Adventure

Petitioning the overseers

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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 ...

Something good from war

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The 10th Mountain Division was an integral player in the rapid development of the Colorado ski industry during the second half of the 20th century. Some would argue it was the most important part. The veterans of the famous division were involved in the founding of ...

A lion’s share of a rescue

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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...

One runner’s high: ‘In the High Country’ at Adventure Film Festival

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If you want to get to know an ultrarunner, it takes more than spending a mile in his shoes. In fact, forget the shoes. Spend miles alongside him everywhere from the rolling asphalt of roads in farm country Nebraska to the foothills he frequents in training runs to ...

Try your hand at a number of winter sports from Boulder...

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Eric Bader’s phone starts to ring more around this time of...

Where the next turn leads

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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 ...

The mind-body solution

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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 ...

Cyclists celebrate sisterhood and support scholars

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On Aug. 26, local women will be out on bikes, cycling to support a worthy cause...

Drone season

For sporting types like ourselves, the alluring call of the wild drone was not something we could resist...

Classics come forward

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Stage Four was a day for favorites to finally emerge from...

Travel tips galore

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Fall is peak time for climbing

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 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, ...