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Reilly Capps

If You Live Near the Mountains, You’re Probably Healthy

February 15, 2016 Like 0 Reilly Capps

If you’re reading this, you’re probably healthy. Yellow Scene is for folks who live north of Denver, near the mountains, and data suggests a correlation between mountains and fitness.

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Slip sliding away – Ice as metaphor

January 7, 2016 Like 0 Reilly Capps

You can't beat ice, even if you try. No one can. Magnesium chloride -- which CDOT scatters on the roads -- might dent the ice a little, but it also rots cars' finishes. Gravel gives you purchase, but then clogs…

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When It Comes to Recreation, Don’t Let Winter Win

December 2, 2015 Like 0 Reilly Capps

Nature brings winter without considering your love of summer: that your calves look svelte in flip-flops, that barbecued burgers taste best, or that you were enjoying a summer of rock climbing, swimming and archery.

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Field of Dreams of a Pastoral Past

October 21, 2015 Like 0 Reilly Capps

It used to be that summer was my only season for outdoors activities.

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Exercising to Let off Steam: Can it Burn You?

September 28, 2015 Like 0 Reilly Capps

By many objective standards, life in the Yellow Scene distribution area is pure sunshine and rainbows: pretty hills, affordable weed, and that McDonald’s breakfast sandwich where the bun is a syrup-soaked pancake.

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Run, Hike, Bike – Then Do More Things at Once

August 21, 2015 Like 0 Reilly Capps

I tend to learn things the hard way. This week I've learned: flip flops are not good shoes to wear when you're trying to surprise someone; the farther from the ocean you are when you eat seafood, the closer you…

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