Author: Seth Boster seth.boster@gazette.com

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Along the upper reaches of Ute Valley Park, it’s easy to appreciate this wild parcel on Colorado Springs’ north side. It’s easy, because the wildness appears in such stark contrast to the view of the neighborhood. Houses can be seen marching all around before breaking…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver and Colorado Springs are upcoming stops for a worldwide film tour celebrating the peak of human possibilities in nature. Banff Film Festival’s scenic set of documentaries will show at Denver’s Paramount Theatre for three…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A new mountain bike trail in Colorado Springs has riders excited about an experience they see vanishing around city parks — and excited about what it might mean for future projects. Under the supervision of city staff, volunteer hands have built a bike-only, downhill-only trail…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Let’s start with some semantics. First, if you’re thinking about fat bikes — those burly tires plowing through powder-packed trails — we are not talking about those. We are talking about snow bikes. Or snowbikes. Or are we talking about ski bikes or skibikes? (The…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Englewood-based company Colorado Ice Works creates and supplies ice sculptures and craft ice across Colorado. (Video by Skyler Ballard/ The Gazette) { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “LIFE | Colorado Ice Works”, “description”: “The Englewood-based company Colorado Ice Works creates and supplies ice sculptures…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs military installations and leading conservation groups are set to embark on a multi-year mission intended to achieve operational buffers for those installations and simultaneously realize a new vision of open space on the city’s peripheries. The unique arrangement was recently cleared by the…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For the past eight months at his home in the Summit County hills, John Fielder spent most every morning and afternoon sifting through photographs tucked away for decades. They were transparencies from his years of hauling heavy film equipment deep into Colorado’s backcountry. The transparencies…