Cross-Country Skiing in Colorado: Falling in Love With Skate Skiing
I never liked Nordic until I swapped classic gear for skating sticks.
I never liked Nordic until I swapped classic gear for skating sticks.
Bring your gear—and a sense of adventure—to these free trail networks.
At the Lake Catamount Touring Center, you’ll find more than 27 kilometers of trails just 10 miles outside of downtown Steamboat.
While you may encounter elite XC skiers in this part of Colorado, Crested Butte has something for everyone.
While there might be more blues and blacks than greens at the Breckenridge Nordic Center, the sweeping views are sure to please any kind of skier.
Devil’s Thumb Ranch, which offers 120 kilometers of cross-country trails, is the perfect destination for any beginner.
Selecting your preferred skinny skis—classic or skate—should be more about predilection than popularity.
John and Alyson Kirk are battling addiction by replacing alcohol with an all-consuming pursuit of summits.
The Never Not Collective set out to make a movie about women climbers—not to navigate gender politics. But as the trio of Western producers has discovered with its new film, Pretty Strong, you can’t do one without the other.
Skip ski resort mayhem for a weekend in Rifle where mystical ice caves, nearby hot springs, and a funky inn reveal a more serene—and fantastical—side of winter.
A Colorado company aims to keep skiers better informed with digital displays for chairlifts and gondolas.
Everything you need to know to fall in love with Colorado’s other style of skiing.
If these cliques do exist, which one would you belong to?
The German skiing legend, who has called Aspen home for more than seven decades, is still working and skiing as he hits life’s centennial mark.
The weekend features beer, Bloody Marys, live music, and skiing so fast you could blink and miss it.
It’s not just Patagonia’s new Worn Wear pop-up in Boulder—conscious recreationists are seeking like-new goods for steep discounts, and a growing number of Colorado retailers are meeting that demand.
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The six-year-old company doesn’t own as much as heavyweight Vail Resorts, but Alterra is scaling up—most recently with the announcement that it will purchase indie favorite Arapahoe Basin. Here’s a timeline of how the industry giant has grown.
I interviewed climbers, retail workers, Twitter users, a linguistics professor, and even Sendy McSendersend himself to unravel the mystery of the ubiquitous phrase and where it came from.
Now Movement members can climb at 16 gyms across the country—including five in Colorado.
