Adventure
Shifting gears
What got Rebecca Much into cycling has a similar thread to what she does now that she’s retired from a competitive cycling career that included National Cyclocross Championship and National Time Trial Championship wins. It’s about what bikes can do that has nothing ...
BC Bike Race 2010
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, ...
Chronicles of pain and passion
Climbers are accustomed to suffering, sure. But a certain kind of suffering is more common — a brief sprint through pain like climbing on body parts shoved into splitter cracks in the desert, or a two-day push through agony to get up a big wall climb...
Shoulder season adventures
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 ...
Are you mentally tough ?
Forty seconds before round two, and I’m lying on my back trying to breathe. Pain all through me. Deep breath. Let it go. I won’t be able to lift my shoulder tomorrow, it won’t heal for over a year, but now it pulses, alive, and I feel the air vibrating around me, the...
A good feeling
Denison von Maur adds another log to the wood stove, looks up and smiles. He’s in his element, high up in the Beaverhead mountains, the wind blasting across the ridge as a snow squall spits flakes across the windows of the remote log cabin he built by hand. The fire ...
Rock, Snow, Water, Ice: Glenwood’s Outdoor Options
With skiing, climbing, mountain biking, hiking, river rafting and a whole lot more — Glenwood Springs is a complete outdoor recreation locatio...
Mind the gap
Back in July, Americans tuned in — in recordbreaking numbers, no less — to watch the U.S. women’s national soccer team easily rise to victory against Japan in the World Cup. This was the women’s third World Cup win since the team’s creation in 1985...
Photos: Big Air event in Denver
Denver’s Big Air event on Tuesday night certainly lived up to the name...
Into the Earth
The hike started innocently enough: a well-trodden trail from a Utah campground near the small ski resort of Brianhead. Soon, though, we left the trail and started bushwhacking up a steep ridge. The terrain was rough. Loose rocks made progress difficult for those ...
Hibernating can lead to depression, lethargy
It sure is easy to crank up the heater, turn on the TV and stay indoors during winter. Lots of people do it, and winter weather provides plenty of excuses to avoid going outdoors...















