Thursday, October 4,2012
Festival's films explore the nature of adventure
By Elizabeth Miller
Not every journey ends in an exclamation point. When Matt Segal, Eric Decaria and John Dickey went to Kyrgyzstan to climb its massive, granite walls, they didn’t go to set up a new route or pioneer a new area. But they took video cameras anyway, and filmed what they did do.
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Thursday, September 27,2012
Primitive skills could save your life — and open your eyes
By Elizabeth Miller
One week in fall several years ago, Douglas Hill went into the woods. What came out of the woods was a different man.
Tuesday, September 25,2012
African artist El Anatsui exhibit shows up-cycled art
By Elizabeth Miller
Talk to El Anatsui about the thousands of bottlecaps used in his artwork, and he’s less concerned with the obvious problem — yes, these were garbage headed for landfills that now hang on museum walls — than the issue they represent for his community.
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Thursday, September 20,2012
Upscale Moab weekend shines light on old Western divide
By Elizabeth Miller
Erin and I are off itinerary. It’s after 1:30 p.m. when we look up at the clock in the WabiSabi thrift store in downtown Moab and realize we’ve missed our lunch reservation by an hour.
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Thursday, September 13,2012
New trails, added terrain keep Moab on top when it comes to biking
By Elizabeth Miller
A collaboration between trail developers and land managers has let up to 80 new miles of trails be opened or proposed in the last four years and cut back the number of illegal trail miles.
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Thursday, September 6,2012
Colorado mountain climbing team talks about camping on the summit of all the 14ers
By Elizabeth Miller
After weathering tent pole-breaking winds and a mostly sleepless night at 14,443 feet on the summit of Mount Elbert, Jon Kedrowski and Chris Tomer awoke to an idea: Could they sleep on the summits of every 14er in the state?
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Thursday, September 6,2012
Film on the Sharks Fin first ascent screens at Reel Rock 7
By Elizabeth Miller
One look at the Shark’s Fin on India’s Mount Meru and it’s not hard to see how the arrowhead feature could dig into a climber’s mind.
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Sunday, August 26,2012
Time trial in Denver decides cycling champion
By Elizabeth Miller
Without ever ranking higher in a single stage than the second place he took to Tejay Van Garderen in Stage Two, Christian Vande Velde turned up the speed in the time trial finish to the USA Pro Cycling Challenge on Sunday afternoon, and won himself the race.
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Saturday, August 25,2012
By Elizabeth Miller
Last year’s USA Pro Cycling Challenge winner, Levi Leipheimer, surged ahead up Flagstaff Mountain to take the lead in this year’s race. He was still pushing hard across the finish line, and smiling once he crossed it.
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Friday, August 24,2012
Farrar wins Stage Five; Boulder next for cyclists
By Elizabeth Miller
Today’s Pro Cycling Challenge saw an early breakaway that held the lead for most of Stage Five's descent to Colorado Springs before losing it in the final circuits through town.