About 30 rippers, shredders, bros (and even a Betty) were out on Sunday night at Ruby Hill Railyard at Ruby Hill Park (S. Platte River Dr. and Florida Ave.). The free mini-snowboard park opened January 9, and has six boxes and one metal rail to get your jib on with…
This intriguing aerial shot of a frosty dune-field on Mars — recently posted on the University of Arizona’s HiRISE site — just begs the question: Could man (or woman) ever ski Mars? There are some tasty stats on the Red Planet out there, like the mind-boggling height of Olympus Mons,…
Every year, the American Alpine Club, based in Golden, hosts an annual awards banquet in different parts of the country. This year, the meeting will be held at the Inverness in Englewood on February 20. Over the years, the annual meeting has been pared down from a two-day event with…
Last week, I wrote about longtime ski bum Charlie Toups, who had been in jail since November on charges of illegal camping, possession of marijuana, and resisting arrest. Toups arrest had spurred a Facebook fan page titled “Free Charlie Toups!” and an online petition. Many people didn’t see what the…
This is either a good way to heat up your hands or a great way to destroy your iPhone. The new Pocket Heat app essentially revs up the phone’s processor into overdrive, in order to turn it into a mini-heater. The thing might pump out enough heat to warm your…
Green Man was born in the parking lot outside Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia after an Eagles victory over hated division rivals the Dallas Cowboys. From there he made his way onto the followed-by-a-cult TV show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It was only a matter of time before Green…
Stop reading this, put your skis in your car and start driving toward Steamboat. Wait, no! Keep reading for another minute and then start driving. The seventh annual Ski Jam music festival is going on in Steamboat this weekend, a perfect place to spend the day skiing and the night…
The Denver Marathon is now the Rock ‘n’ Roll Denver Marathon — and it has a 2010 date: October 17. So what exactly is a Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon? Is it like a Rock ‘n’ Roll McDonalds? Not quite. According to CGI, a company that runs Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathons…
East Vail’s The Fang, one of the most notable climbs in the region, wounded another victim Tuesday when a climber fell almost 10 stories off of it. Just 30 feet short of the top of the climb, the entire formation collapsed, sending the poor dude plummeting over 100 feet. Miraculously,…
The American Alpine Club announced this week that it is accepting applications through March 31 for its new Copp-Dash Inspire Award to help fund and document climbing adventures around the world.The awards will come from an available pool of $20,000, administered by the AAC as a tribute to Boulder’s Johnny…
Though there have been some close calls this season, including the ridiculously unprepared guy who got partially buried in a slide off Loveland Pass last month and got his 15 minutes as a result, no one had actually died in a slide in Colorado this season.Until yesterday…
Lots of Coloradans live the contradiction of composting waste or driving a hybrid while patronizing ski resorts, which are environmental disasters no matter how you slice it. Think about it: Between tearing up slopes for runs, sucking up massive amounts of power, and pumping out boatloads of trash and spent…
So the votes are in and the winner of the 2010 Ullr Parade is Ullr’s Voyage to Breckenridge, pictured above. Second went to the Nordic Skiing Gnome by the Breckenridge Nordic Center, celebrating their 40tth anniversary. Third place was the Liquid Lounge for Live Life, Memory of Erik Peterson.I judged…
Want to ride in this year’s Triple Bypass? Well, you likely can’t. Registration for the 120-mile bicycle ride from Evergreen to Avon — and over three mountain passes — sold out yesterday in under one hour. That’s record time; in 2008, the 3,500 slots were snapped up in eleven days…
The Boulder Snowboarding Group — a local Meetup group, more than 1,000 strong, that can barely contain itself — is breaking out the SWAT team gear (snowboard weapons and tactics?) this weekend for its Rail Riot event at Loveland.The Saturday contest, open to the first 100 rioters with a lift…
Some people just can’t get enough. Marathon contests have always been popular, though they are usually applied to more accessible things like dancing or drinking. Climbing, on the other hand, is physical enough that most normal people wouldn’t consider doing marathon climbing sessions, at least not voluntarily. The sheer volume…
January is Learn a Snow Sport Month, and this week’s as good as any to get your whippersnappers whipped into shape: Keystone is hosting the second of its Kidtopia Festival events, Thursday Jan. 13 through Tuesday Jan. 19, building up to its signature family event next month.Send your spawn careening…
Simon Zalkind, director of the Singer Gallery of the Mizel Arts & Culture Center (350 South Dahlia Street, 303-316-6360, www.maccjcc.org), is an intellectual as much as an aesthete, meaning he’s as interested in ideas as he is in visual matters. So it makes sense that Spittin’ Image: Ten Artists Consider…
Allen True’s West. Allen Tupper True was Denver’s premier muralist during the first third of the twentieth century. Sadly, many of his commissions have been painted over or were lost when the buildings they were in were demolished. In an act of cooperation, the three big cultural institutions on the…
Girls Only. The trouble with Girls Only, a two-woman evening of conversation, skits, singing, improvisation and audience participation, is that it’s so relentlessly nice. Creator-performers Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein have worked together for many years; at some point, they read their early diaries to each other and were transfixed…
Cults collide as Peter “Lord of the Rings” Jackson tackles Alice Sebold’s best-selling new-age gothic, the story of a rape-murder-dismemberment and its aftermath, narrated by its fourteen-year-old victim from heaven. The movie, starring Saoirse Ronan as the teenage Susie, is horrific yet cloying, sometimes poignant and often ridiculous. Published in…
Directors Allen and Albert Hughes were raised by an Armenian mother and African-American father. With such a background, it would be difficult not to have feelings about the church. The Hugheses’ fourth film, The Book of Eli, centers on the Christianity that was at the margins of their previous films—hypocritically misused by Bokeem Woodbine’s bush-crazy marine turned pulpit-pounder…
