Chacos column: A mountain town is more than a fairy-tale snow globe

Chacos column: A mountain town is more than a fairy-tale snow globe

A visitor from the city once put it bluntly, “You don’t live in reality, you live in a bubble.” True, we have a world-class mountain resort out our front door and have more sunny days than a tiki bar in the Caribbean. We are surrounded by nature’s beauty and get outside to play whenever we can. We also have a relatively low crime rate and many of us still don’t lock our car doors or bother with a home security system. We know in many ways we are…