Adventure
A good feeling
Denison von Maur adds another log to the wood stove, looks up and smiles. He’s in his element, high up in the Beaverhead mountains, the wind blasting across the ridge as a snow squall spits flakes across the windows of the remote log cabin he built by hand. The fire ...
America’s best adventure bars
If experience has taught us one thing, it's that sun and adventure make...
Riding for a lifeline
You do not look like a person who has just biked over 100 kilometers,” Jan “Jano” Rohac of Greenways Travel Club told me, very matter-of-factly, in his thick Slovakian accent as I entered the Grand Hotel Matej in Banská tiavnica, Slovakia, after sunset. Helmet still...
Open doors, open eyes and change lives
Thirty minutes outside New York City, on the road to the Shawangunk Mountains in upstate New York, Anthony DeJesus turned to his travel companions and said this was the farthest he’d ever been outside the city. Born and raised in the Bronx, he’d joined a gang as a ...
One stage to rule them all
The USA Pro Cycling Challenge will spend a week pitting cyclist against cyclist for top rank in a race that claims to be one of the world’s toughest. But when the bike tires turn toward Boulder on Aug. 25 for the last stage of racing before the final time trial in ...
How Much Does It Cost to Climb Mount Everest?
How much does it cost to climb Everest? This is probably the most...
In Mexico, a Dangerous Race: 10 Hours in Juarez
Can Mexico's most popular bike race survive in the murder capital of the...
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 ...
Pick a good jogging stroller
At first, it seems an unusual activity: a mother or father pushing a child in a stroller, and jogging behind it at a steady pace. But post-parenthood, many adults realize looking after a baby can cut into regular exercise routines. So some combine parenting with ...
The art and science of racing boards
Snowboarding attracts a wide variety of enthusiasts. With so many mountains and so many types of terrain to explore, there are many different ways to enjoy the snow during the year, from cranking intoxicating, effortless turns in pure backcountry powder to slipping ...
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 ...
