Adventure
A fighter’s chance
Colorado native Tate Zandstra has chased martial arts training and reporting as far as Brazil, to study Jiu Jitsu, and Thailand, to study Muay Thai, so it comes as no surprise, really, that when a Burmese maid in Chiang Mai, a city in northern Thailand, started ...
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 ...
Running out of sight
At the start of the Surf City Marathon in Huntington Beach, Calif., on Sunday, Feb. 3, the announcer asked the more than 2,000 people at the start line to raise their hands if they were running their first marathon. Boulder resident Michael Stone put up his hand, 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...
Stay alert for flash flood risk
The recent tragedy involving campers in Arkansas provides a stark reminder of the danger posed by a flash flood. Flash floods occur when excessive water rapidly fills dry creeks or riverbeds. A creek only six inches deep in mountainous areas can swell to a 10-...
Photos: Abandoned island was once most densely populated place on Earth
Off the southeastern coast of Japan, an island formerly used for mining sits abandoned, its last residents having left in 1974...
Gay rodeo corrals an all-inclusive crowd
Andrew Johnson didn’t grow up dreaming about rodeos, let alone dreaming about becoming an international rodeo star. Rather, it was something of happenstance, something he claims he was pulled into by “the luck of the draw...
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...
There are some special people here
If you want to be on the silver screen you move to Los Angeles, and if you want to break into musical theater you head to New York City...
High-altitude education
The story of climbers at Everest wanting to give back to the people living in the Himalayan foothills of the world’s tallest peak is as old as the stories of climbers visiting the top of Everest itself. Since Sir Edmund Hillary’s insistence for decades that he had ...
Falling in love with Bhutan
Bhutan is not an easy place to get to, or to get around in. Just getting to Bhutan costs a small fortune, but for Clyda Stafford, the price was worth it...
