A few quick notes or updates following last week’s backcountry rash editorial: —We received an email Tuesday morning from Gunnison County …
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Ranchers and scientists are getting pounded by trespassing. Be careful of the karma.
As the saying goes, karma can be a bitch. One example: A while back I decided to follow a fellow mountain …
Read More »We need to treat the backcountry rash
There really does come a time when numbers overwhelm intent. If the intent is to have a solid economy based on …
Read More »Weather ramblings
It’s almost a sure thing. Everything about this summer is pointing to a future of sweet winters. The specter of El …
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The Crested Butte-Mt. Crested Butte Chamber of Commerce estimates from aerial drone footage that about 14,000 people were on Elk Avenue …
Read More »U.S. Energy opportunity?
It is hot and it is crowded in Crested Butte and estimates are now that between 15,000 and 20,000 people will …
Read More »Stay healthy…keep moving
“Keep moving.” That was the sage advice from former Chronicle and Pilot editor Lee H. Ervin during the wedding reception of …
Read More »CB councilmen not really helping themselves
To be honest, I originally wrote an editorial for this issue that touched on the Dalai Lama, LeBron James and Gilbert …
Read More »Summer tsunami is rising
It’s just over the horizon. You can feel it. You can smell it. Like an approaching tsunami, the ground is starting …
Read More »Housing crunch needs more than a magic wand but don’t over-panic
If there were a magic wand solution to the current local housing “crisis” there would be exactly the same number of …
Read More »Graduation enchantment
Last weekend the community honored its past as the old-timers gathered for Memorial Day weekend and reminisced about the old days. …
Read More »In memory…
Memorial Day is the holiday for the Crested Butte old-timers. This weekend many members of the original Crested Butte mining or …
Read More »A couple of pretty bad ideas
The exercise of brainstorming ideas is one way humans move forward. A thought is bounced around and people build on it. …
Read More »Annexation hangover
The latest twists in a proposed Crested Butte annexation bring with it a variety of immediate reactions: disappointment, bafflement, anger, cynicism …
Read More »More local housing discussion
First, we should say thanks to the volunteers who showed up and spent a long night putting out a big fire …
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