Elevation Outdoors Magazine

Make room in your garage for the latest must-have piece of gear.
As if you didn’t have enough toys already, add this to your list of gear to buy and skills to master: the “stand-up paddleboard” (SUP).
“It’s really caught on,” explains Walker Ferguson, Rocky Mountain sales rep for C4 Waterman (c4waterman.com). “You can hop on [...]

We’re guessing you’ve dropped more than your fair share of coin at Steamboat. And while it’s worth every penny, wouldn’t it be nice to win some cash back? The “We Love Steamboat” Contest is offering $20,000 in prize money to top stories, videos and photos about why people like Steamboat. Deadline for entry is August [...]

Think Colorado’s too high for fine wine? Elevation and chilly nights combine to make some tasty juice at Alfred Eames Cellars.
Colorado’s high elevation draws mountaineers, free spirits, and Olympic hopefuls, but it’s never been a prime lure for winemakers. The thin air didn’t stop Alfred Eames, however. In fact, the undaunted oenologist is the [...]

You don’t have to travel out to the West Slope to taste authentic Colorado wine. Instead, head to a Quonset hut in Denver’s Santa Fe arts district. At Infinite Monkey Theorem winemaker Ben Parsons, a vet of Palisade wineries, is using Colorado grapes to concoct a new concept urban wine. It’s so good chefs at [...]

Forget Red Rocks—how about a mountain music festival on Mt Kilimanjaro? The trail to Machu Picchu in the Andes? The top of the Empire State Building? Everest base camp? Meet the Love, Hope, Strength Foundation (LHSF), a nonprofit on a mission to produce the highest concerts on Earth for the higher purpose of funding cancer [...]

The new Woodward at Copper Center will keep hucksters on their boards year-round.
Summer might be when the columbines blossom, the snow melts and rivers roar in the Rockies, but a new indoor facility at Copper Mountain is ensuring that you don’t have to hang up your skis when the snow goes south.
Opened in February, Woodward [...]

A Colorado mother and son set out to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro to help educate poverty-stricken girls in Tanzania.

The next time you’re sitting around with a teenager wondering how to bridge the generation gap, consider Karen Davis. This working mother is planning a trip to climb 19,340-foot Mt Kilimanjaro with her 15-year-old son Dustin. And [...]

Germany pulled Red Bull Cola off retail shelves in May after researchers found 0.4 micrograms of cocaine per liter in ubiquitous energy-drink brand’s new soft drink. Red Bull rebuked the decision, claiming, “Decocainised coca leaf extracts are used as flavoring in foodstuffs around the world and are considered to be safe. Red Bull Cola and [...]

This summer, Boulder-based climber Fabrizio Zangrilli will lead the first commercially guided expedition up K2 (8,611 m). Some critics have disparaged the trip as the first step in transforming K2 into the “new Everest,” commodifying one of the most deadly mountains in the world, but Zangrilli sees it as the beginning of a new, better [...]

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