Adventure

Winter riding

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Colorado is a blessed state. Take, for example, Boulder’s easy living. This November and December have seen big snows in the mountains. But we’ve hardly had to lift a shovel of the white stuff down here in B-Town. For mountain bikers, that’s a good thing. After all, ...

It’s me or Ukiah

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I took a wrong turn — a relative statement given that what I was following was hardly a navigable road. At the foot of my...

Thoughts from a rookie ski instructor

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"Why am I doing this...

Far from tapping out

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In 2009, more than 100 years after the first women’s boxing demonstration at the Olympics, headlines announced it would finally be accepted as an Olympic sport. For Carrie Barry, who had transitioned from the Army’s World Class Athlete’s Program to the USA Olympic ...

Skijoring descends on Minturn

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Lightening acceleration. Blistering speeds. Crashes and podium finishes. Teamwork and tradition. These are the elements of skijoring, an obscure sport with a rich history...

Mixing up martial arts

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Verno turned around, the spotlights were on him and he was shadowboxing, getting ready to walk out to the ring for his fight, and he looked at me and said, ‘Bro, you all right?’ I’ve never heard of a fighter asking the coach if he was all right before a fight,” says ...

‘Mountain Gazette’ halts print edition

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Boulder-based Mountain Gazette magazine has announced that it is temporarily suspending its print edition...

Better than diamonds

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Many artists have a trademark. For Monet it was water lilies, Warhol favored soup cans, and Picasso was partial to the rearranged face. But...

‘Days of My Youth’ explores the bliss of freeskiing

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For a Coloradan, it’s a very familiar sight: skiers perched atop the mountain, staring health, down the crest, ready to launch into the abyss. What goes through their mind? Are they studying the mountain, addressing curves and paths, considering their descent? Do ...

Lady Day sings the blues

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The #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements exist for the sad but simple reason that sexism and racism are all too alive and well...

Planking into the record books

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Gabi Ury looks, acts, and talks like your typical high school sophomore — sure, at four feet eight inches tall, Ury may not be at the head of her class in terms of height — but the lifelong Boulder resident is on the verge accomplishing something very few can say ...

Three strikes you’re out

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In 2015, on the fifth day of Ride the Rockies (RtR) — an epic multi-day, 465-mile supported bicycle tour of Colorado — I was...