Durango’s Willow Koerber taking the bronze in last weekend’s cross country world championships, the best U.S. finish in nearly a decade

Purgatory treading lightly in its highly anticipated Legends’ terrain expansion, which is set to open on Dec. 20
Deke Luhmann lacing up his hiking boots for the 10th year in a row and walking 50 miles to spotlight the local Memory Walk on Sept. 12
Bayfield High School opting to not air Obama’s education speech, which did little more than ask students to take pride in learning
“Trail rage” making an appearance on the Animas River Trail with a group of runners suggesting two parents should take their kids somewhere else
The ill-conceived and now bankrupt Greenfield Park subdivision becoming a major source of noxious weeds in the Animas Valley