Elevation Outdoors Magazine

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When we sent writer Paul Tolme back to his old stomping grounds in Nederland to write on the local MTB scene (“The Ride of the Nedhed Dirt Club“), we also set him up with some essential gear for the trip. Here’s his take on how it worked on the trail. Head Gear: There’s no need [...]

Enter to win a Ferrino (new co. from Italy) pack and sleeping bag at the Elevation Outdoors Car Camping Giveaway: http://tinyurl.com/n5mfl7

Jonny Copp took his first steps in a Nepalese campsite. He spent the first years of his life living in a jeep with a camper top that his parents drove from Thailand across Asia and Europe to a freighter bound for Baltimore. He liked to tell how he learned to light matches from a butcher [...]

Been training hard all summer? Enter a race to see how you stack up. When the dog days start to wag to a close and fall is the air, it’s time to put the miles you’ve logged all summer long to the test. Not the competitive type? No worries. Competition can be light-hearted. Here, we [...]

What happens when a hard-charging mountain girl who spends spare moments training for triathlons meets a laid-back, cruiser-riding East Coast transplant who likes to bake bread? He Said… I arrived at the small adobe apartment we were to share—two ambitious, 23-year-old strangers from opposite ends of the country who’d landed the same outdoors magazine internship [...]

When your pooch gives you that look, it doesn’t necessarily mean he needs to go to the bathroom—he just wants some new doggie gear. We thought we’d change it up this issue and cover what a dog wants instead of what a girl wants. Not that we’re suggesting that a dog is a valid substitute [...]

Our curmudgeon says it’s easy to forget, but making sure to protect your skin is essential in the outdoors. Being blond haired, blue eyed, and relatively fair skinned, I’ve been hip to the sun, the skin and the deleterious things can happen when the two meet, for a long time. Still, like many people, I [...]

Who says fashion and function can’t meet? These seven essentials bridge the style-performance gap. Because I live and work in Boulder and play the dual role of “professional” (as a lawyer) and “professional athlete” (adventure racer, trail runner, etc.), I am constantly navigating between two worlds and my wardrobe reflects that attempt.  (My mother, who [...]

Sick and tired of hearing about how green your gear is? So are we. So we tried to rethink the way we defined green for these eight sustainable products. We are now officially numb to green product claims. Because really, making and buying stuff consumes energy by its very nature. Very few store-bought products are [...]