Experienced runner Chad Pallansch, 49, was last heard from Sept. 27 before setting out on a 28-mile hike across the park
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Leadville’s Courtney Dauwalter wins unprecedented “Triple Crown” of ultrarunning
Dauwalter won the Ultra-Tour du Mont-Blanc in Chamonix, France, last weekend, completing a remarkable summer of running
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PHOTOS: Leadville 100 draws hundreds of runners in the 40th “Race Across the Sky”
In the grueling 100-mile run through the Sawatch Range, hundreds fell short of the 30-hour cutoff
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Erin Ton summited Colorado’s 14ers in the fastest known time. Except she didn’t.
The Boulder adventurer announced she’d hit 57 peaks in 14 days, 10 hours. But skipping Culebra for political reasons moved her stunning, unsupported run to DNF.
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Colorado’s pioneering content creator Ryan Van Duzer finds success guiding the world to outdoor adventure
Ryan Van Duzer is a YouTube star on mission to inspire people to “get off the couch and get out there.” More than 165,000 people subscribe.
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Two runners have gone missing in remote Colorado mountains, leading to push for more education
Fitness is not enough to stay safe in remote mountains where risks are amplified
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“It’s like riding an escalator”: Burro racing isn’t likely to go mainstream, but it’s having a moment in Colorado
LEADVILLE — At the sound of gunfire, the burros take off in a sprint, so fast that the trail runners gripping their lead ropes are at risk of getting dragged down the pavement of historic Harrison Avenue. Within the first block, with a crowd of several hundred lining the street to watch this spectacle, a […]
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Pikes Peak Marathon legend Arlene Pieper Stine, the first woman to run a sanctioned marathon, has died
One of Colorado mountain running’s most beloved heroes used to climb up the ladder next to the sign draped across the town of Manitou Springs’s main drag — “Welcome, Pikes Peak Runners” — so that she could send off the hundreds of runners who had packed the narrow street to head off for the summit […]
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Without the burden of races, Colorado’s long-distance runners are shattering trail records
Jacquie Mannhard had long heard her fellow trail runners talk of fastest-known times. The prospect of tackling a gnarly route relatively unsupported had tickled the Boulder-based distance runner’s fancy for years, but she’d never gotten around to looking into it further. Then the pandemic struck. It was April when she got the first notice: “Given […]
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Coronavirus is forcing a whole new social contract on Colorado’s city sidewalks and suburban open space
Gov. Jared Polis’ instructions about when to wear a mask upon leaving home were pretty all-encompassing: “At all times,” he said. And Coloradans mostly have accepted that the governor meant we should wear masks to the grocery store, the pharmacy, to pick up dinner or while zipping through Home Depot. (Whether people do it is […]