Elevation Outdoors Magazine

Well, have we finally gotten our chunk of high pressure, clear nights, and good solar? I’m hoping for a tour on Longs this week, so I’m wondering what you’re all seeing out there. Good corn? Solid freezes way up high?! It’s been another weird spring, with big storms, a dust layer, and cloudy nights. The [...]

It’s not often that I’m going to schmooze any kind of online contest, but this one is worth checking out. Blog Your Way Around the World is an essay contest where you can win 8 (!) trips for 2 people (!!) to some of the coolest destinations in the world! Enter a short 400 word [...]

If you have not yet picked up Outdoor Parents, Outdoor Kids, Eugene Buchanan’s excellent tome for surviving active parenthood, do so now. The book is the 0utdoor addict’s answer to Dr. Sears. Last week, Eugene, who is a frequent contributor here at Elevation Outdoors, read from the book at REI in Boulder and Denver. Here’s [...]

Believe it or not the Telluride Wine Festival has been sipping the goods for more than a decade. Each year they’ve gone a little bigger and this June 25-26 the ante gets upped with live music featuring Devotchka, Blitzen Trapper, Jackie Greene, and a bunch of other mountain-grass howl-at-the-moon musicians. More and more youthful, athletic [...]

“Back in the day” refers to the hallowed salad days of some mythic yesteryear. For Boulder climbers, this was the ’70s; afternoons of low-gravity, brief rain showers, unexplored cliffs…and a tight-knit climbing community of ripped rockmasters with which to share it. Maybe it wasn’t all first-ascents and fun back then, but one thing’s for sure–the [...]

*Eco-righteous and those who appreciate a townie with a little soul: I hereby offer you one (1) free used Bianchi Milano (size large), provided you win an informal, no-holds-barred essay contest. Send me 500 words describing why you deserve this tried-and-true, faithful steed and include a few thoughts on how you’ll use it. This is [...]

Terrible news from Italy…founder and owner of the famous Hotel Zi’ Martino, Carlo Guarguaglini, passed away this evening in Tuscany. Carlo rode the Tour, the Giro, the Tour of Lombardy, and many other  events during his time as a pro in Italy in the ’50s. After his career he started his hotel below the small [...]

The quest for the perfect pack…a journey as storied and timeless as the search for the perfect pizza. Once you’ve had “the best”, you’re right back out there looking for its superior. I probably have a dozen backpacks of every variety out in the garage as we speak. Packs for backpacking, rock climbing, skiing, cycling, [...]

It was so promising, this potentially last storm of the year. Up to two feet of snow were forecast and we nearly hit that…13-or-so inches at Bear Lake, in Rocky Mountain National Park. Problem was, the sun came out and turned it all to overcooked spuds in the space of an hour. I met Joey [...]

I’m fresh off the Jordan Kobert wedding in Sonoma County, California. Great event: I managed to only put my foot in my mouth once during the three-day binge. Phew. The question is, is Sonoma County the best road riding in the US? I’ve not ridden in Boone, North Carolina, which they say is stellar…but perhaps [...]