My odyssey into the world of pack-burro racing began 34 years ago with a phone call. The voice on the other end was pack-burro racing legend Curtis Imrie, whom I’d met through a running friend, asking ...

Meet the men and women of pack burro racing. It began as a distraction for overworked miners and evolved as a curiosity in mountain towns hoping to draw more visitors to summer festivals. But for a ...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — There’s a race that gives a different meaning to the saying, “hauling ass.” It’s a summer Colorado heritage sport that, at first glance, seems just hilarious. Steamboat Springs ...

Addie apparently wanted to stake her own claim on the downhill, and Charleston seemed to have his own opinions about this particular runner’s pace. But it was all good fun on a late August evening at ...

Let the record show that Little Jonah did not finish dead-ass last in the Gold Rush Challenge. The mighty (and shaggy) little beast that I rented for a 7.5-mile pack burro race in the sleepy mining ...

At the sound of gunfire, the burros take off in a sprint, so fast that the trail runners gripping their lead ropes are at risk of getting dragged down the pavement of historic Harrison Avenue. Within ...