Email Author Colin Bane

2011 Stories by Colin Bane

• Slam! Greatest misses from Royal Stain, Never Summer, No Love Skateboarding

  published Nov 23, 2011

  If your favorite part of any skate or snowboard video is seeing people fall down and get hurt, then we've got a treat for you: This week, we found three locally-produced clips full of brutal bails, co... More >>

• Free skiing at Crested Butte, cookies at Beaver Creek, opening-day festivities to be thankful for

  published Nov 22, 2011

  Crested Butte Mountain Resort marks its fiftieth birthday on Wednesday with a throwback nod to its old Ski Free promotion: Stop by the CB Adventure Center to pick up a free lift ticket, then jostle fo... More >>

• Five classes to save your asses in avalanche country

  published Nov 21, 2011

  Tonight at 6:30 p.m. the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) brings its free Avalanche Terrain -- Beyond the Basics workshop to REI Denver, 1416 Platte Street, aimed at skiers, snowboarders, ... More >>

• This Weekend in Stoke: Vail, Eldora, Snowmass open, Copper presents Colorado Demo Days

  published Nov 18, 2011

  Opening day! Vail opens today with a 52-inch base, thirteen inches of new snow in the last week, an opening day terrain park on Born Free, and access to the mountain from both Vail Village and Lionshe... More >>

• Signal Snowboards brings iShred Steve Jobs tribute to Loveland

  published Nov 18, 2011

  Signal Snowboards has built a special tribute to Steve Jobs, complete with an iPad mounted in the nose of the board and a glowing LED Signal logo in the aluminum base (similar to Apple's iconic MacBoo... More >>

• Five best places to catch the U.S. Ski Team in Colorado

  published Nov 17, 2011

  If you live in Colorado and love alpine ski racing, get ready for a season of unprecedented access to the best of the best, thanks to Tuesday's grand opening of the new U.S. Ski Team Speed Center at C... More >>

• Snow Porn: Put your back into it with ThirtyTwo and Woodward at Copper

  published Nov 15, 2011

  When we interviewed Woodward at Copper ripper Morrison Hsieh for The Edge, our 2011/2012 winter activity guide, we got an earful about all the new terrain park features we'd be seeing on the slopes no... More >>

• The Edge: Westword's winter activities guide helps you sort out the 2011-2012 season

  published Nov 14, 2011

  Welcome to the online version of The Edge 2011-2012, Westword's annual insider's guide to winter activities. This season has already seen plenty of snow, and that's just the beginning, as the 25 resor... More >>

• Gotham Girls Roller Derby All-Stars win Hydra Trophy at WFTDA Championships

  published Nov 14, 2011

  New York's Gotham Girls Roller Derby All-Stars were the big winners at the 2011 Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Championships at the 1st Bank Center this weekend, beating out West Region ... More >>

• Climber Cory Richards, skier Nick Waggoner finalists for National Geographic Adventurers of the Year

  published Nov 14, 2011

  National Geographic announced the finalists for its 2012 Adventurers of the Year awards on Friday, and they include two Boulder locals: Cory Richards, the first American to complete a winter ascent of... More >>

• In honor of Nigel Tufnel, eleven ways to turn it up to 11 on the weekend beginning 11/11/11

  published Nov 11, 2011

  In honor of Nigel Tufnel Day, we present our Top 11 picks for weekend adventure. "These go to eleven." A pair of skis pointed for the Park Lane terrain park jump line on Peak 8 for opening day of th... More >>

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  AEG Live CEO Chuck Morris on the 2011 WFTDA Roller Derby Championships

  published Nov 11, 2011

  Chuck Morris has been a roller derby fan since he was ten years old, and in 2010, he made news by bringing the Denver Roller Dolls to the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield and then attracting the 2011 Wom... More >>

• Skis and Brewskis

  published November 3, 2011

  Since 1991, the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Expo has been the go-to event for stocking up on winter gear at discounts of up to 75 percent, as... More >>

• Colorado Snowboard History Museum: The Westword exhibit

  published Nov 10, 2011

  This week's cover story on the new Colorado Snowboard Archive collection at the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum, and the history of the effort by snowboarders to get respect alongside skiing, sent us ... More >>

• Don Burgeson on the Bunker Sno-Surf, circa 1939, and the world's first snowboard film

  published Nov 10, 2011

  The Bunker Company's Sno-Surf, patented in 1939 by Vern Wicklund and brothers Harvey and Gunnar Burgeson, is the "holy grail" of the new Colorado Snowboard Archive at the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Mu... More >>

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  Skiers may scoff, but snowboarders are finally being accepted by the slopes' old guard

  published November 10, 2011

  Susie Tjossem will never forget the first, and last, time she stepped on a snowboard. "Jake Burton came out, just before Vail decided... More >>

• Anson Fogel, Colorado filmmakers top 2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival awards

  published Nov 08, 2011

  Colorado filmmakers dominated the 2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival awards over the weekend at the annual competition in Alberta, Canada's Banff National Park, with Carbondale-based director Anson Fog... More >>

• Chasing Water, Truck Farm, Cold win big at 2011 Adventure Film Festival

  published Nov 07, 2011

  Colorado-based photographer Pete McBride's film Chasing Water, the companion to his book The Colorado River: Flowing Through Conflict, won the Adventure Through Activism Award over the weekend at the ... More >>

• Mountain Highs

  published October 27, 2011

  The Colorado Mountain Club convened its first official meeting on April 26, 1912, was instrumental in winning federal designation for Rocky... More >>

• Opening day at Keystone, Copper; EpicMix; Ski Expo; and the Adventure Film Festival

  published Nov 04, 2011

  Keystone and Copper Mountain open today, joining Arapahoe Basin, Loveland, and Wolf Creek. And make sure you smile for the cameras at Keystone, where its parent company, Vail Resorts, debuts the new... More >>

• Snow Porn: Flow Snowboarding brings Was Here to Casselman's tonight

  published Nov 03, 2011

  The Colorado premiere of Flow Snowboarding's new team video Was Here drops tonight at 8 p.m. at Casselman's Bar & Venue, 2620 Walnut Street, where Snowboard Colorado magazine is celebrating the releas... More >>

• Five must-see movies at the 2011 Adventure Film Festival this week

  published Nov 01, 2011

  The 2011 Adventure Film Festival gets under way in Boulder this week with a free Adventure Film Community Night at the Patagonia store at 1212 Pearl Street on Thursday at 7 p.m. and a Photographer Sem... More >>

• Snow Porn: Halloweekend shred from Silverton, A-Basin, Wolf Creek, Loveland

  published Oct 31, 2011

  Trick or treat, indeed: fourteen inches of new snow this weekend at Silverton Mountain brought the mid-mountain base tally to an incredible eighty inches (see powder porn after the jump). Wolf Creek g... More >>

• Ghost Writers

  published October 20, 2011

  Ghost stories about the Croke-Patterson Mansion, 420-428 East 11th Avenue, date to the 1890s, when original owner Thomas Croke was too spooked to... More >>

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  Who's got the 10 1/2r Loveland and A-Basin ride the storm, Protect Our Winters takes it Further

  published Oct 26, 2011

  Thinking about taking a snow day and heading for the hills this morningr Crank up the Black Flag and point towards the Continental Divide, because the first snow of the season here in Denver hit ski c... More >>