Adventure
Colorado Trail gets 80-mile complementary extension
The Colorado Trail Foundation has announced that it has added 80 miles of new trail to the Colorado Trail, which traverses the state from north to south...
BIFF 2013: Find, save, copy, paste
Imagine a trove of knowledge as vast and extensive as the famous Library of Alexandria, heralded for its archives of literature from antiquity and destroyed in the first centuries of the Common Era — burned, in the best of the legends about its destruction, in a fire...
Utah man dies at Moab’s Corona Arch on rope swing
A huge rope swing made popular by a YouTube video has caused the death of a man in Utah...
Savvy skiers know to look for ticket deals now
Fall hasn’t been here for too long, but the chill in the air and the recent snow storm in Colorado are reminders that ski season is on the way...
A frigid wolf chase
Looking at a map of Saskatchewan, one can’t help but notice the glaring lack of human infrastructure in the northern reaches of the province. Civilization fades out on the map just north of the city of Prince Albert, the last significant outpost before the ...
Get high with a little help from your friends
The Reel Rock Film Tour is back, and this year the weekend-long adventure film series is paying homage to those folks who show us...
Rock climbing cut off after floods
Because rain is the new thing for Boulder weather, it’s rainy again this afternoon, which means you may not be thinking about which pitches you’d like to be sending the moment you’re released from the chains that bind you to your desk...
Still on the trail
It was rocky riding for mountain bikers in Boulder in the ’80s — in 1983, City Council voted 8-1 to prohibit “non-motorized” bikes on trails,...
Something good from war
The 10th Mountain Division was an integral player in the rapid development of the Colorado ski industry during the second half of the 20th century. Some would argue it was the most important part. The veterans of the famous division were involved in the founding of ...
A gentle hand: Boulderite Jan Mitchell makes a difference in Africa
Jan Mitchell is going to have to buy a donkey for a family in Ghana. It’s good news. Two years ago, she gave the family a bull to replace one that died after rocks were thrown at it to chase it out of a garden. She promised that if, when she returned, the bull was ...
Gimme the cold shoulder
In Colorado, climbing is a year-round sport. When the heat of the summer dies down and the shadows grow longer each day, active seekers...
As long as he can hold his hands up
If you look west from Foothills Parkway at just the right moment you’ll notice a building that looks like an oversized irrigation pipe made of concrete. Tucked into an unassuming block on Pearl Parkway — you wouldn’t know unless you investigated — is Front Range ...
