Adventure
Ocean adventurer
About 90 miles offshore from São Paulo, Brazil, a mile-long mountain ridge pokes out from the Atlantic Ocean. Between 2,000 and 4,000 golden lancehead...
Now Try This: Climbing a 14er
Your grandma climbed one last weekend, and unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably noticed that 14ers are kind of a big thing in Colorado...
American Resorts (Finally) Chasing Whistler Bike Park
Circa 2006, the state of mountain biking’s gravity-fueled cutting edge was Whistler...
Birds of Fire lives again
The hike to Chiefs Head, the third-highest peak in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP), is a haul by any account. Seven miles deep in...
The thrill of competition
You feel it in your veins. The pulse of competition, the yearning for glory, the desire to best all comers, the need to push...
Van Garderen wins USA Pro Challenge
Tejay Van Garderen finished the USA Pro Challenge with a 90 second lead on his chaser, fellow BMC rider Mathias Frank, taking the win in the overall race...
One stage to rule them all
The USA Pro Cycling Challenge will spend a week pitting cyclist against cyclist for top rank in a race that claims to be one of the world’s toughest. But when the bike tires turn toward Boulder on Aug. 25 for the last stage of racing before the final time trial in ...
Boulder cyclists speed to first and second in Pro Challenge Stage...
After a day of racing that saw racers from Colombia, Italy and Germany at the head of breakaway packs and leading the charge in the King of the Mountain contests, it was Boulder cyclists Tejay Van Garderen and Christian Vandevelde who surged ahead at the end to snag ...
Classic desert tour offers both pain and delight
If I could recommend only one classic desert mountain bike “tour,” I would choose the White Rim loop. Located in the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park about an hour outside of Moab, Utah, the 100-plus-mile White Rim Road offers mountain bikers ...
The everyman ultrarunner
Greg Salvesen, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder, didn’t compete on his high school track team. His running hobby began in college with a casual exercise routine, generally peaking around eight miles. In 2008, he completed his ...
The magic journey
Imagine you’re a skier, a person who loves the snow and the mountains, someone who would do anything to make a life that involves...
Sierra Designs Rad Jacket
Let’s hear it for an affordable breathable jacket designed to take more abuse than Dan Hawkins. The Hawk may have taken a forced knee, but the new Rad hardshell from Sierra Designs won’t no matter the outdoor elements beatdown...
