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One of my favorite winter adventures is cross-country skiing by the light of the moon. A winter moon can pretty much light your way, and I...

This week’s "Colorado State of Mind" which airs Fridays on Rocky Mountain PBS asks: Should the lost foot the cost? When people ge...

Since 1999 when lynx reintroduction started in the San Juan Mountains, 204 of the adult cats have been released and another 101 kittens have...

Just got back from a bike ride in Stratton Open Space. My rule of thumb is if there is no snow in my downtown backyard, then there is no sno...

This peak near the Lost Creek Wilderness is in an unprotected "roadless area." As reported in T he Gazette Thursday , roadless are...

Some of you may have heard about Echo Mountain Park , the new "skate park on snow" being built on the old site of groovy family 19...

This is why I like the Gems - Colorado's smallest ski resorts. Under a cloudless sky, a new half foot of powder waited for me and a few ...

The Santa Fe Trail Association just put up a great new Zebulon Pike Web site, www.zebulonpike.org , which includes a calendar of events in ...

After one unsuccessful mission, I finally got into Monarch's new Mirkwood Basin yesterday. Let's just say that our guide Andy (above...

Thursday would have been Zebulon Pike's 227th birthday. We can look back 201 years to how he spent his only birthday in the Rockies. It...

Here's a lesson in personal responsibility. The Associated Press reported today that the snowmobilers who were killed in a New Year'...

It's snowing in the mountains again. Are you tired of hearing that yet? Of course not. This season has blessed us with weeks of excuses ...

When my daughter was little, she always paused at the trailhead to ask me how many miles we were going to cover that day. I would tell her ...

Here's a cool tip, featured in this Friday's Out There cover about skiing under the lights at Keystone: When it gets dark, exchange ...

This weekend my lovely bride (above) and I trawled the deeps of Summit and Vail Counties, hitting up Keystone, Breck, and Vail in awesome po...

As I write this, the members of the AdAmAn club are making their way up Barr Trail. Their destination: the summit of Pikes Peak. Their missi...

Prosperous New Year from all of us in Out There!

In the 10th Mountain Hut System, Skinner Hut is known for being the hardest to get to. It's a 10-mile slog up 3,000 feet to a one-room c...

Friday and Saturday and Sunday are the last days this winter to ride the Pikes Peak Cog Railway . Even with all the snow, that little red tr...

So Thursday I drove to Monarch to check out Mirkwood basin for the first time. This is the new mad vertical expert area Monarch added to th...