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Don’t tread on me
This is the February 5, 2004, statement of Robert Bartsch to United States District Court Magistrate Judge Jennifer T. Lum, who found Bartsch guilty of engaging in a recreational a...

Ski math: The gas as gear test
About the “Gas as Gear Test”: There are two sections to this test.You must answer both sections of the test in order to continue with the rest of your life. If you do not complete...

Editor: As I sit on a sunny porch...
Editor: As I sit on a sunny porch enjoying and pondering my post-work beer, I uncustomarily find the letters section the most interesting. I am a “math-hobbyist” — most likely a ...

Man with a mind
Editor: After going through the MG #91, I came across Nicole Gordon’s article, “Woman With a Pulse”. It touched me deeply. My first year in Colorado I lived in Almont, outside of ...

Robert Craig's "No More Bad Hair Days Travel Kit"

As any journo knows, assignments can come in all shades of weird. This one started out with a press kit sent to MG’s editorial boss, followed by some hard thinking on his ...

Nothing
First light in the Nevada desert. I wake up on the ground, hungover from gambling in the casino next to the interstate. There's still money enough for a cheap breakfast and gas to ...

Susie Baroo
OK, I admit it. I’m looking at SUV product reviews. It happened because of a commercial I saw in a bar (for Jeep), which screamed something like, “AIDS STRANDED SKIERS! RESCUES INJ...

Gear Schmear
Welcome to Mountain Gazette’s new gear column, Gear Schmear, which will be a healthy mix of weird pointers, bad puns and random outdoor/travel gear that comes across the desk. This...

Vote your Heart Out

Excitement over the election has ebbed and flowed throughout the course of this extraordinarily long election season. But you can sure bet on s...

Can't See the Forest
It is a classic play on words for certain folks: “Can’t see the forest for the trees” is now “Can’t see the forest for the fees.” The Fee Demonstration Program has been around sin...

Food glorious food
Outdoor-activity-related pabulum defies across-the-board comparison: It comes in packets designed for various numbers of people, a multitude of weights (carry weight, prepared weig...

The Prusik in climbing
The Prusik is a loop of perlon cord or webbing that is wrapped around a climbing rope in a “lark’s foot” and then fed through its own loop two or three times. Three is best. The Pr...

Angel Mountain
Suddenly finding myself in a lift line composed almost entirely of several hundred happy and excited citizens of India was a surprise this morning. First because this resort rarely...

Cause for excitement: Impotence drugs reach new peaks

Do you suck Gu? Do you swig protein shakes or swallow amino acids with your morning OJ? Well, maybe, maybe not.

Even if you’re not a competitive mountain biker, we ...

You must have a cold, Sweetie
Sometimes I wonder what my boyfriend smells like. Or I try to remember the aroma of popcorn or the odors that fill your car at a gas station. The trace of ozone before a spring sho...

A Bad Idea by the Makers of Guinness Stout
The Deceased: A Bad Idea by the Makers of Guinness Stout Born: Sometime before 2003 Died: Sometime in 2003 Reason: The good sense of those who drink Guinness Likely as not, ...

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

Occupying a small sliver of the New Mexico apportionment to the Chihuahua Desert lies the nation’s first solely commercial spaceflight facility, Spaceport America, world h...

Influential Effluent
Inspired by a Colorado man who made headlines after medical professionals had to remove a glued-on toilet seat from his derriere, the MG delves this month into the rough-and-tumble...

The Big Box Bleaghhhhh
These days they’re more common to the mountain landscape than giardia and overpriced suds. Seems there’s at least one big-box retailer in or just outside every High Country communi...

Foiled again
Crime works best when you don’t get caught. That said, the following folks get to grace the pages of the MG because they just weren’t fast or smart enough to be successful criminal...

Fear and longevity in the out of bounds
It’s said the best way to become a good skier is to buy a season pass and practice, practice, practice. “You are not a good skier,” I mutter while clamping my 20-year-old Rossi tel...

Faux snow and Kafka
“You would have to dig a hole as big as your house and insulate it well, and then in the winter you would have to shovel it full of nearly a million pounds of ice. But if you do th...

Gear-o-rama

The New York Times recently noted the “old-school environmentalism” attitude of self-abnegation never was, and most likely, never will be fashionable (nor is it a vi...

Visions: the MG preseason psych from one ski bum to another

Okay, maybe you don’t think you are a ski bum, but we think you are (or at least we think you want to be).

Doubt it? Here are three ways to test yo...

Beyond Fear Gear
This is not a guidebook. You will find no maps, difficulty ratings, required gear‚ lists, or other confusions masquerading as advice by reading further. This is not rated one to t...


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