9 Things You Can Do To Get Ready For Ski Season Right Now
bySki season is nearly here, kind of. Although you might not actually click into your skis for another 60 to 90 days, it’s important…
Ski season is nearly here, kind of. Although you might not actually click into your skis for another 60 to 90 days, it’s important…
A few months ago, I walked into your season pass office and filled out a form to get an Uphill Access Pass. You charged…
Dear Winter: Hey man. How’s it going? A few of us were just talking about you. And by “just,” I mean for the past…
I leaned on my poles at the intersection of Why Not and Vagabond, green and blue runs, respectively, low on the mountain at Steamboat….
Here is a flow chart to help you decide: But wait, you say, it’s not that simple. Right, it’s not. You have too much…
Here’s what you’ve imagined: You and your attractive girlfriend or boyfriend sitting next to each other on the chairlift, ripping pow, maybe having a…
Ski season is here, and you’ll be spending anywhere from three to 15 minutes sharing chairlifts with people you may or may not know….
Dear helmets: You guys are my favorite hats. Sure, other headwear may be more stylish, more “cool,” easier to put on slightly sideways to…
(Chris Sharma photo by Klaus Fengler/klausfengler.de) Ladies: Have you enjoyed Ryan Gosling’s “Hey Girl” meme, but wish there were something a bit more ……
This past January at a film festival, I got to chat briefly with big-mountain skier Chris Davenport. He’s a big deal (among other things,…
I sat down exhausted last Tuesday night next to my friends Chris and Forest in front of a granite shelter we’d just built on…
You love snowboarding. Or climbing. Or mountain biking. You’ve been doing it for so long, you can’t remember what your life was like without…
I realized a couple years ago that I have more fun skiing uphill than skiing downhill. I enjoy the Zen rhythm of methodically skinning…
The Sunday night before my first day of fourth grade, I rolled my black-and-gold Huffy Thunder 50 BMX bike up to the retaining wall…
“I’ve been thinking about things on a cost-per-use basis lately,” my friend Nick said to me a few weeks ago. Nick doesn’t make rash…
When you dismount a mountain bike going uphill, you end up doing a sort of bow. As you step off and swing a leg…
You, outdoor recreator, are quite probably quite educated: Bachelor’s degree, possibly a master’s degree or Ph.D. You wore a cap and gown and were…
As the USA Pro Cycling Challenge was working its way around Colorado and into the Front Range in August, I saw this Facebook status…
In a conversation a few weeks ago, a climber friend of mine described herself as “not super-girly.” Her expanded definition of that was: I…
A handful of Saturday mornings, I have driven out of Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood juggling a bowl of granola on my lap, trying to…
I know people love skiing — I live in Colorado. People move here just to go skiing. They start salivating when the first reports…
(photo borrowed from avtraining.org) I’m not anyone’s mother, but stories like this make me feel like being everyone’s mother. I wouldn’t call myself an…