In 1974, a young trail runner from Ouray stood at the corner of Main Street and Third Avenue, where he liked to start his long runs, and decided to do something no one ever had: run all the way to Telluride over a rough mountain road.
Dear Editor: I read with concern your article in the Aug. 24 edition of the Plaindealer about an illegal gate installed on County Road 14 by a Ouray city councilor and disguised to appear to be an official U.S. Forest Service gate. This would have denied public access on a Ouray County road to public Forest Service lands and the very popular Horsethief trailhead leading to the Bridge of Heaven …