The Gaslamp Tavern Lights Up South Fork’s Sipping Scene
Kick back with mountain locals over Colorado-sourced brews, wine, and snacks.Lisa Blake •
May 20, 2021
Two Denver transplants are breathing new life into the sleepy South Fork social landscape. The southern Colorado hamlet population 335-ish welcomed the Gaslamp Tavern on Halloween 2020. The pub pulsates from a restored log cabin, previously a fly-fishing shop, along Highway 160 and is swiftly carving a name with its welcome-one-and-all community vibe, Colorado-born beer taps, and far-reaching wine lists.
Migrating from the city for gentler-paced mountain living, Catherine Olah and partner Tyler Wilburn are Denver hospitality vets she a former bartender at Kevin Taylor Restaurant and a BookBar wine buyer, he a brewer for Flying Dog and Breckenridge Brewery. The couple landed on South Fork for its easy access to rafting and skiing. Gaslamp Tavern sits along a busy artery for travelers on their way to Wolf Creek Ski A
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By the mid-nineties, Cummings was one of the best big-mountain skiers in the world. (Photos: John Fullbright)
Late 1980s, Telluride, Colorado
Cummings had been one of skiing’s most unlikely heroes. He made his name when straight skis were hip and the hottest discipline in the sport was freestyle moguls racing down a zipper line of giant bumps as fast and as smoothly as possible, with aerial flair.
To come from the high desert of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and beat people who were training in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, or Aspen, Colorado, was a fantasy, even for a gifted athlete like Cummings, who’d been skiing since kindergarten. But two years after high school, he loaded up his van, the Love Machine, and started following the moguls circuit. Like many competitors, he had no coach. Instead he studied the top finishers and tried to emulate t
Has time come to better regulate snowmobiles in the San Juan Mountains?
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Spike of activity in backcountry renews calls for better management
Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021 5:03 AM Updated: Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 9:18 AM
Has time come to better regulate snowmobiles in the San Juan Mountains? Snowmobiles are in the backcountry in record numbers, prompting some to question whether the motorized vehicles should be better regulated. Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
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With a surge of snowmobiles in the backcountry this winter, some are wondering if the time has come to better regulate the motorized vehicles in the San Juan Mountains.