In case you haven’t heard already, it’s a powder day up in the mountains. Loveland won the race to open first yesterday, and Arapahoe Basin’s hot on its heels this morning with more than nine inches of fresh snow (and counting) in the last 48 hours — on top of…
Official word just in from Loveland Ski Area: With five inches of snow last night on top of the snowmaking operation they’ve been running all month, opening day is tomorrow, Sunday October 24. Loveland’s staking their claim as the first ski area open in Colorado for the second year in…
Forum Snowboards, Special Blend, and Foursquare dropped all pretense for their 7th feature film and accompanying collection of f-bomb snowboards and apparel, ripe for controversy on the mountain this season and in a school near you. The film is titled, inappropriately enough, Fuck It. It does take a certain kind…
We caught Never Summer’s new Made In America video at Snowboard On the Rocks in September, but in case you missed it we’ve got the full 30-minute video after the jump in all its HD local pride glory…
If you’re the praying-for-snow type, the Saint Francis Center Episcopal Diocese of Denver is ready to make you a believer on Saturday, presenting the Early Bird Rail Jam “first snow shred of the year” at the Believer’s Center of Denver (180 S. Garrison Street in Lakewood) on the campus of…
TGR’s Light the Wick gets its local premiere tonight at the Boulder Theater (with a Denver encore tomorrow, 10/16, at Gothic Theatre). If, unlike us, you’re feeling overwhelmed by the onslaught of all these ski movie premieres, trust us on this one: Light the Wick is epic. The film was…
Tomorrow at 10 a.m. at the City Park bandstand, you’ll find a lot of flexible people hoping to beat out a yoga event that was recently held in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by lululemon athletic gear, Yoga in the City aims to top a recent lululemon event in D.C. that drew…
Just about every ski area in Colorado is getting natural snow this week and firing up the snowguns to help it along, and opening day at a couple of Colorado resorts could be any day now. To further stoke the fire, here’s another round of snowboard video premiers: Burton Snowboards…
Loveland loves to lay down its annual earliest opening day claim, and we have to say things are looking pretty good up there this week, with a little bit of natural snow and perfect conditions for snow-making operations. They’re already behind last year’s pace (Loveland opened on October 7 last…
Denver-based snowboard film crew SixEleven Productions drops the world premiere of Stop…Hammer Time! tonight at Gothic Theatre (6 p.m., $10, ages 16+), along with the Denver premiere of Pirate Productions’ Hooked and a mess of free stuff from SixEleven’s new sponsors, including Ride Snowboards…
The Poor Boyz Productions Triple Threat Tour comes to Boulder Theater tonight with the local premiere of the 2010 ski film Revolver (trailers after the jump) and an autograph signing with featured athletes including Simon Dumont, Nick Martini, Matt Walker, and Dane Tudor, followed by an afterparty with music by…
Crested Butte-based company Matchstick Productions won Best Film for The Way I See It over the weekend at the International Freeski Film Festival (IF3) in Annecy, France, where Henrik Windstedt also won Best Freerider honors for his part in the film (peep the trailer after the jump). Another Colorado company,…
The Gothic Theatre gives itself over to the local snowboard scene once again tonight at 7 p.m. when 720 Boardshop presents the Denver premieres of The People Crew’s Cheers and Sup Bro? from local crew Mistaken Productions (trailers after the jump)…
Most startup magazines don’t make it past their first issue, so we’re stoked to see the second issue of Snowboard Colorado in shops this week, and with Gretchen Bleiler boosting big on the cover to boot…
The Red Bull Rampage is underway today in Virgin, Utah, featuring 25 of the craziest dudes on mountain bikes competing on a course that drops 1,500 vertical feet and features a 63-foot canyon jump. The Rampage is the final stop on the Freeride Mountain Bike FMB World Tour …
Boulder’s Fox Theatre hosts The Reunion tonight with the premieres of The Arena from FODT Productions and Mark Frank Montoya, Videograss’ Bon Voyage, Airblaster’s Respect Your Elders and Instalite’s Ride With Us 2010 (trailers after the jump), plus autograph signings from many of the featured athletes and lots of swag…
The Motocross of Nations has only been staged in the United States three times in its 64 year history, but Lakewood’s Thunder Valley Motocross Park had the honor this weekend, hosting 32,000 spectators and top riders from around the world. Team USA went big for the occasion, beating out Belgium,…
Gotta love Loveland, where, in the race to claim earliest opening day honors in North America yet again, they’ve already got snowmaking crews on the mountain. After getting hit with a bit of the real deal yesterday, Loveland’s snowmaking crews went to work under the full moon last night, which…
We’ve been dutifully posting news of just about every ski & snowboard film premiere in the area this month — yes, we’re just as stoked for the snowy season as you are — and here comes the motherlode: Head up to Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House tonight for The Meeting, Aspen’s…
The Absinthe Films Sphere of Influence Tour makes its way to Denver tonight at 7:30 with the local premiere of NowHere at the Esquire. Featured riders Marie France Roy, Dan Brisse, Bode Merril, Cale Zima, and Annie Boulanger will be in the house with some Sharpies, and proceeds from the…
Snowboarder Jeremy Jones and Teton Gravity Research teamed up last season to bring out the biggest adventure film of the year, and the Denver premiere is tonight at the Oriental Theatre. Deeper: A Snowboard Adventure Into the Unknown follows Jones and friends ( Travis Rice, Xavier De Le Rue, Josh…
The world premiere of The Way I See It — skiing circa 2010, as seen by Crested Butte-based film crew Matchstick Productions — blew minds at the Boulder Theater on Saturday. It’s the 20th feature length film from MSP, and it’s a doozy, with Mark Abma, Sean Pettit, Eric Hjorleifson,…
