Adventure

Open doors, open eyes and change lives

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Thirty minutes outside New York City, on the road to the Shawangunk Mountains in upstate New York, Anthony DeJesus turned to his travel companions and said this was the farthest he’d ever been outside the city. Born and raised in the Bronx, he’d joined a gang as a ...

Profanity-prone jogger fights ban from N.H. town

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A jogger in Maine who's made a habit of crossing into New Hampshire, going for a run and swearing at strangers is fighting an attempt to ban him...

Why take a picture when you can paint one?

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Reaching the summit of a 14,000 foot mountain, a 14er, fills people with a sense of accomplisment — the fresh air, the beautiful view, the aching muscles. To have a token for their hard work, most people take a snapshot, but artist Lisa Martin paints a picture ...

Pedal on up

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At the end of the cycling season a year after Timmy Duggan rode on the U.S. Olympic cycling team, he chose to retire. He was just 31 years old and on the edge of what could have been his best cycling years. But there weren’t enough teams, enough options, enough ...

Rock climbing cut off after floods

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Because rain is the new thing for Boulder weather, it’s rainy again this afternoon, which means you may not be thinking about which pitches you’d like to be sending the moment you’re released from the chains that bind you to your desk...

Who you gonna call?

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At the end of a rescue, the vote that carries the most weight on whether it was successful should be from the person who came out on the stretcher, right...

80-year-old Japanese climber to try for third Everest summit

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An octogenarian Japanese man is planning a third summit of Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, hoping to retake a record for oldest hike to the summit...

Drone season

For sporting types like ourselves, the alluring call of the wild drone was not something we could resist...

These teardrop trailers will make you smile

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Every screw Dean Wiltshire drives into the frame of one of his Colorado Teardrop campers has had a secondary effect — it’s closing the divide between himself and his 30-yearold son, David Wiltshire...

Chronicles of pain and passion

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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...

It takes all of us

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This past summer, a 90-year-old Korean War Veteran cycled around Chatfield State Park with his entire family, while a young boy with a visual...

Local support

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Kim Larson’s shop in Lafayette may raise some eyebrows from passersby — and cheers from those burdened with heaving bosoms...