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As Durango hits $1M housing mark, will it lose its working-class soul? by Johnathan Thompson / The Land Desk
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On the cover “Lonesome Road,” a collage by local artist Matt Clark, aka lil’ bud, just about sums up the recent dry and windy conditions. But fret not, the forecast has a glimmer of hope for cooler temps and possibly some showers next week.
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If all goes as planned, Telegraph readers can gaze upon a new and improved Tele website starting today, Thurs., June 25.
Several months in the making, the website was designed by North County resident Nathan Swartz, of “Say Hi, Durango” design. “Classically trained” at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Nathan is a self-taught, freelance web designer and developer who also happens to be a huge fan of the Telegraph. Lucky for us, he took pity on our dilapidated old website and did the redesign 100% for free – which makes our financially strapped, humble hearts weep happy tears.
Not only that, but he delivered on a dream list of requests. For starters, our broken classifieds ad form is now up and working (meaning no need to email us anymore). And hold onto your hats: we now have a dedicated online form for sending “On the Town” calendar submissions as well. Try not to swoon.
In addition, the home page received an extreme makeover, resulting in a more userfriendly and, dare we say, intuitive experience. We hope you’re as over the moon as we are about the upgrade. However, we also realize this sort of thing is a work in progress, so if you have any suggestions, drop us a line.
A harrowing hike
Things got a little heated in the high country around Silverton recently. According to a report in the Silverton Standard, on Sun., June 7, the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call from two hikers near CR 14 reporting they were being pursued by an armed man. The hikers had taken cover behind rocks after the suspect allegedly pointed a rifle at them and fired two shots.
According to San Juan County Sheriff Steve Lowrance, the hikers saw the suspect camping off the road in the tundra and approached him about the apparent violation, which the man apparently did not appreciate.
Fortunately, no one was injured, as deputies responded immediately and apprehended the subject. An email to Lowrance was not returned this week, but in a June 12 press release, he advised people not to take law and order into their own hands. “If you witness a violation, avoid direct confrontation. Instead, from a safe distance, take photographs of the vehicle, license plate or individuals, if possible, and note identifying details and report the incident to authorities,” he wrote. “If the situation appears threatening or aggressive, call 911 immediately.”
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Lowrance said this was the second “irresponsible use of a firearm” call to his office that week; the first was June 4. “Both calls were resolved quickly and safely,” he wrote. “While these types of calls are exceedingly rare in San Juan County, they do happen.”
LaVidaLocal
The things we do for love
Love is a living thing that must be given water to thrive – until it gets nauseous. Then the only loving thing to do is withhold water for several hours and reintroduce it in painfully small quantities.
You do this no matter how pitifully Love looks at you, no matter how insistently Love nudges you with his dry snout. Even if Love thinks you must be an idiot for suddenly forgetting what it means when he stares at the stand where the water bowl lives, then at you, then at the stand, then at you, then he chuffs, then he stares at you again until he gives up on you.
But you’re not an idiot. You’re human. Human is fallible, it’s true. Human also has a basic understanding of gut health and greater access to googling. Human has to say no, sometimes. Human gets this privilege, because human also gets the responsibility of scrubbing the rug.
Being human also means I get to love dogs like Hawkeye, so I’ll take it. Even when Hawkeye is struggling to keep anything down.
I can handle a lot of things coming out of my dogs, but I cannot handle when Hawkeye beams me with insistent mind control. He communicates precisely what he wants by how he stares at me. He has throw-the-ball eyes, and feed-me-your-toast eyes, and hurry-up-and-get-outof-bed eyes.
Which means he can also swear with his eyes. In all caps. As in, are-you-FREAKING-kidding-me-the-HOUSEPLANTS-get-water-and-I-don’t? eyes.
The timing of watering the houseplants was atrocious, I grant him that. Also true: Hawkeye was justifiably thirsty. Also true: the results of my panicked googling suggested not giving him any water for approximately six hours in order to help his system reset, and then to portion out small doses after that. Sometimes even with diluted chicken broth! Mmm, diluted! Did you hear that, Hawkeye?
filled the tea kettle; I filled water bottles. I rinsed a cereal bowl. I filled his brother’s water dish while Hawkeye stared lasers at us from outside. All this water, yet he gets mere teaspoons? I learned new depths of his what-the-FREAK eyes.
Those eyes withered me, but they also told me this: Hawkeye was himself. He might be very nearly 14, and any health concern at this stage might be very nearly worrisome. This might not be a standard case of GI upset. (In fact, I was certain it was not.) But we could get help in figuring it out and getting him back on a standard hydration regimen. More consistent than that of the houseplants.
The vet indeed helped us figure it out. Rather, let me say: the vet confirmed much of what I had concluded with my judicious googling over the weekend, while eliminating many of my other, more inaccurate, conclusions.
But the vet could do something I could not, besides officially diagnose. She could prescribe my dog Viagra.
I have come to admire the phrase “off-label use” for its artistic integrity. It conjures images, for me, of mainstream musicians playing gigs in dive bars and recording side projects under fake names so their record labels never hear of it.
That’s what this is for Viagra: it’s useful for helping food get from a dog’s esophagus to its stomach, when the esophagus isn’t working the way it’s supposed to anymore.
I had all the questions you might expect. Are the little pills in this bottle actually Viagra or like a doggy knock-off? (Answer: actually the same exact stuff as human Viagra, just cheaper – no added costs for the telltale blue dye and also no demand-based surcharges for the horny men scrambling to pay for it.)
He heard it, alright, and he did not care for it. Is “egregious” in a dog’s vocabulary? I suggest that it is. His range of expressions expanded to convey that denying him bottomless water was freaking EGREGIOUS. (He still didn’t say “freaking.”)
We went to the vet, which is what you should do in any animal health emergency rather than take any advice at all from me. (Excepting the advice to go to the vet. You should take that advice, but that’s all.) Good thing for me that Hawkeye could air his grievances with someone else – that morning, I used so much water. I
Cue the 4th of July costumery: the “Endurance” sculpture at the Florida Road roundabout is back up after being mowed over earlier this year. For now, a few orange barrels alert drivers, but maybe a more permanent barrier of some sort is in order?
Score one for the nerds. Former NOAA staff have recreated the climate-science website that was shuttered last year by Trump. The new site, climate.us, includes data, reports and articles on climate change.
In an era where philanthropists are shying away from climate giving, Michael Bloomberg, the former N.Y mayor and billionaire, has announced $590 million in recent days to support ocean conservation, transition away from fossil fuels and efforts to combat air pollution.
And speaking of men, couldn’t I just, you know … No, Zach! No. Bad human. You do NOT contemplate, even for one second, what would happen if you took just one of your dog’s pills. Not even in the name of science. Not even in the name of something great to write about. It’s tough enough to justify drinking water in front of your thirsty boy. That medicine is his, and if it works, it will be his medicine for a long time to come. Whatever is left when he doesn’t need it anymore, you still don’t take it. No. You sell those drugs to pay off your outstanding vet bills.
Ha ha! That’s what we call a joke, in case my vet or other authorities read this far. You absolutely cannot put a price on love. But you can put a price on letting Love drink water to his heart’s content. And I’ll gladly pay it, so I can go back to feeding him my toast.
– Zach Hively
SignoftheDownfall:
The numbers are in and it’s official: The eight months from October 2025 - May 2026 were the warmest on record for the Southwest and much of the Northern Rockies, with June on track to be another record-breaker. Pass the popsicles.
And speaking of heat, fire season is off to a hot start, with two fires burning on the West Slope near Rifle and several more burning in Utah, leading to locally hazy skies.
In a rare show of bipartisan work, Congress passed a sweeping housing bill this week, but poopoo pants president refused to sign it during an online tantrum over voting restrictions and interst rates, in which he also lobbed a racial slur at Elizabeth Warren. Hey guy, way to show everyone the fart, er, art of the deal.
A Shart-up Company
A team of scientists won the IgNoble prize in 2024 by hypothesizing that people could breathe through their butts. Late last year, human trials proved that it was safe and probably viable. It’s called “enteral ventilation,” and the working idea is that patients with blocked airways could be given an oxygenated perfluorocarbon fluid rectally that would deliver enough oxygen in emergencies to save lives. In last year’s trials, an unoxygenated version of the fluid was enema-ed (totally a word) into 27 male Japanese test subjects, and only the unlucky few who were given larger, half-gallon sized doses for science’s sake had any issues. And, just in case you’re wondering, Colorado still requires a physician’s signature to file a “Do Not Resuscitate.”
WritersontheRange
‘Anyone can do it’
In
today’s boastful online trail culture, a little humility could go a long way
by Marjorie “Slim” Woodruff
Overconfidence can ruin a good hike. When I surf through outdoor sites on social media, here’s the essence of what I usually find: “This hike may be hot, long and occasionally off trail, but it’s rewarding, and route-finding really isn’t that difficult.”
With advice like that assuring what seems a doable hike, it’s probably not surprising that during 2025, Grand Canyon Search and Rescue responded to 848 hiker assists and 232 search and rescue incidents. What’s more, 11 people died. In just the month of May last year, there were 13 rescues in a seven-day stretch. And this year isn’t proving much better, with four people dying this June in apparent heat-related hiking incidents in Grand Canyon National Park.
One of the “in” hikes these days is the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim, which takes hikers from the North Kaibab trail to either the Bright Angel or South Kaibab Trail. This involves hiking 21 to 24 miles one way, with almost 10,000 feet of elevation change. This feat requires serious levels of fitness and preparation. Yet on social media, posters encourage complete strangers to go for it, even daring people to make it a round trip. That would be almost 50 miles.
This seems like telling strangers traveling to Boston to be sure and run the marathon while there. After all, lots of runners do it in four hours.
All of this makes me yearn for a little humility. When I led hikes for my local Sierra Club chapter, I would post that the trail was for experienced hikers. I then got calls from people who had never even laced up their boots before, saying they had read online that someone ran it in three hours, so how hard could it be? Well, I’ve read about climbing K2 without oxygen, but that does not mean anyone can do it.
Online posters always like to brag about what a piece of cake it was for them, so surely an average hiker could do the same thing. But “surely” might turn into finishing a hike at midnight or knocking on the door of the ranger station at 2 a.m., whimpering that they simply cannot go another step. Or they may end up being one of those search and rescues.
No one seems to post that a hike in Grand Canyon was the gnarliest thing they have ever done, that they almost collapsed on the trail due to heat stroke and thirst.
Print media is often no better. Outdoor magazines tout, “Ten trails where you will never see another hiker!” That’s usually because the trail is expert-only or
not really a trail at all. I have met these backpackers far from the maddening crowds, and usually they aren’t where they thought they were because they tried but lost the “see no other hikers” route.
Backcountry rangers have told me that they cringe every time one of these articles comes out. Partly because sending novices onto expert routes often results in calls to SAR, and partly because when hikers get lost, they often construct unnecessary and often misleading trail cairns that then must be removed. Nor does it help that the Park Service isn’t as adequately staffed to help hikers after losing about one-quarter of its permanent staff since January 2025.
Online influencers rarely have skin in the game. Have they even been to the trail they brag about? In cyberspace, one may say anything, and there is no way to fact-check. I could post that I was the first woman to hike rim-to-rim with one foot tied behind my back, and no one could prove otherwise.
We need more humble hikers, people who post that a difficult and popular hike is not a creampuff, that it was a long, scary trek, and they came out after dark with no headlamp, and threw themselves at the feet of the nearest ranger and pledged their first born for a drink of water.
I hope humble-hike descriptions may one day be welcome. Most hikers might not want to admit that they could not blithely knock off 20-plus miles with a song on their smiling lips, but they might relish the truth of a posting that went like this: “It was the hardest thing I have done IN MY ENTIRE LIFE, I threw my pack at the nearest dumpster, and I am now going to track down the person who said it was a cakewalk and slap him upside the head.”
I can only hope this might generate a few “likes.”
Marjorie “Slim” Woodruff, a Grand Canyon educator, is a contributor to Writers on the Range an independent nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. ■
Hikers in Grand Canyon National Park. More and more, online influencers and magazine articles are downplaying arduous or expert hikes as doable for the average person, misleading people to get in over their heads and leaving rangers and SAR to pick up the pieces./
Photo by Marjorie “Slim” Woodruff
SoapBox
Primaries do matter
Primary turnout is often below 20%. That means a small group of voters decides who everyone else gets to choose from in November. When you sit it out, someone else makes that call for you. And that silence adds up – across every issue you care about.
If you usually skip primaries, you’re not alone – but you’re also handing your vote to whoever does show up. The system may feel broken. The candidates may feel uninspiring. But elections don’t pause for apathy. Someone is making decisions about your life either way.
This election is not abstract. The people on your ballot will take office in January and make decisions that will affect you for years. There are no ballot measures this primary, just candidates.
For first-time and young voters: this is where your vote carries the most weight. Lower turnout means your voice counts more than in almost any other election. The people elected now will shape AI policy, housing, student debt and climate decisions for years to come.
Need to check your registration or learn about the candidates? Visit
Vote411.org. June 30 is the last day to vote. Ballots have already been mailed. Your envelope has two ballots – one Democratic, one Republican. Fill out only one, sign it and return it. Don’t return them by mail after June 22, use a drop box or bring them to the County Clerk’s office at 679 Turner Dr.
Silence has consequences.
– League of Women Voters La Plata County
Weiser has experience
Comparing Phil Weiser’s and Senator Michael Bennet’s work on behalf of Colorado, there is no doubt that Weiser has done far more for Colorado and also knows it far better than Bennet. A summary of their experiences follows:
• Phil Weiser has been working for Colorado for almost 30 years, starting as a law professor specializing in telecommunications, followed up as the highly respected dean of the CU Law School and for the past eight years as our attorney general. During those eight years, he successfully led different legal actions in the opioid addiction case against the Sackler Family, tenant protections, PFAS “forever” chemicals and abuses at reli-
gious institutions. He also prevented the Kroeger-Albertson’s merger and has filed more than 60 lawsuits against the Trump
administration. All added up, his legal efforts have brought more $900 million in fines and payments to our state.
• In contrast, prior to his appointment as Colorado senator, Bennet worked for six years managing investments for the Anschutz Investment Co., followed by working for two years for then-Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and less than four years as superintendent of Denver’s public schools. All added up, Bennet only worked for six years in a Colorado-based public service job and that happened almost 20 years ago. When comparing Weiser and Bennet, Weiser knows Colorado and has worked hard for it throughout his career. Please vote for Phil Weiser as our next governor!
– Werner Heiber, Durango
Hurd silent on Trump spending
Which is more disconcerting? That Rep. Jeff Hurd ignores his conscience and votes the way he is told to, or that he follows his conscience and votes against things like Resolution 86, which directed the president to remove U.S. armed forces from Iran?
Resolution 86 passed the House with four Republicans joining Democrats in asserting their responsibility. Rep. Hurd was not one of the four. However, he did vote in support of the “Big Beautiful Bill” that gutted Medicaid and SNAP, when he said he never would. Now, constituents are left wondering if it is conscience that compels Hurd to remain silent when Trump diverts $352 million in federal funds to pay for his new ballroom. Let’s take the constituent time machine back to March 2026, yes, short trip, when Trump said: “(The ballroom) is taxpayer-free. We have no taxpayer putting
up 10 cents.” Many taxpayers would settle for 10 cents. Since its inception, this project has been billed as being paid for strictly by donations from corporations and individuals who have the foresight to sponsor a national security necessity (Trump rationalization spin) command center/ballroom, that will make America great again and restore our country’s prestige. The importance of having a place where Trump can practice his adagios while being briefed on high level, for-your-eyes-only national security cannot be overstated. The man needs a place to exercise his lower extremities, knowing that healthy legs provide evidence of a healthy mind. And playing 18 just isn’t cutting it.
But moneys are not pouring in, and cost overruns are mounting faster than JD Vance can do the sidestep. Now it is time to dip into that bottomless pit known as the federal vault for $387 million. Earlier it was stated that the amount was for $352, but a 10% contingency bump is not out of line to cover overages, which always happen, especially on no-bid contracts.
In writing this, comes revelation. It is not a matter of conscience for our representative. It is a matter of communication. It is dangerous to say people get what they deserve but in this case, Rep. Hurd’s constituents deserve to know what his positions are. We need to know why he continues to support Trump’s war; a war that has no logic and no recognizable end game. Why he voted to gut Medicaid. Why spending taxpayer dollars on frivolous monuments lands within the scope of that bulwark of GOPism: fiscal conservatism.
We deserve to know, and all we get is silence. – Josh Joswick, Durango
Instruction
Take the impulse And cast it ahead. The buried life is merely remembrance moving toward redemption. All one knows is that what was and what will be is dependent on the present. Instruction is fleeting and a decision guides the journey. Follow the sun!
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TheLandDesk
The million-dollar question
As Durango enters rarified ranks, will it price out the people who make it work?
by Johnathan Thompson
What in the holy gentrification hell is this news?! The median price for a single-family, intown home in Durango surpassed $1 million this month. Yes, a million buckaroos. Sure, Aspen and Jackson and Park City and Telluride surpassed that revolting number long ago. But this is the town where I was born, grew up, ran around in the streets, and played in the river. It’s where we messed around among the old workings of the power plant and climbed on the splintery railroad freight cars on the siding behind Kroegers. Where we fished and waded in the shadow of the
massive uranium tailings pile at the base of Smelter Mountain, and where we had sword battles and BMX rallies up at the Test Trax. It was a tourist town, sure, and kind of a regional hub for doctors and lawyers, but it was also a ski-bum town and a working-class town and an agricultural town and a college town and onetime mining-service town on the edge of the gas patch.
It was a place where my parents – a freelance writer and a freelance artist without any independent wealth –could afford to buy a historic home in a lovely neighborhood just across the swinging bridge from downtown. They were not an anomaly. Our neighbors
were working folks, too, from a chef to a bank teller to a sanitation worker to a day-care operator to a retired coal miner. The house needed some work, I suppose, but I didn’t notice. I was too busy running around in the big yard, or climbing the old apricot tree that we outfitted with a treehouse, or sitting on the low-angled roof on the addition in the back that needed to be shoveled during big snowstorms. There was room for a garden and even an old garage that was a pretty nice clubhouse, black widows and all. The big maple in the front yard served as a good base for epic block-wide, hide-and-seek contests on long summer evenings, and the side
streets were perfect for soccer games or setting up bike jumps.
I realize I’m romanticizing a bit, but Durango, especially that neighborhood, was a great place to be a kid. I’m sure it still is, and may even be better now. Today’s young Durangotangs don’t have to worry about radon-emanating uranium dust blowing across town, they can ride their bikes all the way through town with barely encountering a car –stopping by the beautiful library and the rec center in the process, and the river water has less metal loading than it did back then.
But those amenities come with an ever-increasing price tag. In the mid-80s,
Downtown Durango in the mid-1970s, when housing prices were about 1/100th of the current median price.
after they split up, my parents sold the house for something like $10,000. About a decade later, it sold for $122,500, and the new owner pretty much gutted, rebuilt and added on to it. According to Realtor.com, the same house would sell today for about $1 million (it’s not on the market). There are seven singlefamily houses in that neighborhood listed for sale on Zillow. They range in price from $850,000 to $3.2 million; a townhome six blocks away from our former house is going for $635,000.
Clearly, these kinds of prices are far out of reach of most wage earners. Even if you could come up with a 10% down payment for the townhome, your monthly payment would still be almost $3,500, which is considered affordable for someone making about $200,000 or more per year. There are just three intown homes on the market for under $300,000: Two single-wide mobiles with $800-$1,100 monthly lot rents, and a small ’80s-era condo. Even these would be a tough haul for someone making the local annual median wage of about $45,000. Paying rent in Durango isn’t much better, with advertised long-term monthly rates ranging from about $1,100 for a studio, to upwards of $4,000 for a big house.
Obviously, Durango’s not alone. The entire nation is grappling with a housing unaffordability crisis. But Durango and the public lands gateway towns/amenity economies in the West are among the worst, because not only are housing prices rising more dramatically (the statewide Colorado median sales price is about $560,000), but wages are not increasing proportionately.
The reason prices are so high is simply because Durango’s a desirable place to live, not because it is a highpaying job hot spot. And this kind of desire is bottomless, limited only by the amount people are willing to pay to own a piece of the place. And, it seems, a certain percentage of the population
has virtually unlimited funds for investing in real estate, whether it’s a primary residence, a second home or a shortterm rental-income property.
To be clear, this is not a critique of folks buying or selling real estate, or of the people brokering the deals. I don’t blame people for wanting to live in Durango or for paying market rates to do so, nor do I fault anyone for selling out while prices are high. Real estate agents, meanwhile, are just doing one of the few locally based jobs that can support a life in Durango; they don’t set the prices, the market does. And because their income is derived from the community, they are more likely to invest back in that community via philanthropy, volunteering or running for public office.
People who are attracted to Durango’s unique amenities and spend big bucks to be here are also more likely to support improvements, whether it’s pushing for better sidewalks and services and more trails and recreational infrastructure, spending money on better restaurants, or donating to the arts, charities and nonprofits. Maybe they’ll bring in money from outside to start up new businesses, creating jobs while also adding to the pool of amenities, thereby potentially improving all residents’ quality of life.
I don’t think I’m stretching when I say that this phenomenon is exactly what a lot of forward-thinking locals, including my parents, were going for back in the 1970s and 1980s. The extractive industries that had built the town – and polluted it – were on their way out. Tourism, alone, couldn’t fill the void. So they planned on banking on quality of life, or the not-yet-named amenities economy, to attract new, cleaner industries and the people to run them.
They didn’t seem to anticipate that the resulting feedback loop rotates in both directions. As the place becomes more desirable, it drives up home prices. Higher prices dampen entrepreneurship and innovation and imperil economic
An AI-rendering of the Residences at Durango, on Highway 160W. The city of Durango bought the former Best Western Hotel and turned it into 120 affordable-housing units serving households earning 30% to 60% of the area median income. Several more affordable projects are in the works, but will they be enough?/ Courtesy City of Durango
class diversity. The working class is pushed out to the only slightly more affordable surrounding communities, increasing traffic and pollution and making the roads even more unsafe. Businesses have a harder and harder time finding employees. And, eventually, quality of life will begin to suffer, and the Durango that folks bought into for a million bucks won’t be so desirable anymore.
Durango’s not near the breaking point, yet. There are still plenty of locals, young and old, who have been around since long before the market went berserk, and who are committed to the community. There are a lot of established businesses and, somehow, a handful of new, innovative ones have managed to get going and even thrive. And the place still attracts enough new, full-time residents, even ones who can’t really afford to live there, to keep it dynamic and vibrant.
There are also inklings of efforts to ease the housing crisis. The local school
district has raised teachers’ starting salaries to just above $50,000, which is still way less than they deserve but significantly higher than a decade ago. And it purchased a 35-unit apartment building for workforce housing; Fort Lewis College also owns an apartment building for staff housing. The city has several affordable housing projects in various phases of development, and a number of nonprofits and other organizations have their own workforce/affordable housing initiatives in place.
Whether these efforts will be enough to keep Durango whole amid the rapidly escalating prices isn’t clear. I just hope Durango’s kids of the future, regardless of economic class, will be able to derive as much joy from the place as I did a half-century ago.
The Land Desk is a newsletter from Jonathan P. Thompson, author of “River of Lost Souls,” “Behind the Slickrock Curtain” and “Sagebrush Empire.” To subscribe, go to: www.landdesk.org. ■
AroundColorado
The secret sauce
Chef dishes on what has made beloved tiny mountain restaurant tick for 50 years
by Ryan Warner / Colorado Public Radio
Soupçon in Crested Butte seems to defy the laws of restaurant economics. With just nine tables, barely 30 seats and only two seatings a night, the French-inspired restaurant has remained a destination for half a century. It reopened for the season in mid-June.
Housed in a former miner’s cabin, the kitchen is tight, the dining room is cozy, and the wine cellar is actually in the attic. The sommelier must watch that he doesn’t bump his head.
Chef and owner John Leonardi, who graduated from the prestigious Culinary Institute of America, let us in on the secrets of Soupçon’s success. He also gave us a hint (that’s what soupçon means in
French) of the summer menu, which will feature edible flowers – a nod to Crested Butte’s 40th annual wildflower festival.
The following interview was lightly for length and clarity.
Ryan Warner: I don’t understand how you make it work, especially in this economy and given the margins.
Chef John Leonardi: That is done through planning and being busy when we’re open. We definitely have to maximize those periods.
Warner: Forgive me if this comes across as a little scathing, but is it about charging exorbitant prices to Texans?
Chef Leonardi: Absolutely not. We most definitely cost everything out, and
we know what we need to charge in order to be a profitable business. We’re a place to celebrate. It’s not all the uberwealthy. We have people that, I believe, make sacrifices so that they can continue to come back each year to have this experience.
Warner: Half a century in business, there have to be traditions around this place.
Chef Leonardi: It’s so exciting to see three generations of a family here for Christmas Eve dinner. We recognize the name. Perhaps one of the daughters has another kid, and now they’re experiencing this environment and keeping that family tradition alive.
Warner: You are passionate about sourcing ingredients locally
But those places are still two hours away. What obstacles have you overcome to serve locally sourced French-inspired cuisine in what is an out-of-the-way mountain town?
Chef Leonardi: It’s definitely a destination. You have to be willing to make the journey. The food is the same way. It’s gotten easier with farm runners. They do one truck a week and they’ll bring all the stuff over to the restaurants in town here.
The order has to be in by Sunday at 5 p.m., and then the delivery shows up on Thursday, and that’s every week. So you have to plan, you have to also check
– from Thistle Whistle Farms in Hotchkiss, Mattics Orchards in Montrose.
Soupçon restaurant in Crested Butte on May 23. the restaurant, entering its 50th year, is in a late-1800s miners cabin and has room for just 28 diners./ Photo by Ryan Warner/CPR News
what’s there. And I think the way we pull it off is really relying on technique. If we can get snap peas, we know how to get the best out of them. If the snap peas are gone, we can get broccolini – knowing how to prepare the ingredient. We reprint the menu pretty much every single day because something doesn’t show up or it’s no longer available or maybe I burnt it.
Warner: You graduated from the CIA, the Culinary Institute of America. It’s like Harvard or Wharton for business. When you graduated, how much was there still to learn?
Chef Leonardi: A lot. I always say the Culinary Institute of America will give you everything you need to be successful, but what kind of work do you want to put into it? What are you going to actually take from the experience there – the best library probably in the country for food, a multitude of resources, instructors. But you also have to know how to work with people, how to get along, how to have a team, how to lead by example.
Warner: That seems in direct opposition to the kind of egocentric my-way-or-the-highway persona.
Chef Leonardi: I think that that was the way, and there’s definitely a new wave now. Chefs want longevity, and if they’re just going to do it my way or the highway, you’re not going to get people that want to stay with you. And when something goes wrong, you’ve got to be able to rely on your team to get you through it if you want to keep doing it forever. This is my ‘it.’ This is what I’m going to do.
Warner: I’m always surprised by the tight quarters chefs work in. This, however – a cabin built in 1891 by a young Yugoslavian immigrant – seems like a new level of having to maximize every inch. Tell me about your relationship to something that is obviously very charming, but that was clearly not built as a restaurant.
Chef Leonardi: You really have to be creative. I’ve done some renovations here. This floor used to be carpeted. These beams were covered up in layers of paint. Art was all over the walls to take your vision off of what’s wrong with the wall itself. That being said, we exposed the wood beams, added mirrors for some depth, and then while hanging the new doors in the bathroom, we heard glass break. There was a window buried in that wall. There’s a lot going on here that you can’t really see. It’s been hidden over. I’m the seventh owner, I believe. You have to maximize
what goes where and understand that the first try might not work.
Warner: Recently all of Colorado became eligible for a Michelin rating. Do you have high hopes?
Chef Leonardi: I think we’re going to do what we do regardless. Again, we’re just trying to give the best hospitality dining experience that you can possibly dream of. That being said, the Michelin rating does carry so much of a following. We’re constantly trying to do small details. Our white tablecloths come from a lending company. We need to find a way to iron these tablecloths. We’re going through the logistical nightmare of ‘OK, we can iron them all, but where are we going to hang them up?’ There’s nowhere to put them. So these are things we’re brainstorming through the off-season. We’re not going to change what we do, who we are, but these are small details I think are expected of a Michelin-caliber restaurant.
Warner: I understand wildflowers – or flowers – will be integrated into the menu this season.
Chef Leonardi: Yeah, the (Crested Butte) Wildflower Festival is celebrating its 40th anniversary, which really ties in with what we’re doing. It’s not going to be technically wildflowers. You don’t want to be out there just picking these things. You don’t want to trample off
the trail. But we do have a farm that is going to procure us some edible flowers throughout the season that we can rely on sustainably to make the plates beautiful and do infusions and gastriques and garnishes for cocktails – and focus on the beauty of what the summer is.
Warner: What will keep y’all in business? Is it innovation, tradition or a balance?
Chef Leonardi: It’s absolutely a balance. You’ve got to have both. I think restaurants that do a good thing and end up dissolving … they’re not able to keep it interesting. I think you need some nuance to keep people guessing – so keeping the Colorado lamb rack forever but changing up what’s in-season with the vegetables, infusing the sauces.
Warner: This restaurant predated you. You bought it in 2019. How does your Italian family square the French inspiration?
Chef Leonardi: We definitely have to have some fresh pastas and risottos from my upbringing, but I feel like what we try to emphasize is the French technique of developing flavor, and that can really go into any culture. You can take traditional stir fry and add a little French technique to it. I think it deepens flavor and heightens senses and makes it a little more complex.
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John Leonardi, owner and chef of Soupçon, in his Crested Butte restaurant. May 23. graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, he bought the storied Crested Butte eatery in 2019./ Photo by Ryan Warner/CPR News
Stuff to Do
Thursday25
Movement Meditation, 10-11 a.m., White Rabbit Books & Curiosities, 128 W. 14th St., C-2
Little Wilderness plays Ska-B-Q, 5-7 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St.
Green Drinks with hosts Grand Canyon Trust, SW Conservation Corps and Mountain Studies Institute, 57 p.m., 11th St. Station
Kris Chambers Tribute Ride, 5:30 p.m., Durango Harley Davidson, 750 S Camino Del Rio
Sweet Lizzy Project plays Concert Hall at the Park, 5:30 p.m., Buckley Park
Open Mic Poetry Spotlight, 5:30-8 p.m., The Subterrain, 900 Main Ave.
Dart Tournament, 5:30-9 p.m., Union Social House, 3062 Main Ave.
Jeff Solon Jazz plays, 6 p.m., Lola’s Place, 725 E. 2nd Ave.
Matt Lewis plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Adam Swanson plays, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Bluegrass Jam, 6-9 p.m., Durango Beer and Ice Co., 3000 Main Ave.
Jackson Martin & Leigh Mikell play, 6-9 p.m., 11th St. Station,1101 Main Ave.
Trivia Night, 6:30-8:30 p.m., The Powerhouse, 1333 Camino Del Rio
Latin Dance Night w/ Brent Lilley and DJ Pumami, 6:30-9 p.m., Rooftop Lounge at River’s Edge, 1521 Main Ave.
Kirtan band GaiaShakti, free kirtan, 7-8:30 p.m., Pause Yoga Studio, 1970 E. 3rd Ave.
“A Deal Picked Just for You,” Durango Play Fest reading, 7-9 p.m., Community Concert Hall at FLC
Friday26
Veterans Friday Morning Coffee, 8-10:30 a.m., American Legion Post 28, 878 E. 2nd Ave.
Country Festival, 9 a.m., Tico Time Resort, Aztec
San Juan Nature Hike, 10 a.m.-12 noon, Andrews Lake upper parking lot
“The Pout-Pout Fish” movie showing, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Durango Library, 1900 E. 3rd Ave.
“Last Day,” Durango Play Fest reading, 3 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.
“4 Common Corners: Art Quilts of the American Southwest,” artists reception, 5-7 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.
Dave Osborn plays, 5-8 p.m., Serious Texas BBQ South, 650 South Camino Del Rio
JB & The Flybiscuits play, 5-9 p.m., Balcony Bar & Grill, 600 Main Ave.
Rooftop Live Music, 5-9:30 p.m., Lounge at River’s Edge, 1521 Main Ave.
Country Festival, all day, Tico Time Resort, Aztec
Bruin Grand Opening and live DJ, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., 3211 Main Ave.
Soil Health Workshop, 2-5 p.m., Esoterra Arboretum, 270 CR 303
“The Henry Clyde Canning Murder House,” Durango Play Fest reading, 3 p.m., Community Concert Hall at FLC
Rally for Truth, Equality and Freedom, 4-6 p.m., Buckley Park, 1250 Main Ave.
Disco Roller Skating, 6-8 p.m., Chapman Hill
Black Velvet Duo plays, 6-8 p.m., Lola’s Place, 725 E. 2nd Ave.
Adam Swanson plays, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Matt Rupnow plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Karaoke with Kimmy, 6-9 p.m., Durango Beer and Ice Co., 3000 Main Ave.
Dutstin Burley play, 6-9 p.m., Union Social House, 3062 Main Ave.
Morgan Thomas plays, 6-9 p.m., 11th St. Station, 1101 Main Ave.
JB & The Flybiscuits play, 6-9 p.m., The Weminuche Woodfire Grill, 18044 Co Rd 501, Bayfield
“Last Day,” Durango Play Fest reading, 7 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.
“Peter Pan and Treasure Island,” youth theater, 7-9:30 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.
Adult Jam Skate, 8:15-9:45 p.m., Chapman Hill
Sunday28
Durango Flea Market, 7 a.m.-3 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds
Yard Sale Fundraiser for Cat Care Durango, 8 a.m., Pet Haus, 1444 Main Ave.
Country Festival, all day, Tico Time Resort, Aztec
Veterans River Raft Trip and lunch, 10:30 a.m., VFW, 1550 Main Ave.
“Hazel & Bea and the In-Between,” Durango Play Fest reading, 11 a.m., Community Concert Hall at FLC
AskRachel Squirrel stake-out, web woes and free meals
Interesting fact: A squirrel has about 350 calories of edible meat, yet can devour an entire garden in a day. (“How many squirrels a day would a person need to eat to survive” is now a thing I have googled. Four to six, if you were curious.)
Dear Rachel,
Container gardening is the experiment of the year in this house. It started well, but now something is eating all our plants down to nubs. We can’t very well eat the remaining stubs this fall. No idea what critters are responsible (rabbits? birds? stoned neighbors?) and it’s hardly worth a security camera that costs more than a season’s produce at City Market. Any ideas for safeguarding our remaining starts?
– Uprooted
Dear Gnawed Off,
I say this without any awareness whatsoever of legal or ethical ramifications: It’s time to sit out all night with a shotgun. You gotta catch the varmints with your own eyes. And you need a folding chair to sit on – nothing from REI, I mean one of the square aluminum-framed ones with thick plastic straps woven together. And a catchphrase. You need a killer catchphrase for when you catch (see what I did there?) whoever or whatever it is in the act.
– Insert catchphrase here, Rachel
Sunday Record Brunch Club, 12 noon-3 p.m., 11th St. Station, 1101 Main Ave.
Irish Jam, 12 noon-3 p.m., Durango Beer and Ice Co., 3000 Main Ave.
“Peter Pan and Treasure Island,” youth theater, 24:30 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.
“A Deal Picked Just for You,” Durango Play Fest reading, 3 p.m., Community Concert Hall at FLC
Ben Gibson plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Blue Moon Ramblers play, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
“The Henry Clyde Canning Murder House,” Durango Play Fest reading, 7 p.m., Community Concert Hall at FLC
Monday29
Meditation and Dharma Talk, 5:30 p.m., Durango Dharma Center, 1800 E. 3rd Ave., Ste. 109 or durangodharmacenter.org
Happy Hour Yoga, 5:30 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St.
Dear Rachel,
Dig into your stats, everyone says. Metrics are the foundation of everything, they say. So, I started getting into the analytics on my business website. I now wish I had not. What felt like a small but steady business now feels to me like an immense failure. All this work for maybe 17 people to see what we do? Can’t we skip this and go back to the old ways?
– Feeling Blue for the Yellow Pages
Dear Anna Log,
Never once have I seen my stats for this here part of the newspaper. That’s the brilliant part about being a printed paper distributed (for free! but not easily!) around the greater Durango metropolitan area. I just know my readership goes up when there are more fires to start. I’m willing to bet, at 17, you have my share of the Tele web traffic beat. Hard to keep yourself warm with an iPhone on fire.
– Well read, Rachel
Dear Rachel, We’re in the middle of a kitchen overhaul. Not quite a renovation, but a drastic refresh. We were supposed to wrap up in time to get new appliances at Memorial Day sales. But we got behind schedule, but it’s still too early for Fourth of July sales. Do we reinstall our old appliances for a week in hopes of red-white-
Terry Rickard plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Adam Swanson plays, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Tuesday30
Movement Meditation, 10-11 a.m., White Rabbit Books & Curiosities, 128 W. 14th St., C-2
Cowboy Tuesdays, 12 noon-3 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Tai Chi Walking with certified instructor, 1 p.m., La Plata County Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave.
Twin Buttes Tuesday, weekly group mountain bike ride, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Twin Buttes Trailhead parking lot
Upcycled Book Clutches, 6-7:30 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 E. 3rd Ave.
Tuesday Trivia, 6-8:30 p.m., 11th St. Station, 1101 Main Ave.
Adam Swanson plays, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle
Email Rachel at telegraph@durangotelegraph.com
and-blue discounts? Or go ahead, haul them off and bite the ol’ capitalistic bullet?
– Home Without a Range
Dear On the Brink, Who needs appliances? All you need is a trusty old metal cooler, preferably (but not necessarily) with ice. A city-approved fire pit. An aluminum folding chair with the plastic straps. And, a clean line of sight to someone else’s container garden being ravaged by critters. You can probably snag and cook your own protein, then stock up on thank-you veggies in the fall. Get close to nature. Find yourself. And don’t track any stats but the beers left in the cooler.
– Your survival expert, Rachel
Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Sean O’Brien plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Adult Roller Skating, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Chapman Hill
Wednesday01
Ska Bingo Night, 5-7 p.m., DoubleTree Animas River Lounge, 501 Camino Del Rio
The Poppletons play Community Concert Series benefiting La Plata County Humane Society, 5:30-8 p.m., The Powerhouse, 1333 Camino del Rio
Word Honey free poetry workshop, 6-7:30 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 E. 3rd Ave.
Adam Swanson plays, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Devin Scott plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
True Western Roundup Pro Rodeo, 6:30-9 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds
Blazin’ Boots Line Dancing, 6:30-9 p.m., The Rooftop Lounge at River’s Edge, 1521 Main Ave.
FreeWillAstrology
by Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The interesting struggles you’ll wage in coming weeks will require your vulnerability: showing up exactly as you are when you might rather fight or escape. Your warrior nature probably prefers a clear enemy or a definable problem you can confront, but the truer conquest will come from laying down your weaponry. I suggest you meet aggression with curiosity and engage chaos with receptive stillness. At least for now, your greatest strength will be to remain undominated by your own reactive impulses. Think of it as an advanced martial art.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I invite you to be inspired by this wisdom from artist Pablo Picasso: “I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do it.” He’s proposing that we treat a lack of expertise not as an embarrassment but as a doorway. Instead of waiting until we feel ready and confident, he suggests we head into territory where we fumble, guess and feel awkward. Our discomfort may lead to gratifying growth. I dare you to ask yourself whether there’s a capacity or skill you’d love to add to your repertoire but are too timid to try. Then take small, imperfect steps toward it, trusting that each move will teach you how to do what once felt impossible.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Hummingbirds keep track of every flower they visit and know how long it will take for it to replenish its nectar. They maintain mental maps of many feeding sites and visit them on precise schedules. To ensure their survival, they can’t waste energy on flowers that aren’t ready. Your mind could work like this if you want it to. Which people, places and projects need time to refill before you visit them again? Who have you been approaching too frequently, seeking their nectar before it has had time to regenerate? In coming weeks, practice strategic patience with your resources. In secret conversations with yourself, call yourself “Hummingbird.”
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Now is an auspicious time to declare a sweeping amnesty and observe a personal season of pardon. To the best of your ability, release your clenched feelings about people who have caused you pain. Banish blame! Purge any lingering resentment and regret that has curdled into self-reproach. Celebrate atonement and absolution! Most vital of all, exonerate yourself. Shed the guilt you’ve carried for missteps and missed chances. And please offer yourself a sweet gift: a ritual of renewal.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you happen to be swallowed by a dragon or whale, don’t freak out. It’s far preferable to being chomped into bits first, which absolutely won’t happen. You may indeed spend a brief spell inside the creature’s dark belly, but I confidently predict you will ultimately be deposited on the outside in one intact piece, after which you will only need to find your meandering way back home. The whole episode may be confounding or humbling, but I bet it will also scrub you free of a load of old karma.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Bees perform what scientists call a “waggle dance” to communicate the location of flowers to their hive-mates. But the directions are sometimes imprecise, and the apparent sloppiness actually helps the hive. It forces other bees to explore more broadly, discovering new food sources that the original bee missed. Perfect information would make them too efficient to be adaptable. Your precision is one of your gifts, Virgo, but right now I think you need strategic vagueness and fuzzy logic. Leave some directions unclear. Mistakes and misunderstandings might lead to discoveries that your perfect plans would have eliminated.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In ancient Greece, kairos referred to the opportune moment. It meant the right timing, when circumstances aligned to be most effective. The term chronos, on the other hand, was about sequential time, which blindly marched forward without any regard for special moments. Most of us are more or less hypnotized by chronos-consciousness. We measure our lives by calendar dates and external schedules. But in the coming weeks, Libra, I recommend you stay on high alert for kairos-rich pivots. For now, suspend inquiries like “Am I on schedule?” and ask, “Are the circumstances ripe?”
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Ravens engage in elaborate play: aerial acrobatics, complex games, sliding down snowbanks and sharing food with non-relatives. These behaviors lack an immediate payoff, yet support learning, motor skill development and social relationships. They seem to be both emotionally rewarding and indirectly advantageous for survival and success. Let’s apply this to you. Let’s conclude that delight isn’t wastefully frivolous, and that pleasure doesn’t need to justify itself through productivity. In coming weeks, you may face pressure to explain or defend your joy, to prove it’s worth it in some utilitarian way. Refuse. Like the ravens, engage in purposeless beauty and fun because it feels good.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Glaciologists studying ice cores can read Earth’s climate history going back 800,000 years. Each layer contains trapped air bubbles. These are time capsules that preserve the atmospheric composition of each moment. The ice remembers everything. You accumulate similar records, Sagittarius. Each of your experiences leaves its trace. And in the coming weeks, you will have extra access to these archived layers of your own history. Memories and patterns you thought were lost will surface with intriguing clarity. I hope you study these revelations to glean insight about your long-term patterns and cycles. It’s time to see the Big Picture.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Structure is the foundation for freedom, not a suppression of it. While others fantasize about escaping responsibility, you know that mastery is key to emancipation. When properly practiced, your flair for discipline adds vigor as well as rigor. More than any other sign, you are adept at using limits to give unlimited possibilities their specific shape. I trust you will express all these Capricornian powers to the max in the coming weeks. People in your life need them even more than usual.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
Horticulturists practice “deadheading’ to remove spent flowers from plants to encourage new vitality. Faded flowers drain energy that could go toward fresh growth. Plants that have been deadheaded produce more abundant blooms than those left to manage their own decay. I recommend a metaphorical version of this to you. You’ll be wise to deadhead your emotional garden. Certain attachments, once vibrant and nourishing, have expired. They’re not evil or wrong; they’re simply finished. It’s best not to keep directing precious energy toward maintaining their faded forms. With gratitude for the old beauty, clear the way for new beauty.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For maximum safety, be as uninteresting as possible. Shun risks that might shake up your beliefs and avoid adventures that could expose you to people who aren’t similar to you. If you really want to be certain about preserving your security and stability, the surest method is to retreat to your power spot and do nothing at all. WAIT! STOP! Everything I said was pure misdirection! I was joking! In fact, the opposite is true. The true way to nurture genuine safety and security is to pursue what sparks your curiosity and lights up your zeal. And the coming days are likely to provide you with plenty of chances to do exactly that.
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Announcements
Adult Roller Skating
Check out the Chapman Hill Rink schedule. We have added adult skating on Tuesday nights 6:30-8:30pm and DJ parties one Saturday each month 8:15-10 pm. Durango Roller skaters will be there to help you get rolling! Todd 970-799-013
Classes/Workshops
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