Adventure

Colorado based Shannon Galpin has been busy. Since her...

Somewhere over the more than two years of interviews that went into making 5 Races 5, Continents, which tracks toward the emotional core of trail running, the conversation among the filmmakers and one of their central subjects, Killian Jornet, turned to the growing ...

Ethan Green is a busy man. Boulder Weekly tracks him down on a cool November morning. He’s got a day full of meetings, a major fundraising bash has just wrapped up, there’s a storm coming to the high country — plus he wants to go skiing and check out Colorado’s high ...

Running. The elemental act of putting one foot in front of the other: rhythmic, effortless motion when it’s done right, grueling and difficult at times and — though this fact is lost to history — probably the first sport that humans ever competed against each other ...

Two hundred miles. Two mountain passes. Twenty-four hours — from Friday, Aug. 6 to Saturday, Aug. 7 — on the move. More than 16,500 feet in total elevation gain. Thirty-six legs. Fort Collins as the start, Steamboat the finish line. That’s the Wild West Relay race ...

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...

I got dropped like a bad transmission, but thank the fat-tired deities I didn’t get beat by the guy on the damn unicycle. Having survived the BC Bike Race (BCBR) in British Columbia and lived to tell enough tales that hometown riding buddies are threatening ...

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...

At 27,000 feet, Amelia Rose Earhart was soaring over Howland Island, the intended destination of legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart, when she used a small handheld GPS device to tweet the names of the young women who were set to receive flight-training scholarships ...

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...

As a guide, who guides, I love teaching people the essential skills...

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 ...