Adventure

Sagan wins Pro Challenge Stage One, strong showing from Colorado riders

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After Americans led the way through most of Stage One of the USA Pro Challenge, a three-rider — and all Colorado, we’d like to note — breakaway group was sucked back into the peloton and last minute shuffling saw Peter Sagan, a Slovakian rider for Cannondale Pro ...

No man overboard

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The issues veterans face are — in some ways — as big and unmanageable as the Colorado River running through Cataract Canyon this spring. At up to 58,000 cubic feet per second, it was flipping so many rafts that passengers in a 12-foot paddleboat just had to expect to...

Keeping up with the Joneses

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The sky is the kind of perfect blue that you only find in Colorado, no clouds, no wind, no nothing. Only the faint trickle of water from a frozen creek as the sun spills its warmth down on the planet. Then the cat rumbles to life as we climb aboard, the snow ...

Copper Mountain joins ski areas making snow for ski season

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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...

How to Camp in Style With Kids This Summer

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Earlier this month we drove our vintage Airstream to Marfa, Texas...

If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right

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There’s a saying that, “If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right.” Perhaps bordering on cliché, it actually seems to be a...

Pushing a little bit harder

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Maybe it's too soon to say, but Matt Cooke's story feels like the comeback story of the Pro Challenge.  Cooke spent the first half of this season cycling in...

A big re-route for the road cycling world

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The problem is not that people don’t want to ride their bikes. In fact, these are boom times for the cycling industry. “We are experiencing...

Engaging the natural brain

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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 ...

Three dot pot shots: ‘Real soon now’ edition

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Legal marijuana sales begin in California next Monday (Jan 1, 2018), and they’re gonna’ be huge — Real Soon Now. Cali’s roll-out will be...

Traveling with more than good intentions

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On a visit back to his native country, on a trek in the Annapurna region of Nepal, Portland State University professor Bishupal Limbu remembers being uncomfortable because of his shoes. They were nice, they were meant for the occasion and the Australians he was ...

Annual BoCan eagle nesting closures announced

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To keep golden eagles happily in their nests this spring, the Boulder Ranger District of Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests...