Gunnison Valley and its peripheral mountains are home to the highest concentration of singletrack mountain biking trails in North America—and until recently, no one had ridden all 750 miles of them.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Crested Butte and Gunnison Valley are recognized as one of the best places in the country to mountain bike — and for sound reason. In the heart of the Elk ...

I’m just back from my second ski trip to Crested Butte Mountain Resort in as many years, and I’ve also had the pleasure of visiting in the summer, when residents go mad for mountain biking and all ...

A celebration of Will Olson’s life is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Thursday, at Eagle’s Nest atop Vail Mountain. The gondola ride is free. MOUNT CRESTED BUTTE — Crested Butte’s enduro mountain bike race ...

This state’s mountain towns all share recreation-inspired lifestyles, accompanied by their own beauty and unique culture. They are not all cut from the same cloth, however. “Crested Butte was founded ...

CRESTED BUTTE - Glo Cunningham’s first attempt to ride Pearl Pass did not begin well. “I had a three-speed and two of my three speeds broke on my way up the hill out of town,” the 61-year-old cyclist ...

MOUNT CRESTED BUTTE – “This place brings back some memories,” says Wendy Fisher, gazing up at the near vertical walls of snow and rock she just skied. “Doesn’t it though,” says Rex Wehrman, pointing ...

Ski area operators usually pray to the snow gods for more. But at one point in the middle of the 2016-17 season, Crested Butte Mountain Resort asked for less. The resort had to close temporarily as ...

The snow was so deep in Crested Butte, Colo., in January when I arrived for a multisport excursion that some of the town’s one-story houses were nearly buried. So it goes in Crested Butte, which is ...