Adventure
This is your brain. This is your brain at altitude.
This May, local mountaineer Mike Moniz successfully summited Mount Everest (29,029 feet) and Lhotse (27,940 feet) only 24 hours apart. After consecutively climbing the word’s tallest and fourth-tallest mountains with the International Mountain Guide (IMG) Classic ...
Getting wet
Blame it on Boulder. At least that’s where author, adventurer and Boulder native Eugene Buchanan lays responsibility for an interesting, eclectic life that has taken him around the globe in search of steep rapids on remote rivers and some not so steep and rapid...
The Catamounts presents a wild mashup in musical ‘Small Ball’
Here’s an itch you probably never thought you’d scratch: a mashup between Gulliver’s Travels and professional basketball.
This fall, The Catamounts presents the regional debut...
Roundup: Upgrades to Colo., Wyo. ski areas for 2012-2013
What's the second-largest ski resort in Colorado? Who knows...
Great Sand Dunes and the Spanish Peaks
As the first snows dust the Front Range with the promise of winter, we bid farewell to the summer hiking season. Trekking in the chilly air has its own charm to be certain, but if you still hanker for one more summer-style weekend, head south to the impressive ...
The last great adventure
When it comes to exploration, humans are obsessed with being first — just look at the past century: Robert Peary planted the American flag at the North Pole in 1909 after scores of others died trying; Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole in ...
Let’s kill this pig now: asking questions in Cuba
We’d been in Cuba for nearly four full days before a few of us felt brave enough to ask questions — honest ones —...
For paralympians, other dangerous ways to cheat
As the 2012 Paralympic Games begin in London this week, officials will be as concerned as ever about preventing and catching cheating among the athletes...
Schooled in snow
Colorado.The state is known as “Ski Country USA.” It’s a place of rugged peaks, high mountains and snowy winters. So, if you’re a skier looking for a place to get educated, it’s no surprise that going to an institute of higher education in the Centennial state might ...
Rooted in place
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...
Team USA, ready to wade
On the 11th of September, more than 400 people will coast through the Rocky Mountains, stopping in Vail. They will be from 25 different...
