Adventure
Dancer in the wild
High up on the southern side of Bear Peak at the southwestern edge of Boulder, the rock feature known as The Maiden hooks from the ground toward the western horizon. The rock monolith, dusted in lime lichen, catches the setting sun, holding on to the light after ...
Legends in the field
Down the tunnel of his headlamp light, Luke Nelson saw a frog. It sat in the middle of the trail, somewhere around 9,000 feet...
A fighter’s chance
Colorado native Tate Zandstra has chased martial arts training and reporting as far as Brazil, to study Jiu Jitsu, and Thailand, to study Muay Thai, so it comes as no surprise, really, that when a Burmese maid in Chiang Mai, a city in northern Thailand, started ...
An ode to the canine life
John Fayhee’s always had dogs, he says, in part because it’s behavior for a good citizen — rescue a mutt that might otherwise have a grim future at the end of the line in a shelter and give it a life that includes lots of time in the mountains and it’s giving that ...
A quest for honest heroes
If you were going to go to war over a mountain, Cerro Torre would be the one to do it for...
Ultra-Cameron: CU-Boulder runner dives into ultramarathons
Three facts that will keep you away from ultramarathons...
Warriors in the wilderness
If the shocks in his prosthetic arm would reload faster, Marc Dervaes could spend all his evenings doing one-armed pushups. After losing his right arm just above the elbow in combat, Dervaes had a replacement prosthetic built with a set of shocks like those on a ...
Curb your turns
You know things have gotten serious when Eric Henderson tells you not to ski.
And he’s not alone.
The former backcountry and heli-ski guide — more...
Climbing fever
About two-thirds into the recent Oscar-nominated documentary Free Solo, Alex Honnold is balancing between two tiny rock nubs more than 1,000 feet above Yosemite’s...
Gliding over Ghana
It’s a lot like that dream you had as a kid — the dream where you could fly...

















