Adventure

Gimme the cold shoulder

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In Colorado, climbing is a year-round sport. When the heat of the summer dies down and the shadows grow longer each day, active seekers...

Adventure

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Far From Home: Uganda to the Tetons...

Planks of glory

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Standing atop Spillway, an intermediate groomer at Loveland Ski Area, I visualized my descent on the crowded ribbon of man-made hard pack tending towards icy. Sticking to a line was critical, and this task was daunting, as I had just strapped on my first new pair of ...

Put your heart into it

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Pheidippides, the courier who ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens spreading word of the Greek victory over the Persians, became famous not only for his proclamation but also for dying on the spot. Ultrarunner Micah True, known as Caballo Blanco (White Horse), was ...

Colorado’s Griffin Post battles the best freeskiers on the most dangerous...

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When it comes to winter sports, Olympic athletes tend to get all the attention. But Colorado athlete Griffin Post has been quietly toiling away as a big-mountain competitor on the Freeride World Tour for the past two years. This tour — which features four showcase ...

Bringing the fight to them

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Not every movie is designed to entertain. Nor are they destined for the multiplex. Some films have a message so urgent there’s no time...

Roundup: Upgrades to Colo., Wyo. ski areas for 2012-2013

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What's the second-largest ski resort in Colorado? Who knows...

Burrowing bodies

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With a click, all color vanishes. Darkness rushes in, swallowing everything whole, my eyelids and surroundings no longer different but blended with the inky-black...

Ski season on: A-Basin to open October 13

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Ski season is here. Rejoice and be glad...

Many close calls later

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"It was a miracle really, that neither of us were killed,” says Simon Yates. “We were in this really narrow couloir on Makron Chhish, myself and another guy, when just a massive amount of rockfall started coming down...

A Mad Way South

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Man down, man down!” the frantic words crackle across the team walkie-talkies. Two weeks into a record-breaking attempt to cross the Sahara desert on...

Balloon-powered flight in South Africa honors Nelson Mandela

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A man flew nearly 4 miles by balloon in South Africa, traversing the sea from Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, to Cape Town...