Adventure

It’s on: Colorado ski areas turn on snowmaking machines

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Snowmaking has begun at Loveland and Arapahoe Basin, meaning the 2013-2014 ski season is just around the corner. The race has begun to see which of Colorado’s early openers get there first. Time to dust off those skis...

Solaris: Vail’s New Hot Spot

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It’s Thursday night in February and, despite the lack of snow...

Fall is peak time for climbing

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 Colorado’s 54 highest peaks, the fourteeners, are already deep into fall. It’s one of the most beautiful and peaceful times to climb a fourteener. The crowds have thinned, the aspens are turning, and the threat of lightning has eased. But at 14,000 feet, autumn, ...

Guided beer hikes

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"Make a wish,” said naturalist Paul Gayer...

One tank of gas

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How far can you go on one tank of gas? Two hundred miles? Three hundred? Four? Well, it all depends upon where you’re headed...

Finding the past in the present

Jonathan Byers has blogged about repeat photography working like a time machine — he finds old photographs of the mountains, sometimes in books worth more than his camera, maps out where they were taken, hikes in to that spot, holds up the historic photo and travels ...

New bike tire design: Airless, can’t go flat

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A tire that never goes flat isn't a brand-new concept. But all the other designs on this idea have remained just that: concepts...

It takes all of us

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This past summer, a 90-year-old Korean War Veteran cycled around Chatfield State Park with his entire family, while a young boy with a visual...

Point taken

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It’s typically windy in Rocky Mountain National Park. On this January Friday, however, it’s relatively calm and warm. With temperatures eking into the high...

Ultra-Cameron: CU-Boulder runner dives into ultramarathons

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Three facts that will keep you away from ultramarathons...

A fighter’s chance

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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 ...

Warm weather, dearth of snow leave ski resorts scrambling to keep...

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Flowers are blooming along the sidewalks. Snow on the mountains is melting fast...