Adventure
The end of an uphill battle
Usually, when someone repeatedly tells you no, you eventually take your energy elsewhere, the probability of a yes getting shelved with other dashed dreams....
Denver resident continues search for her father, who went missing in...
The country of Panama has faded from the American imagination...
Vail opens China Bowl
Whatever your plans for the weekend were, call them off. Vail announced Friday that China Bowl has been opened for the season. Sun Up and Sun Down bowls opened Thursday. Vail press attributed the earlier-than-expected opening to the hard work of the Vail Ski Patrol. ...
Starwood Hotels to Open Its First Dual-Branded Ski Resort Complex in...
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In the shadow of Denali
In 1967, a joint team of climbers from Colorado and Seattle embarked on a mission to scale the highest point on the continent: 20,323-foot Mount McKinley (also known by its native name Denali). Of the 12 men who set out on the arduous trek to the fabled summit, only...
Keeping it together
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...
‘New Alpinism’ promotes cross training regimen for climbing success
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 ...
Birds of Fire lives again
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...
Still running: Documentary retells history of women’s marathon record-setter
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...
Boulder’s Ice men
Between the northernmost reaches of Canadian soil, at Cape Discovery on Ellesmere Island, and the North Pole, there is a jumble of frozen seawater and ice sheets that break apart and collide together again. It’s like plate tectonics, but these frozen plates are ...
How I got to burning man
About this time last year I was sweating buckets, training for the biggest adventure of my life. It started innocently enough over cocktails at Jax restaurant in Boulder in the spring of 2009 with talk about going to the Burning Man festival in Nevada. If we were ...
