Adventure
Ocean adventurer
About 90 miles offshore from São Paulo, Brazil, a mile-long mountain ridge pokes out from the Atlantic Ocean. Between 2,000 and 4,000 golden lancehead...
Olympic mountain: Colorado’s Beaver Creek
In 1976, Colorado voters were asked a simple question...
Veterans’ hiking program is about breaking through
Before getting caught up in the destination — the 19,347-foot-high summit of the volcano Cotopaxi — it’s important to back up and look at the journey. That is, after all, what it’s really all about...
Outhouse deliverance
Lauren McCarthy and Patricia Melero were a mile deep in the backcountry of the White River National Forest when it began to snow. It...
Where the next turn leads
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 ...
Sender Films’ Reel Rock 8: Peaks behind the screens
At this point, it’s impossible to know whether Pete Mortimer and Nick Rosen could always tell stories in tandem, or whether that’s the product of eight years working together or the friendship that dates to their days as students at Colorado College. But the way the ...
Lindsey Vonn…Greatest Ski Racer Ever?
Lindsey Vonn is a good ski racer. But how about this: “Lindsey Vonn is the greatest racer ever...
Three strikes you’re out
In 2015, on the fifth day of Ride the Rockies (RtR) — an epic multi-day, 465-mile supported bicycle tour of Colorado — I was...
Getting a grip
Not so very long ago, Cory Richards was among those climbers who considered a borrowed floor a suitable bed and scratching out a living by photographing climbers just a dream...
Boulderite in the running for best job ever
Ryan Van Duzer hasn’t had a written resume in years. He’s...
