Adventure
Alex Willie named to USA World Cup Cycling Team
Alex Willie’s road to the 2012 Mountain Bike World Championships in Leogang-Saalfelden, Austria, just got a lot smoother. The 17-year-old cyclist, who was profiled in the May 31 issue of Boulder Weekly, has just been named to the elite United States World Cup Cycling...
Following a true calling
Barry Blanchard has spent more than 6,000 days of his life rock climbing, ski touring, mountaineering, alpine climbing and ice climbing. At this point, he says, he’s very intimate with those environments, and can recall the textures in the snow, the ice and the rock ...
Beaver Creek’s varied terrain, open runs set resort apart
More Beaver Creek content: Resort good for beginners, too; The Laughing Bones give cool performance at Crystal Grotto...
Why take a picture when you can paint one?
Reaching the summit of a 14,000 foot mountain, a 14er, fills people with a sense of accomplisment — the fresh air, the beautiful view, the aching muscles. To have a token for their hard work, most people take a snapshot, but artist Lisa Martin paints a picture ...
How an NBA player is fighting to change views of mental...
Royce White of the Houston Rockets is still more of an oddity than a household name...
Locals up for National Geographic’s Adventurers of the Year
The old saying, “there must be something in the water,” seems oddly true considering five of the 2016 National Geographic Adventurers of the Year...
Venturing out of the box
I had the best cubicle job in the world. Which is like boasting about being the world’s tallest midget...
The art of tubing
It’s hot, darn hot. And when it gets this hot, there isn’t much to do. You can seek out the closest movie theater for the afternoon show and hide in the darkness like a vampire. You can book a flight to Antarctica. Or you can tap into one of Boulder’s best-known ...
HALLOWED GROUND
THE MOUNTAIN IS ICONIC. An unmistakable jagged peak, solitary, and thrust above the valley floor that it dominates by eons of geological evolution, a visual exclamation point of a place that could only exist in Colorado...
RISKY BUSINESS
Markus Beck describes himself as a “risk manager,” and if you glanced at his resume, it’s clear he manages plenty of it. As an avalanche safety instructor and the owner of a mountain guide service, risk is often the one thing Beck can’t avoid. His company, the ...
More than a foot race
On Monday, April 22, ultrarunner and Boulderite Jay Rawlings took his first steps in a 180-mile, seven-day endurance relay that will see him running the equivalent of a marathon a day for a week...
A mountain of preventive medicine
Nothing compares to the experience of being in the mountains at altitude, taking in the views, breathing crisp, clean air, hearing the first bubble of a stream at its nascent spring and seeing the tundra climate shrink our world down to miniature — tiny flowers, tiny...


















