Elevation Outdoors Magazine

I wasn’t even 10 miles into Sunday’s Centurion Colorado before the much overused cycling mantra “that’s racing” began echoing through my mind. ‘That’s racing’ is actually just a polite way of saying, “I’m f*cked,” because you don’t use that phrase unless you categorically experience bad luck in a bike race. I stood dejected for about [...]

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At an ultimate Frisbee tournament last August, I remembered that the Broncos had played a preseason game the previous night and I casually asked if anyone knew the score. The first person to pipe up was a particularly hairy little fellow with a nose ring who replied, “Who cares?” Which certainly wasn’t the answer I [...]

Egypt is now open to cyclists I’m squinting, despite wearing the darkest sunglasses I own. There’s no trail here, only sections of sand beaten down by jeeps and camels, signs of the nomadic Bedouin tribes that inhabit this desert. The sweeping Red Sea Mountains fail to block the sun that’s turned our sandy path into [...]

I was excited when I first heard I was going to have a chance to climb Hvannadalshnúkur, the highest mountain in Iceland. I have been fascinated with the country ever since I first visited and hiked the Fimmvorduhals pass—now buried under lava from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano. It’s a visceral place and the island’s landscape is [...]

In May, six members of the Boulder-based Gibbon Slacklines’ Pro Team attempted to establish multiple slacklining highline records, most notably the longest documented highline, in Moab, Utah. A highline is a slackline where the height of the line exceeds the length. The current world record for the longest highline is 240 feet. The Gibbon Team [...]

Edward Wimmer was training for his first marathon in 1999. His dad used to worry when he went out on long runs without any identification. One Saturday morning, Wimmer was out on a long run when he came face to face with a black pick-up truck that put him into a ditch on the side [...]

Admit it, you’ve been curious about ultrarunning. Because really, after completing a marathon, what’s left to conquer? Even Ironman triathlons lose their luster after a while. But the Leadville 100, a race across the sky, how could something like that ever get old?  It doesn’t. Start training now at the Gunnison Ultrarunning Experience, July 28-August [...]

Here in crunchy Colorado, any old longboard won’t do. We want something handmade, something that looks good leaning against our furniture, perhaps something created from reclaimed wood sources. Oh, and we want a sweet, smooth ride with big, stable wheels. Like snowboarding in fresh powder, waterskiing on mirrored glass, dropping in on the perfect wave. [...]

A Colorado author and group of activists bare it all for conservation Jonathan Waterman, environmental adventurer and author of Running Dry: A Journey From Source to Sea down the Colorado River (2010), is ass deep in Colorado River issues. Literally. A skinny dipping session was captured on film as the promotional photo for Save the [...]