Adventure
Living the dream
For photographers, as for anglers, there’s always that one that got away. Rock climbing guide turned professional photographer and filmmaker Celin Serbo remembers such a shot vividly...
Learning from a once-a-century avalanche cycle
For Brian Lazar and many of his co-workers at the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC), the first two weeks of March 2019 was a...
Let’s kill this pig now: asking questions in Cuba
We’d been in Cuba for nearly four full days before a few of us felt brave enough to ask questions — honest ones —...
Cinematic climbing
As if projecting rock climbing routes — the multiple attempts climbers put into mastering a particularly tough route — weren’t enough of a challenge, local filmmaker, artist and rock climber Craig Muderlak has set a goal to visually represent more than the ...
Climber Craig DeMartino asks, What rock bottom?
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...
Beware of tree wells
The trees at a ski resort beckon to skiers. Propelled by snowboards, fatter skis and the ceaseless quest for powder, more skiers are venturing into this winter wonderland. Let the Texans on spring break ski the groomers. Real powder hounds know where to go to ...
Burrowing bodies
With a click, all color vanishes. Darkness rushes in, swallowing everything whole, my eyelids and surroundings no longer different but blended with the inky-black...
Success by The Book
The Book is a result of sweat. Of struggle. Of pain and mishap and, ultimately, of success. The Book is, says Palmer Hoyt, “how I learned how to ski again...
Leave It To Beaver
Beaver Creek has proven for 30 years just how good a ski vacation can be, whether you’re a head of state or the head of a household. With heads of state fewer each day, let’s examine this gem from the average Boulderite’s perspective...
Feeling the burn
It would drive most people insane. During the late 1930s Albert Curnow spent three years working as a fire lookout on the edge of Oregon’s Siskiyou Mountains. One summer he didn’t see another person...
Fast, fun and functional
The headwind is powerful. It blows up the valley, scattering leaves, dust and debris, each gusting blast enough to send small children skyward. A...
Mind the gap
Back in July, Americans tuned in — in recordbreaking numbers, no less — to watch the U.S. women’s national soccer team easily rise to victory against Japan in the World Cup. This was the women’s third World Cup win since the team’s creation in 1985...
