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Standing at the base of Lizard Head, courage slipped from my spine, leaving my fear as naked and vulnerable as a new born baby. I was used to those momentary shocks of terror on mountains, normally disapated with a deep breath and redoubled resolve. Normally these fears were triggered by sketchy, exposed moves or a near [...]

Starting on April 4, Dave Schipper and a strong crew will be skiing 14 14ers, traversing from Monarch to Leadville, Colorado, and racking up 130 miles and 40,000 verts. You can follow the trip (delayed from a March 28 start) live through Dave’s blog posts here at Elevation Outdoors. In the meantime, read about Dave [...]

Spring is definitely in Moab – all the license plates have turned green… It’s also spring in the Sawatche Range – bringing volatile weather patterns, lots of snow and longer days. The CAIC (Colorado Avalanche Information Center) Website has some standardized reporting features. The easiest visual is the pie shaped Avalanche Danger Scale (AKA Wheel of Death). [...]

Indeed, Rebel’s knocked up with twins and they’re scheduled to arrive in July. Boys, too–we’re in for it! When we decided to have a kid(s) (they say identical twins are a 1 in 300 shot–who knew?!), we also agreed I’d need to visit Europe in the spring, to check in on family…and get some playing [...]

So get this, some jack-heiney named Tony Kornheiser spent six minutes on ESPN Radio urging listeners to “tap” cyclists while driving, or to outright “run them down”. He was apparently pissed off about losing a lane of road access to cycling lanes in DC. You can listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmOLpjKys&feature=related When you’re done, take a minute [...]

Or how to avoid lightning in the high country. It was the crackling I heard first—like a bowl of Rice Krispies amplified through the speakers in Madison Square Garden. When the sky could no longer contain that noise, a blaring bang burst out of the dark gray air. A flash of light popped around me [...]

The time is ripe to turn your patch of concrete into a vegetable garden or create a fishery in your backyard. Boulder was named a runner-up as America’s Foodiest Small Town by Bon Appétit last year, and locavores are looking forward to the start-up of many of Colorado’s farmer’s markets this month. But the big [...]

The first “festival” I ever went to was Live Aid in 1985. The show raised $286 million for Ethiopian famine, while putting superstar artists on the stage including Black Sabbath, The Pretenders, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger and Led Zeppelin (with, odd as it may sound, Phil Collins playing drums). As someone who came [...]

Some are rejoicing that the snow is going away and warm weather is finally here. Some just can’t let winter go. But there’s sun and snow (and the occasional naked person) in the Colorado mountains in April, and you can celebrate spring fever in style at these farewells to the white stuff. 5th ANNUAL KAYAKS [...]