Trails: Hiking Pulpit Rock
Where to Find It: Beside the I-25 and N. Nevada intersection. The small trailhead parking lot is at 6411 N. Nevada Ave. just north...
Brittany Nunez, Paramedic: Empowering Emergency Responders
Brittany Nunez has always gravitated toward helping when others would shy away. On hiking or climbing adventures, she instinctually became caretaker when an injury...
Trails: Hiking the Mt Esther Trail
Where to Find It: Chipita Park, Ute Pass west of Colorado Springs
Distance: About 3.5 miles one way from the trailhead to Crystal Creek Reservoir
Difficulty:...
Allison Jones: Local Paralympian Finds Freedom in Competition
Allison Jones fell in love with bicycle racing the day she saw a man with no hands or feet climb aboard a track bike...
Inside Chairlift Speed Dating With LuvByrd
Most skiers share some version of this fantasy: Getting on the chairlift with some stranger, and in the 10-minute ride to the top, starting...
Sky Sox: Take Me Out to the Time Machine
In the same year that Theodore Roosevelt ascended to the presidency, professional baseball began in the Pikes Peak region with the Colorado Springs Millionaires....
Amanda Egan, C.P.N.P.-A.P.: All In Against Adversity
The discovery of a tumor in her leg when she was 15 years old ignited Amanda Egan’s dream of serving in pediatric care. “,...
Nordic Skiing in Woodmoor
As sweat began to saturate my long sleeve base layer and my unnecessary fleece layer and my ski jacket, I realized I had naively...
Dutch Clark: The Legendary Flying Dutchman
In 1963, 17 athletes were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s inaugural class, including a quarterback from rural Colorado named Earl “Dutch”...
Switchbacks FC: Making the Team
It had the makings of a Cinderella story. Only six minutes into the game, team captain Luke Vercollone sent an impossibly angled shot into...