Margo is right, take a look at Delta County and Montrose county as one of those hub cities that people use/buy in that are more affordable at the moment.
If I were you I would look back and smile about the profit.

You're right, you don't want to know! But real estate is not much different than the stock market, if you made a good profit then don't look back. Telluride has been hot for the past 5 years, Aspen is out of sight. Therefore, Telluride along with Steamboat Springs, Vail-Beaver Creek and so on keep going up. More and more people will be flying in for summer and ski vacations in the future, so locations that have an airport will continue to boom.