Latest Mountainlifestyle Podcast Episodes
Ep. 70 Caleb and Morgan Weinberg | ROMP Skis
Crested Butte Is Home - March 14, 2022 22:51 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsIf you spend any time skiing Crested Butte Mountain Resort at all, you've almost certainly seen ROMP skis, and probably a lot of them, in the lift lines. Brothers Morgan and Caleb Weinberg grew up in the mountains of New Hampshire doing all the things we love to do here in the Gunnison valley, l...
Ep. 69 Aaron Blunck | 2X Olympics, Gold Medal X Games
Crested Butte Is Home - January 27, 2021 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsAaron Blunck was born to ski. His grandfather started the ski school here in Crested Butte, his mom was a longtime instructor, his dad loves to ski, and Aaron had to keep up with his big brother somehow, too. By 8 he and his brother were skiing on their own, equipped with cheap radios to call ...
Ep. 68 Corey Tibljas | Film Production and Firefighting
Crested Butte Is Home - January 07, 2021 22:17 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsCorey Tibljas spent most of his childhood growing up right here in Crested Butte, as one of the first graduating classes at what was then the new Community School. It was there, at the school, that he and his friend Ben Somrak decided to make a ski movie and start their company, Two Plank Produ...
Ep. 67 Joe and Shamai Buckel | High Country Wine Making
Crested Butte Is Home - November 26, 2020 20:02 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsShamai Buckel grew up in Southern Colorado as well as Santa Fe, New Mexico and went to Western Colorado University after a powder-filled ski trip to Crested Butte convinced her that this was the place to be. Joe Buckel's journey to the Gunnison valley from Indiana took a little longer, with a s...
Ep. 66 Lucille Lucas | Dali, Art, Moroccan Craziness and more
Crested Butte Is Home - November 11, 2020 22:32 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsLucille Lucas grew up in New York City, with parents that were deeply immersed in the art world. That meant that she was able to meet artists like Salvador Dali and others, and Lucille began practicing her own art at a young age as well. But a trip across the country proved to her that NYC was...
Ep. 66 Lucille Lucas | NYC Art World to a Life of Adventures
Crested Butte Is Home - November 11, 2020 22:32 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsLucille Lucas grew up in New York City, with parents that were deeply immersed in the art world. That meant that she was able to meet artists like Salvador Dali and others, and Lucille began practicing her own art at a young age as well. But a trip across the country proved to her that NYC was...
Ep. 65 Craig Hall | Crested Butte Heliskiing and Flying to Fight Forest Fires
Crested Butte Is Home - October 28, 2020 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsCraig Hall grew up in the Southeast Colorado town of La Junta, but often visited the Gunnison and Crested Butte area to ski and fish. After graduating with a forestry degree from Colorado State University, Craig headed to Crested Butte to ski. He was part of a small group of skiers that were h...
Ep. 64 Jay Prentiss | Mountaineering, Mentoring, and Long-haul Covid
Crested Butte Is Home - October 14, 2020 16:29 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsJay Prentiss grew up on the East coast, and like many of the other people I've interviewed, his first visit to the Gunnison Valley was as a freshman at Western Colorado University. Already an outdoor athlete, he's taken advantage of all the Crested Butte area offers- climbing, kayaking, skiing,...
Ep. 63 Jake O'Connor | Building a Better Handcycle
Crested Butte Is Home - September 10, 2020 20:28 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsJake O Connor grew up in Colorado, enjoying the outdoor lifestyle and building houses as he grew older. In his final year at CSU in Fort Collins, Jake suffered a spinal cord injury at a jobsite, but mere months later, he returned and earned his construction management degree. He went on to a s...
Ep. 62 Stevie Kremer | Trailrunning Champion Across the World
Crested Butte Is Home - July 23, 2020 20:15 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsStevie Kremer was born in Germany, but moved to Connecticut with her family before she was 1 year old. Her life on the CT shore, not far from New York City, was typical- golf, tennis, etc, before heading to Colorado College in Colorado Springs. It was while attending CC that she was introduced...
Ep. 61 Kyleena Falzone | Secret Stash, Travel, Philanthropy
Crested Butte Is Home - July 01, 2020 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsKyleena Falzone is originally from Buffalo, New York. From a young age, she knew she wanted to work in the restaurant business, and that only intensified after a visit with relatives in Sicily, Italy, who owned a restaurant there. For several years, Kyleena would work in restaurants from Vail ...
Ep. 60 Derrick Nehrenberg | Mapping Brains, Mapping Trails
Crested Butte Is Home - June 17, 2020 10:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDerrick Nehrenberg grew up in 30 different places, although most of them were in the Southeast. After high school, he attended college for a year and sold books in the summer. He was known to drive a bit fast at his summer job, however, and therefore a judge suggested a stint in the military (...
Ep. 59 Jenny Stillo | Honduran Olympic Nordic Skier, and Journey of the Camino
Crested Butte Is Home - June 03, 2020 11:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsJenny Stillo grew up in warm sunny Honduras, playing on the beach and studying in both English and Spanish at the American school. For college, she ended up at Western Colorado University in Gunnison, which was trying to attract more international students at the time. Despite the cold weather...
Ep. 58 Scott Williams | Olympic Field Hockey
Crested Butte Is Home - May 20, 2020 07:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsScott Williams grew up in a number of places, including Reno, Nevada, where he used to ski. But it was when he was in Southern California during the 1984 summer Olympic games that he was introduced to field hockey, a moment that would change his life. Scott took to the sport quickly and was ab...
Ep. 57 Alan Bernholtz | LA Surf Bum - Mountain Guide - Crested Butte Mayor
Crested Butte Is Home - May 06, 2020 12:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsAlan Bernholtz grew up in sunny Los Angeles, California and unsurprisingly took to surfing. Certain aspects of the surf scene didn't appeal to him however, so at 18 he packed up moved to Aspen. But Aspen never felt like the friendly community he was looking for, and a chance visit to Crested B...
Ep. 56 Arvin Ramgoolam | From Miami to Townie Books owner and writer
Crested Butte Is Home - April 20, 2020 23:35 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsArvin Ramgoolam was born in Trinidad and Tobago- I was fairly certain that those islands are just off the coast of Venezuela, but it took a Google search to confirm it. From there, he emigrated to Miami and yet somehow, he still found his way to Crested Butte (don't worry, it's a good story tha...
Ep. 55 John Norton | CBMR History and Tourism
Crested Butte Is Home - April 01, 2020 22:12 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsGunnison-Crested Butte Tourism Association Executive Director John Norton grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, where he played the "typical" ball sports like football. At Dartmouth College, he met his future wife, an accomplished and avid skier, so he knew he better learn how if he wanted to stick with h...
Ep. 55 John Norton | CBMR Marketing and TAPP
Crested Butte Is Home - April 01, 2020 22:12 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsGunnison-Crested Butte Tourism Association Executive Director John Norton grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, where he played the "typical" ball sports like football. At Dartmouth College, he met his future wife, an accomplished and avid skier, so he knew he better learn how if he wanted to stick with h...
Ep. 54 Andy Sovick | Ski Guidebook Publisher, Family Traveler, Green Builder
Crested Butte Is Home - March 18, 2020 21:15 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsAndy Sovick grew up in the foothills West of Fort Collins, CO. He had dreams of becoming a "mountain man" when he was growing up, but instead attended Fort Lewis college in Durango, where he met his wife. After graduation, he decided to walk back to Fort Collins with skis on his back. His wif...
Ep. 53 Kent Viles | Making Music and Creating the Dobrato
Crested Butte Is Home - February 26, 2020 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsKent Viles hails from Muncie, Indiana (amazingly, my second guest from there). He grew up with an ability I've never had- the ability to play musical instruments. Like many of my guests, Kent had a love of skiing and the outdoors despite being far from mountains in the midwest. So when it cam...
Ep. 52 Ian Billick | Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
Crested Butte Is Home - February 12, 2020 10:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsIan Billick grew up in Kansas, but he was also lucky enough to be exposed to the mountains as well. While pursuing a degree in math and science, he received some great career advice and that led him to a profession that would help him spend time outside. And thanks to that, he found Gothic and...
Ep. 51 Yon Iacchio | Sargents: An Overlooked Destination in the Gunnison Valley
Crested Butte Is Home - January 29, 2020 16:29 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsYon Iacchio grew up on the East Coast like so many other residents of the Gunnison Valley. After a little bit of time at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Yon stayed and skied and climbed up and down the front range- even putting up a new climbing route in Venezuela. Recently, Yon and hi...
Ep. 50 Than Acuff | Soccer Coach, Sports Reporter, and the CBAC
Crested Butte Is Home - January 15, 2020 10:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsThan Acuff grew up on the East coast, skiing and playing soccer before heading West to attend Colorado College in Colorado Springs. He began visiting Crested Butte and like so many of us, knew it was the place for him. As soon as he graduated, he found himself in Crested Butte, working the typ...
Ep. 49 Ben Breslauer | The Busiest Person in the World?
Crested Butte Is Home - January 01, 2020 18:07 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsOK, Ben Breslauer probably isn't the busiest person in the world, but for those of us looking in, it might seem like it. Ben started and continues to run the Crested Butte Burger Company, at the base of the ski area. Additionally, he's the facilities manager for the Club at Crested Butte, with...
Ep. 48 Danny Hartigan | Skateboarding, Kayaking, Rock and Roll and Roofs
Crested Butte Is Home - December 18, 2019 12:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsGrowing up in Boston, Danny Hartigan developed a love of skateboarding as well as snowboarding. He recalls the early days of snowboarding when he had to take a test to prove he should be allowed to snowboard at "ski" areas. Snowboarding brought him west, to Western Colorado University in Gunni...
Ep. 47 Debra Callihan | Saving Animals in the Gunnison Valley
Crested Butte Is Home - December 04, 2019 10:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDebra Callihan has deep roots here in the Gunnison Valley. She was born here while her father was at Western Colorado University, which Debra also attended. Even when her husband was Colorado's Lieutenant Governor, they tried to spend as much time as they could here, rather than in Denver. Do...
Ep. 46 Noah Wight | Crested Butte Television
Crested Butte Is Home - November 20, 2019 12:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsNoah Wight is my guest on this episode of the Crested Butte is Home podcast. Noah spent some of his youth at the hippy hamlet of Ward, located west of Boulder, Colorado, before moving to the East coast. He eventually made his way back to the University of Colorado and eventually Crested Butte. ...
Ep. 45 Frank Konsella | The Host gets Interviewed
Crested Butte Is Home - November 08, 2019 22:18 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsThe tables are turned on this week's episode, with Frank Konsella becoming the interviewee rather than the interviewer. We start off talking about where I grew up, in the foothills above Golden, CO. Like many of my guests, I grew up ski racing at Winter Park, so when it came time to find a ...
Ep. 45 Frank Konsella | The Host Is Interviewed
Crested Butte Is Home - November 08, 2019 22:18 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsThe tables are turned on this week's episode, with Frank Konsella becoming the interviewee rather than the interviewer. We start off talking about where I grew up, in the foothills above Golden, CO. Like many of my guests, I grew up ski racing at Winter Park, so when it came time to find a ...
Ep. 44 Stephanie Ballard | Interiors you can Covet
Crested Butte Is Home - October 23, 2019 12:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsGrowing up in the midwest, Stephanie Ballard jokingly described her favorite pastime as "picking tar out of potholes with sticks". All kidding aside, she actually had a talent for volleyball and went to school in Charleston, South Carolina. Her dream of being an interior designer was on hold f...
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