Adventure
Mountaineering mathematics
I will wager Sir Isaac Newton wasn’t a climber, but mountaineers do share bonds with the great mathematician and physicist. For instance, he discovered...
Engineering gear reviews
A recent partnership between CU, Western Colorado University and Blister takes outdoor gear testing to a technical new level
Burrowing bodies
With a click, all color vanishes. Darkness rushes in, swallowing everything whole, my eyelids and surroundings no longer different but blended with the inky-black...
When ‘plus-size’ is average, why consider it niche?
The first time Raquel Vélez went skiing, she wore a hoodie and sweatpants under a rain jacket and rain pants, not for fashion’s sake,...
The long way up
I’m out the door by 1 a.m., heading north from South Boulder. I dodge drunk CU students just coming in for the night as...
Hometown Hero: Nell Rojas
One morning in March, low clouds hung heavy over the springy rubber track behind Boulder’s Manhattan Middle School of Arts. It was a perfect...
Breaking the cycle
Crank Farm is a new auction platform for used performance bikes, solving a frustrating problem for the cycling community
Sleeping giant no more
Around age 8, Conor Hall started doing primitive skills courses with his siblings near their home in Crestone, “kind of tucked under the towering...
Return to Neptune
Neptune Mountaineering’s Thursday Night Events return, with Tommy Caldwell, ‘Cuddle’ and the debut of new cult climbing shoes.
