Adventure
It was like running on a treadmill — except that we were outside. We were running uphill, directly into a steady 30-mile-per-hour headwind. As part of our training to run the Bolder Boulder on Memorial Day, my 9-year-old son and I were running in a 5K race on a brutally windy spring day in April.
Adventure
It was like running on a treadmill — except that we were outside. We were running uphill, directly into a steady 30-mile-per-hour headwind. As part of our training to run the Bolder Boulder on Memorial Day, my 9-year-old son and I were running in a 5K race on a brutally windy spring day in April.
Adventure
Three years ago, when the first meetings were held at Boulder-area high schools to talk about launching the Colorado High School Cycling League, a handful of riders showed up interested to cycle for their schools. Fairview started with two riders in 2010.
Adventure
More than 60,000 people are expected to participate in the Bolder Boulder this year — what “may be the world’s best mass participation race in the United States,” according to Runner’s World magazine.
Adventure
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 delve into a committing trip, like an eight-day backpacking expedition.
Adventure
Three, two, one, bang. It is that fast. Traveling involuntarily through the most contrasting realities. Traveling through the opposite side of my life in my own country.
Adventure
There are tiny fires everywhere. This is one of the first things you will notice about India — the uncountable number of people and the fires trickling haphazardly toward the smoggy sky to keep mosquitoes at bay. I never saw who lit them or who put them out.
Adventure
Rawlings´ route from Barstow, Calif., to Las Vegas was originally 183 miles long, but became 205 miles due to an unexpected, impassable, 4x4-only road causing the relay to take a day-long detour.
Adventure
On Monday, April 22, ultrarunner and Boulderite Jay Rawlings took his first steps in a 180-mile, seven-day endurance relay that will see him running the equivalent of a marathon a day for a week. Less than a month before standing at the starting line, he was not able to run a mile without walking.
Adventure
The story of climbers at Everest wanting to give back to the people living in the Himalayan foothills of the world’s tallest peak is as old as the stories of climbers visiting the top of Everest itself.
Adventure
Even after hundreds of skydives and base jumps, Steph Davis says, stepping to the edge of that cliff still brings up a bubble of fear.
MONDAY, MAY 27: BolderBoulder 10K. 7 a.m. and subsequent start times. Walnut and 30th in the Twenty Ninth Street mall, Boulder, www.bolderboulder.com.
MONDAY, MAY 27: BolderBoulder 10K. 7 a.m. and subsequent start times. Walnut and 30th in the Twenty Ninth Street mall, Boulder, www.bolderboulder.com.
SUNDAY, MAY 19: Boulder Bicycle Swap. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Fat Kitty Cycles, 3380 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, www.boulderbicycleswap.com.
TUESDAY, MAY 14: Botswana Safari. 7 p.m. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-786-8406.
TUESDAY, MAY 7: A Central Europe Tour: Prague, Budapest, Krakow & More. 7 p.m. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-786-8406.
TUESDAY, APRIL 30: Camp Cooking Basics. 6:30 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.
SUNDAY, APRIL 21: Earth Day 5K for the Center for ReSource Conservation. 10 a.m. Potts Field at CU Research Park, Boulder, www.conservationcenter.org.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17: The Colorado Trail: Adventure for All Ages. 6:30 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10: Three-season Survival Skills. 6:30 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.
TUESDAY, APRIL 2: Getting Started with Triathlons. 6:30 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.
TUESDAY, MARCH 26: Bike Maintenance Basics. 6:30 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.
Outdoors Today
A recent fight between Nepalese Sherpas and three European climbers on the slopes of Mt. Everest grabbed headlines, but it's by no means an isolated incident, climbers familiar with the world's tallest peak say.
Outdoors Today
A recent fight between Nepalese Sherpas and three European climbers on the slopes of Mt. Everest grabbed headlines, but it's by no means an isolated incident, climbers familiar with the world's tallest peak say.
Outdoors Today
Longtime NBA player Jason Collins has come out as gay in an editorial column for Sports Illustrated, becoming the first openly gay athlete in any US team sport.
Outdoors Today
A group of three European climbers has reported a fight between themselves and a group of Sherpa guides on Mount Everest.
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Ryan Van Duzer hasn’t had a written resume in years. He’s made a living having adventures, making videos of them and giving inspirational talks about the approach to life that has him venturing off the beaten path on a daily basis.
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Most Colorado ski resorts are closed for the year. Too bad the weather doesn't agree that ski season is over.
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Sochi, Russia gets heavy snow. But when the South Russian city — roughly on the same latitude as central Wyoming and upstate New York — hosts the Olympics next year, it wants to be darn sure it's got the powder for it.
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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.
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If you're ever in Cody, Wyo., just ask for Wild Bob. And tell him, and a lot of others in Cody, thanks for pitching in.
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A huge rope swing made popular by a YouTube video has caused the death of a man in Utah.
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An octogenarian Japanese man is planning a third summit of Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, hoping to retake a record for oldest hike to the summit.
Winter Scene
There´s a buzz building in the air with each cold nip and chilly breeze. Those long, light blue wispy clouds over the western horizon are surely harbingers of wind, freezing temperatures and snow.
Winter Scene
There´s a buzz building in the air with each cold nip and chilly breeze. Those long, light blue wispy clouds over the western horizon are surely harbingers of wind, freezing temperatures and snow.
Winter Scene
Colorado’s ski season opened this year on the slopes of A Basin, locally loved for its open bowl skiing, steep runs and the “Beach” base area that’s so friendly to tailgating parties. With some of the highest skiable terrain in the country, topping out at 13,000 feet, it’s not a surprise that A Basin’s season is one of the longest.
Winter Scene
Talk to a skier who learned in the ’60s and they’ll tell stories of coaches imported from Europe to teach Americans how to tackle obstacles like moguls — knees together! — and ski edges sharp enough to shred your ski pants. Our rocker skis, wide leg stance and Gortex pants are a long ways from those experiences.
Winter Scene
The big news for Vail this year is the replacement of the aging Vista Bahn high-speed chairlift with the most technologically advanced lift in North America. Vail’s new gondola is a masterpiece of engineering.
Winter Scene
It´s been a long day up on the mountains and the Clif bar you had earlier did no justice to your hunger.
Winter Scene
After last year’s lackluster snowfall truncated the number of available ski days, it would be nice if Mother Nature gave a little foresight into what Colorado resorts may be in for in 2012-13.
Winter Scene
If the lyrics to “Silent Night” are to be believed, winter is a time when “all is calm.” But try telling that to someone at one of Colorado’s ski resorts.
Winter Scene
After three weeks camped on the Carroll Glacier in Alaska, waiting to ski a certain line after it went into the shade, longtime backcountry skier and guide Donny Roth finally set out for the summit. He and his team hiked to within 200 feet of the summit and assessed the situation. It was, he says, certain death.
Winter Scene
May you snowshoe into the deep woods and get a taste of the sublime stillness. And may you partake in some of the sweet winter gear that has been waiting to be dusted off and get on the mountain.
Winter Scene
As the ski and snowboarding season is gearing up, people of all levels and abilities will be heading into the high country — some purely for recreation and the sense of freedom that an open mountain can provide, whether impaired or not. But some are heading to the high country to kick some serious butt.
