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  • The ski industry, climate hawk?

    The ski industry, climate hawk?

    Aspen Skiing Company Sustainability VP Auden Schendler, and professional snowboarder Jeremy Jones on why ski corporations and pro athletes should step up to the climate crisis -- and how they can do it.

    by Cally Carswell, Jul 22, 2012

  • Have golf's glory days gone by?

    Golf – the game that brought grass to the desert – appears to have hit a rough patch in the West

    by Tony Davis, Aug 21, 2006

  • For the love of a river

    In the anthology There’s This River, Christa Sadler gathers the stories of rambunctious river rafters on the Grand Canyon’s Colorado River

    by Renee Guillory, Aug 21, 2006

  • Two weeks in the West

    Cross-country skiers and snowmobilers clash over access to Logan Canyon, Utah; Mount Jefferson, Mont.; and (of course) Yellowstone; Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth steps down to be replaced by Gail Kimbell; West becomes player in national politics; bor

    by Jonathan Thompson, Feb 05, 2007

  • Piscatorial theology

    For Irle White’s father, fly-fishing was the one true religion

    by Irle White, Jun 11, 2007
  • Recreation on the range

    Recreation on the range

    A sheepdog attack highlights conflicts between recreators and ranchers in Colorado's increasingly popular national forests.

    by Ariana Brocious, Dec 15, 2009
  • Conservation for the Adrenaline Crowd

    Conservation for the Adrenaline Crowd

    Environmentalists in the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado have struggled to get recreationists behind their causes.

    by Terray Sylvester, Sep 30, 2009

  • Extreme commuters are maybe even you and me

    Alison James may not be an extreme commuter, but she certainly drives more than she wishes she had to.

    by Alison James, Jun 14, 2007

  • Seven Ways to Enjoy Natural Darkness

    Suggestions from the National Park Service

    by National Park Service, Dec 05, 2007

  • Craig’s excellent adaptive adventures

    Craig Kennedy, who hasn’t let a wheelchair keep him from skiing, doesn’t believe physical disabilities should keep anybody out of the backcountry

    by Jennie Lay, May 29, 2006
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