Adventure

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 ...

Nature’s alarm clock is ringing early for black bears, and some aren’t hitting the snooze button. Recent warm weather in Colorado — temperatures as high as 75 degrees — is stirring some bears from their dens a few weeks early, and officials are reminding residents in...

 Colorado’s 54 highest peaks, the fourteeners, are already deep into fall. It’s one of the most beautiful and peaceful times to climb a fourteener. The crowds have thinned, the aspens are turning, and the threat of lightning has eased. But at 14,000 feet, autumn, ...

It rains for the first time this summer in Athens during my stay. A welcome plummet to the brooding temperatures. The days are humid and seemingly eternal. The sea swells in ridiculous blues and greens. Whole towns converge to swim. Cicadas hum vacuously in the ...

Jeff Banks knows his snow.  He’s skied all his life and is pretty damn good at it. He won a junior national championship in nordic...

Remember when Chautauqua was a ski area? No...

Late last year a proposal to tie together Solitude and The...

Falling didn’t used to be a part of climbing rules. You couldn’t fall. If you did, your life was in peril...

Skiers, sightseers, residents and mountain travelers of all kinds now have a new way of planning and improving their next trip along I-70: GoI70.com, a website and mobile phone application (http://goi70.com/mobile...

Breckenridge Ski Resort announced today the schedule of events planned for this year’s Breck “Spring Fever” month-long...

Heading to Dar es Salaam? Us either. But we’ll indulge in...

As the heat of the summer starts to settle in, it’s time to think about escaping the sweltering pavements and overcrowded watering holes of Pearl Street. You won’t have to go far. Within four hours of Boulder, there are plenty of options to leave the crowds behind, ...