Adventure
Seven days, 500 bikes and a unicycle
I got dropped like a bad transmission, but thank the fat-tired deities I didn’t get beat by the guy on the damn unicycle. Having survived the BC Bike Race (BCBR) in British Columbia and lived to tell enough tales that hometown riding buddies are threatening ...
Peeking at an ancient civilization
It rains for the first time this summer in Athens during my stay. A welcome plummet to the brooding temperatures. The days are humid and seemingly eternal. The sea swells in ridiculous blues and greens. Whole towns converge to swim. Cicadas hum vacuously in the ...
Pick a good jogging stroller
At first, it seems an unusual activity: a mother or father pushing a child in a stroller, and jogging behind it at a steady pace. But post-parenthood, many adults realize looking after a baby can cut into regular exercise routines. So some combine parenting with ...
Ain’t too hard for me to jam
As Havilah Curtis suits up before she takes the roller derby track, she slides a band with the number 147 stitched on it up...
Sleeping giant no more
Around age 8, Conor Hall started doing primitive skills courses with his siblings near their home in Crestone, “kind of tucked under the towering...
The human factor
In 2005, Michelle Vanek disappeared while hiking Mount of the Holy Cross, her first attempt to summit one of Colorado’s infamous fourteeners. Only three...
Growing ice
In late August, Aaron Montgomery received some big news via email. The International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation, or UIAA, had officially selected him as an athlete to demonstrate ice climbing to the world during the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games...
How I Nearly Killed My Father on Tenaya Canyon
The sign read, “Tenaya Canyon is extremely dangerous. Many have lost...
Adventure Film
The Adventure Film Festival is a celebration of adventures in their many forms and a bolster to support “the heroic journey and the narrative of adventure as a force for awakening and change.” Films cover the stories of a dancer who swims with tiger sharks to protest...
Border-to-border
No one’s gonna top this, in our posterity, I don’t think. Maybe, but I doubt it,” Ben Thamer tells the video camera in the new documentary, Unbranded. “You can run a marathon, you can hike across the Great Wall, you can do a lot of things but you can’t do this. This ...
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 ...
