Adventure
American Academy of Neurology: Immediate rest after possible concussions
The American Academy of Neurology has released new guidelines for parents and coaches of all types of athletes, including a recommendation to remove athletes from play if concussions are ever suspected...
Following a true calling
Barry Blanchard has spent more than 6,000 days of his life rock climbing, ski touring, mountaineering, alpine climbing and ice climbing. At this point, he says, he’s very intimate with those environments, and can recall the textures in the snow, the ice and the rock ...
Climber Glen Denny reflects on Yosemite’s golden era
Staring at one of Glen Denny’s iconic black-and-white photographs from the Yosemite Valley, it takes a while to spot the nearly microscopic climbers hidden in the details...
Finding the past in the present
Jonathan Byers has blogged about repeat photography working like a time machine — he finds old photographs of the mountains, sometimes in books worth more than his camera, maps out where they were taken, hikes in to that spot, holds up the historic photo and travels ...
‘Slowing down as slowly as possible’
Most mornings, while many Boulderites are still wiping sleep from their eyes and brewing their coffee, Frank Shorter is already at Rally Sport, exercising...
Third Yosemite camper dies of hantavirus
A third person has died of hantavirus after camping at Yosemite National Park in California between early June and mid-July this year...
Keystone for kids
I was feeling a little giddy. Yes, I was stoked to be grinding up the hill in Keystone Adventure Tours’ (KAT) all-world powder snowcat on a bluebird day to the Dead blaring “Truckin’.” But these days, what Daddy really likes is a happy family posse...
Death Hollow, Utah
On March 26, bestselling indie-author Scott Stillman’s second book, Nature’s Silent Message — a collection of introspective essays about his mostly-solo backpacking adventures across...
Out of a housing crisis, into vans
In mountain communities throughout Colorado, people are adopting “van life” as a means of recreation, but also quite often it’s out of necessity. For...
Summer storming
The crowd inside El Montañes, a bar and restaurant in Farellones, Chile, is standing room only. There are more people outside, cajoling the security staff in a vain attempt to get in. They’re the unlucky ones, the ones without tickets to the hottest night of the ...
