Email Author Colin Bane

2009 Stories by Colin Bane

• Come On In! The Water's...Freezing

  published December 31, 2009

  The annual Polar Bear Plunge at Boulder Reservoir has attracted New Year's Day nutters since at least 1983, and as a tradition, its appeal... More >>

• Locals Only: Last-minute gifts for the ladies you love

  published Dec 23, 2009

  "We are a local store that could use a leg up this season," writes Marily Macdonald, marketing coordinator for the Outdoor Divas shops in Boulder and Cherry Creek, just as I'm heading out the door to ... More >>

• Local Boards for Locavores: Unity Snowboards

  published Dec 23, 2009

  When Breckenridge team rider and Summit County local JJ Thomas took 3rd and stepped to the podium after the Dew Tour Superpipe Finals at his home mountain on Saturday, he did right by both the Summit ... More >>

• O'er the Hills of Snow

  published December 24, 2009

  Winter Park's annual Christmas Eve Torchlight Procession down Lower Hughes takes on extra significance this year as part of the resort's... More >>

• Is There an Echo in Here?

  published December 24, 2009

  Best ski deal...best ski deal. Echo Mountain earned Best Ski Deal honors in the Best of Denver 2009, and the deal keeps getting sweeter. Now... More >>

• Q&A: Danny Davis, Dew Tour Superpipe champ

  published Dec 21, 2009

  Snowboarding judges are notoriously stingy, especially at the beginning the season, and even getting close to a perfect score is pretty much unheard of, so Danny Davis' 96.50 in the pipe at Breck for ... More >>

• Locals launch their way into Dew Tour through Open Qualifiers

  published Dec 18, 2009

  The Dew Tour is downright democratic compared to the X Games and other invitational pro snowboarding events: Any Fred Shred or Insane Jane who fights their way through the Open Qualifiers gets to thro... More >>

• Do the Dew

  published December 17, 2009

  NBC Sports and the Dew Tour have been trying since 2005 to give action sports a season-long arc that fans of more traditional sports can follow:... More >>

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  How to treat your Outdoor Diva this gift-giving season

  published Dec 14, 2009

  Gentlemen,If you have a woman in your life who will make out with you on the chairlift and then give you a run for it on the slopes, I submit that you, like me, are a lucky, lucky man. Take care of th... More >>

• Shaun White, the world wants to know...

  published Dec 13, 2009

  My friends at YoBeat.com have been "making fun of snowboarding since 1997" and they're also up with the first footage from yesterday's U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix Finals at Copper Mountain, in case y... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Fisher finishes 7th in qualifiers at U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix

  published Dec 11, 2009

  This week's Westword cover boy Steve Fisher finished in seventh place in qualifiers at Copper Mountain today, just making the cut for finals tomorrow. That skin-of-his-teeth finish underscores how har... More >>

• Steve Fisher, Olympic Snowboarding hopeful and Westword cover boy

  published Dec 10, 2009

  rThis week I profiled snowboarder Steve Fisher and his Olympic quest for the Westword cover story ("Pipe Dreams: Steve Fisher's Olympic hopes reach a cork in the road"). By the time the paper hits the... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Snowboarder Steve Fisher hits a double cork in the road on his way to the Olympics

  published December 10, 2009

  The foyer at Steve Fisher's home in Breckenridge is crowded with swag from Sims Snowboards, O'Neill, Giro, PowerBar and Sprint, and his fridge... More >>

• U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix comes to Copper

  published Dec 09, 2009

  Can't make it to the Olympics in Vancouver this Februaryr This week the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix drops in on the superpipe at Copper Mountain, and all of the Olympic contenders for Team USA -- inc... More >>

• Avalanche Terrain: Tonight at REI, learn how to not die in an avalanche

  published Dec 08, 2009

  Crazy Colorado weather patterns like we've been seeing this week make for a bad concoction when it comes to avalanches: In the span of about 10 days, the high country has seen balmy, summery temperatu... More >>

• First look: Burton unveils Olympic U.S. Snowboard team anti-uniform

  published Dec 07, 2009

  When the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix kicks off this week at Copper Mountain, snowboarders will be competing for a chance to ride with the Team U.S.A. for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in February -- ... More >>

• Q&A with Winter Dew Tour's Simon Dumont

  published Dec 02, 2009

  We're just now getting the full scope of everything Simon Dumont got up to last year, now that his footage for Riley Poor's Transitions, Poor Boyz Productions' Every Day Is Saturday, and Matchstick Pr... More >>

• Thanksjibbing: 8th Annual Leftover Yam Jam at Copper on Friday

  published Nov 25, 2009

  Go easy on the Thanksgiving feast this year, skip the Black Friday shopping melee, and head for the hills instead: Copper Mountain is tentatively scheduled to open its Superpipe later this week, in ad... More >>

• Denver Parks & Rec offers Urban Riders Snowsports Club

  published Nov 23, 2009

  If you know any teenagers in a local school or youth agency, check out the Urban Riders Snowsports Club: The Denver Parks & Recreation program is the best deal running this season.For $50 a head, ... More >>

• Living the Dream: Local freeskier Bobby Brown goes big

  published Nov 19, 2009

  Parents and high school guidance counselors reading this might want to go stick their heads in the snow for a minute: Recent Cherry Creek High School graduate Bobby Brown is making good on his promise... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Five reasons the Copper Mountain sale is a good thing

  published Nov 19, 2009

  There's not a lot of new news about the proposed sale of Copper Mountain from Intrawest to Powdr Corp beyond the press release I reported on Tuesday, but it looks like a done deal, pending U.S. Forest... More >>

• Breaking: Intrawest selling Copper Mountain to Powdr Corp.

  published Nov 17, 2009

  Wild news breaking today: Intrawest is selling Copper Mountain to Park City-based Powdr Corp, with plans to close the deal as soon as next month. Intrawest, based in Vancouver, owns nearly a dozen oth... More >>

• Winter Park celebrates 70th anniversary with tuning deals, pancakes

  published Nov 17, 2009

  Winter Park kicks off its 70th Anniversary season when it opens its lifts tomorrow at 9 a.m., staking its claim as the longest continually running ski resort in Colorado (Ski Monarch, open November 25... More >>

• Dear God: More snow, less avs, Go Avs! Got thatr Amen.

  published Nov 16, 2009

  Here in Colorado we've gone and confused our gods, what with all our prayers for snow in the high country and the ones we've been sending up on behalf of our hockey team to help smite our enemies: It'... More >>

• Dew Tour announces the athlete roster for Totino's Open in Breck

  published Nov 13, 2009

  The Winter Dew Tour doubles back to Breckenridge to kick off its second season in December with the Totino's Open, and we just got hold of a roster of the first round of pre-qualified athletes confirm... More >>