Adventure

Solaris: Vail’s New Hot Spot

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It’s Thursday night in February and, despite the lack of snow...

How I Nearly Killed My Father on Tenaya Canyon

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The sign read, “Tenaya Canyon is extremely dangerous. Many have lost...

Photography camp teaches outdoors photo skills

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For the second year, a photography camp in South America will teach both amateur and professional photogs a specific "secret" of the industry: How to take professional ski photographs...

Out of a housing crisis, into vans

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In mountain communities throughout Colorado, people are adopting “van life” as a means of recreation, but also quite often it’s out of necessity. For...

All in for the long ride

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At the Boulder Transit Center on 14th Street, Tom Sampson loads his bike onto the rack of the N bus and fastens down the...

Boulder’s eponymous sport

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There was a time when people went bouldering only when they couldn’t get away to rock climb. Bouldering — climbing rock formations and boulders low to the ground — was viewed as a way to improve one’s technical skills and get a climbing fix between hitting more ...

When you’re in the ring

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The other guy lands another stinging jab on Israel. Then, a flattening smack when his glove slams into Israel’s head. Israel crouches low and pulls...

Far from tapping out

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In 2009, more than 100 years after the first women’s boxing demonstration at the Olympics, headlines announced it would finally be accepted as an Olympic sport. For Carrie Barry, who had transitioned from the Army’s World Class Athlete’s Program to the USA Olympic ...

Warriors in the wilderness

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If the shocks in his prosthetic arm would reload faster, Marc Dervaes could spend all his evenings doing one-armed pushups. After losing his right arm just above the elbow in combat, Dervaes had a replacement prosthetic built with a set of shocks like those on a ...

Time trial stage extends van Garderen’s Pro Challenge lead

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The crowd got loud for Tejay van Garderen before the USA Pro...

Ice man

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Hard work. Two words that mean many different things to many different people. But to polar explorer and word traveler Eric Larsen, they sum up a philosophy. A philosophy that not only drove him to both the North and South Poles, but also to the top of Everest — all ...

Two bodies found on Washington’s Mount Rainier

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Two bodies, possibly the remains of two hikers missing since January, were found on a Mount Rainier glacier Sept. 10 and recovered by park rangers...