Adventure

Perhaps it’s true now more than ever that not all those who wander are lost. They’re just getting ahead of the game in an increasingly connected world...

Finding the motivation to put down the video-game controller and step outside to play can be a challenge during the summer. But thanks to a new line of pedometers called GeoPalz, kids ages 5 to 12 have a reason to turn off the TV and get active...

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 ...

Plan now to hike smart in the...

It seems crazy that we’re here, high on the shoulder of Mont-Gelé, massive views of the Alps in front of us. Everything around us is strange: the huge trams that sweep skiers skyward, the babble of different and exotic languages in the lift lines, the vertical ...

The crowd got loud for Tejay van Garderen before the USA Pro...

The 5:30 a.m. alarm buzzer came a little early, but that was about the only bump in the road along the way to our completion of the 2013 Bolder Boulder. After 16 weeks of training (see “Training for more than a race,” Adventure, May 23), my 9-year-old son Tim and I ...

It’s 10 a.m. and I’m on my second beer at the airport bar. It’s a lovely little bar, with a broad window facing the runway and six local beers on tap. I’m not sure if they even have a macro beer in the bottle. I’m drinking Green Man Forester. Robust, burly, but not ...

You’ve poached the concerts with picnic in tow at Chautauqua, but couldn’t see the band, stuck outside with the rest of the freeloaders. You’ve hung out in the alley while the neighbor’s party kicked off with live tunes (shouldn’t have kicked his dog, he would have ...

After communications with a camp on the North Side of Everest, Alan Arnette has upped the fatalities for the 2012 season to 11. The climbing blogger recently conducted a phone interview with Jamie McGuinness of Project Himalaya. The details of the two confirmed ...

One of the more poignant memoirs I’ve read concerns a group of French soldiers in World War I. The men lost their way en route to the battlefield and mistakenly ascended a high, steep ridge. From that unintentionally safe vantage point, they witnessed the horrendous ...

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 ...