“I feel this whole process has been disingenuous”

If the Gunnison Board of County Commissioners was looking for community consensus on the Hidden Gems Wilderness Campaign, they didn’t get it from a public comment period on Tuesday, January 26. Read More »

Gunnison doctor develops a new way to cope and recuperate

Crested Butte can take your breath away, but it might be more than the setting. At sea level, about 20 percent of the air you breathe is oxygen. According to Crested Butte EMS coordinator Ross Orton, there’s a third less oxygen at 9,000 feet, or less than 14 percent, and that can wreak havoc on the human body. Read More »

Bikers must use a lot of cardboard…

The first year of the Crested Butte initiative to have large events do more recycling has been a resounding success. Literally tons of cardboard and recyclables have been kept from being buried with the trash at the Gunnison County landfill as a result of the new recycling focus. Read More »

What the Al is in the winter, the Chainless is in the summer…

The local organizers of the annual chainless bike race are deciding how to deal with some of the obvious problems of safety and legality in the competition. Those problems may end up mellowing out the June race that has traditionally started at the top of Kebler Pass and ended on Elk Avenue. The Tigger costume is okay but the pre-race refreshments may have to go and helmets absolutely required. The Crested Butte-Mt. Crested Butte Chamber of Commerce organizes the chainless race and event organizer Scott Still is hesitant to have a repeat of last year’s event. Read More »

Erin Kelly wins, girls team takes second

Cross-country teams were met with nearly two inches of snow on the course as they lined up for the regional race in Aspen on Saturday morning, October 24. The Titans seized on the questionable conditions though, as the girls’ team took second place to qualify for the state meet, and senior captain Nicholas Harper-Johnson and junior Jeffery Hargrove each punched a ticket to the big show as individuals. Read More »

Town Council Candidates

Guy Ciulla

In a shaky tourist economy and with some people leaving the valley, what role if any, should the Crested Butte council take to enhance the economic vitality of the area?
I have witnessed first hand many great members of the community having to leave the valley due to the economic instability of the area. The first step the council can take is to ease some of the restrictions already placed on the current businesses (such as the cost of ghost parking spaces). The next most important step would be teamwork. Crested Butte, Mt. Crested Butte, CB South, Almont, and Gunnison have to work together. Instead of separating ourselves, we have to think of ourselves as entity.

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Duck heads, chicken-feet soup, elevators and grass skiing

“The racing was one thing, but the food was really difficult,” says Jon Brown, member of a local four-person team that competed in the Wu Long Challenge in China last week. “They use every part of the animal.” Read More »

“We went from concept to reality in eight weeks”

There have been two million jumps on the bungee trampoline since Crested Butte Mountain Resort’s new Adventure Park opened at the base area on July 4. Read More »

39 competitors finish

“Twenty-four hours of climbing—that sounds crazy.” Read More »

Scheefer edges out win in Fat Tire 40

The conditions could not have been better for the inaugural Fat Tire 40 race Saturday, June 27 during the 29th Annual Fat Tire Bike Week. Rains leading up to race day threatened to turn the course into 42.6 miles of slime, but the sun broke out Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, tightening up the single track. Read More »