Adventure
Venturing out of the box
I had the best cubicle job in the world. Which is like boasting about being the world’s tallest midget...
American Academy of Neurology: Immediate rest after possible concussions
The American Academy of Neurology has released new guidelines for parents and coaches of all types of athletes, including a recommendation to remove athletes from play if concussions are ever suspected...
The queen of offwidth climbing
Most forms of rock climbing are a lot like dancing — almost balletic in the delicate, precise, graceful moves involved. A beautiful waltz with...
Summer snow
It´s early in the morning, so early that roosters are crowing in backyards. The clip-clopping of donkey carts accompanies the avian symphony — and we narrowly miss a burro as we turn onto a singlelane road bordered by small farms, ramshackle huts and the debris of a ...
Snowman: Boulder native braces for avalanche season
Ethan Green is a busy man. Boulder Weekly tracks him down on a cool November morning. He’s got a day full of meetings, a major fundraising bash has just wrapped up, there’s a storm coming to the high country — plus he wants to go skiing and check out Colorado’s high ...
Team USA, ready to wade
On the 11th of September, more than 400 people will coast through the Rocky Mountains, stopping in Vail. They will be from 25 different...
You Could Smell Humanity
She let them sleep in her woodshed. But all night long, recalls Boulder resident Stan Havlick, he could hear the young woman praying fervently that the foreign cyclists tucked soundly into their sleeping bags wouldn’t harm her...
Point of View
For the past several months I’ve been experimenting with POV (point of view) video cameras...
Strength of mind:
Mark Williams looks just like any other Boulderite on this cool fall evening. Fit and athletic, he’s sipping a microbrew and talking about breathing. About how to breathe, about calming your inner self. About clarity of mind. Nothing really out of the ordinary, ...
A mountain of preventive medicine
Nothing compares to the experience of being in the mountains at altitude, taking in the views, breathing crisp, clean air, hearing the first bubble of a stream at its nascent spring and seeing the tundra climate shrink our world down to miniature — tiny flowers, tiny...
Hybrid Surf-Snowboard Bridges Two Worlds
Snowboarders and surfboarders have many similarities in their sports, but their boards are very different. Signal Snowboards out of Huntington Beach, Calif. has bridged the snow/surf gap with their Fish Out of Water hybrid board...
New Routes for Top Colorado Climbing Area Unanimously Rejected
Climbers in Colorado seemingly botched an opportunity for access to more routes in Rifle...