Adventure
Feeling the burn
It would drive most people insane. During the late 1930s Albert Curnow spent three years working as a fire lookout on the edge of Oregon’s Siskiyou Mountains. One summer he didn’t see another person...
Keystone for kids
I was feeling a little giddy. Yes, I was stoked to be grinding up the hill in Keystone Adventure Tours’ (KAT) all-world powder snowcat on a bluebird day to the Dead blaring “Truckin’.” But these days, what Daddy really likes is a happy family posse...
Photos: Abandoned island was once most densely populated place on Earth
Off the southeastern coast of Japan, an island formerly used for mining sits abandoned, its last residents having left in 1974...
A fighter’s chance
Colorado native Tate Zandstra has chased martial arts training and reporting as far as Brazil, to study Jiu Jitsu, and Thailand, to study Muay Thai, so it comes as no surprise, really, that when a Burmese maid in Chiang Mai, a city in northern Thailand, started ...
Levi Leipheimer jumps ahead to take lead in Pro Cycling Challenge
Last year’s USA Pro Cycling Challenge winner, Levi...
A lion’s share of a rescue
When the Bolivian government passed a law banning animals from performing in circus acts, the first nationwide ban of its kind, the legislation was a huge step forward for animal rights activists long opposed to the conditions and treatment those circus animals faced...
Powder, paranormal and more: The underrated adventure sports mecca of Glenwood...
There were ghosts, they told us. Strange bumps and sounds in the night. Lights that turned on and off for no apparent reason. Doors that slammed shut, suddenly and without warning. Things that kept you up at night. We thought about it and then climbed into the deep ...
This is play. Not work.
When Brendan Leonard found the Banff Mountain Film Festival — and Denver’s Paramount Theatre — filled with puffy coat-wearing people cheering to outdoor exploits, he declared, “Yes, these are my people. I found my people. I imagine some people feel that at a Broncos ...
National Parks Create 10 Times the Dollars They Cost
In 2010 the federal government gave the National Park Service...
Perseverance earns Boulder teen Guinness World record
Lifelong Boulder resident Gabi Ury recently made history when she held a sustained abdominal plank longer than any female on record...