I have been retreating to Vail ever since I was a child and it was one of the first mountains I learned to snowboard on. It’s one of the last ski towns in Colorado where I personally don’t feel the stuffiness and congestion that goes hand in glove with places like Aspen or Telluride. Although [...]

It takes a certain something to make someone want to jump out of a plane 16,000 feet above the ground. Whatever that ‘something’ is, I had it one sunny summer day in August.
My brother and I drove to a small airport in Longmont, Colorado from Colorado Springs and my heart was thumping in [...]

Nederland, Colorado
Whenever I make the fifteen-mile drive west on Colorado119 in my rented compact car from Boulder to Nederland (elevation 8,233 feet), I almost feel like Jack Torrence from The Shining. In the opening scene of the movie, Jack drives from his apartment in Boulder winding through the Rockies to the secluded Overlook Hotel where [...]