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Coffee Anyone?

As mountain towns go, Nederland isn’t the smallest (Gold Hill or Jamestown probably wins that award), but for its population, it does win the award for most coffee houses per capita.  There are at least five coffee houses, and for a town of 1300 people, that’s saying something.  But they all…

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The Sort Yard

Today was the last day the sort yard was open for the season. For those of you not living up in the mountains, you might wonder — what is a sort yard? On mountain properties, while we may not need to mow the lawn or pull the weeds, that does…

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Prepping for ski season

Warning:  there may be some off topic references in this post that do not pertain to life in the mountains of Colorado. Ok, got that out of the way, here we go.  I received my Rocky Mountain Super Pass Plus ski pass in the mail the other day and I…

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Fire on the Mountain

When most people think of the wildfire season, they naturally think of summertime and the hottest weather.  But in truth, the fall months can be the most dangerous in terms of true wildfire danger in the mountains.  The grasses that are so flammable have had time to grow high, and…

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