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Sarah Palin to host show on Sportsman Channel

NEW YORK – The Sportsman Channel recently announced it has hired Sarah Palin to be host of a weekly outdoors-oriented program that will celebrate the “red, wild and blue” lifestyle. ...

DATE: Jan 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Local Nordic skier continues climb

Improving Peterson places 9th at national championships

DATE: Jan 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Alpine racers tackle Purgatory course

Local team competes in first series event

DATE: Jan 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Freestylers take aim at Chapman Hill

Mickel siblings lead Purgatory team at Vail, Telluride

DATE: Jan 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Outdoors Briefs

Ouray Ice Festival to run through weekend Ice climbers will compete for $16,000 in prize money Sunday as the 19th annual Ouray Ice Festival ends a four-day run with the Hari Berge...

DATE: Jan 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Sense of adventure comes first for hunter

HOUSTON (AP) – After spending the last four decades traipsing across six continents to the remotest corners of the world, Gary Ingersoll is not easily intimidated. On a trip to th...

DATE: Jan 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Keeping the pace

Young Durangoan a NASTAR star

DATE: Jan 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Supercross flies into 40th season

The first Supercross race was held in 1972 when a racing promoter held what was called the Super Bowl of Motocross inside Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. Two years later, AMA Su...

DATE: Jan 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Outdoors Briefs

Nordic Center to host skate ski clinic The Nordic Center at Purgatory will hold a skate ski clinic at 1 p.m. Saturday. There will be classes for skiers of all ability...

DATE: Jan 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

From Sin City to serenity

Kayaking the Colorado outside Las Vegas

DATE: Jan 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Winter fishing tests angler’s patience

HELENA, Mont. (AP) – For ice-fishermen, fish aren’t the biggest source of struggle: Instead, it’s the wind. “You don’t say that word very often out here. You call it the W,” fishe...

DATE: Jan 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Death Valley puts brakes on endurance races

LOS ANGELES – It’s the hottest, hardest, most grueling foot race in the world, says Shannon Farar-Griefer, who has run the Badwater 135 ultramarathon through Death Valley five times. ...

DATE: Dec 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Outdoors