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The Deep Post
At an ultimate Frisbee tournament last August, I remembered that the Broncos had played a preseason game the previous night and I casually asked if anyone knew the score. The first person to pipe up was a particularly hairy little fellow with a nose ring who replied, “Who cares?” Which certainly wasn’t the answer I [...]
Trail Mix – July 2010
Click here to open a new window to listen while you browse elevationoutdoors.com. Click the red arrow to start listening to the playlist. Use the blue arrows to skip tracks. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Right-Click the links below to download these tracks: Sams Gap – Folk Soul Revival Teen Angst – Keller [...]
Local Motion
Love it or hate it, Boulder puts the “B” in plan B in the best way possible. Don’t get me wrong, Boulder has a lot of plan A fun waiting to be had but living in the People’s Republic really shines is when your out-of-town primary directive gets derailed. Cases in point: I’ve had two successive weekend plans wiped [...]
Fat Tires in the Land of the Pharaohs
Egypt is now open to cyclists I’m squinting, despite wearing the darkest sunglasses I own. There’s no trail here, only sections of sand beaten down by jeeps and camels, signs of the nomadic Bedouin tribes that inhabit this desert. The sweeping Red Sea Mountains fail to block the sun that’s turned our sandy path into [...]
The Slow Way Up
I was excited when I first heard I was going to have a chance to climb Hvannadalshnúkur, the highest mountain in Iceland. I have been fascinated with the country ever since I first visited and hiked the Fimmvorduhals pass—now buried under lava from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano. It’s a visceral place and the island’s landscape is [...]
Multi-Sport-Tasking
If you subscribe to the old adage that anything worth doing is worth over doing, you’ll agree with us that multisport events are always better than those based on just one sport. Why limit yourself to only the bike when you can sandwich your ride in between a swim and a run? Colorado has become [...]
Quote of Note
“He has no proof. It’s just our word against theirs, and we like our word. We like where we stand.” – Lance Armstrong at the 2010 Tour of California in regards to Floyd Landis’ recent email admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs the majority of his professional career, and accusing other top U.S. cyclists, including Armstrong, [...]
Guides on Parade
For the first time in history, the International Federation of Mountain Guides (IFMGA) is holding a conference in North America. The norm in Europe, IFMGA certification is slowly coming to North America, where there is no legal standard to be a mountain guide. The city of Boulder and the American Mountain Guides Association will host [...]
3,000
The number of spandex-clad women expected to participate in Colorado’s first and only all-women’s bike ride, Venus de Miles, to be held on August 29th. www.venusdemiles.com
