Adventure

Vail kicks off ski and snowboard season

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Vail has started its ski and snowboard season for 2013-2014 with 10 trails open and four inches of new snow...

Nit nittay garabam: Man is man’s medicine

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As I slid down the hillside, rocks and dirt and plants tumbling underneath me, I remember a scream so loud, it couldn’t possibly have...

Chronicles of pain and passion

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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...

Pedaling to Standing Rock

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As resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in North Dakota has grown throughout the year, Scott Mackenzie-Low felt the personal call to join...

My 100-game season

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My baseball loyalty was irrevocably formed in 1961 at the tender and impressionable age of six when the Washington Senators relocated to Minneapolis and...

Skijoring descends on Minturn

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Lightening acceleration. Blistering speeds. Crashes and podium finishes. Teamwork and tradition. These are the elements of skijoring, an obscure sport with a rich history...

Ice in their veins

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They say every scar has a story to tell, and in ice climbing, a sport which requires its athletes to wear 24 sharp points on their feet while wielding an axe in each hand when suspended high above the ground, climbers often have more than a few of both scars and ...

Who died at Crooked Creek?

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Trial law prohibits the admission of statements made outside the court as hearsay, statements said or written outside the trial and the bounds of an oath to tell the truth, beyond the ability of the judge and jury to observe and assess their delivery or attorneys to ...

In Northeast, cross-country resorts turn to snow guns

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Cross-country skiing just about always includes, encourages or fosters an environmental ethos. It's more natural than ski resorts that chopped down trees to make runs. It's a quieter experience that puts the natural world in winter on display...

Beauty in Black and White

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"Love is very simple,” says specialist desert guide Khaled Hafez as he lies back on a tightly woven Bedouin carpet and sips sweet black...

Picking up the slack

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On a clear, quiet day in July 2015, a group of University of Colorado Boulder students tightened a length of flat webbing between two...

Out and back

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Jeff Banks knows his snow.  He’s skied all his life and is pretty damn good at it. He won a junior national championship in nordic...