Progression in snowboarding and freeskiing moves pretty fast: Last year’s double corks are already giving way to this year’s triple corks, and gaps as big as 70 feet are now terrain park features at many Colorado ski areas. How, exactly, does one muster the cojones confidence to sack up, point…
In November we published The Edge, our annual winter activity guide and comprehensive insider’s resource to 25 of Colorado’s top ski areas. It turns out we missed quite a few: According to the ghost hunters at Colorado Ski Country USA, there are 169 ski areas in the state, including 140…
Ever wonder what a bunch of dudes from the other side of the world make of our mountains when they come here to ride? Freeride.CZ, a “riders driven” online action sports magazine based in the Czech Republic, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week with the online release of director…
In September I reported from The Meeting, Aspen’s 6th annual ski and snowboarding film festival showcasing most of the year’s big-budget snow-porn flicks. Not hardcore enough for you? The Beating is Silverton’s answer to The Meeting, an amateur film-shorts competition as different from Aspen’s festival as Silverton Mountain is from…
Apparently a full day in the powder up in Summit County wasn’t enough for Shaun White: On Sunday he popped in to skate the bowl at Woodward at Copper. Looks pretty fun, right? Skateboard sessions in “The Barn” start at $4.99 for two hours or $9.99 for a full day…
We’ll have some locals to root for when the Denver Big Air competition erects its 102-foot tall monument to skiing and snowboarding in Civic Center Park next month: In addition to the pro athletes invited to the Nature Valley Challenge Big Air Freestyle Ski event on January 25 and the…
Today’s time-wasting video comes all the way from Australia’s Melbourne Museum, where they celebrated the premiere of Tron: Legacy with an interactive “extreme 3-D” projection-mapped halfpipe presented by ENESS and dared to ask the timeless question: What if the dudes in Tron were more into riding skateboards than racing crotch…
Another day, another contest where we give away a box o’ free stuff. For the skiing and snowboarding-obsessed among us, legendary filmmaker Warren Miller, and his accompanying paraphernalia, is the subject of today’s comment contest…
If you’re planning a holiday ski vacation, you might want to go ahead and start it early: It snowed all weekend at most Colorado resorts, and it’s expected to keep coming down until Thursday, which means it’s officially time to call in some of those sick days you’ve been accruing…
Looking to get your blood pumping this weekend? Any of these should do the trick: 1. Winter Dew Tour at Breckenridge. Breckenridge is hosting the Nike 6.0 Open this week to kick off the 3-stop Winter Dew Tour. There are prelims events all day today (see AlliSports.com for full schedule),…
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…
