Walking Blues

by Elevation Staff June 5, 2009

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

by Jedd Ferris June 5, 2009

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

by Aaron Gulley June 5, 2009

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

by Jayme Moye June 4, 2009

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

by Sara Lingafelter June 4, 2009

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

by James Dziezynski June 4, 2009

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. [...]