
Maren Horjus
Digital Director at 5280 Magazine
Outdoors journalist with a sports problem. Digital director at @5280magazine, 2x author, and Northwestern alum. Formerly @rei and @backpackermag. 🏕❄️🏄♀️
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
5280.com | Maren Horjus
Within 24 hours of unloading the last moving box in her new Denver digs in February 2017, Emma Rosse was making turns at Winter Park Resort. By the following summer, she was spending weekends hiking fourteeners, meeting friends for after-work climbing sessions, and giving mountain biking a whirl. But it wasn’t just the adventures the rural Virginia transplant was hooked on—it was the before-and-after moments with her pals.
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3 weeks ago |
5280.com | Maren Horjus
Editor’s note: This is a developing story and will be updated as new information becomes available. At least eight people were injured Sunday afternoon when a man threw incendiary devices into a crowd of people near the Boulder County Historic Courthouse on Pearl Street. A suspect is in custody, according to Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn.
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3 weeks ago |
5280.com | Maren Horjus
With all due respect to God and his handiwork, man has created marvels in Colorado. Hundreds of humanmade reservoirs dot the Front Range, providing drinking water, irrigation, and your launchpad for the best summer ever. Rally your crew, pack your floaties, and load your cooler. Here, our 15 favorite close-to-home escapes for mile-high lake days. The Best Lakes for BoatingAt Horsetooth Reservoir, 57 miles of trails crisscross the foothills beyond the western shore.
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1 month ago |
5280.com | Maren Horjus
As of mid-May, the Colorado Rockies are on track to break the single-season record for losses by 13 games. To honor the club’s pursuit of history, 5280 is compiling a living record of their season—so that future generations of Denverites might someday be able to look back and understand their ancestors’ shame. May 10-16, 2025Current record: 7-36 (.163)Current pace: 26-136It’s been so long since the Colorado Rockies mattered. The club’s lone World Series appearance came in 2007.
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1 month ago |
5280.com | Maren Horjus
Denver turned Dan Abrams into a ski bum—a role he never abandoned after co-founding Flylow, the ski clothing company that captured Colorado’s go-hard approach to slope style. Nothing like the Cactus Pant existed before Flylow brought it to market in 2005: An ultradurable, loose-fitting work pant with sufficient breathability for hiking to sidecountry stashes adjacent to A-Basin and Vail, this category-buster was invented for Colorado’s mountain addicts. Abrams was—and is—one of those.
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