Adventure

Astrology: Get ready for 2018

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ARIES March 21-April 19: In 2018, your past will undergo transformation. Your memories will revise and rearrange themselves. Bygone events that seemed complete and definitive...

Rooted in place

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Rising from the foothills, a geometric sandstone building sits alone atop a mesa like a specter over Boulder.  The edifice is difficult to capture in...

Where fear and anxiety collide

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I was at the entrance to Devil’s Castle when the first lightning bolt struck. From where I stood, on the rocky ridge connecting Unnamed...

Summer stoke  

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Two things attract the attention of Boulderites year-round: powder days and the Grateful Dead.  Somewhere between those two addictions lives Teton Gravity Research (TGR), an...

Snowman: Boulder native braces for avalanche season

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Ethan Green is a busy man. Boulder Weekly tracks him down on a cool November morning. He’s got a day full of meetings, a major fundraising bash has just wrapped up, there’s a storm coming to the high country — plus he wants to go skiing and check out Colorado’s high ...

Levi Leipheimer jumps ahead to take lead in Pro Cycling Challenge

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Last year’s USA Pro Cycling Challenge winner, Levi...

Engaging the natural brain

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The winter solstice is here, and the season’s chilly weather has already driven most of Colorado’s flora and fauna to take cover inside. We — and our kids — however, don’t need to be deterred from connecting with the natural world because of the cold weather. This ...

Steep, deep and cheap at Berthoud Pass

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One of the great mysteries of Colorado skiing is how a ski area that racked up more snow than anywhere else in the state, was an hour and 15 minutes from downtown Denver and which had some of the steepest terrain in the country managed to go out of business...

The thrill of competition

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You feel it in your veins. The pulse of competition, the yearning for glory, the desire to best all comers, the need to push...

Colorado Trail gets 80-mile complementary extension

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The Colorado Trail Foundation has announced that it has added 80 miles of new trail to the Colorado Trail, which traverses the state from north to south...

Four spring ski and snowboard festivals you shouldn’t miss

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It’s spring. The sun is out, the snow is soft and the decks... well, the decks are warm and the beer is cold. Spring...

How Much Does It Cost to Climb Mount Everest?

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How much does it cost to climb Everest? This is probably the most...