Adventure

How to keep your bike rolling

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Here are ways to keep each vital part of your bike in shape for spring cycling: Brakes...

Point of View

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For the past several months I’ve been experimenting with POV (point of view) video cameras...

100-mph moments

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Ian Reid arrives late for his interview. He’s hard to recognize at first, with a full-face helmet and motorcycle leathers giving him an urban...

No Al Canal!

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I asked our driver what he’d recently heard about the canal. He responded, “We’ve been hearing about the canal for 50 years.” We were driving...

Steep, deep and cheap at Berthoud Pass

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One of the great mysteries of Colorado skiing is how a ski area that racked up more snow than anywhere else in the state, was an hour and 15 minutes from downtown Denver and which had some of the steepest terrain in the country managed to go out of business...

Rolling dice

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As the Government Affairs Director for the International Mountain Biking Association, Jenn Dice heads up the lobbying arm of the leading mountain biking advocacy group in the United States. She rode into the job by accident, after getting involved in endurance ...

Planks of glory

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Standing atop Spillway, an intermediate groomer at Loveland Ski Area, I visualized my descent on the crowded ribbon of man-made hard pack tending towards icy. Sticking to a line was critical, and this task was daunting, as I had just strapped on my first new pair of ...

Head south for summer skiing

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The mountains are the spine of the continent. They run for thousands of miles, in places jagged and impassible, in others friendlier, with passes...

Five to 10 National Parks to test expanded WiFi

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The National Park Service will test expanded WiFi in five to 10 parks this year, with an eye on cutting park costs and providing up-to-date information to visitors...

Balloon-powered flight in South Africa honors Nelson Mandela

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A man flew nearly 4 miles by balloon in South Africa, traversing the sea from Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, to Cape Town...

Vail Buys Kirkwood for $18 Million

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Kirkwood has always been Lake Tahoe’s semi-hidden gem...

Hibernating can lead to depression, lethargy

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It sure is easy to crank up the heater, turn on the TV and stay indoors during winter. Lots of people do it, and winter weather provides plenty of excuses to avoid going outdoors...