Adventure
From sea to peak
The mountain known as K2 is also known as “Savage Mountain.” Its sheer, jagged slopes rise from Pakistan’s Karakoram Valley floor and culminate in...
Classic desert tour offers both pain and delight
If I could recommend only one classic desert mountain bike “tour,” I would choose the White Rim loop. Located in the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park about an hour outside of Moab, Utah, the 100-plus-mile White Rim Road offers mountain bikers ...
Rising above Rio
From one of the largest slums in Rio de Janiero, a twin set of granite cones, called the Two Brothers, rises a thousand feet toward the sky. The favela — the slum — below creeps up the hillside until the cliffs become too steep for houses and instead make a place for...
In Northeast, cross-country resorts turn to snow guns
Cross-country skiing just about always includes, encourages or fosters an environmental ethos. It's more natural than ski resorts that chopped down trees to make runs. It's a quieter experience that puts the natural world in winter on display...
Where fear and anxiety collide
I was at the entrance to Devil’s Castle when the first lightning bolt struck. From where I stood, on the rocky ridge connecting Unnamed...
Rock climbing cut off after floods
Because rain is the new thing for Boulder weather, it’s rainy again this afternoon, which means you may not be thinking about which pitches you’d like to be sending the moment you’re released from the chains that bind you to your desk...
Utah man dies at Moab’s Corona Arch on rope swing
A huge rope swing made popular by a YouTube video has caused the death of a man in Utah...
Author J. Grigsby Crawford’s ‘The Gringo’ takes a raw look at...
Only a few weeks into a two-year Peace Corps program, Boulder native J. Grigsby Crawford received a text from his host that read, “Turn off your light and go to sleep. It’s very important that you stay quiet and don’t leave your room.” Outside the house were men in ...
Beyond bikes
The signs were there: constant thirst, loss of weight despite a healthy appetite, fatigue. A trip to the hospital confirmed it: 12-year-old Walt Drennan...
