Adventure
Pushing a little bit harder
Maybe it's too soon to say, but Matt Cooke's story feels like the comeback story of the Pro Challenge. Cooke spent the first half of this season cycling in...
At peace at 14,000 feet
Some climbers are content with reaching one summit. Others aren’t satisfied until they’ve been atop them all. Those veteran climbers remain an elite group. And they have stories to tell...
HALLOWED GROUND
THE MOUNTAIN IS ICONIC. An unmistakable jagged peak, solitary, and thrust above the valley floor that it dominates by eons of geological evolution, a visual exclamation point of a place that could only exist in Colorado...
Colorado Springs offers unique outdoor fun
I loved growing up in Colorado Springs each morning seeing Pikes Peak in the distance but it wasn't until after I left, then returned as a visitor, that I could appreciate how much the area has to offer...
High altitude snow-bound
Anton Sponar’s first trip to ski Aconcagua was enough to justify a life of in-bounds skiing, but what he carried with him, as he hiked out of the valley that houses the tallest peak in the western hemisphere on frostbitten toes and fueled by little more than a few ...
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...
Sochi takes a bite out of Aspen X Games
Training schedules for the rapidly approaching Winter Olympic Games in Sochi,Russia kept several prominent Winter X Games stars away from the competition this past weekend in Aspen. Shaun White for one, wasn't there to defend his six straight wins in the snowboarding...
How I Nearly Killed My Father on Tenaya Canyon
The sign read, “Tenaya Canyon is extremely dangerous. Many have lost...
Skydive from space vicariously with this video
In October of 2012, skydiver Felix Baumgartner broke records and warped imaginations by parachuting from a balloon parked 24 miles of the earth...
A bicycle built of cardboard
After an Israeli inventor heard about someone who'd built a canoe out...