Adventure
At home in the trees
Fifty feet above the ground in one of the Red Oak trees at Chautauqua Park, I’m dangling like a spider suspended from its silk. I pant, grunt and pull myself up another foot, and I’m only half way to the top of the tree. Suddenly, the other rope next to me goes taut ...
Born curious
Eduardo Garcia was born curious. It’s a curiosity that led him to explore “the coulees and sage flats” of his native southwest Montana as...
Put your heart into it
Pheidippides, the courier who ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens spreading word of the Greek victory over the Persians, became famous not only for his proclamation but also for dying on the spot. Ultrarunner Micah True, known as Caballo Blanco (White Horse), was ...
The art of tubing
It’s hot, darn hot. And when it gets this hot, there isn’t much to do. You can seek out the closest movie theater for the afternoon show and hide in the darkness like a vampire. You can book a flight to Antarctica. Or you can tap into one of Boulder’s best-known ...
Chronicles of pain and passion
Climbers are accustomed to suffering, sure. But a certain kind of suffering is more common — a brief sprint through pain like climbing on body parts shoved into splitter cracks in the desert, or a two-day push through agony to get up a big wall climb...
Groovy in the Gore
boulderweekly.com/elevation More flowers than Woodstock without the mud or crowds The trail was rocky...
Nit nittay garabam: Man is man’s medicine
As I slid down the hillside, rocks and dirt and plants tumbling underneath me, I remember a scream so loud, it couldn’t possibly have...
Tom Danielson grabs win in USA Pro Challenge stage 3
Tom Danielson declared Tuesday night that he was glad to...
Composers go into the wild and come home transformed
There is a wildness in the natural world that most of us never meet. But when we do, we are likely to be transformed.
“I...
Pot studies edition: what’s hot, what’s not
The release of several recent studies shed light on a number of commonly held associations with marijuana use, such as lung health, crime rates...
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 ...
