Adventure

Erin and I are off itinerary. It’s after 1:30 p.m. when we look up at the clock in the WabiSabi thrift store in downtown Moab and realize we’ve missed our lunch reservation by an hour. After scoring a second-hand Arc’teryx jacket for $10, we arrive back at the Sorrel...

Beaver Creek has proven for 30 years just how good a ski vacation can be, whether you’re a head of state or the head of a household. With heads of state fewer each day, let’s examine this gem from the average Boulderite’s perspective...

Ryan Van Duzer hasn’t had a written resume in years. He’s...

Boulder residents Brendan and Chloe Couvreux, along with their 4- and 2-year-old sons, Sky and Tao, won’t be seen around town in the coming year. They’ve rented their condo to a friend, packed up their climbing gear, some homeschooling materials and whatever else ...

At 16, Bobby Reedy knew he wanted to be a ninja — a ninja warrior, that is. To help him become a contestant on...

Because it’s never too early to start dreaming about powder, Colorado Ski Country USA’s Gems Card for the 2012/13 season has gone on pre-order. A Gems Card provides its bearer with a smattering of benefits, including a free lift ticket at Monarch, two-for-one tickets...

Greenland is a theater for the adventurous, a place where snow-capped, granite mountains rise from the ocean and reach for an impossibly blue sky. Greenland rock is some of the oldest on planet Earth, estimated at 3.8 billion years old. It is solid, beautifully ...

Feeling the dirt under our feet and breathing in fresh air away from traffic while taking in mountain views is a way of life...

The avalanche that took Inge Perkins’ life in October 2017 was not a massive one, according to the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center —...

When Sarah Hassell climbed her first 14,000-foot peak in Colorado, she felt “an overwhelming sense of gratitude.” It wasn’t due to the view, or the stable weather that allowed her to summit, or even the fact that the friends she climbed the peak with were there to ...

You feel the fluid building up, and you feel a kind of rattling in your lungs,” says Glenn Randall of a night spent in a snowbound tent in the Sawatch range, high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) slowly drowning him. He’d had the condition before, at 16,000 feet in ...

Across the road from the dirt bikes and ATVs in Rainbow Falls, Colo., is a different world. It’s a world hiker Tom Mowle discovered two years ago, looking for trails close to his Gleneagle, Colo., home. “As you can see, we’re the only people here. You can hike ...