This ain’t no Ice Capades. The tiny town of Ouray has turned itself into the best ice-climbing playground on the planet. And there’s no better time to chill here than during the Ouray Ice Festival. Ouray’s famed ice festival, the premier international gathering of ice climbers, gear manufacturing exhibitors and voyeurs, was started in 1996 [...]

The toxic nuclear missile silos scattered around the country are a small but dangerous part of the fallout from the Cold War. The state of New Mexico did something about them this fall when a dozen retired Atlas F missile silos near the city of Roswell were decontaminated. Citizens and the Army Corps of Engineers [...]

“Abandoned mines are a menace to the environment and public health and to the communities that rely on water flowing downstream. There are several groups in Colorado who care about their communities and want to protect them and who are ready to go as soon as we have legislation to help them get started. I’m [...]

You may have seen him before. His chamois is for café stools, not bike saddles. His trail running shoes never see the trail. His SUV is kitted out with a cargo rack and a clean, never-used axe. If he lived in a major city, he’d wear gobs of hair product and perhaps some eyeliner. There, [...]

[Ed’s Note: For five years from 2001–2006, I was lucky enough to work at now-departed Hooked on the Outdoors magazine here in Boulder. I learned what goes into an outdoor sports magazine from editor-in-chief Nancy Coulter-Parker and editor-at-large John Byroth. So I thought I’d give John a chance to say goodbye to the most important [...]