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“Sustainable” and “ski areas” are traditionally not things associated with one another. However, since climate change has reached a tipping point, many outdoors enthusiasts have become more c…
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There’s magic in the name Moab. The word conjures up dreams of sandstone landscapes dissected by canyons and lorded over by buttes and mesas. The town of Moab, Utah, nestled beside the Colora…
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Ask Aspen local Tony Vagneur what he remembers most about skiing in the old days, and he answers immediately: “the cold.” Circa 1949, when Gore-Tex was a long way off, layering wool w…
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Time to Cool Off. Need a break from the summer heat? Think about a ski trip to Europe over the December break. THE MATTERHORN: It’s doable. If its glaciers can be skied in August, Dec…
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Getting to a ski resort in most mountain towns can be a headache. You have to first fly in to a major city, rent a car, and then take on a multi-hour canyon drive through traffic to reach the…
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One of the Mountain West’s must-do hikes, Wyoming’s Big Sandy Trail is a classic trek below the iconic Cirque of the Towers. -John Strother From Montana’s Livingston Range to the Lechug…
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Keep your band handy to warm up your legs on the mountain. Skiing is a sport that treads the fine line between pure exhilaration and outright terror, and the only thing keeping you on the r…
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A week on the slopes – and in the bars – can be an outstanding social holiday. But what if your goal is to return home a better skier? For all their physical demands and opportunities for e…
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It’s no secret that Boulder boasts a wealth of top-notch hiking. The foothills and mountains above town represent the eastern terminus of the Rocky Mountains, rising up to elevations more tha…
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Named for the large, lazy turn in the Rio Grande river, Big Bend National Park defies expectations with lush flood plains, tree-covered mountains rising to almost 8,000 feet, narrow canyon…
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The first director of the National Park Service, Stephen Mather, once said, “Scenery is a hollow enjoyment to a tourist who sets out in the morning after an indigestible breakfast and a fitfu…
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Size isn’t everything in a mountain. Neither is topographic prominence, or isolation, or vertical rise, or geologic age, or symmetry, or wildness. The best mountains, of course, are t…
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