Adventure

It’s Thursday night in February and, despite the lack of snow...

New Orleans’ Lake Pontchartrain is only 12 feet deep. But that’s deep enough to drown. And you can drown there — that is, if the alligators don’t get to you first. And if the alligators do get you, you won’t have to worry about a coffin. The scraps of your flesh that...

A tire that never goes flat isn't a brand-new concept. But all the other designs on this idea have remained just that: concepts...

Because it’s never too early to start dreaming about powder, Colorado Ski Country USA’s Gems Card for the 2012/13 season has gone on pre-order. A Gems Card provides its bearer with a smattering of benefits, including a free lift ticket at Monarch, two-for-one tickets...

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...

The story on ski area growth in North America is simple: It’s slowed way down...

Runners over 50 and runners who push themselves too hard aren't helping their health, according to a study in the British journal Heart...

About this time last year I was sweating buckets, training for the biggest adventure of my life. It started innocently enough over cocktails at Jax restaurant in Boulder in the spring of 2009 with talk about going to the Burning Man festival in Nevada. If we were ...

Forty seconds before round two, and I’m lying on my back trying to breathe. Pain all through me. Deep breath. Let it go. I won’t be able to lift my shoulder tomorrow, it won’t heal for over a year, but now it pulses, alive, and I feel the air vibrating around me, the...

Floating down western Colorado’s Yampa River is an exercise in opposing forces: stillness and motion. As our raft bobs through gentle currents, our guide draws in her oars, letting the river take us where it will. Newly alert, her head lifts and ours follow; a ...

Back in July, Americans tuned in — in recordbreaking numbers, no less — to watch the U.S. women’s national soccer team easily rise to victory against Japan in the World Cup. This was the women’s third World Cup win since the team’s creation in 1985...

From Bret Tregaskis’ office on a late fall day, you can look out at the most visible manifestation of the changes occurring at Boulder...