Adventure
A quest for honest heroes
If you were going to go to war over a mountain, Cerro Torre would be the one to do it for...
Pro Mountain Biker Kelli Emmett at home on the trails
Kelli Emmett has a thing for dirt. Whether she’s riding her 300 KTM motorcycle or any one of an array of mountain bikes, the 33-year-old Colorado Springs resident feels most comfortable away from pavement...
One tank of gas
How far can you go on one tank of gas? Two hundred miles? Three hundred? Four? Well, it all depends upon where you’re headed...
Golden child: Young Boulder skier John Leonard
"I don’t ski powder much anymore,” John Leonard says with a laugh. “I’m always training...
A little bit of Canada comes to Colorado
Film festivals tend to stay put. Imagine how confusing it would be if the Cannes Film Festival was suddenly relocated to Bordeaux? What if...
Perseverance earns Boulder teen Guinness World record
Lifelong Boulder resident Gabi Ury recently made history when she held a sustained abdominal plank longer than any female on record...
Boulder has strong presence in upcoming Olympic games
Just like Boulder seems to support more than the typical per capita number of bike shops and running shoe stores, this year’s Olympics, which begin on Friday, July 27, in London, will see a stunning 11 competitors from Boulder — all of them cycling or running after ...
Rockered skis and snowboards make hitting the slopes easier for all
Part-time Boulder resident David Lesh is stoked. He’s skiing in Switzerland, and he’s landed at Vals, in the Graub%uFFFDnden region, with a meter of new snow on the ground and more on the way. He’s plunging through the trees, skiing faster than possible and ...
Rolling dice
As the Government Affairs Director for the International Mountain Biking Association, Jenn Dice heads up the lobbying arm of the leading mountain biking advocacy group in the United States. She rode into the job by accident, after getting involved in endurance ...
Swiss sailing: A bike trip through the Alps, sans Facebook
Shunning social media since the beginning of this year has been an interesting experiment, the effects of which are definitely exacerbated by living in the bubble known as Boulder...
Undeniable Denali
He looked bizarre, totally out of place, this Pakistani climber in ragged, old mountaineering clothes, alone, shaking our tent while we tried to sleep, asking frantically for a satellite phone,” says University of Colorado alum and Denver-based mountaineer Alex Harz...


















