Adventure

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, ...

Photos: Big Air event in Denver

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Denver’s Big Air event on Tuesday night certainly lived up to the name...

The List: 34 Climbing Route Names You Can’t Say to Your...

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One of the most clever and crude climbing route names ever is in Colorado...

One stage to rule them all

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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 ...

Classic Boulder

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Calling Boulder home means a few different things: Access to more coffee shops than was ever thought possible for a city of 100,000 people, easy and convenient access to a wide array of Tibetan prayer flags and, of course, several clinics that will treat your back ...

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...

Telluride Festival: Beer, blues and autumn colors

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If you're feeling the fall blues, your cure just might include heading to Telluride this weekend for the 16th Annual Telluride Blues and Brews Festival. Now an autumnal classic, the festival features three days packed with music and an afternoon dedicated to tasting ...

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 ...

Outdoor Tech Evolution

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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

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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...

Doing the Dog

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Try this descent while getting high on a fourteener You can see it from the trail. A white cleft that drops directly off of Torreys Peak. It draws the eye in a sinuous line, plunging off the summit, a throat-wrenching vertical elevator that spills into a large ...

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 ...