Adventure
Michael Ybarra, extreme-sports columnist for WSJ, killed in Sierra
The Wall Street Journal posted today (July 4) that its...
Hiking off the grief with hospice
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...
Women’s outdoor adventures: Changing choice
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 ...
The USA Pro Challenge: A most beloved race
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...
‘Drawn’ to create new lines
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 ...
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...
Yoga can be a circus
Comfortable clothes? Check. Yoga mat? Check. Big red clown nose? You betcha. Welcome to hatha yoga with more than a twist — it’s a pratfall, a silly walk, a goofy stunt, some tumbling and juggling. “It’s for play,” says the Boulder ringleader, Braddon Hall. “For ...
The last great adventure
When it comes to exploration, humans are obsessed with being first — just look at the past century: Robert Peary planted the American flag at the North Pole in 1909 after scores of others died trying; Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole in ...
Beauty in Black and White
"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
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 ...
