Adventure
Boulder author pens homage to skiing
To be a skier is to be ever hopeful, waiting on the uncertain miracle maker that is the weather. A skier could hang all of life up in the name of being free for the moment that winter storm hits...
Christian Vande Velde wins USA Pro Cycling Challenge
Without ever ranking higher in a single stage than the...
It’s not flying, it’s falling with style
Some people jump out of a plane for their birthdays. Others during a midlife crisis...
Are you mentally tough ?
Forty seconds before round two, and I’m lying on my back trying to breathe. Pain all through me. Deep breath. Let it go. I won’t be able to lift my shoulder tomorrow, it won’t heal for over a year, but now it pulses, alive, and I feel the air vibrating around me, the...
Learning to fall
When you fall from something taller than a door frame, don’t tense up, don’t get rigid. As airy nothingness swoops in, however suddenly, and...
Utah Officials Want 7 Ski Areas Connected Euro-Style
Late last year a proposal to tie together Solitude and The...
THE BIGGEST ADVENTURE OF ALL: LIFE
Boulder is full of the intense, the extreme, the committed. People who climb the highest mountains and kayak the most dangerous rivers. People who jump the biggest cliff and grapple with remote rock faces. In this swirling milieu of the hardcore it’s easy to overlook...
Wet for 50
The river starts as nothing, just a trickle of snowmelt in the high Rockies, the wet drops of a winter’s precipitation falling off of lichen-covered rocks, streaking cliffs in dark zebra stripes of moisture. But it grows bigger quickly. The tributaries, both large ...
Photos: Abandoned island was once most densely populated place on Earth
Off the southeastern coast of Japan, an island formerly used for mining sits abandoned, its last residents having left in 1974...
Not more, just better
The morning after her wedding, Sunny Stroeer meets me at the South Mesa trailhead at 8 a.m. sharp. As I pull into the parking...
Women’s outdoor adventures: Changing choice
On a sunny September afternoon in Vedauwoo, Wyo., Mary Jackson stands addressing a group of six women, drawing three circles in the sand with the toe of her shoe. The circle in the center represents your comfort zone — things you know how to do, do often and maybe ...
Pro Challenge starting line? We’ll take it
Cyclists rejoice. Out of the dark of winter, a time of year...


















