The annual Polar Bear Plunge at Boulder Reservoir has attracted New Year’s Day nutters since at least 1983, and as a tradition, its appeal is elemental. Freezing temperatures shock the body into a state of fever that is briefly invigorating. If it’s cold enough, your heart rate and blood pressure…
The Merc, 2199 California Street, is a reincarnation of an original hipster hangout, harking back to the era of Kerouac and Beat poetry. And because the venue is authentic, you know the entertainment will be, too. Marilyn Megenity’s kitchen will serve dinner from 5:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., accompanied by…
Leave it to Steuben’s to come up with a New Year’s special to end all New Year’s specials: Steuben’s Pork & Eggs. Last year, the restaurant was open for 24 hours to celebrate the start of 2009; this time, not only is Steuben’s staying open and serving its full menu,…
Steampunk — think steam as in steamship and punk as in cyberpunk — is an aesthetic defined by extrapolating the technology of the past, particularly the Victorian era, into retro science fantasy, like clockwork robots and steam-powered airships. It’s been explored in books like The Difference Engine and movies like…
In 2008, Burma suffered the worst cyclone in the country’s history: 85,000 people died, and 54,000 people are still missing. Tonight, Edge Gallery, 3658 Navajo Street, is hosting a benefit for the Burmese orphans of Cyclone Nargis from 7 to 10 p.m. in conjunction with its new Children of the…
While many moms and dads like the idea of bringing in the New Year alongside their children, keeping the youngest of them conscious into the wee hours can make the march to midnight seem endless. Denver Zoo reps have come up with a simple solution: At Zoo Year’s Eve, the…
Not only will this New Year’s Eve be a full moon, but it will also be a blue moon. (When a single month contains two full moons — which happens once every thirty months or so — that second full moon is the blue one.) The Crested Butte Nordic Center’s…
Most people are waiting until tomorrow to kick off their resolutions for the New Year, but you can get a jump start tonight — and sweat off some of those holiday calories — at the Frozen Buns 5K Resolution Run in Crested Butte. Starting at 5 p.m. at the Crested…
If you’re anything like me, then you learned a long time ago not to trust the men in your life when it comes to improving your sports skills. Fortunately, Eldora Mountain Resort, 2775 Canyon Boulevard in Boulder, and Outdoor Divas are on my wavelength: They offer Women’s Days: Testosterone-Free Skiing…
The superheroes at Buntport Theater have been fighting crime in their home town of Dendiggityopolis for four and a half seasons now as part of an unusual theatrical series called tRUNks: A Live Comic Book. New episodes show every other Saturday with ideas based on suggestions from the previous episode’s…
A history professor by day, Kevin Rucker moonlights as a LoDo buff and guide, offering a changing slate of LoDo Walking Tours throughout the year. “He’s a wealth of information,” explains LoDo District spokeswoman Jeannie Wert. “We just had a window design contest for the holidays. He sets up his…
Saw this story in the Sky-Hi Daily News about these nifty GPS units available for about $20 a day for rent at Winter Park. Dubbed flaiks (and made by the Boulder company of the same name), the gadgets can be tracked in real-time, so the user’s location can be pinpointed…
January is Learn to Ski & Ride Month, an annual project of Colorado Ski Country USA in association with the American Association of Snowboard Instructors, Professional Ski Instructors of America, and Go With a Pro. By coincidence, this month is also the beginning of a very personal project: I’m getting…
It’s that time of year again, when every media outlet (including us) floods the Web with their ‘best of this’ and ‘best of that’ lists.Let’s be honest, though. Everyone loves them. They’re fun to read and argue about.Here’s one such list. Let the arguing begin…
Need something to wear to a New Year’s Eve party where you plan on sleeping wherever you fall down? How about something for those cold nights when a Snuggie just isn’t enough? Or a getup for the transitional phase between tent and outdoors and vice versa?If you answered “yes” or…
Traditionally, New Year’s resolutions are about self-improvement of some sort. Of course, most people fail miserably at them, making me wonder what the point of the resolutions is. But no matter.Why not apply the concept of New Year’s resolutions to outdoor activities? Most people who have a passion for the…
This is our first serving of a semi-regular post about a mountain bar of note…or at least disrepute.We stop in Georgetown for a beer on our way back from Loveland. Downtown, the normally reliable Red Ram is shuttered, with a for-sale sign in the front window. So much for that…
I got my first view of Denver from a train, my first view of a Colorado ski resort from another train. But now it looks like the revived Ski Train to Winter Park will never leave the station: Yesterday, Iowa Pacific called a halt to the season…
Driving through Glenwood Canyon, most people eye the Colorado River and the crumbly limestone cliffs right above the road. In the winter, Glenwood has a few attractions as well, including the ephemeral Glenwood Falls ice climb on the north side of the road right after the tunnel by exit 105…
So U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn played the role of the Grinch on Christmas Eve eve to Iowa Pacific Holding’s Cindy Lou Who, denying the company’s request for a temporary restraining order to force Amtrak crews to start operating the new Rio Grande Scenic Ski Train on December 27. The…
Officials from Summit and Eagle counties spent yesterday rescuing a man from Quandary, a 14,000-foot peak south of Breckenridge, after he fractured both legs in a ski-gliding-gone-wrong accident, according to the Summit Daily News…
Earlier this month, Eric Peterson wrote about a new iPhone app that turns your phone into a virtual reality display of the ski resort. The video demonstrating its function makes it seem pretty high tech, but it also looks a lot like info overload.Most skiers, however, do like to have…
