Avid adventurers call Telluride their spiritual home, drawn as much by some of the most diverse terrain in North America as they are to its singular natural beauty, where red rocks rise from the canyon floor and the peaks of the San Juan Mountains loom majestically ahead. The luckiest among them get to live the dream, spending their days on the sun-drenched slopes and coming home to a box canyon paradise lined with colorful clapboard-fronted shops and Victorian buildings.