[scattered flurries] from felt soul media on Vimeo.The Beating is an annual amateur ski and snowboard film festival held annually in Silverton. The 2010 edition came and went on the second day of the year, with Telluride’s Ben Knight emerging victorious with Scattered Flurries, embedded above. In just under four…
Today’s Time-Wasting Video, courtesy of the intrepid reporters at The Onion News Network: “Are young people ignoring the dangers of being stoked?”…
Most people don’t need any more encouragement to play hooky and go skiing. But if you do, this Thursday, January 14, Loveland ski area and 95.7 radio have teamed up to promote “Ski Hooky” day…
The Season Trailer from Fitz Cahall on Vimeo.The creators of The Dirtbag Diaries — a podcast about outdoor adventures — recently debuted a new 22-episode Web TV series called The Season that looks like it’s worth checking out. The show follows five Pacific Northwest athletes through one season of their…
American skier and onetime Vail resident Lindsey Vonn continued her rocket-fueled path to either Olympic glory or Bode-style choke by becoming the first American woman to win three straight World Cup victories in three days. (Germany’s Katja Seizinger last pulled off the feat in 1997.)She clinched the record by winning…
It’s difficult to tell sometimes at first blush, but some bars are locals’ bars and some bars welcome out-of-towners with open arms. The Pagosa Bar is definitely in the former category.After a day skiing Wolf Creek and a soak across town, we cross the frosty San Juan by footbridge into…
II admit that I get a little frustrated with skiers and boarders blasting down the mountain with earbuds in. I understand wanting to hear tunes, but I prefer to keep the tunes inside my head, and let my brain come up with whatever seems right at the moment. I remember…
The Gatorade Winter Free Flow Tour kicked off this weekend with amateur events at Vail and Big Boulder Ski Area in Pennsylvania, and four Colorado locals will be on their way to the Free Flow Tour Finals next month: Tanner Coulter, 15, from Vail won the Freeski Slopestyle contest on…
Although not as an athlete, drywaller turned inept Olympic ski jumper Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards made a triumphant return to the winter games spotlight this week. Eddie, whose lack of skills helped him develop a cult following during the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, carried the Olympic torch through Winnipeg…
The big (though not at all surprising) news from Mammoth Mountain this week: Snowboarders Shaun White and Kelly Clark have each earned enough points on the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix to claim their spots on the U.S. team for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver next month.White, the 2006 Olympic…
So we haven’t gotten all that much snow so far this season — the state’s snowpack level is currently sitting at about 86 percent of its average depth. That means we’re all going to need to band together, ditch school, work, and everyday life, and head up the hill to…
Heads up, local groms: This is your big chance.The Dew Tour’s amateur series, the Free Flow Tour, has helped launch the careers of young skateboarders like Chaz Ortiz, Timmy Knuth, and David Loy, and BMX riders like Kevin Kiraly and Mike Spinner. This year the series got itself a new…
Bend Oregon’s Deschutes Brewery’s decision to bring a beer it only made two barrels of says a lot about Vail’s Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival: These aren’t your everyday beers…
Just in case you didn’t get all the gear you wanted this Christmas, On the Edge is hooking you up with some freebies, thanks to the folks at Warren Miller Entertainment. The very neon, delightfully puffy Mt. Haines Columbia men’s jacket pictured here should keep you warm or, at the…
As Denver shivered, it was sunny and in the 40s on the mountain north of Durango yesterday. While it hasn’t snowed for a good week — and lifts 5 and 8 on the back side were not open — the views and the varied terrain, and the beautiful weather more…
On Wednesday morning, ski patrollers at Steamboat Springs found the body of Grace Lynn McNeil, a ski instructor at Arapahoe Basin who had been reported missing Tuesday afternoon. McNeil, who was 23 and originally from Michigan, was described as a good skier who had been on her high school ski…
Ya gotta love the Japanese: When they’re not busying themselves with tentacle porn or dropping $177K on a single tuna, they’re creating the greatest game shows ever. Me, I’d be happy simply watching a snowboarder rocking a real half-pipe, but this being Japan, they’ve chosen to incongruously include a watermelon…
The very idea of some some schmo coming up and offering to guide or teach me on a frontcountry mountain sounds ri-goddamn-diculous. But I guess it happens, because Vail Resorts is stepping up efforts to bust underground lessons and guide services on their hill. In a recent undercover sting, they…
If you’ve been anywhere near a computer, iPod, television or mall in the last two years, chances are you’ve heard the addictive audio crack that is Vampire Weekend. Now comes word that the indie darlings will be headlining Aspen’s 10th Annual Bud Light Spring Jam on March 19th…
Three snowboarders from Colorado are among the qualifiers for today’s Women’s Halfpipe Finals at the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix event at Mammoth Mountain, the second of five U.S. competitions in the run-up to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver: Gretchen Blelier (Aspen) qualified in third, behind Kelly Clark and Hannah…
[jump] This is what I’d wear on the slopes if I were filthy rich, or at least scummily wealthy: At 949 Euros — or $1,367 American — it’s not for the light of wallet. But it is light itself, weighing in at just over a two pounds, and it offers seamless…
Sometimes, when you’ve got the itch to hit the slopes but for whatever reason (cash flow, injury, house arrest) aren’t able to, you can buy yourself some sanity and read a sweet action outdoorsy book. Yeah, it’s not as good as the real thing, but it still curbs the craving…
