The Colorado climbing and retail legend imparts his wisdom on the joys of the high peaks, shares the highlights of his in-store mountaineering museum, and talks about how customers just like to hang out on his couch. With all due respect, Gary Neptune—the owner and founder of Boulder’s Neptune Mountaineering—is built like a chimpanzee. He’s [...]
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Facebook Follies
What’s your folly? Answer that odd little question and you could be cruising on a new bike. New Belgium Brewing claims its folly is beer, of course, and the Fort Collins-based brewer has been giving away limited edition New Belgium Cruisers to web visitors and Facebook friends. And what’s Elevation Outdoors’ folly? … exploring every [...]
Just Peachy
Where to find ripe, juicy, fresh Colorado fruit on the Front Range Colorado’s Mesa County peach trees require 10 years to mature, but once they do, they’ll yield some of the juiciest fruit in the nation, superceding even California’s best. Warm sunny days and cool dry nights here, combined with soil chock full of phosphates, [...]
10,000
Number of flattened 2-liter plastic bottles used to build explorer/banking heir David de Rothschild’s 60-foot catamaran, the Plastiki, which he will sail across the Pacific to educate the world on waste: theplastiki.com
Honey, I Shrunk the Park
Mini whitewater park a precursor to the Olympics While rivers were raging in the Rockies this summer, a warehouse in Boulder hosted a miniature indoor alternative: a scale model whitewater arena mimicking the 2012 Olympic course in London. “It’s a pretty common practice,” says three-time World Cup Kayak Slalom Champion Scott Shipley, president of park [...]
High Minded
Alpine Initiatives offers hope from the slopes While back-scratchers might be passé in today’s world of extreme skiing, a handful of skiers are scratching the backs of the less-fortunate through a new philanthropic organization. Two skiers from Colorado—two-time Olympian Chad Fleischer and Alaska ski guide Seth Koch, both from Steamboat Springs—have partnered with world-class competitors [...]
Whitewater Wunderkind
Thirteen-year-old Burress hucks 30-foot falls Watch out river rats. Next time you’re out running the Arkansas or the Colorado you might get a lesson from freestyle boating’s new favorite kid sister—13-year-old Lauren Burress. The paddling prodigy—who won the Freestyle and Slalom Kayaking Junior Nationals at the FIBArk Whitewater Festival last year—got her first kayak at [...]
Cycle Chic Is Hot
Denoting the culture of cycling in fashionable clothes, the term “cycle chic” hails from urbane European hotspots like Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern and Copenhagen, where many everyday citizens commute and run errands on bikes but still want to look sophisticated. U.K. company Cycle Chic (www.cyclechic.co.uk) has jumped on the trend and is now designing a line [...]
Message On a Bottle
Bottled water is an unnecessary waste that sucks up valuable resources—at least according to Swobo Bikes. The company usually encourages customers to buy a Swobo water bottle and fill it with good ol’ tap water. But the San Francisco-based purveyor of single-speed cool is taking its mission a step further: Once you’re ready to retire [...]
Cycles and Suds
Peruse the latest in handmade bike designs and down free beer at the Rocky Mountain Bike Show. Think you’re all that on your new “29er?” That’s so 2008 of you. How about a titanium “36er?” Or a $25,000 Jacaranda-wood road bike? These highlights from last year are just the type of surprises you’ll find at [...]
