Adventure

Rock, Snow, Water, Ice: Glenwood’s Outdoor Options

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With skiing, climbing, mountain biking, hiking, river rafting and a whole lot more — Glenwood Springs is a complete outdoor recreation locatio...

Pedaling higher

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In the launch of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, Colorado will challenge France for the title of toughest race in the world, putting 128 cyclists to a grueling test against fierce climbs that crisscross Colorado mountain passes, long distances and an uphill time trial...

If you build it, they will ride

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I’m probably too young to be making jokes about dating myself with cultural references, but I’ll take this one — remember the T-shirts about biking in Moab that boasted “I survived” and when you came home bloody after a weekend on slickrock, you felt like, yeah, I ...

‘New Alpinism’ promotes cross training regimen for climbing success

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Steve House was seeking a better way to train after he was forced to turn back during his attempt at Pakistan’s Masherbrum, a 25,659-foot peak, in 2003. He’d had overtrained for the climb, according to Scott Johnston, who stepped in to provide some advice. Johnston ...

Keeping it together

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Ty Tomlinson met his girlfriend Michelle Hughes in 2009 while she was auditioning to be a model for a fashion show he was co-producing...

Birds of Fire lives again

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The hike to Chiefs Head, the third-highest peak in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP), is a haul by any account. Seven miles deep in...

Keystone for kids

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I was feeling a little giddy. Yes, I was stoked to be grinding up the hill in Keystone Adventure Tours’ (KAT) all-world powder snowcat on a bluebird day to the Dead blaring “Truckin’.” But these days, what Daddy really likes is a happy family posse...

No man overboard

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The issues veterans face are — in some ways — as big and unmanageable as the Colorado River running through Cataract Canyon this spring. At up to 58,000 cubic feet per second, it was flipping so many rafts that passengers in a 12-foot paddleboat just had to expect to...

SLIDESHOW: Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge

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December 15-18 brought some of the best winter athletes to Breckenridge to compete in the Winter Dew Tour, a three-stop competition. Boulder Weekly's Dane Cronin was there and took some sweet pictures of the high-flying action. Take a look below. %uFFFD

Airborne Adventures

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It’s 10 a.m. and I’m on my second beer at the airport bar. It’s a lovely little bar, with a broad window facing the runway and six local beers on tap. I’m not sure if they even have a macro beer in the bottle. I’m drinking Green Man Forester. Robust, burly, but not ...

Petitioning the overseers

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For most river runners in the West, the middle of February is the real start of the whitewater season, a kind of college acceptance-letter week. While all of the great multi-day river trips through the canyons of the Colorado Plateau are regulated by the fickle ...

Exploring Greenland’s Artic trails

With just three days of food, we set off to test out the eastern tip of the Arctic Circle Trail, heading west in bright sunshine along a dirt road that parallels the Kangerlussuaq runway. We then turned north — magnetic north, which at this latitude is more than ...