Adventure

BIFF 2013: Find, save, copy, paste

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Imagine a trove of knowledge as vast and extensive as the famous Library of Alexandria, heralded for its archives of literature from antiquity and destroyed in the first centuries of the Common Era — burned, in the best of the legends about its destruction, in a fire...

Climber Craig DeMartino asks, What rock bottom?

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For 11 years, an attitude of refusing to let setbacks and disabilities sit him down on the couch once and for all means that Craig DeMartino is doing more — climbing harder, faster, stronger and smarter — than most people do with twice as many feet as he has...

Pedaling to Standing Rock

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As resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in North Dakota has grown throughout the year, Scott Mackenzie-Low felt the personal call to join...

Still running: Documentary retells history of women’s marathon record-setter

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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...

Video and photos: A travel guide to Dar es Salaam

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Heading to Dar es Salaam? Us either. But we’ll indulge in...

Racing to save bonobos

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Canadian-American novelist Deni Béchard, a recent resident of Breckenridge, has written two award-winning books and explored more than 50 countries. When he heard bonobos, our closest living relative alongside chimpanzees, are going extinct, he set out for the Congo ...

Working on a problem

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Entering the lobby of the Boulder Theater on the evening of Jan. 25 for the premiere of Uncharted Lines, a new feature film by...

The traveler’s mindset

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There is a rumor (online, at least) that Europeans scoff at the low number of Americans who hold passports. As the joke goes, Americans are world-fearing, isolated workaholics who would prefer to squeeze in an extra 15 hours of work a week than vacation for five ...

God is Italian

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God is an Italian. Don’t think so? Here’s proof: The food, the wine and the weather. Want more? Throw mountains into the mix. And not just any mountains, but the massive three-valley complex known as Monterosa Ski. And it’s here, in the isolated villages that dot ...

Out of the car, onto the mountain

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If Aristotle was right, and the whole really is greater than the sum of its parts, then James Dziezynski hit the nail on the...

Boulder Mountainbike Alliance launches new website

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The Boulder Mountainbike Alliance was formed in 1991 (originally called the Boulder Offroad Alliance) to give mountain bikers a unified voice in matters pertaining to Boulder County trail use. As advocates of responsible trail patronage, the organization has ...

It’s not flying, it’s falling with style

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Some people jump out of a plane for their birthdays. Others during a midlife crisis...