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The Hit List: The snow season has arrived
A few more Colorado resorts have joined Loveland and Arapahoe Basin in opening early this weekend. Copper Mountain opens today with the fifth-annual Lift-Off Festival, and Wolf Creek Ski Area opened with more than four feet of snow. Full Story

Nearly Naked Mile: CU-Boulder clothing drive leaves runners almost nude
The student branch of the CU Alumni Association will host its fifth-annual Nearly Naked Mile -- a clothing drive and run -- at 9 p.m. Thursday at the Koenig Alumni Center. Full Story

Boulder ski clubs host expo at Boulder High
Nordic skiers have a chance to take the buyer-beware out of used equipment at Wednesday night's expo and ski swap at Boulder High School, hosted by the Boulder Nordic Club and Boulder Junior Nordic Racing Team.  Full Story

Warren Miller's 'Dynasty': All in the family (VIDEO)
Dangerous terrain, thick trees, vertical cliffs and rolling avalanches have nothing on Chris Anthony, a veteran world extreme skiing champ.  Full Story

MSA tells gyms to stop using its auto-belay descenders
MSA, the manufacturer of an auto-belay descender, issued a stop-use notice to climbing gyms on Oct. 14 after officials "very recently became aware of two incidents where climbers using Redpoint Descenders experienced rapid rates of descent resulting in injuries," according to the notice. Full Story

Man overcomes paralysis to complete Denver Marathon
DENVER -- His right knee ached because of a ligament strain, and his groin stung because of a hernia diagnosed just last Tuesday, but those were hardly the biggest obstacles Steve Baker overcame to run the Denver Marathon on Sunday. Full Story

Sandrock: Jason Hartmann races into the spotlight On Running
Jason Hartmann has always picked his training partners well.  Full Story

Steve Levin and his new guide to Eldorado adventure
Few people dare to climb on Eldorado Canyon's Rotwand, a russet-colored wall at the mouth of the canyon whose vertical facade is a mosaic of puzzle pieces somehow tacked together. This fragile cliff is guarded by a steep approach gully even looser than the wall itself. Full Story

Loveland opens today, A-Basin on Friday
And the winner is ... Loveland. Boasting its earliest opening day in 40 years, Loveland officials announced Tuesday that the area will open for skiing Wednesday. Full Story

Month was drier than normal
I n September, there were no 90-degree temperatures, there was no frost, and although we flirted with snow -- Nederland got a couple of inches -- there was none of that either in Boulder. Full Story

Weidner: The key to success
I just spent five weeks at the limestone paradise of Ceuse, France, where, save for a few exceptional moments, my climbing performance was pitiful; where I achieved one climbing goal but botched another; where I left wondering whether I'd succeeded or failed. Full Story

Running: Shaping up for the Bolder Boulder
Every Memorial Day for the last 30 years, the streets of Boulder have crowded with participants in what has become the second-largest race in the country and the largest Memorial Day celebration outside of Washington, D.C.  Full Story

Taking five while climbing in southern France
My frequent partner Alex Honnold thinks I'm a lazy sloth. I guess I can't blame him. I can easily sleep 12 hours straight after a hard day of climbing, then do almost nothing for the entire day afterward. That's how I recharge for another day of battle on the rock.  Full Story

Boulder athlete injured when tree falls on cyclists during Calif. triathlon
A Boulder athlete and two Californians were injured in a freak accident Sunday when a tree fell on a group of cyclists competing in the Vineman Triathlon in Sonoma County, Calif. Full Story

Lafayette man, 70, to compete in Nautica New York City Triathlon
When Hank Kaplan dives into the Hudson River in New York on Sunday to compete in the Nautica New York City Triathlon, he'll be one of only six men out of 5,000 competitors who are 70 or older. Full Story

Boulder boy, 11, to attempt 14 Colorado 14ers in 14 days
Starting Friday, Boulder's Matt Moniz, 11, and a group of family and friends will attempt to climb 14 of Colorado's 14ers in 14 days to raise money to help pay the medical bills of an ailing friend, Ian Hess. Full Story

The new wave: Colorado river surfing
The sight of kayakers playing on standing river waves is a familiar sight in Colorado, but surfers? Over the past few years, landlocked beach bros have discovered that river waves can be surfed almost like ocean waves. Full Story

Boulder's Van Duzer: Oops, started out the wrong way
I started off the grand adventure by going the wrong way ... but luckily only for a few miles. Full Story

Derek Brouwer shrugs off the hecklers, unicycles to work
Derek Brouwer, who rides his unicycle 12 miles from Erie to Boulder about once a week, has heard every heckle in the book. Full Story

Extreme commuters: For these three, every day is Bike to Work Day
With Bike to Work Day coming up, we profile three of Boulder's most hardcore bike commuters รข riders who cover miles and miles of road, dirt and sometimes even water to get to their jobs each day. Full Story