Adventure
Cyclists get creative with winter pain caves at home
Welcome to the pain cave. It’s a place no cyclist really wants to be, but it’s a necessary evil if you live in a cold climate...
How to Camp in Style With Kids This Summer
Earlier this month we drove our vintage Airstream to Marfa, Texas...
Portable Power from Brunton
Oddly, in Boulder, you see more social media updates from outdoors than indoors. FB posts from Fourteeners? Check. Tweets from Bandit Mountain bike trails? Affirmative. Blogs from the backcountry? You know it...
Dropping weight
In 2008, Alan Carpenter decided to try his first long distance hike. He picked the manageable John Muir trail, a 218-mile walk through the Sierra Nevada mountains, as he says...
Where there’s a cause, there’s a runner
Runner Tony Stafford’s commitment to raising money and awareness for the American Lung Association is part of a strong legacy of philanthropy when it comes to The Wild West Relay. For the event’s entire seven-year history, the race has been associated with ...
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...
National Parks Create 10 Times the Dollars They Cost
In 2010 the federal government gave the National Park Service...
Get Smart!
Scott Toepfer of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center says conditions will hopefully improve, but there’s nothing like knowing your stuff to keep yourself safe in the backcountry. To this end, the CAIC is involved in a variety of projects that help keep ...
SLIDESHOW: Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge
December 15-18 brought some of the best winter athletes to Breckenridge to compete in the Winter Dew Tour, a three-stop competition. Boulder Weekly's Dane Cronin was there and took some sweet pictures of the high-flying action. Take a look below.
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Women’s Wilderness girls program scholarships open
Scholarship applications are currently being taken for the Women’s Wilderness Institute girls’ programs. The Institute offers four- to 14-day trips for girls beginning at age 9. Their classes allow girls to try out backpacking, rock climbing and hiking a peak, or ...
Rising above Rio
From one of the largest slums in Rio de Janiero, a twin set of granite cones, called the Two Brothers, rises a thousand feet toward the sky. The favela — the slum — below creeps up the hillside until the cliffs become too steep for houses and instead make a place for...
