Elevation Outdoors Magazine

“We think it fits with Google’s message of Don’t Be Evil. What could be more evil for our planet than driving a car when you could ride or walk your bike somewhere?” —DL Byron of BikeHugger.com, regarding Google’s beta version of cycling directions as part of Google Maps. Read the full story here: www.bit.ly/d75UWu

If the Army Corps of Engineers approve a proposal to expand Gross Reservoir., it will cause the loss of 30,000 trees, eagle nesting habitat and camp sites and increased traffic along Highways 128/93/72. Worse, expansion diverts water off the struggling Fraser and Colorado rivers. Fraser’s diversion total would go up to 85 percent , and [...]

amount Colorado will receive from the U.S. Forest Service to address the impacts of the bark beetle and spruce beetle epidemics and to protect people and property.

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard is a self-declared “reluctant businessman,” who has always seen his business as a means to spending more free time outdoors. Chouinard got his start as a teenager selling homemade pitons out of the back of his car to fellow climbers. In the 1970s, his nascent Chouinard Equipment evolved into Patagonia. He [...]

The daily grind in Ned means you ski, bike and canoe to work Dave Kingsbury is the king of multimodal commuting, going to and from work at Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Boulder to his home in Nederland at least three days a week by skis and bike in winter, and by canoe and bike [...]

Beat the summer heat in town and climb in the high country When Boulder Canyon granite burns your toes and bags of chalk won’t keep you from greasing off Rifle limestone, head for the mountains. Here’s a selection of Colorado’s best midsummer sport crags, from east to west. For up-to-date beta, search MountainProject.com. Jurassic Park [...]

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 [...]

In Gunnison you can find world class biking, boating and climbing just a short walk from the coffee shop. There are few places left in Colorado where Old West and New West have come together so seemlessly. Here, you still have Cattlemen’s Days, which celebrates the local ranching culture, and true-to-life tumbleweeds occasionally “tumble” across [...]

Want to know where to find off-the-radar, core mountain bike rides in Colorado and Utah? We give you the best riding away from the unwashed masses. You’ve been to Moab, that hip, happening scene in the red rock desert, with more mountain bikers than lizards. You’ve fought the crowds on the trails around your home, [...]