Adventure

A bold new voice

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Over the past five years, fueled by concerns about sustainability, global warming and environmental footprints, and fed by the recent collapse in the real estate-fueled resort economy, skiers and snowboarders have started to become activists, creating a variety of ...

What goes up

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A year after falling and breaking her back, pro climber Molly Mitchell returns to climbing

Out of the car, onto the mountain

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If Aristotle was right, and the whole really is greater than the sum of its parts, then James Dziezynski hit the nail on the...

Hometown Hero: Nell Rojas

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One morning in March, low clouds hung heavy over the springy rubber track behind Boulder’s Manhattan Middle School of Arts. It was a perfect...

Schooled in the outdoors

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The Girls’ Wilderness Program believes in using time in the woods to help girls develop confidence and build interpersonal and personal skills...

Big Air

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There are lots of jumps that can rival the buildings in downtown Denver for height — but not many that are actually right next to those buildings...

Luna Sandals keep you running

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Taking us back to our indigenous roots, Luna Sandals by Barefoot Ted’s Adventure Company offer runners a unique opportunity to run as our bodies were built to do — barefoot. While allowing us to use our legs and feet “as designed,” they eliminate the challenge of...

A world running for a chance to walk again

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University of Colorado graduate Thomas Cloyd has gone through painstaking changes in his life, both physically and mentally, after a spinal cord injury left him in a wheelchair. The May 4 World Run in Denver, a race organized to raise money for a cure for spinal cord...

Prevent meltdowns on the slopes

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Skiing can be fun for the whole family, but it takes a little work. The key to introducing your kids to skiing or snowboarding is to take it slow...

Call of the Wild

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When George Dirth was in elementary school, his mother, Lisa, picked him up early from school on Friday afternoons. They’d head to the tiny...

Colorado’s two heli-skiing operators share the same mountain range, the same...

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The first thing you notice are the mountains. They’re rough and jagged, and they stand tall against the rising sun, etching patterns in the sky. The second thing you notice, because it sits right in front of you, is the helicopter. A bird, waiting to take fight, with...

GOP VP pick Ryan has actually never run a sub-3:00 marathon

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Republican Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) incorrectly claimed in a radio interview that his best time in a marathon was "Under three [hours], high twos," when there is no record of Ryan running that fast...