Adventure

Women will come first when cyclists start racing into Aspen on Aug. 22. That’s right, the all-men’s cycling USA Pro Cycling Challenge will be preceded by the Blue Ribbon Alpine Challenge, a criterium race in downtown Aspen that finishes an hour before riders in Stage...

Rumor has it the first snow has fallen on the high peaks in Colorado — just a dusting, a promise of things to come. The bubble of hope and possibility rising in the chests of every would-be ski bum at the thought of that is what the latest film from Sweetgrass ...

With a note on his top tube that said “shut up, legs,” Jens...

For most river runners in the West, the middle of February is the real start of the whitewater season, a kind of college acceptance-letter week. While all of the great multi-day river trips through the canyons of the Colorado Plateau are regulated by the fickle ...

 Colorado’s 54 highest peaks, the fourteeners, are already deep into fall. It’s one of the most beautiful and peaceful times to climb a fourteener. The crowds have thinned, the aspens are turning, and the threat of lightning has eased. But at 14,000 feet, autumn, ...

Your grandma climbed one last weekend, and unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably noticed that 14ers are kind of a big thing in Colorado...

For the past several months I’ve been experimenting with POV (point of view) video cameras...

If you spend time wandering and wondering in the fitness center, pick up Marco Borges’ new book Power Moves...

It was a cold spring morning, a Monday, signaling my first week off work (as a veterans-law paralegal in Boulder) in seven months. The previous day I’d completed the eccentric 70-mile Eroica California, with around 6,000 feet of elevation gain meandering Central ...

With each turn of my skis, snow sloughs off the steep chute and cascades down toward the basin below. It’s not enough snow to be frightening, certainly, but enough to feel like I really am off the beaten track...

Carl Jung believed reaching full potential as a human required exploration of our deepest thoughts, those feelings that lay buried deep beneath our consciousness. As he put it, “There is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites; hence it is necessary to ...

Scott Jurek lopes down the road before taking a seat at a table outside Boxcar Coffee on Pearl Street...