Archive for June 2009
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Sending out some big, hopeful …
Sending out some big, hopeful positive thoughts for Jonny, Micah and Wade. Show up, dudes!!!
Beat the Heat
Summer’s here and the living’s hot in the Front Range. To cool you down while keeping your adrenaline at a steady boil, we give you Colorado’s best water events—and a few more that will just soak you in sweat. For a complete listing of all Colorado June/July events, go to elevationoutdoors.com/events-calendar. Teva Mountain Games • [...]
Walking Blues
Take a listen to these five musicians who log time on the trail. Travis Book Book recently moved to Nashville via Durango to be near his band mates in the award-winning bluegrass outfit the Infamous Stringdusters, but the avid mountain biker, trail runner and hiker says he still misses the Southwestern mountains. His favorite regular [...]
Mountain Minstrel
When Pete Kartsounes decided to hike the Colorado Trail, he couldn’t leave his music behind. So he decided to play shows along the way—and founded a hiking charity to fight cancer. Like most local singer-songwriters, Pete Kartsounes dedicates his summers to touring. So when his good friend asked him to hike the Colorado Trail last [...]
The Pain Principle
One man’s twisted love-hate relationship with Salida singletrack. I was barely a quarter of the way into the ordeal, and already I was praying for the misery to end. The cold snapped at my gloved fingers and made my pedaling feet throb with pain, and the alpine darkness smudged the blaze of my headlamps to [...]
Moab Pavement
For an entirely new spin on the “mountain bike Mecca,” bring your road bike. It has become the most clichéd of clichés—Moab equals mountain biking. But the place has far more to offer (and we’re not talking about the brews at Eddie McStiffs, though they’re worth mentioning). No one seems to want to say it, [...]
Virtual Belay
TheClimberGirl dishes on how she became a Twitter addict and how she uses it both as a tool to gather climbing beta and to meet new friends. Like most climbers, I hold down a couple of jobs. Over the years, I started exploring various social networking tools and online “water coolers,” so to speak, so [...]
Alone at the Top
You don’t have to climb big walls to bag some of the best peaks in Colorado. Presenting the best eight unknown summit scrambles in the state. First, a piece of advice: If you’re going to lose your keys on the top of a mountain, you had better make it one of Colorado’s wildly popular 14ers. [...]
Diamond Dogs
Are you ready to tackle the East Face of Longs Peak? Our rock-hound runs down all the ins and out of how to climb the most sought-after face on the Front Range whether it’s your first time or you’re a vet looking for a new challenge.
Underwriting Adventure
Want health insurance to protect yourself on your next climbing expedition? Think about applying for Polish citizenship. Two weeks from today, I head to Namibia. In fact, by the time you read this, I will likely be in Namibia doing something for which I’m not insured. Technically, because I live in the USA. I’m going [...]
