Elevation Outdoors Magazine

Meet IMBA government affairs director Jenn Dice, the woman who takes on Washington in the name of singletrack. This spring Jenn Dice of the International Mountain Biking Association (IMBA) and the Outdoor Alliance (OA) went to Washington DC, to make the case for more singletrack. She came home to Colorado celebrating a renewed partnership with [...]

The demographics of the United States are becoming more and more diverse, but the National Parks Service wonders why it is not seeing more minorities applying for jobs—or visiting. Can the parks thrive if they aren’t relevant to a rapidly changing U.S. population? The Intermountain Region headquarters of the National Park Service (NPS) is your [...]

With plenty of options for untracked lines and an authentic vibe, the little town that rocks makes for a perfect close-to-home winter weekend.Salida is still a bit off the radar when it comes to backcountry goodness, but just three hours from Denver, it offers up a whole platter of powdery ski and snowboard options for [...]

At the risk of blowing the most closely guarded secret in the Front Range, we send a former Nederland resident back to his old stomping grounds to uncover the truth about the riding scene, local politics, all those hidden trails and what the future has in store for a community that still rides for the [...]

The invasion is here and it doesn’t look pretty. Most of the trees in 2 million acres of Colorado forests are dead or dying. Will the forest ever be the same? Vince White-Petteruti had seen some messed-up trails in his years as a founding member of the Wilderness Volunteers, but seldom had he seen anything [...]

An ode to the last unfettered tributary to the Colorado

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is in control of policy for public lands across the West and he will be taking the heat in battles over everything from oil exploration to new wilderness areas. Just two months into his appointment, this 5th generation Hispanic Colorado rancher is already proving refreshingly different than the old boss.

Take a look at the green efforts of these Colorado resorts.

Many of Colorado’s ski and snowboard resorts are striving to run more sustainable operations. But is it all just greenwashing?
Can a resort truly be green?

Could skiing and snowboarding go the way of the slow food and slow travel movements? If such a slow skiing revolution were to launch, skiers and snowboarders would stick to their local hills and only travel out occasionally to enjoy the culture and slopes of one other resort, slowly. “Silverton or Mad River Glen are [...]