Mountains

With elk season approaching, now's the time to start getting into tip shape enough to be able to handle long hunts in the high country.

How daring are you? Do you have the chutzpah to venture out to a public place wearing zilch, to do some swimming or soaking?

Knowing how to navigate, how to take on the terrain and deal with unexpected scenarios are all skills you need in the backcountry.

Mount Doane, named after Gustavus Doane, has been renamed the 'First Peoples Mountain,' after a 15-0 vote by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN), the federal body responsible for maintaining uniform geographic name usage throughout the federal government.

Wyoming's winter sports are a huge attraction to snowboarders from all over the country.

Heavy mountain snow combined with gusty winds could make for blizzard conditions along portions of Interstate 80 in southeast Wyoming Thursday through early this weekend.

Up to 10 inches of snow and wind gusts as high as 50 mph are expected in the Sierra Madre and Snowy ranges Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service in Cheyenne.

What do you do if you're a famous YouTube contributor and you want to climb Wyoming's Fireball Peak? You dodge rattlesnakes because the snakes don't care if you're famous or not and that's exactly what happened.

It's a faint reminder of a long gone era when wildfire detection began on Wyoming mountain tops. A new hike shows what's left of one of the lookouts from that era that ended 50 years ago.

Sure it's August, but as any true Coloradan knows, snow can hit at any time in any month...especially in the higher elevations.