Adventure

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...

Luna Sandals keep you running

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Taking us back to our indigenous roots, Luna Sandals by Barefoot Ted’s Adventure Company offer runners a unique opportunity to run as our bodies were built to do — barefoot. While allowing us to use our legs and feet “as designed,” they eliminate the challenge of...

Women’s outdoor adventures: Changing choice

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On a sunny September afternoon in Vedauwoo, Wyo., Mary Jackson stands addressing a group of six women, drawing three circles in the sand with the toe of her shoe. The circle in the center represents your comfort zone — things you know how to do, do often and maybe ...

Sleepers at altitude

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After weathering tent pole-breaking winds and a mostly sleepless night at 14,443 feet on the summit of Mount Elbert, Jon Kedrowski and Chris Tomer awoke to an idea: Could they sleep on the summits of every 14er in the state...

From Elbert to Everest

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

Remembering California free soloist John Rosendahl

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John Rosendahl, a free solo rock climber who kept climbing after a spinal fusion surgery and climbed well into his 40s, passed away last week in California...

Ground-level gods

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Someone else must have declared by now that if you truly want to know a place, you have to see it from the view granted by your own feet. You have to slow down and take a path that meanders...

A bold new voice

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Over the past five years, fueled by concerns about sustainability, global warming and environmental footprints, and fed by the recent collapse in the real estate-fueled resort economy, skiers and snowboarders have started to become activists, creating a variety of ...

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

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

‘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 ...

Benjamin trail – it’s money

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Perhaps the rapture did happen, because one evening this week my wife and I were falling into a state of bliss and shredding up the new Benjamin Loop Trail as if, in fact, there was no tomorrow...

The drone-shooting rules

If approved by the Deer Trail Board of Trustees on Aug. 6, the seven-page ordinance drone-shooting ordinance drafted by Phillip Steel would...