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Sports Medicine

Jeff Olson

Though he retired from competitive skiing decades ago, Jeff Olson still has Olympic dreams. This time though, the two-time Olympian is not working toward personal glory atop a podium—but rather using a possible Olympic bid as a mechanism for raising awareness of and curtailing the child obesity epidemic. Olson, who...

Features

Jeff Olson

Though he retired from competitive skiing decades ago, Jeff Olson still has Olympic dreams...

Stump Pain and the Art of ART

Paul Martin knows pain. But often, it’s a different type of pain than most able-bodied athletes deal with...

The Most Common Running Injuries and How to Prevent Them

Training for a marathon takes commitment, hard work and athleticism...

Paying At the Pump

Sure, gas prices have already started to fall, and they are expected to drop more throughout the summer...

Eight Amazing Road Trips

You’ve spent all winter in a proverbial hibernation (oh that pasty, pasty skin)...

2011 Sports Medicine Issue: Sending the Game

First Impressions: In Yellow Scene's annual sports medicine issue, four locals give us a does of their own medicine while climbing, running, cycling and slacking their way to victory. 1: Iron Man 2: The Game 3: Classic Slacker 4: In Another Girl's Shoes 5: Guts No Glory...

Scene

Editor’s Picks: May 2011

From Mars Bruno Mars’ 20-year-long overnight success story is a fascinating legend...

Six Questions with Up and Comer Quana Ramira

Chances are you don’t know Quana Ramira yet. But you may have seen the name of her act, the QDiva Experience, pass by once or twice...

Driven to Drink

Anything that’s on its fifth iteration (except movie sequels) should be showing marked improvement over past versions...

On the Road Again…To Telluride

If you want to combine great music and great beer, visit the Telluride Blues and Brews Festival (Sept. 16–18)...

Where It’s At

Summertime in the Rockies means sweet Olathe corn roasting on a grill, lazy back porch evenings drenched in honey-gold sunsets and music festivals more ubiquitous across the Front Range than wild fires...

Cuisine

Challenging Elements: Mead

Happy Noodle’s Executive Chef Sam Proia taught us this month that the mantra “save bees, drink mead” extends even to brining scallops in the age-old booze...

Eatery News: May 2011

Openings/Closings Tres Pupusas, a favorite at the Boulder County Farmer’s Market, opened a brick-and-mortar cafe at 2825 Wilderness Place, Suite 500 in Boulder. /The salad slinger, Mad Greens, recently opened a new location at 2341 Clover Basin Dr. in Longmont...

Curating Craftsmanship

I’ve heard the food at The Pinyon in Boulder described as “casual comfort food,” but I think that undermines what chef Theo Adley is doing, in a way...

Good to the Last Drop

When Megan Bucholz of Local Table Tours in Boulder asked if I wanted to come on her inaugural coffee and pastry tour of Boulder, how could I possibly say no?...

Also in This Edition

One for the Road

It was 2am. We’d just passed through Salt Lake City...

In Search of Rapids

This trip isn’t all lounging by the pool and window shopping in ritzy retail districts (we’re looking at you, Aspen)...

Home on the Range

Keota is being swallowed up slowly by the prairie...

Iron Man

One Man's Leg is a memoir of Boulder County resident Paul Martin's tragic misfortune followed by several superhuman victories...

Southern Exposure

Head out to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, the only mountain zoo in the country and a unique Colorado attraction...

The Game

The Game isn’t a problem for gumbys; it’s an inverted rockface in Boulder Canyon and one of the hardest bouldering problems in the world...

Jack Dempsey Knock-Out Tour

Head down I-25 to Walsenburg, and make your way to Manassa. This tiny town, established by Mormons in the 19th century, was the birthplace of William Harrison “Jack” Dempsey...

Classic Slacker

Although April’s Golden Classic II needed only an elephant to be a circus, it was just a day at the park for slacker Taylor Fultz...

Running a Half Marathon in Another Girl’s Shoes

I have always been a runner. Well, a jogger really...

Guts, No Glory

I’m a bush fertilizer, not an athlete...

A Grand Journey

A summer vacation would not be complete without a trip through Rocky Mountain National Park, and this trip is an ode to the luscious wilderness in the central Rockies...

Into the West

Set out early, at least before noon, and prepare for a five-hour drive. It’s pretty though, for the most part, but beware of cops around the Fairplay area (I speak from experience)...

Northern Lights

For this adults-only road trip, your first stop is Fort Collins, where you’ll check into the Armstrong Hotel, a cool boutique hotel that hovers above Old Town coffee shops, restaurants and stores...

Utah Bound

Arches National Park is a massive destination—with massive opportunity. But don’t let that overshadow the stops along the way...

Middle America History Tour

This kitschy jaunt takes you deep into the vast expanse and featureless tabletop of middle America. If you’re a short-attention-span type, take a pass...