Adventure

Roundup: Upgrades to Colo., Wyo. ski areas for 2012-2013

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What's the second-largest ski resort in Colorado? Who knows...

Planking into the record books

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Gabi Ury looks, acts, and talks like your typical high school sophomore — sure, at four feet eight inches tall, Ury may not be at the head of her class in terms of height — but the lifelong Boulder resident is on the verge accomplishing something very few can say ...

Ride with purpose 

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Kevin Sheehan has taken his ski bike down the same run at Eldora Mountain Resort countless times, but this time was different. Riding the lift...

Ice in their veins

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They say every scar has a story to tell, and in ice climbing, a sport which requires its athletes to wear 24 sharp points on their feet while wielding an axe in each hand when suspended high above the ground, climbers often have more than a few of both scars and ...

Back for more

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Morgan Pearson was on the way back to his hotel in Paris, France.  He is one of the top triathletes in the world and has...

BIFF: Get over your Everest ennui

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A great plotline is nothing without a character — one that generates an emotional investment, one we continue to care about long after the final pages of a book or final frames of film. The stories of the men — and in this case, one particular woman — who went to ...

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 ...

Golden child: Young Boulder skier John Leonard

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"I don’t ski powder much anymore,” John Leonard says with a laugh. “I’m always training...

Get high with a little help from your friends

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The Reel Rock Film Tour is back, and this year the weekend-long adventure film series is paying homage to those folks who show us...

From globetrotting to Boulder Startup Week, Andrew Hyde loves an unusual...

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Andrew Hyde sold almost all of his belongings in 2010 and set out to travel the world with just 15 items. (As long as you’re not persnickety about whether the iPhone and its charger are two different items, he really did it with 15 or so items...

No Al Canal!

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I asked our driver what he’d recently heard about the canal. He responded, “We’ve been hearing about the canal for 50 years.” We were driving...

Come for the fish, stay for the people

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Before setting off in August 2011 to float for 31 days down the longest undammed river in the lower 48, filmmaker Hunter Weeks had spent just a little time rafting the Arkansas. It had been 10 years since he’d caught a fish...