Adventure

Floating downstream on the Colorado River between the red limestone walls of Marble Canyon on a makeshift raft, John Mattson spots a big drop. The rushing waves of Badger Creek Rapid are ahead. He and his friends scout the rapid for a clean entry. A more ...

They say you can’t run before you walk, but Terry Chiplin may be the exception to the rule. The British-native is the founder of the...

With winter solstice behind us, it’s true that our daily ration of sunlight has begun to increase. But that’s cold comfort for those of us who begin and end our workdays in the dark. The instinct to wrap up in our snuggies and nest is strong, especially when Boulder ...

It rains for the first time this summer in Athens during my stay. A welcome plummet to the brooding temperatures. The days are humid and seemingly eternal. The sea swells in ridiculous blues and greens. Whole towns converge to swim. Cicadas hum vacuously in the ...

There is a wildness in the natural world that most of us never meet. But when we do, we are likely to be transformed. “I...

With just three days of food, we set off to test out the eastern tip of the Arctic Circle Trail, heading west in bright sunshine along a dirt road that parallels the Kangerlussuaq runway. We then turned north — magnetic north, which at this latitude is more than ...

A huge rope swing made popular by a YouTube video has caused the death of a man in Utah...

On a visit back to his native country, on a trek in the Annapurna region of Nepal, Portland State University professor Bishupal Limbu remembers being uncomfortable because of his shoes. They were nice, they were meant for the occasion and the Australians he was ...

The air is still this Sunday morning. It’s fall and the hint of yellows and reds are starting to dot Boulder’s lush landscape — but it’s still warm. In fact, it’s already warm out on the plains east of the city on this particular Sunday morning, and with no clouds in...

ARIES March 21-April 19: In 2018, your past will undergo transformation. Your memories will revise and rearrange themselves. Bygone events that seemed complete and definitive...

I was feeling a little giddy. Yes, I was stoked to be grinding up the hill in Keystone Adventure Tours’ (KAT) all-world powder snowcat on a bluebird day to the Dead blaring “Truckin’.” But these days, what Daddy really likes is a happy family posse...

We’ve ridden, tested and evaluated dozens of the most promising bikes of...