Adventure
Outside the boxes
As it does for most high schoolers today, Jocelyn’s world came at her in a rush. The early morning alarm gave way to the...
What’s it like to ski Colorado? Snowmass has the answer
We looked down on Long Shot, a 15-minute hike behind us, the clouds below us, and the state’s longest ski run in front of us. It was nearing 3 o’clock and would turn out to be our last run of the day, which had been packed with some phenomenal skiing at Snowmass. The...
Cinematic climbing
As if projecting rock climbing routes — the multiple attempts climbers put into mastering a particularly tough route — weren’t enough of a challenge, local filmmaker, artist and rock climber Craig Muderlak has set a goal to visually represent more than the ...
You Could Smell Humanity
She let them sleep in her woodshed. But all night long, recalls Boulder resident Stan Havlick, he could hear the young woman praying fervently that the foreign cyclists tucked soundly into their sleeping bags wouldn’t harm her...
Photo gallery: Incredible images from the British Wildlife Photography Awards
The British Wildlife Photography Awards for 2012 have been announced, and they are incredible...
The thrill of competition
You feel it in your veins. The pulse of competition, the yearning for glory, the desire to best all comers, the need to push...
The last great adventure
When it comes to exploration, humans are obsessed with being first — just look at the past century: Robert Peary planted the American flag at the North Pole in 1909 after scores of others died trying; Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole in ...
The mind-body solution
Carl Jung believed reaching full potential as a human required exploration of our deepest thoughts, those feelings that lay buried deep beneath our consciousness. As he put it, “There is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites; hence it is necessary to ...
Out from below
Have you ever wondered what would happen to you if you woke up at the bottom of a remote, 2,000-foot-deep canyon with a smashed...
A bicycle built of cardboard
After an Israeli inventor heard about someone who'd built a canoe out...
Want a safer Mt. Everest? Here’s how.
Mountain climber Adrian Ballinger, who has summitted Mount Everest six times, says Everest needs to be fixed...
How can I stay warm winter camping?
I received a zero-degree down sleeping bag over the holidays and I'm...
