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Back from K2, one of the best high-altitude guides on the planet tells what it’s like to be responsible for climbers on one of the deadliest mountains in the world.
Though he has yet to summit K2, Fabrizio Zangrilli may be more intimate with the 8,611-meter peak than many who have stood on top. Zangrilli, 37, [...]

Homeless Gear will take all that swag that’s clogging up your garage and give it to people who really need it
We’re guessing you’ve upgraded your tent, sleeping bag, hiking boots and ski shell in the last ten years. Twice. We’d also bet that you’ve still got all the old stuff stashed in the spare bedroom [...]

Elevation Outdoors talks turkey with Colorado’s king of cyclocross, just in time for the race season
You run a successful message courier business, Denver-Boulder Couriers, and yet you’ve been monkeying around putting on bike races in Colorado since 1989. What was it that first fed your compulsion?
When I moved here from Boston in 1988, all the [...]

Fundraising goal amount for Boulder’s new off-road bike park. $350,000 has been raised so far. Find out more at valmontbikepark.com.

Based in Kremmling, the biggest wood pellet plant west of the Mississippi is making good use of all those dead trees on the local hillsides. Confluence Energy uses Colorado’s beetle-kill trees to create a local, renewable fuel source. Wood pellets burn cleaner than cordwood, emitting 75 percent less particulates than a regularly-fueled wood-fired furnace or [...]

Just because you remember when Hendrix played at Woodstock doesn’t mean you can’t still rip the bumps
They say that 60 is the new 40. Which means baby boomers need to stop pussy-footing around on the groomed runs and get back out into deep pow and bumps. And according to Joe Nevin, the 63-year-old founder of [...]

The state of Colorado leads the charge in algae-based biofuel
Biofuel is on the brink of becoming more than just raiding Burger King dumpsters, thanks to Fort Collins-based Solix Biofuels Inc. The company put Colorado on the map as an emerging world leader last month when it announced the start of algal oil production at its [...]

I did something stupid at the end of this summer. I ran 24 miles with 4,000 feet of elevation gain from Red Cliff up over Two Elk Pass and down to Vail. Now that’s fairly normal stuff for Coloradans. It was stupid for me because, well, I didn’t train. I had probably only gone on [...]

Jonny Copp took his first steps in a Nepalese campsite. He spent the first years of his life living in a jeep with a camper top that his parents drove from Thailand across Asia and Europe to a freighter bound for Baltimore. He liked to tell how he learned to light matches from a butcher [...]