Adventure
At home in the trees
Fifty feet above the ground in one of the Red Oak trees at Chautauqua Park, I’m dangling like a spider suspended from its silk. I pant, grunt and pull myself up another foot, and I’m only half way to the top of the tree. Suddenly, the other rope next to me goes taut ...
Not all who wander are lost
CWA panel on exploring in your 20s 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...
Roger’s River Run
a fun summer race A post-birthday party invite to Cuba Cuba in Denver was supremely tempting the night before Roger’s River Run in Longmont, which occurred on a hot Saturday morning this month. No, it wasn’t a half-marathon or 10K, merely a 5K and an average run on ...
Warm weather, dearth of snow leave ski resorts scrambling to keep...
Flowers are blooming along the sidewalks. Snow on the mountains is melting fast...
Two-wheeled revolution
In America, a woman on a bike is not a novel sight. But in Afghanistan, a woman on a bike starts a conversation. The...
Colorado’s two heli-skiing operators share the same mountain range, the same...
The first thing you notice are the mountains. They’re rough and jagged, and they stand tall against the rising sun, etching patterns in the sky. The second thing you notice, because it sits right in front of you, is the helicopter. A bird, waiting to take fight, with...
Running out of sight
At the start of the Surf City Marathon in Huntington Beach, Calif., on Sunday, Feb. 3, the announcer asked the more than 2,000 people at the start line to raise their hands if they were running their first marathon. Boulder resident Michael Stone put up his hand, but...
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 ...
Blue River Century
Colorado’s best grassroots cycle tour Colorado`s mountainous landscape is tailor-made for epic cycling tours. Whether you prefer the challenging high mountain passes or the long stretches of rolling alpine meadows, pedaling in the high country is a feast for the...
Biking Vail Pass
When you first introduce yourself as someone born and raised in Colorado, people typically assume you’re an avid outdoors enthusiast, spending every free moment...
Copper Mountain joins ski areas making snow for ski season
Following on the heels of announcements by Arapahoe Basin and Loveland that those ski areas were making snow for the 2013-2014 season, Copper Mountain has announced the same...
Depth of anatomy
The cadaver is far smaller than I expected. It rests wrapped in green towels, face up on a silver table in a small, uncluttered space. Small incisions separate the skin from the subcutaneous tissue, exposing a yellowish, fatty layer protecting the muscle wall. George...
















