

Goal setting is a powerful process for thinking about your ideal future, and for motivating yourself to turn this vision of the future into reality.

The process of setting goals helps you choose where you want to go in life. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you know where you have to concentrate your efforts. You'll also quickly spot the distractions that would otherwise lure you from your course.

More than this, properly-set goals can be incredibly motivating, and as you get into the habit of setting and achieving goals, you'll find that your self-confidence builds fast.

Achieving More With Focus

Goal setting techniques are used by top-level athletes, successful business-people and achievers in all fields. They give you long-term vision and short-term motivation. They focus your acquisition of knowledge and help you to organize your time and your resources so that you can make the very most of your life.

By setting sharp, clearly defined goals, you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals. You can see forward progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless grind. By setting goals, you will also raise your self-confidence, as you recognize your ability and competence in achieving the goals that you have set.

Starting to Set Personal Goals

Goals are set on a number of different levels: First you create your "big picture" of what you want to do with your life, and decide what large-scale goals you want to achieve. Second, you break these down into the smaller and smaller targets that you must hit so that you reach your lifetime goals. Finally, once you have your plan, you start working to achieve it.

We start this process with your Lifetime Goals, and work down to the things you can do today to start moving towards them.

Your Lifetime Goals

The first step in setting personal goals is to consider what you want to achieve in your lifetime (or by a time at least, say, 10 years in the future) as setting Lifetime Goals gives you the overall perspective that shapes all other aspects of your decision making.

To give a broad, balanced coverage of all important areas in your life, try to set goals in some of these categories (or in categories of your own, where these are important to you):

• Artistic:
  Do you want to achieve any artistic goals? If so, what?
  
  

• Attitude:
  Is any part of your mindset holding you back? Is there any part of the way that you behave that upsets you? If so, set a goal to improve your behavior or find a solution to the problem.
  
  
• Career:
  What level do you want to reach in your career?
  
  
• Education:
  Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in particular? What information and skills will you need to achieve other goals?
  
  
• Family:
  Do you want to be a parent? If so, how are you going to be a good parent?
  
  
• Financial:
  How much do you want to earn by what stage?
  
  
• Physical:
  Are there any athletic goals you want to achieve, or do you want good health deep into old age? What steps are you going to take to achieve this?
  
  
• Pleasure:
  How do you want to enjoy yourself? - You should ensure that some of your life is for you!
  
  
• Public Service:
  Do you want to make the world a better place? If so, how?

Spend some time brainstorming (explore brainstorming here) these, and then select one goal in each category that best reflects what you want to do. Then consider trimming again so that you have a small number of really significant goals on which you can focus.

As you do this, make sure that the goals that you have set are ones that you genuinely want to achieve, not ones that your parents, family, or employers might want (if you have a partner, you probably want to consider what he or she wants, however make sure you also remain true to yourself!)

Starting to Achieve Your Lifetime Goals

Once you have set your lifetime goals, set a 25 year plan of smaller goals that you should complete if you are to reach your lifetime plan. Then set a 5 year plan, 1 year plan, 6 month plan, and 1 month plan of progressively smaller goals that you should reach to achieve your lifetime goals. Each of these should be based on the previous plan.

Then create a daily to-do list (investigate to-do lists here) of things that you should do today to work towards your lifetime goals. At an early stage these goals may be to read books and gather information on the achievement of your goals. This will help you to improve the quality and realism of your goal setting.

Finally review your plans, and make sure that they fit the way in which you want to live your life.

Staying on Course

Once you have decided your first set of plans, keep the process going by reviewing and updating your to-do list on a daily basis. Periodically review the longer term plans, and modify them to reflect your changing priorities and experience.

Goal Setting Tips

The following broad guidelines will help you to set effective goals:

• State each goal as a positive statement: Express your goals positively – 'Execute this technique well' is a much better goal than 'Don't make this stupid mistake.'

• Be precise: Set a precise goal, putting in dates, times and amounts so that you can measure achievement. If you do this, you will know exactly when you have achieved the goal, and can take complete satisfaction from having achieved it.

• Set priorities: When you have several goals, give each a priority. This helps you to avoid feeling overwhelmed by too many goals, and helps to direct your attention to the most important ones.

• Write goals down: This crystallizes them and gives them more force.

• Keep operational goals small: Keep the low-level goals you are working towards small and achievable. If a goal is too large, then it can seem that you are not making progress towards it. Keeping goals small and incremental gives more opportunities for reward. Derive today's goals from larger ones.

• Set performance goals, not outcome goals: You should take care to set goals over which you have as much control as possible. There is nothing more dispiriting than failing to achieve a personal goal for reasons beyond your control. In business, these could be bad business environments or unexpected effects of government policy. In sport, for example, these reasons could include poor judging, bad weather, injury, or just plain bad luck. If you base your goals on personal performance, then you can keep control over the achievement of your goals and draw satisfaction from them.

• Set realistic goals: It is important to set goals that you can achieve. All sorts of people (employers, parents, media, society) can set unrealistic goals for you. They will often do this in ignorance of your own desires and ambitions. Alternatively you may set goals that are too high, because you may not appreciate either the obstacles in the way or understand quite how much skill you need to develop to achieve a particular level of performance.

SMART Goals: A useful way of making goals more powerful is to use the SMART mnemonic. While there are plenty of variants, SMART usually stands for: S Specific M Measurable A Attainable R Relevant T Time-bound For example, instead of having “to sail around the world” as a goal, it is more powerful to say “To have completed my trip around the world by December 31, 2015.” Obviously, this will only be attainable if a lot of preparation has been completed beforehand! Gain a deeper understanding of SMART goal setting in our in our next article entitled 'Locke's Goal Setting Theory'.

Achieving Goals

When you have achieved a goal, take the time to enjoy the satisfaction of having done so. Absorb the implications of the goal achievement, and observe the progress you have made towards other goals. If the goal was a significant one, reward yourself appropriately. All of this helps you build the self-confidence (build self-confidence here) you deserve!

With the experience of having achieved this goal, review the rest of your goal plans:

• If you achieved the goal too easily, make your next goals harder.
  
• If the goal took a dispiriting length of time to achieve, make the next goals a little easier.
  
• If you learned something that would lead you to change other goals, do so.
  
• If you noticed a deficit in your skills despite achieving the goal, decide whether to set goals to fix this.

Failure to meet goals does not matter much, as long as you learn from it. Feed lessons learned back into your goal setting program.

Remember too that your goals will change as time goes on. Adjust them regularly to reflect growth in your knowledge and experience, and if goals do not hold any attraction any longer, then let them go.

Key Points

Goal setting is an important method of:

• Deciding what is important for you to achieve in your life.
  
• Separating what is important from what is irrelevant, or a distraction.
  
• Motivating yourself.
  
• Building your self-confidence, based on successful achievement of goals.

If you don't already set goals, do so, starting now. As you make this technique part of your life, you'll find your career accelerating, and you'll wonder how you did without it!

Life is a Merit Badge Sash

In answer to my brother's "life is video game..." wink. (Never Stop Exploring, Never Stop Learning, Never Stop Trying)

My scouting was interrupted by a major life change when I was about 15. I always regret not getting my eagle. I tried for a short time to participate as an assistant scout master, but school was keeping me busy. Recently I've been wondering if it would be possible to get involved again, even from foreign soil.

But it did occur to me that one of the greatest lessons learned from scouting is to "Never Stop Exploring, Never Stop Learning, Never Stop Trying." Smaller Goals help pave the way for larger goals. Doing research for a project recently caused me to revisit my scouting years. As I glanced backwards, researching requirements for various merit badges, it occured to me that since I left scouting, I've probably completed the requirements for another 2 dozen merit badges, and refilled the requirements of some of the basics several times over, like first-aid. I have also since acted as a counselor for a few horsemanship merit badges and could probably serve for at least 4 other topics.

Here are the requirements I completed while I was still scouting:



Swimming Merit Badge
Requirements filled Kodiak, Alaska 1978





Snow Sport Merit Badge
Telluride, Colorado, 1980





Geology
Telluride, Colorado, 1980




Cycling
Mother, as former Colorado
State cycling champion,
qualified as couselor
Telluride, 1980




Coin Collecting Merit Badge
Telluride, Colorado, 1980






Stamp Collecting Merit Badge
Telluride, Colorado, 1981







Scout
Earned in Telluride,
Colorado 1980













April, 1981









Canoeing (Kayaking?)
San Juan River, Colorado-Utah, 1981








MacGregor Scout Camp
July, 1981








Small Boat Sailing Merit Badge
MacGregor Scout Camp
July, 1981





Communication
Nov. 1981






MacGregor Scout Camp
July, 1981
(We had cards back in that day)













Tenderfoot
Telluride, Colorado, 1981









Position Elected
Nov. 1981









Scout Second Class
Nov. 1981







First Aid Merit Badge
Nov. 1981
(Required at that time for First Class)





Citizenship in the World
May 1982






Railroading
May, 1982





Electricity
May, 1982





Wood Carving Merit Badge
Earned at MacGregor Scout Camp, July 1982






Camping Merit Badge
MacGregor Scout Camp, July 1982






Leather Craft Merit Badge
MacGregor Scout Camp, July 1982






Archery Merit Badge
MacGregor Scout Camp, July 1982





Rifle Shooting
MacGregor Scout Camp, July 1982





Animal Science
Cattle, Horse, Pig, Poultry AND Sheep option
August, 1982








Scout First Class
MacGregor Scout Camp,
July 1982







Star Scout,
MacGregor Scout Camp,
July 1982,
Time Fulfillment Nov, 1982







Citizenship in the Nation
Jan 1983






Home Repairs
Aug 1983





Citizenship in the Community
Aug 1983






Hiking Merit Badge
Telluride, Aug 1983







Life Scout
Telluride, Colorado
Aug 1983






Wood Work Merit Badge
Spring, 1984




Geneology
Sep, 1984






Traffic Safety
Dec. 1983





Drafting
Dec. 1985






Architecture
May 1986






Horsemanship
May 1986






Assistant Scout Master
Sept. 1987

NeoClassic American Genre?

Over the past few weeks I've been toying with editing an American classic as a writing excercize. The idea is quite simple in that I simply adapt an older story to a more recent time and other location. It came as quite a surprise to suddenly find I had discovered that the period of American history from the early '20s to the late '50s is both highly romantisized but also represents a significant transition in lifestyle.

The beginning of period of time started with the automobile as still somewhat of a novalty, transportation was mostly accomplished by train or steamer, -the first transatlantic flight hadn't become a reality yet and the film industry was still in its infancy. Radio was becoming king and Americans still read.

By the end of the this 40 year period, not only were transatlantic flights taking a serious bite out of the steam industry, but Americans were beginning to look up as the space race was just winding up with the launch of Sputnik by the Soviets. Automobiles were becoming so common, they were becoming less of a status symbol and more of a necessity. Trains as public transportation were in decline. The end of this decade saw the all time low in horse ownership. The destructive force of WW I now paled at the awsome destructive potential of the atom bomb. Television was replacing radio as king and a generation of Americans was beginning to grow up without reading. The film industry was now well established and setting a precedent for the future.

But why is this period of time so unique? It seems to represent a sweep within one generation from a largly stationary society to a jet set. The beginning of that generation could still relate with the end of that generation, and remember when, though the lifestyle had been completely revolutionized. The generation before, though many changes had taken place, there was nothing that would really outpace a body. The generation that followed? One might just have well been born in a different century, by previous standards.

My Telluride Quiz:

How Much do you REALLY know about Telluride?
OK, So you think you're from Telluride because you can answer a few questions about things that mostly happened recently? Now lets go back a few years!

Coonskin is named for what?
An animal skin, Duh!
A grove of aspen trees
A creek
A rock
An old timer's head wear
A ski run

In 1875 John Fallon made the first big mineral claim in
Tomboy Basin
Smuggler Basin
Bear Creek Canyon
Marshall Basin
Black Bear Basin
Cornet Creek

What famous outlaw robbed his first bank here?
Billy the Kid
Butch Cassidy
Wyatt Erp
Jesse James
Cole Younger
Annie Oakley

The Senate was:
A saloon
A movie house
A gentleman's club
A secret society
A mine
A ski run

The highest US Military Fort was called:
Ft. Tomboy
Ft. Imogene
Ft. Peabody
Ft. Cornet
Ft. Ballard
Ft. Wilson

Nichola Tesla and LL Nunn collaborated on what important invention?
The Tesla Coil
The alternating current generator
The mechanical ignition system
The radio
The wireless telegraph
Wireless energy transfer

What was Telluride called before 1887?
Imogene
Columbia
Marshall
Washington City
Lincoln City
Last Dollar

Telluride was the home to what high school athletics team, before the Miners?
The Bears
The Beavers
The Wildcats
The Cowboys
The Indians
The Wolverines

Telluride's Boy Scout Troop is:
Troop 469
Troop 500
Troop 200
Troop 600.
Troop 400
Troop 490

Complete this slogan: "Telluride: The Town without
a Toothache"
a Traffic Light"
a Traffic jam"
a Vice"
a Bellyache"
a Lift Line"

"Popcorn Alley" was
the concession stand at the movie theater
the concession stand for the hs athletics
the red light district
the Methodist Church's annual carnival fund raiser
the fire department's annual fund raiser
the Boy Scouts annual carnival fund raiser

Who delivered the famous "Cross of Gold" speech from the New Sheridan Hotel?
Theodore Roosevelt
William Jennings Bryan
Woodrow Wilson
William McKinley
Governor James Peabody
William Howard Taft

Who started his boxing career in Telluride?
Max Baer
Jack Dempsey
Joe Lewis
James Braddock
James Jeffries
Jack Johnson

What Native Americans frequented the valley before white settlers arrived?
Anasazi
Arapaho
Navajo
Ute
Kiowa
Sioux

The Underground was the name of:
A video arcade
A 1930s Speak Easy
A bar
A mine
A secret tunnel from the New Sheridan to a brothel across the alley
A moonshine still located in the Last Dollar Mine

The Galloping Goose was:
A saloon
A ski run
A mine
A creek
A trick at the Silverbelle
A train

Telluride was called:
"The City of Tarnished Doves"
"The City of Lights"
Both 2 and 4
"The City of Gold"
"To-Hell-U-Ride"
Both 1 and 5

The county museum is housed in the former:
Train Depot
Fire Department
Elks Lodge
Miner's Hospital
Last Dollar Brothel
Jail

The Silverbelle brothel finally shut its doors in:
1939
1949
1959
1969
1979
1989

The Idarado Mine closed in:
1899
1978
1956
1967
1973
1984

Baked in Telluride
is a locally grown plant of the canibus family
Dude! It's what we do in Telluride!
is the name of a local deli
-the old tin shack jail used to get so hot in the summer!
is the name of a brothel
is the name of an old opium den

The Cemetary is
called "Boot Hill"
located southeast of town
called "Lone Tree Cemetary"
called "Lone Pine Cemetary"
Has a mass grave for some avelanche victims
2, 3 and 5

The railroad was:
The Colorado Central
The Colorado Southern
The Silver San Juan
The Tomahawk & Western
The Durango Southern
The Rio Grande Southern

Lizardhead pass is named for what?
A railroad spur
a funny shaped tree
a grove of aspen
Lizard Head of British coastal geography
a really ugly old timer from the 1880s
a mountain peak

Sneffels is
a muppet character on the local public access TV
A Colorado 14er
the local name for a cold
A Jules Verne novel set in the San Juans
the name of a Belgian horses that used to pull a sleigh in town in the 70s
The Sheriff's bloodhound from the 1970s

Tin Village was the name of:
the smelter
the Idarado Mine company housing
the brothel district
a hardware store
the tin smith's shop
a roofer

Tomboy is the name of:
a bar
a valley
a mine
a brothel
2, 3 & 6
a ski run

The victorian building at the head of Bridal Veil Falls was:
a fancy hotel
a mining tycoon´s exclusive home
a boarding house
a brothel
Nichola Tesla's home
an electric power station

Movies were shown until about 1982 at:
the Nugget Theater
The Senate
The New Sheridan Opera House
the Last Dollar
the Silverbelle
Fly Me to the Moon

Ajax is:
a powdered soap brand
a bar
a street
a mountain peak
a ski run
a colourful local character

The Ophir Loop was:
a toll road
railroad grade
a trick at the Silverbelle
a brothel
the old timer's name for cocaine cut with gunpowder
a local freestyle skiing manuver

The first ski club
was the snow bunnies
was created in the 30s
was called the Ski-hi ski club
both 2 and 3
was Dallas
was the Powder Hounds

Which of these was NOT an original festival?
the Hang Gliding
the Jazz
the Chamber Music
the Film
the Bluegrass

Which of these have been found in the San Miguel River?
Cynide
Mercury
Gold
Lead
Trout
All of the above

The Telluride Ski Area officially opened
on December 22, 1972
on November 28, 1973
with five lifts and a base facility
with 6 lifts and the Coonskin base facility
both 1 and 3
none of the above

The Telluride Library has been in an old
Train Depot
Jail house
Brothel
Saloon
Library, Duh!
Bank


Stay tuned, I'll blog the answers soon! -On Telluride Time... ;-)