Greg Benchwick

Forget the traffic on I-70 and the hours-long liftlines at Keystone. Head out for a long weekend this winter to poach the secret stashes at Colorado's small-time mom-and-pop resorts. There's Cooper (not Copper!), Monarch, Sunlight, the bad-boys do...

I don't know why anyone would want to do 10,000 squat thrusts in a day -- guess some people are just gluttons for punishment.  But that's exactly what I decided to do a few years ago when I decided to learn to telemark at the oft-overlooked C...

Taking on a hut trip in Colorado's backcountry is truly the adventure of a lifetime. Out there in the middle of nowhere, under Orion's Belt by night and Colorado's sheltering blue skies by day, you somehow get closer to the source. But you'd bette...

Back in college -- during that little break in December when you are supposed to study for your finals -- we'd take our studies on the road and head up to Crested Butte for their early-season ski-free promotion. What can I say? It was a state scho...

We get it. You're in a hurry. You want your exercise. And ripping down the narrow-gauge trails at Matthews Winters at 30 miles an hour is just fun. But get this: Next time you come screaming around the corner and expect me and my dog to jump out o...

They say that all racks are created equal, but it's simply not true. You can go low-profile, high-rise, low-fi or high-tech, depending on how much you want to spend and how much patience you have to install the sucker. Back in the day, we'd strap ...