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Outdoors school a high-class act
Outdoors school a high-class act

Jessica Hartig is the first to attempt climbing the 40-foot wall. Hooked into the belay rope, the 11-year-old climbs a short way, gets stuck and comes down. She tries again and approaches the top.

Tips from outdoors photographers

Here's a good reason to visit Moab this this summer, the fifth annual Moab Outdoor Photography Symposium.

ACORD: Fossils always in season in Florissant

Trail of the month: Some of Colorado's most intriguing natural features are untouched by the seasons, the petrified redwood trees at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument among them.

Extras needed for running documentary

Want to join Idaho Springs ultramarathoner Marshall Ulrich as he runs across the country and maybe get a little air time in a documentary?

Tracks, April 8

Resort-logo dog collars; a peek at "Sports Nutrition for Endurance Athletes," by Monique Ryan; and a schedule of resorts' closing days

Tracks, April 1

endurance racing
snowshoeing
Optic Nerve
Jetstream sunglasses
Ulrich Kamm
Colorado Mountain Club

Extreme foolishness plays here

There's a part of the Colorado consciousness that celebrates the foolish. While not exactly pranks, a year's worth of festivals, competitions and gatherings could easily be the punch line of a practical joke.
NORDHAUS: Skiers, boarders can coexist at Taos

On Wednesday, after years of stonewalling and segregation, Taos Ski Valley opened to snowboarding ... without major incident between skier and snowboarder.

Taos jumps on board

To Colorado snowboarders, a road trip to Taos Ski Valley may not, at first, feel like a ski trip at all. There are long, straight roads through snowless Southwestern towns, gritty gas stations and fields of purple sage that seem better suited for a cowboy film than a ski flick.

Leave it to Beaver Creek for lessons

Snowboarding really got its start 20 years ago, when winter resorts throughout North America began opening their slopes to boarders. Now, the children of that first generation are starting to ride themselves.

A clear path

Jourdan Peters, 14, is a seasoned skier. She likes the speed she can get on intermediate trails, and she's experienced enough to note the differences between her favorite haunts at Breckenridge and Monarch.

Tracks, March 18

The Mountain of My Fear and Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative, two classics in one volume, by David Roberts.

Heavy snow costs Bode Miller downhill title

Didier Cuche clinched his second straight World Cup downhill title Tuesday, beating out Bode Miller by five points when the final race of the season was canceled.

EHRINGER: I'm stoked after Riding Rails 101

Over the years, I have had a lot of opportunities to work with the snowboarding instruction programs at the various Colorado resorts.

Miller, Vonn out to repeat history

Lindsey Vonn, of Vail, wasn't alive the only time two Americans finished a World Cup ski-racing season as the best male and female racers in their sport.

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