The month of May, as any mountain biker can tell you, is mud season. Just three weeks ago skiers and snowboarders were still making decent turns at Breckenridge as the ski area closed out its fiftieth anniversary season, and in a typical year May is a month of downtime for…
“We made a very tough decision today,” reported Arapahoe Basin CEO Alan Henceroth in a dispatch sent out on yesterday. “Arapahoe Basin will close for the season Sunday, May 6. With the light snowfall, big wind events, and warm temperatures, Mother Nature made life for Colorado skiers very difficult this…
Hiking the 500-mile Colorado Trail from Denver to Durango is one of the most epic — and scenic — adventures in the state, and it’s a more accessible bucket-list goal than you might think: Last year the Colorado Trail Foundation added three kids under the age of twelve to its…
The new Arvada Skate Park took Best of Denver 2012 Best Skate Park honors last month, and the more time we spend there, the more we love it. This edit from local filmmaker Tristan Minton, of Royal Stain Design, which features 303 Boards team rider David Reyes and The Denver…
Denver-based filmmakers Robin Bond and David Wruck premiered their roller derby documentary Derby Baby on March 31 at the Atlanta Film Festival and screened it earlier this month at the Sonoma International Film Festival, but before they can bring it to a wider audience they need to sort out a…
On Saturday Snowboard Colorado and Loveland Ski Area will co-host a demo-day event featuring next season’s gear from at least sixteen different brands, including boards from Colorado companies Never Summer, Unity Snowboards and Oz, as well as boards from YES, Capita, Technine, Salomon, Niche, Echelon, Mervin Manufacturing, Signal, Arbor and…
The American Alpine Club announced this week that Boulder-based photographer Cory Richards has won its 2012 Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure. The $15,000 award, which will be officially presented next month during Mountainfilm in Telluride, is named for photographers Galen and Barbara Rowell, who died in a plane…
Attention, would-be skater daters: The Denver Roller Dolls’ Mile High Club all-star roller derby team is putting its “Real men play with Dolls” slogan on the line this week with a “help us kick butt all over the country” date auction to raise travel funds for the team. Bids start…
USA Pro Cycling Challenge organizers revealed the winning design in a national poster competition yesterday, by Montrose-based artist Leanna Johnson, and this morning gave us a first look at the winning poster for the Denver Time Trial stage poster, the seventh and final stage of the second annual race, by…
Broomfield’s Crisis Skateboards shop is hosting the local premiere of the new Think Skateboards film Business As Usual tonight at 8 p.m., at a free screening at the shop at 6821 West 120th Avenue. Can’t make it? Boulder’s Meta Skateboards is presenting the film tomorrow at 8 p.m., with a…
With many Colorado ski areas closing this weekend (some of them ahead of schedule) and recent headlines bemoaning this season’s abysmal snowpack across the state, it’s easy to lament the sad state of this year’s ski and snowboard season. But let’s accentuate the positive for a moment: Yesterday, Wolf Creek…
Closing day at Vail is scheduled for Sunday, April 15, and Vail Resorts will barely let the door hit this sad snow season on the ass before looking forward to next winter: The very next day, the company will begin construction on a new gondola from Vail Village to Mid-Vail,…
Both Ski Halfpipe and Ski Slopestyle are confirmed as Olympic medal events at the Sochi Games in 2014, and it’s looking increasingly likely that a Colorado local — sixteen-year-old Aspenite Torin Yater-Wallace — could win them both. He won SuperPipe gold in the Winter X Games event in Tignes, France,…
This week a series of nine “Come to Life” television spots promoting Colorado tourism began airing in target markets across the country, with an emphasis on outdoor summer adventure. To get that vibe just right, the Colorado Tourism Office brought in a team including Denver-based ad agency Karsh/Hagan, photographer/Camp 4…
Although this past weekend felt like the start of summer, there’s still good riding to be had in Colorado — and this week is also a prime opportunity to catch some of the country’s best amateur snowboarders in action: The 23rd annual United States Snowboard Association’s USASA National Championships got…
Population is the theme of this year’s Moving Mountains Symposium on Friday, May 25, kicking off the 34th annual Mountainfilm in Telluride film festival, which runs through May 28 over Memorial Day Weekend. The full roster of speakers for the symposium was just announced…
Stacy Peralta — legendary professional skateboarder, founder of the Powell Peralta skateboard company, documentary filmmaker and commercial advertising mogul — visited the Auraria campus yesterday to speak with students on the art of being creative. “When kids tell me their kids are skateboarders,” he told the crowd, “I tell them,…
Stacy Peralta, a ’70s-era skateboarding legend in his own right — and co-founder of the Powell Peralta Bones Brigade skateboarding team that included Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Tommy Guerrero, Mike McGill and dozens of the top pro skaters of the ’80s and ’90s — will be the featured…
“This year the Colorado Mountain Club is celebrating its hundredth anniversary, and it’s also a big anniversary — the tenth — for our annual Mountain Fest outdoor education event,” says CMC spokeswoman Rachel Scott. “We have a great program on Saturday and six other big events this year as part…
The Vail Valley Foundation’s 2012 Korbel American Ski Classic gets underway today at 4:30 p.m. with the Volvo Legends of Skiing Giant Slalom competition on Vail’s Golden Peak, followed by a free concert at 6:30 p.m. featuring G. Love and Special Sauce, marking the 30th anniversary of “America’s original celebrity…
Windsor James and David Reyes, two local skaters on the 303 Boards shop team, are blowing up big this month with the release of the final segment of Mystery Skateboards’ Color Theory video series. James is from Colorado Springs and just turned pro; Reyes is from Denver and is expected…
I’ve written about almost all of Colorado’s homegrown snowboard companies over the last year or so, but Highlands Ranch-based Origin Snowboards wasn’t even on my radar until earlier this month when my kids discovered it. With grom-sized boards starting at just 85cm and the biggest board in the line maxing…
