Adventure
Skijoring descends on Minturn
Lightening acceleration. Blistering speeds. Crashes and podium finishes. Teamwork and tradition. These are the elements of skijoring, an obscure sport with a rich history...
A six-legged team
The day the stay-at-home policies were announced in Boulder, Michael Stone was at Whole Foods. He had his new 2-year-old yellow lab, Geo, with...
Making it happen
It’s just after 6 a.m. and Aisha Weinhold is sitting at her desk with a cup of coffee. She looks out the kind of...
If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right
There’s a saying that, “If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right.” Perhaps bordering on cliché, it actually seems to be a...
Venturing out of the box
I had the best cubicle job in the world. Which is like boasting about being the world’s tallest midget...
Exploring the depths of the unknown
When world-renowned ocean explorer Robert Ballard undertook a mission to find the wreckage of RMS Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in April 1912, that story was actually a cover operation. In truth, Ballard says, he was on a series of highly classified...
Born again runner
They say you can’t run before you walk, but Terry Chiplin may be the exception to the rule.
The British-native is the founder of the...
Locals up for National Geographic’s Adventurers of the Year
The old saying, “there must be something in the water,” seems oddly true considering five of the 2016 National Geographic Adventurers of the Year...
Record-setting Raboutous
I’ve never even thought about being old,” says Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou, a former world champion rock climber who, now at age 53, still manages to...
Dog training 101: Swimming
If you have had trouble getting your dog to swim, dog trainer Jim Closson of A Better Pet in Boise, Idaho has some tips. “You just don’t throw them in the water. That will scare the heck out of them,” Closson said. He recommended...
Wounded veterans summit Denali
Five wounded veterans participated in a Department of the Interior program to summit Denali (formerly Mt. McKinley), the highest peak in North America. The 2012 Wounded Warrior Denali Challenge is below...

















