Adventure
Carbon-offset commuting
I love to ski. I’m concerned about climate change. And I have an old car with nearly 200,000 miles on it...
The Renaissance in High Altitude Winter Climbing
It is arguably the most dangerous climbing on the planet...
Fear is part of the fun of catching air
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...
On the trail to recovery
Deep in Shadow Canyon, en route to South Boulder Peak, there is modest evidence of the monstrous floods that ravaged the Front Range. The humble creek that dribbles beside the trail has routed itself around the collection of stray boulders and fibrous tree debris. ...
Are you mentally tough?
Forty seconds before round two, and I’m lying on my back trying to breathe. Pain all through me. Deep breath. Let it go. I won’t be able to lift my shoulder tomorrow, it won’t heal for over a year, but now it pulses, alive, and I feel the air vibrating around me, the...
Reflections from road royalty
More than 60,000 people are expected to participate in the Bolder Boulder this year — what “may be the world’s best mass participation race in the United States,” according to Runner’s World magazine...
Levi Leipheimer, USA Pro Cycling Challenge winner, terminated from cycling team...
Levi Leipheimer, winner of the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge and a stage winner in this year’s Pro Cycling Challenge, has just seen his contract with Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team terminated, effective immediately...
Elite field set to compete in Boulder Cup Cyclocross
As the whistle sounds at Valmont Park during the 2013 Boulder Cup, hundreds of cyclocross racers will sprint all out, jockeying for position in one of the most dangerous starts in competitive racing sports...
Summer storming
The crowd inside El Montañes, a bar and restaurant in Farellones, Chile, is standing room only. There are more people outside, cajoling the security staff in a vain attempt to get in. They’re the unlucky ones, the ones without tickets to the hottest night of the ...
