Adventure
NBA player becomes first openly gay athlete in US pro sports
Longtime NBA player Jason Collins has come out as gay in an editorial column for Sports Illustrated, becoming the first openly gay athlete in any US team sport...
USA Pro Challenge adds mountaintop finish; Boulder could join in 7th...
The nation's most popular bike race might come through Boulder again next year — depending on fans' votes...
One stage to rule them all
The USA Pro Cycling Challenge will spend a week pitting cyclist against cyclist for top rank in a race that claims to be one of the world’s toughest. But when the bike tires turn toward Boulder on Aug. 25 for the last stage of racing before the final time trial in ...
Off the beaten path
In his 2004 book, Racing Tactics, Boulder resident and professional cyclist Thomas Prehn aimed to help other cyclists avoid common mistakes and to “ride intelligently,” as he puts it. The 57-year-old plans on utilizing his own advice as he tackles the 10th annual ...
Our public path
In Colorado, we are fortunate to have many opportunities for outdoor recreation. Riding along a twisty singletrack trail, hiking to a ridgeline stretching for miles or camping near an alpine lake nestled high in the mountains — these are all options for the Colorado ...
History re-made
At 27,000 feet, Amelia Rose Earhart was soaring over Howland Island, the intended destination of legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart, when she used a small handheld GPS device to tweet the names of the young women who were set to receive flight-training scholarships ...
Keeping up with the Joneses
The sky is the kind of perfect blue that you only find in Colorado, no clouds, no wind, no nothing. Only the faint trickle of water from a frozen creek as the sun spills its warmth down on the planet. Then the cat rumbles to life as we climb aboard, the snow ...
BIFF: Get over your Everest ennui
A great plotline is nothing without a character — one that generates an emotional investment, one we continue to care about long after the final pages of a book or final frames of film. The stories of the men — and in this case, one particular woman — who went to ...
Winning without the battle
We all have friends who can eat anything they want and not gain weight while we, on the other hand, suffer in all of the appropriate ways, avoiding everything that doesn’t show up at the store with soil on it, and the pounds come on anyway. Often when carrying extra ...
Skating to success
Josh Agenbroad has found his own way to meet people wherever he goes, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he grew up, to Beijing, China,...
Facing sequestration, local funding steps in to plow Yellowstone National Park
If you're ever in Cody, Wyo., just ask for Wild Bob. And tell him, and a lot of others in Cody, thanks for pitching in...














