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2012 Stories by Colin Bane

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  Get the edge on winter fun with The Edge!

  published November 8, 2012

  Some of Colorado's favorite ski resorts will mark big anniversaries this season, and you're invited to the party with The Edge, our... More >>

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  Sender Films, Forge Motion Pictures win big at 2012 Banff Mountain Film Festival

  published Nov 05, 2012

  Colorado-based filmmakers won four of the top prizes at the 2012 Banff Mountain Film Festival in Banff, Canada on Sunday, including three awards to the Boulder-based Sender Films crew - all for films ... More >>

• Denver Roller Dolls channel grits and glory at WFTDA Championships in Atlanta

  published Nov 02, 2012

  UPDATE 11/4/2012: The Denver Roller Dolls' Mile High Club finished third overall at the 2012 "Grits and Glory" Women's Flat Track Roller Derby Association Championships in Atlanta after beating the Te... More >>

• Erik Weihenmayer on High Ground Soldiers to Summits documentary premiere

  published Nov 02, 2012

  When mountain climber and adventurer Erik Weihenmayer -- who happens to be blind -- set out to climb Mt. Everest more than a decade ago, a lot of people thought he was crazy, or worse: a danger to him... More >>

• Wheels and Deals

  published October 18, 2012

  The Internet may have become the go-to place for many shoppers, but it hasn’t yet killed off the good old-fashioned swap meet, especially... More >>

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  Loveland Ski Area opens for its 75th anniversary season on Tuesday

  published Oct 22, 2012

  Loveland lost the annual race to open first this season to the neighbors at Arapahoe Basin, but first chair tomorrow at 9 a.m. will still be a hot ticket when the ski area marks the start of its 75th ... More >>

• Foodie Creation Story

  published October 11, 2012

  Local artist Ravi Zupa’s large-scale paintings of rabbits, bison and other prairie critters have adorned the walls at WaterCourse ever since... More >>

• Three the Hard Way

  published October 11, 2012

  Snowboarder Jeremy Jones is bringing the harrowing second installment in his Deeper, Further, Higher film trilogy to the Oriental Theater... More >>

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  Daniel Landes on his long-awaited novel, Joonie and the Great Harbinger Stampede

  published Oct 17, 2012

  Local author (and Watercourse Foods owner) Daniel Landes will be signing copies of his new book, Joonie and the Great Harbinger Stampede, tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Tattered Cover LoDo. Portions of the n... More >>

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  Arapahoe Basin opening for 2012-2013 ski season on Wednesday

  published Oct 15, 2012

  Arapahoe Basin CEO Alan Henceroth announced today that the ski area's Black Mountain Express lift will start turning at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, October 17 to mark the start of the 2012-2013 ski and snowb... More >>

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  Jeremy Jones on Further, the season's most eagerly anticipated snowboard film

  published Oct 11, 2012

  Backcountry and big-mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones is bringing his Teton Gravity Research film Further to the Oriental Theater tonight at 6:30 p.m. for the local premiere of the second installment ... More >>

• Photos: Awesome skateboard art on deck for Saturday's 5th annual Bordo Bello

  published Oct 04, 2012

  "There's something people just love about the skateboard as a free and expressive canvas," says American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Colorado president Elysia Sryiac, surveying more than 300 de... More >>

• Easy Being Green

  published September 27, 2012

  "This year, our Full Moon Harvest Festival falls right on the night of the full Harvest Moon," says Jennie Nevin, founder of Green Spaces... More >>

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  Ditch the drinking games and start the 2012 Presidential Debate At-Home Boot Camp

  published Oct 03, 2012

  If your plan is to drink 47 shots every time Barack Obama chides Mitt Romney over his "47 percent" remarks during tonight's presidential debate, you're going to have more immediate problems than the l... More >>

• Mile High Mountaineering wins second annual Something Independent Entrepreneur Award

  published Oct 03, 2012

  Last night I had the honor of serving as one of ten judges on the selection committee for the Something Independent 2012 Entrepreneur Award, a $1,500 prize designed to showcase the next wave of Colora... More >>

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  Skateboarder attacked by deer at Buffalo Bill Downhill Bloodspill on Lookout Mountain

  published Oct 01, 2012

  "Holy shit, that was so fuckin' radical!," proclaims Mike Paproski, a skateboarder with a POV camera who saw Ryan Vitale, one of his fellow competitors, collide with a deer during a practice run at th... More >>

• Raise a Toast to the Stoke

  published September 20, 2012

  Standard Films will show its latest snowboarding film, 2112, today, and the local premiere marks a bit of a milestone, says Adam... More >>

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  The Meeting Snowsports Film Festival kicks off in Aspen with the NEPSA Awards

  published Sep 28, 2012

  Ten of the biggest new ski and snowboard films for this season will be screening this weekend at The Meeting Snowsports Film Festival in Aspen, an annual gathering of filmmakers, athletes and fans wit... More >>

• Rock, Roll, Run And Ride

  published September 20, 2012

  Denver runners, rockers and residents are well acquainted by now with the hallmarks of the Sports Authority Rock ’n’ Roll Denver... More >>

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  The Denver Roller Dolls finish second in the West Region Playoffs

  published Sep 24, 2012

  The Denver Roller Dolls' Mile High Club destroyed the Sacred City Derby Girls 339-86 in quarterfinals and edged out tournament hosts, B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls, on their way to finals at the Women's Fla... More >>

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  Bay of Reckoning: Denver Roller Dolls, Rocky Mountain Rollergirls headed to WFTDA Playoffs

  published Sep 20, 2012

  Denver's two premiere roller-derby leagues are headed to Richmond, California this weekend for the Women's Flat Track Roller Derby Association (WFTDA) West Region Playoffs -- aka the "Bay of Reckoning... More >>

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  Satellite Boardshop and Red Bull unveil video from Ride With Us Colorado Skatepark Tour

  published Sep 19, 2012

  Boulder's Satellite Boardshop is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, and this summer also marked the shop's seventh annual Ride With Us Colorado Skatepark Tour, which started back in May at t... More >>

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  Level 1 Productions, Stept, MSP clean up at IF3 International Freeski Film Festival

  published Sep 17, 2012

  Denver-based ski porn purveyors Level 1 Productions won big at the IF3 International Freeski Film Festival over the weekend in Montreal, with director Josh Berman and his team taking the top prize -- ... More >>

• Pre-Season Stoke: Keystone's A51 Rail Series kicks off tomorrow

  published Sep 14, 2012

  Keystone hasn't yet fired up its snow guns in the race to open the first white ribbon of a run for early-season shred, but that's not stopping the mountain from hosting the first rail jam of the seaso... More >>

• Choose Your Own Adventure

  published September 6, 2012

  After eight years of running his magazine’s signature Adventures event in, of all places, New York City, Backpacker magazine... More >>