Outdoors

Mountaineering

Colorado guides receive national bravery award

Mountain Trip guides recognized for saving a climber’s life on Denali

September 16, 2022 • Herald Staff Report

Alpine skiing

National Ski Patrol in turmoil as third director in five years leaves, citing conflict

Group’s board of directors described as a ‘dysfunctional HOA’

August 12, 2022 • Jason Blevins — The Colorado Sun

14er

Search and rescue data shows dangerous patterns

incidents in Sangre de Cristo Mountains are clustered together

August 5, 2022 • By Shanna Lewis — KRCC News

Alpine skiing

Forest Service OKs Vail Resorts’ plan to restore Keystone tundra

keeps one of the country’s largest expansions on schedule

August 4, 2022 • Jason Blevins — The Colorado Sun

Business (general)

Rugged camper may help hone a new facet of Silverton’s high-elevation economy

Campfire conversation sparks Sasquatch Expedition Campers

July 31, 2022 • Nancy Lofholm — The Colorado Sun

Colorado Legislature

Two privately owned Colorado 14ers are open to hikers thanks to a unique partnership. Will it last?

Increasing traffic is stressing a tenuous deal with landowners concerned about liability

July 20, 2022 • Jason Blevins — The Colorado Sun

Headlines

Snake season returns to Southwest Colorado

Here’s what to do when you see them on the trail or in your backyard

July 7, 2022 • By Paolo Zialcita — Colorado Public Radio

ColoradoSun.com

Love, prayer and tickets: What we saw at the Rainbow Family gathering in northwest Colorado

gathering drew 10,000 people and lots of online ire

July 6, 2022 • Jason Blevins — The Colorado Sun

Alpine skiing

Colorado ski areas set a new visitor record last season

Visitation to Colorado ski areas surpassed 14 million in 2021-22

July 5, 2022 • Jason Blevins — The Colorado Sun

Climbing

Alaska’s Denali is finally open to guided skiing, and you have a Colorado company to thank

rules were written with the expectation that mountaineers would stay roped, walking uphill and down

July 4, 2022 • Elizabeth Miller — The Colorado Sun

Cortez

Colorado’s outdoor industry knows it could be more inclusive

industry acknowledges that there’s a large population that doesn’t feel included

July 2, 2022 • Dan England — Colorado Sun

ColoradoSun.com

Rainbow Gathering picks remote area in Colorado for its angst-inducing 50th annual meeting of tribes

‘Largest non-organization of non-members in the world’ will reprise in Routt National Forest

June 15, 2022 • Jason Blevins — The Colorado Sun

Avalanche/landslide

Purgatory Resort welcomes young pup to ski patrol

Ember, an 8-week-old black Lab, begins avalanche search and rescue dog training

April 6, 2022 • Durango Herald — Staff Report

Sports

Fishing gear needs spring cleaning too

A clean and organized vest can make the art of fly fishing go easier

April 1, 2022 • Don Oliver — Staff reporter

Headlines

Authorities respond to report of avalanche on Berthoud Pass

responders received a report that two people may have been buried but later determined that no one was caught

March 23, 2022 • Olivia Prentzel — The Colorado Sun

Alpine skiing

How Crested Butte’s first-ever extreme skiing contests birthed the freeskiing movement

Pioneering athletes transformed the resort industry with a push for wider skis and steeper terrain

March 17, 2022 • Jason Blevins — The Colorado Sun

ColoradoSun.com

Colorado appeals court revives river access, right-to-wade debate

Roger Hill is suing a landowner over a right to wade in the Arkansas River, arguing that historic commerce on…

February 14, 2022 • Jason Blevins — The Colorado Sun

Avalanche/landslide

Following a historic avalanche season, new tools aim to make backcountry travel safer

Durango-area woman creates rescue sleds that have other backcountry uses

January 18, 2022 • Stephanie Maltarich — The Colorado Sun

Headlines

Family of Colorado avalanche victim drops one lawsuit, targets maker of air bag

Marshall was killed in a January 2019 avalanche while taking a class near Red Mountain Pass

December 21, 2021 • Jason Blevins — The Colorado Sun

Outdoor recreation

The mudslides that closed I-70 also muddied Hanging Lake’s crystal clear water

Hanging Lake as it appeared June 14, 2020. (Michael Elizabeth Sakas/CPR News) Hanging Lake’s pristine waters were spared from major…

August 6, 2021 • Paolo Zialcita — Colorado Public Radio

Mesa Verde National Park

The Great Sand Dunes ‘are just a big mountain of sand’ and other 1-star national park reviews

The cover of "Subpar Parks" and a photo of author Amber Share. (Courtesy of Amber Share and Penguin Random House)…

July 20, 2021 • By Ryan Warner — Colorado Public Radio

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Fishing

Down but not out, not by a long shot

I recently took a fly fishing vacation to Grand Bahama. The fishing was great. The travel to and from deserves…

July 2, 2021 • Don Oliver — Staff reporter

Headlines

Colorado’s arch park: Rattlesnake Canyon

hike west of Grand Junction offers bountiful formations

June 19, 2021 • Debra Van Winegarden — Special to the Herald

Hiking

A hometown spring hike north of Durango

Mitchell Lakes Trail, Pinkerton-Flagstaff Trail lead to wide-open views

May 8, 2021 • Debra Van Winegarden — Special to the Herald