Skip Lake Tahoe’s crowds for a high-alpine hiking adventure to this remote glacier-fed Colorado lake with surreal blue waters.

As you might have guessed by our website’s name, we think Washington is one of the most adventurous US states. And you’ll ...

From here, you can hike a mile and a half uphill to Delicate Arch, but beware of ice on ... part of the San Juan Skyway, a Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway – offers priceless mountain vistas.

With the highest average snowfall in the state, the San Juan Mountains provide the perfect setting for powder-filled ski trip. Steep peaks, deep snow, and wide-open terrain — Colorado’s San ...

Photo by Ilya Shishikhin, via Unsplash Winter sports enthusiasts live for the piercing chill of cold winds, the shimmer of snow under a bright winter sun, and the thrill that each challenge of snow ...

They look like colorfully dressed spiders ascending walls of blue and white ice, their picks and crampons creating a rhythmic percussion that echoes through the gorge. For the brave or the curious, ...

Thank you for your support of Aspen Journalism! Your support made this work possible. Thank you. It was a tale of two winters for the mountains containing the Colorado River’s headwaters, with the ...

The final entries are in for the Ely Echo Shagawa Lake Ice Out Contest, sponsored by Grand Ely Lodge. Now all we need is for spring to arrive and bring us back to open water. Our optimist entry this ...

There are so many amazing reasons to live in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado ... This fascinating bird wades, swims, dives and even flies directly into ice cold mountain streams in ...

"We've done a great job," he said. "We were able to keep the lake filled." Sypher also cited the depth of the snowpack in the San Miguel, Dolores, Animas and San Juan river basins, which was listed at ...