Adventure

There are more than 23 million acres of public land in Colorado, from dizzying mountaintops to lush valley bottoms, dusty canyons to glassy lakes, where in a few hours’ drive you can escape the noise and traffic of city life for a weekend wilderness adventure...

When I was 6, I rode a pink Huffy. Fast forward a few years, and I have become one of those adults who loves riding...

Colorado.The state is known as “Ski Country USA.” It’s a place of rugged peaks, high mountains and snowy winters. So, if you’re a skier looking for a place to get educated, it’s no surprise that going to an institute of higher education in the Centennial state might ...

It was a muddy end to the 2012 ultramarathoning season for former CU runners Cameron Clayton and Sage Canaday, two young runners who faced each other for the first time in the North Face Endurance Challenge Championship in San Francisco Dec. 1...

A recent partnership between CU, Western Colorado University and Blister takes outdoor gear testing to a technical new level

Water covers 71 percent of the planet’s surface. You wouldn’t know this living in Boulder. In the rain shadow of the Rocky Mountains, Boulder has some water, but despite Boulder Creek and the reservoir, Boulder is landlocked. And for local surfers Dan Richardson ...

Already know you’ll be traveling this holiday season but don’t feel like dealing with the stress of packing, transportation and lodging? Lose your nerves with Gadling.com, a travel blog that combines up-to-date news, deals and tips to help you “go there...

I don’t usually get up at 7 a.m. I wondered if the horses could sense caffeine jitters the way they could sense other kinds of jitters...

In Colorado, we are fortunate to have many opportunities for outdoor recreation. Riding along a twisty singletrack trail, hiking to a ridgeline stretching for miles or camping near an alpine lake nestled high in the mountains — these are all options for the Colorado ...

Not every journey ends in an exclamation point. When Matt Segal, Eric Decaria and John Dickey went to Kyrgyzstan to climb its massive, granite walls, they didn’t go to set up a new route or pioneer a new area. But they took video cameras anyway, and filmed what they ...

Climbers are accustomed to suffering, sure. But a certain kind of suffering is more common — a brief sprint through pain like climbing on body parts shoved into splitter cracks in the desert, or a two-day push through agony to get up a big wall climb...

After a grueling campaign that killed or wounded thousands of its members, the 10th Mountain Division of World War II marked Germany’s surrender to...