To Telluride and Back!
To Telluride and Back by David Horn DISCOVERY I first stumbled upon Telluride way back in 1988. My brother Mike and I were several weeks into a cross-country bicycling adventure. This was our second summer-long cycling adventure together (Mike's second of three and my fourth of eight transcontinental bicycle adventures). We had been on the road for a few weeks, having crossed the Mojave, visited the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, and now the Rocky Mountains. This particular day we found ourselves climbing mountain passes and dodging rain showers. As evening approached, we spun down from Lizard Head pass in the pouring rain, and decided that we ought to try to find some shelter in this little town named Telluride. We had never heard of Telluride, as we had just begun skiing, lived in Maryland, and mountain bikes weren't even a thing. Not to mention this was almost ten years prior to the internet. For us, Telluride was just a place to escape the rain. As we approached t...