Adventure

It would drive most people insane. During the late 1930s Albert Curnow spent three years working as a fire lookout on the edge of Oregon’s Siskiyou Mountains. One summer he didn’t see another person...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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Show respect for climbing sites and your fellow mountaineers Knowing your mountain and treating the site with respect is an important part of the climbing experience. All climbers should follow “Leave No Trace” principles, plus any rules specific to an area...

Plan now to hike smart in the...

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 ...

We had a lot of fun with the mountain bike ownership analysis...

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 ...

The winter solstice is here, and the season’s chilly weather has already driven most of Colorado’s flora and fauna to take cover inside. We — and our kids — however, don’t need to be deterred from connecting with the natural world because of the cold weather. This ...

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