Adventure
Not all who wander are lost
Perhaps it’s true now more than ever that not all those who wander are lost. They’re just getting ahead of the game in an increasingly connected world...
Out of the car, onto the mountain
If Aristotle was right, and the whole really is greater than the sum of its parts, then James Dziezynski hit the nail on the...
Building and testing your mountain biking skills
Walk into any local coffee shop or brewery in Boulder and listen carefully, and the odds are good you’ll hear someone boasting about conquering one of the local singletrack trails. Even if you’re not ready to build your own legend and point your tread straight down ...
The last great adventure
When it comes to exploration, humans are obsessed with being first — just look at the past century: Robert Peary planted the American flag at the North Pole in 1909 after scores of others died trying; Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole in ...
Tom Danielson grabs win in USA Pro Challenge stage 3
Tom Danielson declared Tuesday night that he was glad to...
The modern-day climber?
Falling didn’t used to be a part of climbing rules. You couldn’t fall. If you did, your life was in peril...
Success by The Book
The Book is a result of sweat. Of struggle. Of pain and mishap and, ultimately, of success. The Book is, says Palmer Hoyt, “how I learned how to ski again...
Where the next turn leads
It was a cold spring morning, a Monday, signaling my first week off work (as a veterans-law paralegal in Boulder) in seven months. The previous day I’d completed the eccentric 70-mile Eroica California, with around 6,000 feet of elevation gain meandering Central ...
First aid to go
The Comprehensive Medical Kit includes everything a camper on an extended trip would ever need. The kit includes materials for stopping bleeding, cleaning and dressing wounds; splints and triangular bandage for immobilizing broken bones; medications for treating pain...
Beauty in Black and White
"Love is very simple,” says specialist desert guide Khaled Hafez as he lies back on a tightly woven Bedouin carpet and sips sweet black...
HALLOWED GROUND
THE MOUNTAIN IS ICONIC. An unmistakable jagged peak, solitary, and thrust above the valley floor that it dominates by eons of geological evolution, a visual exclamation point of a place that could only exist in Colorado...
Still recovering, Lyons proud to host 13th Outdoor Games
The gravity-defying tricks pulled off by the professional riders partaking in the Lyons Outdoor Games are enough to satisfy those in attendance, but many watch the aerial display to get a glimpse of local bike riding legend Joey Cordova...
