Adventure
Boulder hosts national climbing championship
A rowdy throng of spectators crowded into Boulder’s Movement Climbing and Fitness on Saturday night to watch Sasha Digiulian and Magnus Midtbø win the 2011 Sport Climbing Series National Championship, the precursor to the International Federation of Sport Climbing ...
Bear Country
Nature’s alarm clock is ringing early for black bears, and some aren’t hitting the snooze button. Recent warm weather in Colorado — temperatures as high as 75 degrees — is stirring some bears from their dens a few weeks early, and officials are reminding residents in...
Out spokin’
The weather in Colorado serves up a bit of everything. One day you’re basking in 60-degree weather in January, and a few days later the highs barely crack single digits. In the spring and summer we have our thunderstorms and mysterious temperature inversions. But ...
Leave It To Beaver
Beaver Creek has proven for 30 years just how good a ski vacation can be, whether you’re a head of state or the head of a household. With heads of state fewer each day, let’s examine this gem from the average Boulderite’s perspective...
Outdoor Tech Evolution
A box of photographs has been sitting in my closet for nearly a decade now, waiting to be digitized and organized...
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...
Changing seasons
If you ever have the chance to spend even a shard of time with brothers Tim and Tracey Canaday, owners of Colorado company Never Summer Snowboards, you’ll learn rather quickly that their hard-work ethic and dedication to detail has paid off in more ways than one...
Colorado dog sledding with Mountain Musher
It’s a cold, misty morning in western Colorado. The hypnotic silence, embellished by waves of rolling ice-fog, is broken by the grinding growl of the customized dog transport vehicle emerging through the haze. My dog sledding day is beginning at the privately owned...
Backcountry inbounds
There seems to be a natural progression that leads powder addicts from the cozy confines of corporate ski slopes to the treacherous mountains of the backcountry...
God is Italian
God is an Italian. Don’t think so? Here’s proof: The food, the wine and the weather. Want more? Throw mountains into the mix. And not just any mountains, but the massive three-valley complex known as Monterosa Ski. And it’s here, in the isolated villages that dot ...