Adventure

Going down, fast

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The technique is solid: weight firmly on the downhill ski, eyes ahead, shoulders square. There’s fire in the eyes, determination there. There’s also beauty and grace and something timeless. Skiing is, after all, a sport that’s been around for years, and the carved ...

The USA Pro Challenge: A most beloved race

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For 128 of the world’s best cyclists, the time has come once more to turn their wheels toward Colorado with one intention in mind: to suffer. Three years ago, cyclists first lined up for a week of tackling the peaks and valleys of the newest stage race in the nation...

Starwood Hotels to Open Its First Dual-Branded Ski Resort Complex in...

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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. HOT 0.87...

Success by The Book

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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...

Beauty in Black and White

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"Love is very simple,” says specialist desert guide Khaled Hafez as he lies back on a tightly woven Bedouin carpet and sips sweet black...

The Abetone advantage

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The warm scents of the Mediterranean followed us as we turned inland from Italy’s Mediterranean coast and headed toward the mountains. We could see through the early spring haze that there was snow up there; an unlikely rumor from under the palms that dotted the ...

Lance Armstrong returns to cycling, runs Aspen mountain race

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In his first public appearance since quitting his battle against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Lance Armstrong rode in the Power of Four mountain bike race in Aspen, Colo., on Aug. 25, placing second...

Michael Ybarra, extreme-sports columnist for WSJ, killed in Sierra

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The Wall Street Journal posted today (July 4) that its...

From Elbert to Everest

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The New Year’s resolution on Jon Kedrowski’s calendar...

Hiking off the grief with hospice

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When Gretchen Miller found out that her father, 82, had leukemia — and at most three months to live — she reached out to hospice for help...

‘Drawn’ to create new lines

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What would you do, if you were a 30-something parent with a career and a mortgage, and still felt the call of the wilderness, not just for weekend camping trips and days at the local crag sport climbing, but to venture into the unknown, to climb lines to summits no ...

All grown up

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Birthdays are fun. There are cold libations. People make toasts. And there is usually some cake. In other words, it’s a party...