The crowd on Colorado Avenue in downtown Telluride got a front row seat to the raw power of mother nature yesterday afternoon. Two slides on the slopes of Ajax Mountain, one of Telluride’s iconic peaks, were triggered from a helicopter at the end of the box canyon.

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Tim Konrad, founder of Unofficial Networks, is a skier with over 20 years in the ski industry. Starting the blog in 2006 from Lake Tahoe with his brother John, the website has grown into one of the world’s...