Telluride Magazine Summer/Fall 2019

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MOUNTAIN FREAK CONQUERING THE LESSER-KNOWN PEAKS IN THE SAN JUANS BY ROB STORY

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MANDY MILLER

hy did local ski bum and stonemason Tom “Freak” Curtis quit a well-paying mountain-town job, willingly relinquish Telluride’s most valuable commodity (a somewhat affordable apartment in town), and opt to spend a summer’s worth of nights sleeping either on the ground or in the bed of a ’93 Ford Ranger?

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