On Sunday, hometown hero Julian Christianson won the Hometown Heroes amateur skateboarding finals at X Games 17 — it’s his fourth time winning the contest — and later this month he’s headed to Las Vegas to compete in the Maloof Road Tour finals, after winning the Denver stop at the…
If you’ve been dreaming up how you’d do things differently as king of the mountain, this could be your week: Powderhorn Ski Area CEO and President Steve Bailey and Dean Skalla, who have owned the ski area since 1999, are selling it in an auction on Thursday at 1 p.m…
Red Bull Media House, Brain Farm Digital Cinema and Quiksilver have announced world tour dates for director Curt Morgan’s latest snowboard film extravaganza The Art of Flight after unveiling a high-profile ad campaign promoting the film during X Games 17. The high-definition film (check out the trailer below) will get…
Look out, Leadville 100 competitors: Lance Armstrong is coming for you again after winning yesterday’s Crested Butte Alpine Odyssey mountain bike race with a time of 4:32:21, three seconds ahead of second-place finisher Greg Krause and third-place finisher Travis Scheefer. The 63-mile Crested Butte Alpine Odyssey is the third and…
Make it rain! Crankworx Colorado continues today at Winter Park with the Rainmaker Air Downhill Slopestyle qualifiers starting at 12:15 p.m. (finals start on Saturday at 1 p.m.). The weekend is also full of spectator-friendly XC and downhill mountain bike races. Better still: Most of the Trestle Bike Park trails…
In 1996, adventurer Göran Kropp famously set out by bike from his home in Sweden, loaded with gear, and rode all the way to Nepal to climb Mount Everest. He made the summit on May 23 of that year, without bottled oxygen and without Sherpa support, then climbed down, got…
Denver-based BMX star Jay Eggleston was rendered unconscious during competition at the Dew Tour’s Pantech Open in Ocean City on Saturday, and was sent to a nearby trauma center. The Eggleston family has set up a page at CarePages.com to send updates, and announced last night that he was briefly…
Apparently, Copper Mountain isn’t content to merely be a focal point of the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association’s freestyle Grand Prix series — not to mention the first stop for any U.S. athlete with Olympic dreams in ski or snowboard slopestyle or superpipe. Yesterday, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association…
Commuters passing Federal on 6th Avenue on their way into Denver may have noticed construction on what is shaping up to be an epic new mountain bike and BMX skills park, designed by Gravity Logic and pro rider John Cowan. The park will be operated by Winter Park’s Trestle Bike…
It’s going to be hot today in Denver. Damned hot. Too hot. Thinking of going for a run today? Forget it, you’ll kill yourself out there. Thankfully Aquaman is coming to the rescue. “Aquaman, here in landlocked Colorado?” Yes, Aquaman…
You don’t want to go up against a local in a race like the Xterra Mountain Championship at Beaver Creek: On Saturday Vail’s Josiah Middaugh set a new course record on his way to winning the triathlon with a 19-second lead over Scott Wealing (Boulder) and Brian Smith (Gunnison), making…
Kick it! Local photographer Terry “The Rat” Ratzlaff — best known for his snowboarding and action sports photography — is one of ten featured artists at tonight’s 1st annual Sole Food art show presented by Division West at Black Book Gallery, 555 Santa Fe Drive, from 6 p.m. to midnight…
The Colorado Roadless Project and the Outdoor Alliance have a cool new campaign promoting their efforts to protect Colorado’s 4.2 million acres of National Forest lands currently designated as “Roadless Areas” for mountain biking, hiking, climbing, paddling, backcountry skiing and snowboarding, and other outdoor activities. They’re breaking out the big…
We know it’s kind of torturous of us to keep showing you the new trailers for this year’s forthcoming ski and snowboard porn in the middle of July, but we just can’t help ourselves. Keystone and Breckenridge get some love in The Grand Bizarre, this year’s film from Poor Boyz…
Tickets go on sale on Saturday at 10 a.m. for the second annual Snowboard on the Rocks at Red Rocks. The September 16 event will feature the world premieres of three films: TB20 is the twentieth-anniversary installment of the Totally Board series from Standard Films, Familia 2 is the second…
Last week we reported on the International Olympic Committee’s announcement that ski and snowboard slopestyle events have officially been added as medal sports for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games and on the local ramifications of that decision. And wait, there’s more: Other big news with a solid local angle coming…
Breck Bike Week just got underway yesterday, but already the town’s cycling community is looking forward to Fall: In just 46 days the USA Pro Cycling Challenge (August 22-28) will be off to the races, bringing many of the world’s top cyclists to Colorado. Breck is hosting Stage 5 of…
Something about this recent run of three-digit-degrees days and Monday’s closing day at Arapahoe Basin have us looking forward to next ski season already, and it turns out we’re not alone: On Monday director Josh Berman and the Denver-based ski porn specialists at Level 1 Productions released the first trailer…
Yesterday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board approved the addition of ski and snowboard slopestyle events at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. The announcement came yesterday from the 123rd IOC Session in Durban, South Africa, and follows an April announcement that ski halfpipe will also be a…
Get ready to give up any excuse you might have for not staying active and living a life of adventure: This weekend the National Sports Center for the Disabled is hosting No Barriers Summit 2011 at Winter Park “to promote innovative ideas, approaches and assistive technologies which help people with…
The charmingly-titled local rag Fuck Off Zine is known as much for its for offend-everybody headlines like “How To Give Yourself an Abortion” and “Spitting on Bulldykes” as for its skateboard photography, and has now been potty-mouthing its way through “skateboard carnage from the bowels of ColoRADo” for 11 issues…
If Colorado’s highest peaks have been calling your name and you’re ready to bag some fourteeners, stop by REI Denver, 1416 Platte Street, tonight at 6:30 p.m. to join the kick-off event for the the Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center’s Multiple Summits for MS…
