Breckenridge is hosting the first stop of the Winter Dew Tour this week for the third year in a row, and the event’s Peak 8 festival village opens today. All of the main-event finals action will happen on Saturday and Sunday, but head up today anyway: The format for the…
If you’re one of those local loonies who gets as stoked about skiing uphill as skiing down, this one’s for you: Breckenridge-based adventure racer Monique Merrill is the featured guest tonight at 7 p.m. at the REI Denver Flagship store, 1416 Platte Street, where she’ll be talking about the thrills…
Holiday shopping, Colorado-style: Tonight is the annual Men’s Shopping Night at Outdoor Divas in Cherry Creek, 2717 East Third Avenue (or head to the Boulder store tomorrow night, 1133 Pearl Street), and these divas have us dudes all figured out: They’ll be plying us with pizza and Oskar Blues brews…
This week, Breckenridge is hosting the first stop of the Winter Dew Tour for the third year in a row. The Nike 6.0 Open runs December 16-19 and, since they’ve completely redesigned the Freeway terrain park and halfpipe for this year’s competition, we headed up for a sneak peek and…
Why should you get out of Denver and head for the hills this weekend? Let me count the ways…
If you can still stand sideways after riding in the powder all day at Copper Mountain today, stick around for the Grand Slam Bowl Jam skateboard contest in The Barn at Woodward at Copper tonight at 6 p.m. (registration and practice starts at 5 p.m.) There’s a $10 cash entry…
Yet another reason to head for the hills this week: The new Summit Action Sports Film Festival in Breckenridge opens tonight at 5 p.m. at Brooklyn’s Tavern, 500 South Main Street, with screenings of the People Crew’s Cheers and five other ski and snowboard films. The festival continues tomorrow and…
Huge news from Silverton Mountain this week: The Red Bull Cold Rush big mountain and big air freeskiing competition is coming to Colorado, March 14-18, after being held in Canada (first at Red Mountain, then at Retallack Lodge) each year since its inception in 2007. “We worked closely with Red…
Boulder-based adventure film company Sender Films just put out a new DVD compiling all six climbing films from the 5th annual Reel Rock Film Tour (DVD trailer after the jump): The Swiss Machine documents Ueli Steck’s alpine speed record on The Eiger Nordwand; First Round, First Minute follows Chris Sharma…
The new High Noon Express Lift (Chair 5) at Vail opens a week from today, right after next week’s Snow Daze events. The high-speed quad chair replaces the old fixed-grip triple, cutting the ride from twelve minutes down to just under six and increasing the lift’s capacity by about 70…
There comes a humbling time in the career of every blogger when he must face the fact that, for example, the article he wrote in February about Clair Bidez, Hannah Teter, Lindsey Vonn and Lacy Schnoor taking their clothes off for Sports Illustrated got more pageviews than anything else he…
Echo Mountain opens up today, and this time you don’t even have to call in sick to get a piece of the action: They’re keeping the lights on until 9 p.m. Terrain park manager Marc Moline and his crew have been building new obstacles out of recycled materials — propane…
Earlier this month we joined Boardistan and others in bitching about the pre-sale prices for the Denver Big Air contests coming to Civic Center Park January 25-26. This week, the Metro Denver Sports Commission announced new lower prices: Tickets for the Nature Valley Challenge Big Air Freestyle Ski event on…
The study by Wageningen University has been inconclusive, and more tests are needed before everyone panics and shuts down all wireless networks causing business and pleasure across the world to come to screeching halt. Let’s not overreact here, but all variants of deciduous trees in the Western world seem to…
It’s been a couple years now since Boulder-based Null Skateboards dropped its last full team video, Null & Void, but this Nullvember promo proves they’ve been keeping busy in the meantime:…
Might as well go ahead and make it a 5-day weekend: Beaver Creek is opening today with at least 426 acres of terrain and 11 lifts, not to mention the annual Beaver Creek Cookie Competition — 2 p.m. near the ice rink in the Beaver Creek Village — which will…
Loveland, A-Basin, Wolf Creek, Keystone, Copper Mountain, Winter Park, and Vail were all open this weekend, so why were most of the top snowboarders in Colorado and from around the world hanging out in downtown Denver? SixEleven Productions has the video recap from the 2nd annual Backyard Bang in case…
After getting dumped on all week (nearly three feet, as of this writing) Vail is opening today with 1,150 acres and nine lifts. Eldora opens today, too. Winter Park opened on Wednesday and will open Mary Jane tomorrow. And Keystone, which opened on November 5, is opening a bunch of…
The Adventure Film Festival opens tonight at the Boulder Theater with two shorts and two feature-length films to kick off the four-day festival. Here’s what’s in store for adventurous film fans tonight:…
Boulder’s Meta Skateboards celebrates its 10-year anniversary tonight at the Boulder Theater with the premiere of the new team video Lumber Jockeys and two other local videos: Properganda and With A Little Help From My Friends, plus performances by Speedwolf, The Cold North, and The Achievement…
If you’re looking around at a lot of empty cubicles in your office this morning, chances are your female co-workers are taking a “sick” day at Loveland: The ski area is hosting a complimentary On Snow Refresher Workshop today with Warren Miller Entertainment heartthrob Chris Anthony at 9 a.m., sponsored…
The last time Scottish street trials pro Danny MacAskill put a full video part online it got more than 21 million views on YouTube, got the Band of Horses song “Funeral” stuck in everybody’s heads across the whole damned world, and gave Inspired Bicycles more free press and new business…
