For Rahlves, No Longer Man Against Mountain
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By getting out of the gate slowly, Daron Rahlves has found himself back in the pack in a newer racing discipline that resembles motocross on skis.
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GENEVA, Switzerland - Switzerland's Saint Bernard, famed for rescuing avalanche victims in the Alps, is finally bowing its massive head, the fabled barrel around its neck replaced with a "for sale" sign.    Heavy and slow in the deep Alpine snow, expensive to feed and their jobs largely taken over by helicopters and heat sensors, the once-proud dogs have found themselves obsolete and a drain on the resources of the religious order that has raised and trained them for centuries...
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VAL GARDENA, Italy  - Max Rauffer became the first  German man in nearly 13 years to win an Alpine ski World Cup  race when he beat the favorites in a wind-affected downhill on  Saturday.
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SOELDEN, Austria  - Bode Miller should finally be going his own way when the Alpine skiing World Cup season starts on the glaciers above Soelden this weekend.
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Max Rauffer became the first German man in 12 years to win an Alpine ski World Cup race when he beat the favorites in a wind-affected downhill at Val Gardena.
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Mountain unicycling isn't the most glamorous sport, but is takes just as much skill - and courage - as the other 'extremes.'
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Only a few weeks after leaving his job on Wall Street in the spring of 2004, Lawrence Schloss found himself dealing with dirty running water and eight-hour walks across glaciers that at times threatened to collapse.
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HOOD RIVER, Ore., Dec. 16 -- Expert mountaineers tried Saturday to take advantage of easing weather conditions atop Mount Hood in the search for three missing climbers, but the fickle and still-treacherous conditions turned them back.
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By Matt Branaugh, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.
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The massive cranes that towered over Berlin for much of the past decade, an omnipresent symbol of the city's renaissance, no longer dominate the skyline.
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BODE Miller earned his fourth win of the season when he and fellow American Daron Rahlves finished a first-ever 1-2 in a World Cup downhill today.
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There appear to be big shifts at work in Alpine skiing, starting with the slow fade of Austriaâs Hermann Maier, the most accomplished active racer in the world.
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There is something almost spectral about the vision of the new bridge across the Tarn Valley at Millau. It is almost as though it is not connected to the normal laws of gravity.
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In the locker room late yesterday afternoon, Colorado reliever Matt Herges was saying how it used to be that nobody would embrace the chance to pitch at Coors Field, with its high altitude and reputation as a launching pad.
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SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Russell Baze fell off a horse when he was a teenager and his father thought he didn't have a future riding the animals. Good thing Baze didn't listen to dear old Dad.
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THE beauty of the downhill lies in its simplicity. It is man against mountain. That, and also the fact that, as Finlay Mickel says, &quot;you need some balls&quot; to take on the mountain at speeds touching 80mph.
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By Beth Jones, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Sep. 24--Steven Solomon doesn't want to move a mountain.   Just a submerged houseboat.   But the chore may prove to be more difficult than he'd previously thought.