The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. There’s a steep, one-mile section of the Sneffels Traverse—a 29.4-mile, five-day hut-to-hut trek that begins ...

In the corpus of the science of fun, there is a type of enjoyment that goes against the grain of seeking comfort and ease: “Type II Fun” (academically more often referred to as “hard fun”). Although ...