Adventure

Winter won’t slow you down if you’ve got the right gear

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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, ...

BC Bike Race 2010

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One way to take the crisis out of mid-life When I read this, I was in. Boulder’s own Velo News reported that during the 2007 running of the BC Bike Race a staff medic was attending to a severely hurting participant. “This guy I wanted to send to the hospital, ...

Get Fat

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A boulder mountain bike trail round-upBoulder County’s mountain biking has enjoyed a steady evolution in the past five years. Led by the relentless efforts of the Boulder Mountainbike Alliance (BMA), the network of trails available to fat-tire enthusiasts has grown...

Canada to Russia: the Olympics have always been a bit gay

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Russia hosting the Olympics isn't winning over many nations to support its anti-gay policies...

Sagan wins Pro Challenge Stage One, strong showing from Colorado riders

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After Americans led the way through most of Stage One of the USA Pro Challenge, a three-rider — and all Colorado, we’d like to note — breakaway group was sucked back into the peloton and last minute shuffling saw Peter Sagan, a Slovakian rider for Cannondale Pro ...

An ode to the canine life

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John Fayhee’s always had dogs, he says, in part because it’s behavior for a good citizen — rescue a mutt that might otherwise have a grim future at the end of the line in a shelter and give it a life that includes lots of time in the mountains and it’s giving that ...

New bike tire design: Airless, can’t go flat

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A tire that never goes flat isn't a brand-new concept. But all the other designs on this idea have remained just that: concepts...

Bear Attack: Q&A with Bear Grylls

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Ramping up for a live stage tour in May, the star of Discovery Channel’s...

Deep space climb

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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...

Annual BoCan eagle nesting closures announced

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To keep golden eagles happily in their nests this spring, the Boulder Ranger District of Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests...

Profanity-prone jogger fights ban from N.H. town

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A jogger in Maine who's made a habit of crossing into New Hampshire, going for a run and swearing at strangers is fighting an attempt to ban him...

Shoulder season adventures

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By the time this article goes to print, the streets of Boulder will likely be buried in a wet slurry of dirty snow, and the high country will be harvesting its snowpack foundation for the winter ahead. For those seeking outdoors adventures, the time between late ...