Adventure
Out spokin’
The weather in Colorado serves up a bit of everything. One day you’re basking in 60-degree weather in January, and a few days later the highs barely crack single digits. In the spring and summer we have our thunderstorms and mysterious temperature inversions. But ...
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...
Levi Leipheimer jumps ahead to take lead in Pro Cycling Challenge
Last year’s USA Pro Cycling Challenge winner, Levi...
‘Wilderness First Aid Field Guide’ is a must-have
There are many outdoor activities that require education and certification. Scuba divers, for example, must train indoors under an instructor’s supervision before hitting the open water. Or to legally drive a motorcycle, riders must pass a driving test and receive a ...
Dancer in the wild
High up on the southern side of Bear Peak at the southwestern edge of Boulder, the rock feature known as The Maiden hooks from the ground toward the western horizon. The rock monolith, dusted in lime lichen, catches the setting sun, holding on to the light after ...
Boulder’s eponymous sport
There was a time when people went bouldering only when they couldn’t get away to rock climb. Bouldering — climbing rock formations and boulders low to the ground — was viewed as a way to improve one’s technical skills and get a climbing fix between hitting more ...
Transformed by the sea
Twelve minutes and thirty-eight seconds into Patagonia’s new film Fishpeople, you’re underwater in Tahiti, looking up at one of the world’s most powerful waves...
Vail Buys Kirkwood for $18 Million
Kirkwood has always been Lake Tahoe’s semi-hidden gem...
Bound by nothing
The water of the Rio Grande shimmers with a muddy green, lizard-like iridescence in late April sun, meandering slowly (unlike the actual lizards that...
In failed long-distance swim, jellyfish stings trumped technology
Diana Nyad, a 64-year-old distance swimmer attempting to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys, called it quits last week partway through her journey, citing "extreme exhaustion...
It’s me or Ukiah
I took a wrong turn — a relative statement given that what I was following was hardly a navigable road. At the foot of my...
