Adventure

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 ...

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...

When Liz Bailey first clipped her boots into a pair of dual snowboards two months ago, she was a little skeptical. An avid snowboarder, she wasn’t quite sure how these things on her feet would change the experience of gliding down the mountain...

When Sarah Hassell climbed her first 14,000-foot peak in Colorado, she felt “an overwhelming sense of gratitude.” It wasn’t due to the view, or the stable weather that allowed her to summit, or even the fact that the friends she climbed the peak with were there to ...

The shoulder season could use a PR makeover. Too many people think autumn is a time to stay home between summer camping and winter skiing and snowmobiling. They pack up their camping gear after Labor Day and wait for the snow to fly. But it really makes no sense...

I love to ski. I’m concerned about climate change. And I have an old car with nearly 200,000 miles on it...

After an Israeli inventor heard about someone who'd built a canoe out...

Ever since Icarus launched his illadvised flight to doom, man has attempted to fly. It is one of the most primal of all instincts. Fortunately, it’s one that every skier and snowboarder can indulge in frequently here in Colorado. And, with an abundance of soft, snowy...

When it comes to winter sports, Olympic athletes tend to get all the attention. But Colorado athlete Griffin Post has been quietly toiling away as a big-mountain competitor on the Freeride World Tour for the past two years. This tour — which features four showcase ...

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 ...

I taught my wife, a blonde Midwest beauty, to ski when she was 20 — or rather, she allowed me to teach her. We always joke we don’t need any marriage counseling after those tear-filled seasons on the blue ice runs of Vermont — no appearances for us on Dr. Phil’s ...

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 ...