" T - Hell - U - Ride"

[Kajex]

i bought a tshirt today and it says that, and then "colorado" under it... i kno it means telluride... but... any idea wat t-hell-u-ride actually means?

 

[watchmefall15]

it means telluride is the worst mountain ever. no pow, its in the middle of jersey, and there are gapers everywhere.i actually have no idea what it means

 

[Kajex]

my mom thinks they meant it to be read like "the hell you ride" but that doesnt make sense either.

 

[fdsa]

It's a sort of acronym for To Hell You Ride, as in the poem The Hellbound Train, which is suppossedly where the resort got its name, but that's only the most believeable urban ledgend I've heard about it. So it might not be true.

 

[40calGlockSkier]

They need snow really bad, rocky but really good ski hill.....

 

[sexy_skier_babii]

when the people who were going to telluride to discover it was a harsh ride so they named it Telluride which is to hell you ride..

 

[head686]

what,does ur mom sit beside you to make sure you dont go to inappropriate sites??

 

[CrazedSkier1080]

hahaha its gonna sound lame as hell but in a WARREN MILLER MOVIE theres the poem, its some crazy guy telling the story and the last line is about the train conductor yelling "TO HELL YOU RIDE" so thus Telluride.

Ill try to find the whole thing and post it. it actually is pretty cool

 

[bp.lando]

ya i saw that in the warren miller movie too

 

[jonnydub]

I think that the miners used to say "To Hell You Ride" on their way down to the mines. And thats how the town and the mountain got its name. But I might be wrong

 

[cmo]

ok heres what my chemistry teacher said and it makes perfect sense. there is a element on the periodic table called tellurium (or somethin like it) and it used to be mined near telluride.

 

[spere]

why would you buy a shirt if you didn't know what it meant?

 

[JayB]

most people probably know all of this already, but...Telluride was founded as a mining town - mostly gold and silver. Telluride ore contains the element Tellurium, and normally quite a bit of gold and silver as well. "To Hell You Ride" just happens to rhyme with the name, but if you read up on the early history of the town, it probably reflects what most miners thought of the place.

"The miners worked deep below the surface in mines whose portals were as high as 12,000 feet above sea level. They worked ten or twelve hour shifts in mines and mills that ran around the clock. They lived in boarding houses precariously attached to plunging mountainsides. In the winter the snow buried the landscape and the trails down to the towns. The miners lived always on the brink of death ... premature dynamite blasts, fatal gas, underground fires, avalanches, falls, cave-ins, pneumonia. Many died young, leaving widows and orphans in tents and shanties with nothing. The miners earned $3.50 a day ... or less."