Adventure

New kid on the mountain

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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...

Cruising the Cataract

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Colorado River’s Cataract Canyon features beauty and solitude, along with a dose of adrenaline In Green River, Utah, the Colorado River runs through a vacant landscape of piñon, rock spires and empty salt flats, the water a cool thought as the sun bakes down on ...

If you build it, they will ride

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I’m probably too young to be making jokes about dating myself with cultural references, but I’ll take this one — remember the T-shirts about biking in Moab that boasted “I survived” and when you came home bloody after a weekend on slickrock, you felt like, yeah, I ...

American Tyler Farrar takes Stage One of USA Pro Cycling Challenge

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Boulder may claim Tom Danielson, rider on the...

High altitude snow-bound

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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 ...

Sagan takes his second stage victory in third day of USA...

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Peter Sagan spent his day buried in the peloton, saving up...

Pushing a little bit harder

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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...

Leave It To Beaver

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Beaver Creek has proven for 30 years just how good a ski vacation can be, whether you’re a head of state or the head of a household. With heads of state fewer each day, let’s examine this gem from the average Boulderite’s perspective...

‘Pedal a revolution’

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Americans today may have a tough time imagining a woman riding a bicycle as taboo, but it was not too long ago that a female riding a bike was considered a sign of promiscuity and immorality...

Exploring the depths of the unknown

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When world-renowned ocean explorer Robert Ballard undertook a mission to find the wreckage of RMS Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in April 1912, that story was actually a cover operation. In truth, Ballard says, he was on a series of highly classified...

All guts, no glory

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As Jason Haas clears off a tabletop littered with fake fruits and vegetables, piling them into a plastic shopping cart that barely reaches his knees to the sounds of his giggling son shuffling across the kitchen, the mountaintop solitude that defined his life 15 ...

The crack machine

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