Adventure
Two for the price of One
Exploring the Colorado ridgelines between peaksTo modify the quote made famous by Chicago Cubs great Ernie Banks, it’s a great day for a summit hike, let’s grab two! Linking together peaks on Colorado’s mountains is a great way to double — or triple or quadruple...
New website dedicated to I-70 traveler
Skiers, sightseers, residents and mountain travelers of all kinds now have a new way of planning and improving their next trip along I-70: GoI70.com, a website and mobile phone application (http://goi70.com/mobile...
Winter won’t slow you down if you’ve got the right gear
Let's face it — with colder temps, waning daylight and expensive gym memberships, it’s all too easy to give up on a regular exercise routine this time of year. Thankfully for those of us who want to keep going, there are numerous gear options to help keep us warm, ...
The art of snowmaking
The snow has started to fall. But let’s be honest. To really get the ski and snowboarding season up and running in style, Mother Nature needs a bit of help. A push in the right direction. A jolt of winter...
Inside mountaineering
As the camera pans away from the glare of the rising sun, jagged white and blue ice peaks fill the screen. In the middle distance, the tallest catches the first pink light of dawn. In the foreground we see a climber encased in his red down survival spacesuit. He is ...
Roger’s River Run
a fun summer race A post-birthday party invite to Cuba Cuba in Denver was supremely tempting the night before Roger’s River Run in Longmont, which occurred on a hot Saturday morning this month. No, it wasn’t a half-marathon or 10K, merely a 5K and an average run on ...
Deep space climb
So you’ve bagged the Seven Summits — the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. Great. You’ve crushed the most difficult bouldering problems. Bravo. You’ve even scaled 5.15 and are now pushing the grading system even higher. Right on...
Outdoor Tech Evolution
A box of photographs has been sitting in my closet for nearly a decade now, waiting to be digitized and organized...
10 reasons to visit a small ski hill
1. See and ski the roots of the sport. You don’t need a high-speed quad, a fleet of groomers and a four-star restaurant to have fun. You just need a mountain, a lift to take you to the top and the right attitude...
One stage to rule them all
The USA Pro Cycling Challenge will spend a week pitting cyclist against cyclist for top rank in a race that claims to be one of the world’s toughest. But when the bike tires turn toward Boulder on Aug. 25 for the last stage of racing before the final time trial in ...
