Adventure
Pioneer, Legend Harvey T. Carter Dies
Harvey Carter—climbing icon and legend—passed away Tuesday, March 13, at the age of 83...
Knock on wood
Wood One of the most basic building materials known to humans, wood is the foundation of skis and snowboards. This versatile, beautiful material was used for the first skis. The legendary Austrian pioneer of downhill skiing, Arnold Lund, perfected the first alpine ...
Biff 2012 | Covering higher ground
In 2010, to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Eric Weihenmayer’s ascent of Mount Everest as the only blind man to climb the world’s tallest mountain, the same team who went with him reassembled to do a commemorative trip. Their first ascent was completed in what ...
Getting wet
Blame it on Boulder. At least that’s where author, adventurer and Boulder native Eugene Buchanan lays responsibility for an interesting, eclectic life that has taken him around the globe in search of steep rapids on remote rivers and some not so steep and rapid...
Adapting the backcountry
Most everyone who’s snapped on a pair of skis has, at one point or another, found themselves staring down some steep, snow-laden hill, wondering how the hell they’re going to get down it. Now, imagine being at the top of that same hill, only you don’t have a pair of ...
Study: for elite athletes, time might slow down
As often as athletes talk about being "in the zone," that's typically taken as a metaphor or a vague feeling...
Outdoor Tech Evolution
A box of photographs has been sitting in my closet for nearly a decade now, waiting to be digitized and organized...
Colorado’s Griffin Post battles the best freeskiers on the most dangerous...
When it comes to winter sports, Olympic athletes tend to get all the attention. But Colorado athlete Griffin Post has been quietly toiling away as a big-mountain competitor on the Freeride World Tour for the past two years. This tour — which features four showcase ...
Better than diamonds
Many artists have a trademark. For Monet it was water lilies, Warhol favored soup cans, and Picasso was partial to the rearranged face. But...
Show-and-tell in the Andes
A while back, astronaut “Buzz” Aldrin, the second man on the moon, asked people old enough to remember to write him about where they were...
American Tyler Farrar takes Stage One of USA Pro Cycling Challenge
Boulder may claim Tom Danielson, rider on the...
Try your hand at a number of winter sports from Boulder...
Eric Bader’s phone starts to ring more around this time of...
