Adventure
Sky’s the limit for local all-women bike ride
Inclusivity and opportunity. Two simple words. Two powerful words. And two words that pretty much sum up the raison d’etre for a not-so-little event called the Venus de Miles, scheduled for Aug. 29 on roads around Boulder this year. Boulder is filled with ...
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...
The superlative experience
"That was the worst experience of my life," my father declared just after we had returned to camp from climbingthe Red Gully route on Crestone Peak...
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Morgan Pearson was on the way back to his hotel in Paris, France.
He is one of the top triathletes in the world and has...
Cushy car camping
Let’s face it: Astro vans and Prius sedans are not the first adventure rigs of choice when it comes to Boulder’s outdoor crowd —...
To Roubaix or not to Roubaix
A few happy hours ago, I sat down with two cyclists to contemplate the Boulder Roubaix.
“I’m comfortable with the dirt,” Scott Forrest says. He’s more...
When ‘plus-size’ is average, why consider it niche?
The first time Raquel Vélez went skiing, she wore a hoodie and sweatpants under a rain jacket and rain pants, not for fashion’s sake,...
Gimme the cold shoulder
In Colorado, climbing is a year-round sport. When the heat of the summer dies down and the shadows grow longer each day, active seekers...
All in for the long ride
At the Boulder Transit Center on 14th Street, Tom Sampson loads his bike onto the rack of the N bus and fastens down the...
Men’s skiing World Cup: Ligety wins big
The 2012 men's skiing giant slalom World Cup kicked off yesterday with a big repeat win for American Ted Ligety: Ligety won Soelden in Austria by nearly 3 seconds...
The Strafe story: How two CU students have created one of...
The one-piece ski suit. It’s an object of ridicule. The preferred garb for gaper days and end-of-the-year parties. The kind of outfit that evokes pity when seen on a Texan and scorn from locals in Vail lift lines when the wearer paid north of $1,000 for the latest ...
World’s highest, fastest freefall set for Oct. 8
Felix Baumgartner has been preparing for Monday, Oct. 8 for years...