Adventure

Mark Williams looks just like any other Boulderite on this cool fall evening. Fit and athletic, he’s sipping a microbrew and talking about breathing. About how to breathe, about calming your inner self. About clarity of mind. Nothing really out of the ordinary, ...

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...

A few happy hours ago, I sat down with two cyclists to contemplate the Boulder Roubaix. “I’m comfortable with the dirt,” Scott Forrest says. He’s more...

"Would you like to go to the cemetery this afternoon?” The question, posed by Pavel, my Peruvian tour guide whom I’ve only just met outside...

The trees at a ski resort beckon to skiers, an in-bounds playground where soft, deep and untouched snow can linger days after a snowstorm...

Micah True was a man to be run after...

It was during the drive to Moab that Robert Marrow realized he might be making a huge mistake. Relatively new to trail running, Robert had...

It is arguably the most dangerous climbing on the planet...

"I should write a song called 'Crying in my Goggles,'" Ryan Waters remembers muttering aloud as he and fellow Polar adventurer Eric Larsen prepared...

"Speed is king for us,” says Paul Calandrella, general manager at The Pro’s Closet (TPC) in Louisville.  He’s an avid biker — much like the...

On Oct. 12, 2009, Jim Campbell pulled his Harley into a roadside Taco Bell in Utah and unwrapped two spicy green burritos with extra...

The young man balances himself atop the tall pole, gleaming with sweat, and faces the direction of the sun. The pole represents the Tree of Life, and he has struggled to make it up to its pinnacle, competing against other youths showing off their daring to an ...