Peter McGinty and Paul Zabel celebrating their new partnership at Ghostbar atop the Palms hotel in Las Vegas!

Specials Elevation Vacations is offering 30% OFF of what would be the usual rates on all properties! Our current published rates on our website have already been discounted for your convenience. Forth Night Free This Winter* 1/15/10-4/12/10 For a limited time, your forth night is FREE with Elevation Vacations all winter long, including the holidays...more › Summer Weekly Special* 4/12/10-9/30/10 Reserve your summer lodging with Elevation Vacations for a week or longer and get two nights for free. ...more › *All above specials can only apply to new reservations. Based on availability. Restrictions may apply. Early Bird Special Rates apply to participating properties only. Does not apply to convention, award redemptions, coupon, package, or travel industry rate programs. Other discount lift ticket/lodging packages are available throughout other times during the ski season-call us for more details. This special may not be combined with any other special running concurrently. View our specials page here ›

Real Estate Corner Real Estate sales have picked up considerably in our area and the future is looking bright in Telluride! The savviest buyers are making their moves and buying up the best properties right now. Some of the sales are the distressed properties, but many are simply the best properties at a good value. The facts below speak for themselves. If you have been considering Telluride area real estate and have been waiting around for the bottom to arrive, NOW is the time to make an offer and seize the opportunity at hand! Don't regret not taking advantage of this market. Please call us today to discuss your options with one of our Brokers. One of Telluride's most valuable assets is its limited supply. Remember to keep that perspective - these numbers are looking good! Since November 1, 2009, sixty two properties have closed ranging from $60,000 to $4,500,000. These sold properties include two commercial listings, three fractionals, seventeen residential homes, fifteen parcels of land and twenty-five condominiums. Eighty five properties are currently under contract and pending closing. These prices range from $99,000 to $6,000,000 and include one commercial listing, five fractionals, fourteen residential homes, six parcels of land and thirty five condominiums. - Kelly McGinty Call or email us if you would like to discuss or receive information. 888.728.8160 x206 RealEstate@ElevationVacations.com Let us know if you would like to stay up to date with the market by signing up with our JUST LISTED/JUST SOLD program. 2009 Real Estate Information Meet Our Realtors Ray Blaesing Kelly McGinty "We welcome you to stop by our office in the Mountain Village Core. We would be pleased to meet with you & help in fulfilling your real estate dreams. You may also call us or send an email. We are here for you! Let us make our home, your home." - Ray and Kelly RealEstate@ElevationVacations.com • 888.728.8160

It's back. After two ski seasons in Telluride without a halfpipe, the mountain says it's built the best pipe ever this year.


At 385 feet in length, with a 15 and 3/4 degree pitch and 18-foot walls, the pipe is of optimum dimensions, said Benji Charleston, Telski's halfpipe manager.

While building a World Cup course was perhaps the most technical feat for Telluride snowmaking operations this year, the pipe is a close second, with 14 million gallons of water turned into the white stuff, and carefully sculpted by a team of four Snocats working day and night for just 13 days to build the pipe.

Charleston said the process normally takes more than three weeks to complete, but that the mountain brought in Oregon-based Planet Snow Design, which has helped to create massive half pipes and other snow features for resorts all over the west, in addition to competition events.

"The kids are just loving it. At night, you can stand here and hear them yelling at the top of their lungs. This is a very legit halfpipe,” Charleston said, standing below the pipe, bathed in the intense white light being reflected off the snow.

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A Colorado ski industry group released a report yesterday indicating skier days are slightly up from last season.


In its report, Colorado Ski Country USA said early season skier visits were up a sliver from last year across state resorts, at about 1 percent. The report cites the booming early winter storms as a possible reason for the tiny jump.

The release did not include exact numbers of skier visits — resorts don't usually make those figures known until the end of the season — and didn't include data from Vail Resorts Inc., which owns four ski resorts across the state.

Telluride Ski and Golf does not release its skier numbers throughout the ski season, but the ski area did enjoy a record day of some 9,000 skiers over the New Year's holiday.

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February

1 - Free Films, Food & Lively Discussion in Telluride with the Telluride Film Festival Cinematheque

2 - Free High Altitude Cooking Class at the Telluride Historical Museum

3 – 5 - Art Reception at Lustre Gallery in Telluride, work by Pflipsen-Olivova Glassworks

5 - Sheridan Arts Foundation Young People's Theater

5- KOTO Radio's Name That Tune

6 - Chocolate Lover's Fling, Love Boat theme, at the Telluride Conference Center in the Mountain Village

8- Sheridan Arts Foundation Young People's Theater

11-14 - Telluride Comedy Festival

14 - Sunday at the Palm – Free Movie, Wizard of Oz

16- Fat Tuesday Party at the Sheridan Opera House

18- TAB Student Fashion Show

18 - We Skied It, The Telluride Historical Museum's documentary film at the Telluride Conference Center in the Mountain Village

20- Butch Cassidy Ski Chase hosted by the Telluride Nordic Association, 15-km classic race at Priest Lake

20-27 - Gay Ski Week

20 - TCTV Vaudeville Show at the Sheridan Opera House

20 - Justin Townes Earle in concert at the Sheridan Opera House

24 - Fireside Chat at the Mountain Village fire pit

25 - Telluride Aids Benefit Fashion Show Sneak Peek and Auction at the Telluride Conference Center in the Mountain Village

26 - TAB Opening Night Reception and Silent Art Auction

27 - TAB Gala Fashion Show and Auction at the Telluride Conference Center in the Mountain Village

27 - TAB After-Hours Party at the Sheridan Opera House

March

1 - TAB Designer Trunk Show

2 - The Harlem Gospel Choir

4 - Telluride Art Walk

4 - Adam Field Pottery Exhibition

12 - Stockholm Syndrome in concert at the Telluride Conference Center in the Mountain Village

13 - Psycho 10 & BBQ hosted by the Telluride Nordic Assoc., a 10-km race and end-of-the-season BBQ at Priest Lake

13 - Lubriphonic in concert

14 - Sunday at the Palm free movie – Azur Et Asmar

27 - The Vienna Boys Choir at the Michael D. Palm theatre

27 - Mike Dillon's Gogo Jungle in concert at The Llama

April

1 - Telluride Art Walk

4 - Telluride Ski Resort Closing Day (If the snow is plentiful, this may only be a "soft closing")

Please call us at 1.888.728.8160 for more information.

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