Adventure
A gentle hand: Boulderite Jan Mitchell makes a difference in Africa
Jan Mitchell is going to have to buy a donkey for a family in Ghana. It’s good news. Two years ago, she gave the family a bull to replace one that died after rocks were thrown at it to chase it out of a garden. She promised that if, when she returned, the bull was ...
It’s not flying, it’s falling with style
Some people jump out of a plane for their birthdays. Others during a midlife crisis...
Ch-ch-changes: Adam Ondra discusses Norwegian 5.15c route
A cave in Norway holds the world's hardest climbing route, and Adam Ondra just sent it...
Still on the trail
It was rocky riding for mountain bikers in Boulder in the ’80s — in 1983, City Council voted 8-1 to prohibit “non-motorized” bikes on trails,...
Until our dying day
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not...
Major New Climbing Route on Alaska’s Mt. Dickey
At the beginning of April, John Frieh from Portland, Oregon, and...
Emaciated Hiker Found After Over A Month Missing In Utah’s Escalante...
After not being heard from in over a month, missing hiker William M...
Nit nittay garabam: Man is man’s medicine
As I slid down the hillside, rocks and dirt and plants tumbling underneath me, I remember a scream so loud, it couldn’t possibly have...
Michael Ybarra, extreme-sports columnist for WSJ, killed in Sierra
The Wall Street Journal posted today (July 4) that its...
Kyle Richardson sets new speed records soloing First and Third Flatirons
At 5:15 p.m. on Oct. 9, Kyle Richardson stands next to the water fountain outside Chautauqua’s Ranger Cottage. He’s wearing his signature look: a...
Climb aboard
On a chilly April morning, a school bus pulled up to the Alicia Sanchez Elementary School in Lafayette with some unusual cargo. It wasn’t full of children. It was, in fact, emptied of its seats and lined instead with a floor of padding covered in red carpet and walls...
Warriors in the wilderness
If the shocks in his prosthetic arm would reload faster, Marc Dervaes could spend all his evenings doing one-armed pushups. After losing his right arm just above the elbow in combat, Dervaes had a replacement prosthetic built with a set of shocks like those on a ...
