Whether it’s the thrill of learning to glide gracefully across the ice, defying gravity with jumps high in the air, making tight little spirals on the ice while spinning and spinning, or simply an excuse to wear a cute dress, little girls love to figure skate! Telluride Figure Skating Club doubled in size this year, [...]

Telluride is host to two mogul events in the next week. Starting tomorrow 110 Rocky Mountain and Intermountain (Utah) athletes from across the region will take to Hermit to test their turns, air and speed on our home course. Telluride will have 15 Champ Mogul Team members on course for mogul competitions on Friday and [...]

I googled freeride skiing in an effort to see how it might be defined. Here’s what I discovered from Pistehors and Igluski: “Freeriders are not restricted to the runs laid out and groomed by the ski resort. The whole mountain is their playground. They range from laid back types who want to cruise powder linking [...]

  Slopestyle-January 14th Women; F4: Ava Jodlowski 2nd F6: Mackenzie Tharp 1st Men: M3: Quillen Kimleigh 1st, Leland Birchmore 2nd, Hayden Page 3rd M4: Cedar Palmer 3rd, Jackson Tharp 8th, Colin Craft 12th M5: Scott Roberts 2nd, Carlo Pine 5th, Eric Cummings 10th, Robert Bessera 13th, Kyle Soukup 16th, Andalo Santangalo 20th Single Moguls-January 15th [...]

It’s a wintery Martin Luther King Jr, weekend here in the San Juans and “I have a Dream” speeches can be heard all round Town. “ I Dream for 5 feet of snow….” “I dream of standing on a podium…”, “I dream our event will go off without a hitch. “ While Telluride may lack [...]

Although Winter’s white blanket continues to evade us here in Telluride, and many a local can be seen headed to the desert with bike in tow and fist shaking at the blue skies above- TSSC athletes have not been deterred.  Our Teams have taken full advantage of the meager snow pack and made the very [...]

December signifies the beginning of winter-it brings the shortest and coldest days of the year, the lifts are running, and ski legs are beginning to get warm. It promises snow, family and holiday fun. For several of our freestyle athletes, it means US Selection Event.  Aptly named, “Selections” is an invitational FIS(International; Federation of Skiing) [...]

Eight members of TSSC Freestyle Team traveled to Winter Park, CO this weekend to attend the season kick-off for Rocky Mountain Division events.  Saturday saw 72 skiers on course for “Champ Mogul Day, while Sunday inspired 87 competitors from across the state! Team T-ride was represented by Keaton McCargo and Kealey Zaumseil among the women [...]

The genesis, the actual birth of all skiing harkens, literally thousands of years to Scandinavian design. Originally, invented solely as a means of commuting across the winter landscape, “Nordic,” or cross-country skiing, has evolved to become a popular form of exercise, competition and enjoyment of our wintery wilderness. Lance Waring and Tony Forrest, long-time locals, [...]

Children love SNOW! It seems we enter the world, nonplused by the elemental extremes-ready to build snowmen, make snow angels and of course, drink cocoa. In Telluride, the lure of the mountain strikes early…in some cases, as early as two years old! Little ankle biters can be seen all over town, bundled and clomping around [...]