Adventure
Summer storming
The crowd inside El Montañes, a bar and restaurant in Farellones, Chile, is standing room only. There are more people outside, cajoling the security staff in a vain attempt to get in. They’re the unlucky ones, the ones without tickets to the hottest night of the ...
Rockered skis and snowboards make hitting the slopes easier for all
Part-time Boulder resident David Lesh is stoked. He’s skiing in Switzerland, and he’s landed at Vals, in the Graub%uFFFDnden region, with a meter of new snow on the ground and more on the way. He’s plunging through the trees, skiing faster than possible and ...
The sport of knaves
Despite its reputation as the sport of kings, Denver Polo Club Co-owner Erica Gandomcar insists it’s much more down-to-earth. Of the people even. And based on the crowd that gathered to watch the match on Aug. 10, it’s hard to disagree with her...
Appalling incompetence and majestic triumph on Longs Peak
As I climbed the steps to Wayne’s condo, I expected him to be thrilled at my news. Wayne was an experienced Boulder climber, and...
Ice in their veins
They say every scar has a story to tell, and in ice climbing, a sport which requires its athletes to wear 24 sharp points on their feet while wielding an axe in each hand when suspended high above the ground, climbers often have more than a few of both scars and ...
The (ex-)cyclist who wouldn’t dope
Grand Junction financial advisor Scott Mercier was surprised to get a call from the U.S. agency that recently won its standoff against one of the best-known athletes in the country...
Major New Climbing Route on Alaska’s Mt. Dickey
At the beginning of April, John Frieh from Portland, Oregon, and...
Free eclairs at Breckenridge Friday! (and ski season starts, too)
Breckenridge Ski Resort has evidently not gotten the message that people love skiing...
Let’s kill this pig now: asking questions in Cuba
We’d been in Cuba for nearly four full days before a few of us felt brave enough to ask questions — honest ones —...
Head south for summer skiing
The mountains are the spine of the continent. They run for thousands of miles, in places jagged and impassible, in others friendlier, with passes...
In Mexico, a Dangerous Race: 10 Hours in Juarez
Can Mexico's most popular bike race survive in the murder capital of the...


















