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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — There has been another dramatic change to the world’s most famous sled dog race this year because of the pandemic, with officials announcing Friday that the ceremonial start has...
DATE: Feb. 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
There’s a time for reflecting and deep inner thought. Then there is a time for powder skiing and snowboarding. During a long dryspell to start January, it was time for the former. For the last two...
DATE: Jan. 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
Not long ago, a friend asked me how I knew to use a San Juan Worm one day, while fly fishing the Animas River. I thought about giving her some technical reason, but then I decided the truth was...
DATE: Jan. 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
KATHMANDU, Nepal — A team of 10 Nepalese climbers who became the first to scale the world’s second-highest peak during the harsh winter season received a hero’s welcome on return home to Nepal on...
DATE: Jan. 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
Purgatory Resort has long been a heaven for skibikers. Ideal conditions will welcome those attending the longest running skibike festival in the country this weekend. In partnership with the...
DATE: Jan. 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
Could it be love on the lift? Time will tell. Like many Durango locals, I avoided the hectic scenes at Purgatory Resort and Wolf Creek Ski Area during the holiday weeks with so many out-of-state...
DATE: Jan. 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
Steve Ilg spent his final month of 2020 going uphill over and over again. Ilg, one of Durango’s famed mountain athletes, tackled the Merry Vertmas race put on by Aravaipa Running out of Arizona ....
DATE: Jan. 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
Do you want to ride the chair together? Having fun out there? How many runs have you gotten in? Have you been to the backside yet? Do you live in town? What do you do? And, finally, the farewell...
DATE: Dec. 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
Chris Arnis was with his crew, carving spring snow on his home hill. It was a good Sunday for the lifelong skier. It was a little shy of 4 p.m., March 15, 2015, when it happened. Arnis, a ski coach...
DATE: Dec. 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
To all those surfers, rock climbers, skateboarders and, now, break dancers, who dream of taking their act to the Olympics soon, one of history’s best snowboarders has a message: Your sports are...
DATE: Dec. 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
Stepping into bindings for the first time in eight months, getting the first scan of a new season pass and the comfortable feeling of loading the chair lift and being carried high up a mountain...
DATE: Nov. 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
With no races to train for in 2020, Bryon Powell turned his attention to his newfound hobby for a summer of motivation. It all led to an impressive feat in the Colorado mountains. Silverton’s...
DATE: Oct. 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
