Adventure
On the groad
Not far out of the gates of the “Central Iowa Rock Road Endurance Metric” (or CIRREM, as it’s known in gravel circles), riders started going down on the dirt road in the middle of Iowa. A big guy on my left spilled hard and almost took me out. Another one up front ...
BC Bike Race 2010
One way to take the crisis out of mid-life When I read this, I was in. Boulder’s own Velo News reported that during the 2007 running of the BC Bike Race a staff medic was attending to a severely hurting participant. “This guy I wanted to send to the hospital, ...
How I Nearly Killed My Father on Tenaya Canyon
The sign read, “Tenaya Canyon is extremely dangerous. Many have lost...
Summit seekers
Four ski mountaineers (well, three skiers and one snowboarder) seem to have set a record in Alaska this season. It’s tough to know what, exactly, and from the audible shrug and laugh when he talks about it, it’s clear that Anton Sponar doesn’t much care...
Follow-up: Clayton 3rd, Canaday does not finish in North Face ultramarathon
It was a muddy end to the 2012 ultramarathoning season for former CU runners Cameron Clayton and Sage Canaday, two young runners who faced each other for the first time in the North Face Endurance Challenge Championship in San Francisco Dec. 1...
The List: 34 Climbing Route Names You Can’t Say to Your...
One of the most clever and crude climbing route names ever is in Colorado...
Still running: Documentary retells history of women’s marathon record-setter
After the 50-year-old Joan Benoit Samuelson ran a sub-2:50 marathon in the 2008 Olympic Trials, she announced that she was “retiring.” However, a former Olympic champion still logging more than 50 miles each week does not simply stop running...
Tall tales
Not every journey ends in an exclamation point. When Matt Segal, Eric Decaria and John Dickey went to Kyrgyzstan to climb its massive, granite walls, they didn’t go to set up a new route or pioneer a new area. But they took video cameras anyway, and filmed what they ...
Our public path
In Colorado, we are fortunate to have many opportunities for outdoor recreation. Riding along a twisty singletrack trail, hiking to a ridgeline stretching for miles or camping near an alpine lake nestled high in the mountains — these are all options for the Colorado ...
Colorado dog sledding with Mountain Musher
It’s a cold, misty morning in western Colorado. The hypnotic silence, embellished by waves of rolling ice-fog, is broken by the grinding growl of the customized dog transport vehicle emerging through the haze. My dog sledding day is beginning at the privately owned...
