Adventure
From the mouth of a shark
“No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth of a shark ... no one puts their children in a boat, unless the water...
Copper Mountain begins making snow, to open Nov. 2
It's 82 F outside, and it's almost ski season...
Sky’s the limit for local all-women bike ride
Inclusivity and opportunity. Two simple words. Two powerful words. And two words that pretty much sum up the raison d’etre for a not-so-little event called the Venus de Miles, scheduled for Aug. 29 on roads around Boulder this year. Boulder is filled with ...
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...
Dropping weight
In 2008, Alan Carpenter decided to try his first long distance hike. He picked the manageable John Muir trail, a 218-mile walk through the Sierra Nevada mountains, as he says...
Buddhist boxing
Boxing may seem like a strange stop on the path to inner peace. From outside the ring, the sport resonates violence, fury and chaos. The most direct path to victory is to knock your rival into a stupor. Fat lips, black eyes and missing teeth are all part of a ...
This is play. Not work.
When Brendan Leonard found the Banff Mountain Film Festival — and Denver’s Paramount Theatre — filled with puffy coat-wearing people cheering to outdoor exploits, he declared, “Yes, these are my people. I found my people. I imagine some people feel that at a Broncos ...
How can I stay warm winter camping?
I received a zero-degree down sleeping bag over the holidays and I'm...
Classic desert tour offers both pain and delight
If I could recommend only one classic desert mountain bike “tour,” I would choose the White Rim loop. Located in the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park about an hour outside of Moab, Utah, the 100-plus-mile White Rim Road offers mountain bikers ...
Kidding around at Keystone
I taught my wife, a blonde Midwest beauty, to ski when she was 20 — or rather, she allowed me to teach her. We always joke we don’t need any marriage counseling after those tear-filled seasons on the blue ice runs of Vermont — no appearances for us on Dr. Phil’s ...
A six-legged team
The day the stay-at-home policies were announced in Boulder, Michael Stone was at Whole Foods. He had his new 2-year-old yellow lab, Geo, with...
Three dot pot shots: ‘Real soon now’ edition
Legal marijuana sales begin in California next Monday (Jan 1, 2018), and they’re gonna’ be huge — Real Soon Now. Cali’s roll-out will be...
