Adventure

Kevin Sheehan has taken his ski bike down the same run at Eldora Mountain Resort countless times, but this time was different. Riding the lift...

In 1976, Colorado voters were asked a simple question...

In 1997, Tom Wood sold everything he owned and cruised the long, flat road from Ohio to Colorado. He had no job, no place...

Between the northernmost reaches of Canadian soil, at Cape Discovery on Ellesmere Island, and the North Pole, there is a jumble of frozen seawater and ice sheets that break apart and collide together again. It’s like plate tectonics, but these frozen plates are ...

A man flew nearly 4 miles by balloon in South Africa, traversing the sea from Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, to Cape Town...

I almost missed my chance to kayak the White Salmon River before it...

Small Wyoming ski resorts have been folding in the past decade, but there may be hope for their futures. White Pine Ski Area has now gone up for sale, while Antelope Butte may see a resurrection. White...

What happened to Cory Richards on Mount Everest on April 28 when the climber became ill, and how that will affect the rest of the National Geographic Society’s 2012 expedition to Everest is not yet clear...

At 5:15 p.m. on Oct. 9, Kyle Richardson stands next to the water fountain outside Chautauqua’s Ranger Cottage. He’s wearing his signature look: a...

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...

Plan now to hike smart in the...

Let's face it, we’re spoiled. Colorado has some of the best skiing and riding in the world. Witness the fact that while we get to live here, people from all over the world descend upon our winter paradise each season, hoping to get a weeklong taste of what we get to ...