Email Author Colin Bane

2012 Stories by Colin Bane

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  Folsom Custom Skis, RMU, Icelantic dominate Freeskier Top 10 "Microbrew" list

  published Sep 13, 2012

  Three of the companies featured in our January cover story on Colorado's "microbrew" ski industry just made the cut in Freeskier Magazine's Top 10 Skis list of the best microbrew and independent brand... More >>

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  Reel Rock 7 Tour: Hottest ticket in townr

  published Sep 12, 2012

  File under you know you're in Boulder when....Promoters of the Reel Rock Tour announced last night that tickets for the kickoff of their package tour of the year's best climbing films on Thursday at C... More >>

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  Sonya Looney, Cyclepassion calendar celeb, wins Vapor Trail 125 in Salida

  published Sep 11, 2012

  If you were ogling those photos of Sonya Looney posing for the 2013 Cyclepassion calendar we posted last week and wondering if she's the real deal, here's your confirmation: She was busy training for ... More >>

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  Boulder pro Sonya Looney on posing for the sexed-up Cyclepassion calendar

  published Sep 06, 2012

  "The human body -- male or female -- is a work of art, especially with athletes," says Boulder-based mountain bike pro endurance racer Sonya Looney, the latest local rider to strip down for Cyclepassi... More >>

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  Filmmaker Skip Armstrong concludes Of Souls + Water series with The Elder

  published Sep 05, 2012

  Forge Motion Pictures, NRS Films, and New Belgium Brewing premiered The Elder this week, the final film in director Skip Armstrong's five-part Of Souls + Water series. Armstrong calls the film "a drea... More >>

• Echo Mountain to become private Front Range Ski Club after yesterday's auction

  published Aug 29, 2012

  Echo Mountain, the tiny 226-acre ski area near Evergreen that we'd taken to calling "the little terrain park that could" in our annual winter activities guide, The Edge, apparently couldn't: Denver's ... More >>

• Ski porn! The Westword guide to this season's biggest ski & snowboard video premiere parties

  published Aug 29, 2012

  A winter storm of ski and snowboard video premiere parties will pummel Denver and Boulder over the next two months, as local theaters roll out the white carpet for VIPs (Very Important Pros), local/na... More >>

• Ernie Torres for Real Skateboards: Pushing Colorado Since Day One

  published Aug 28, 2012

  This summer the Real Skateboards team sent eight of its riders home to film love letters about the streets where they came up for the company's new "Pushing Since Day One" campaign. Our favorite of th... More >>

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  Colorado filmmakers clean up at Chamonix Adventure Festival

  published Aug 27, 2012

  A trio of filmmakers from Carbondale won three of the four festival awards at the Chamonix Adventure Festival over the weekend in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France: Tyler Stableford won the Jury Prize for S... More >>

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  USA Pro Challenge brings the action to Golden, Boulder, Denver this weekend

  published Aug 24, 2012

  The USA Pro Challenge makes its way to Colorado Springs today and will be close to home for the rest of the weekend: Stage 6 is tomorrow with a route from Golden to Boulder (current overall tour leade... More >>

• Boulder cyclist Tejay van Garderen wins Stage 2 of USA Pro Challenge

  published Aug 22, 2012

  Fans rooting for a local in the USA Pro Challenge got their wish yesterday when Tejay van Garderen, a 24-year-old rider who now lives and trains in Boulder, won Stage 2 of the USA Pro Challenge. Van G... More >>

• Ski Porn: MSP, Stept Productions, Level 1 unveil 2012 video trailers

  published Aug 03, 2012

  Colorado has become the Hollywood of the adventure-film business, and the local ski-porn premiere season will be in full swing by this time next month. But the Colorado-based crews at Matchstick Produ... More >>

• The Hills Are Alive

  published July 26, 2012

  “The slopestyle course up here will blow you away, and the things these kids are doing on mountain bikes are just mind-boggling,”... More >>

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  Vail and Burton Snowboards confirm rumors: Burton US Open is coming to Colorado

  published Jul 31, 2012

  Vail Resorts and Burton Snowboards yesterday confirmed rumors -- first reported earlier this month by the Breckenridge-based Angry Snowboarder blog -- that the Burton US Open is moving to Vail after t... More >>

• Tread Lightly

  published July 19, 2012

  The downhill mountain-biking trails at Winter Park’s Trestle Bike Park will see some serious thrills and spills next week when the Colorado... More >>

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  Julian Christianson is top-three finalist in TransWorld Skateboarding video contest

  published Jul 24, 2012

  Local skater Julian Christianson -- Westword's Best of Denver 2012 Best Skateboarder pick -- has a knack for turning local contest honors into bigger opportunities. Last year his Hometown Heroes conte... More >>

• Director Skip Armstrong on The Warrior, fourth film in Of Souls + Water series

  published Jul 23, 2012

  This morning Forge Motion Pictures, NRS Films, and New Belgium Brewing released The Warrior, the fourth of five short films in Carbondale-based director Skip Armstrong's series Of Souls + Water prof... More >>

• AIGA Colorado seeking submissions for fifth annual Bordo Bello skateboard art auction

  published Jul 16, 2012

  AIGA Colorado, the local branch of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and Englewood-based BoardPusher Custom Skateboard Graphics have issued a call for artists for the fifth annual Bordo Bello sk... More >>

• Summer snow: Woodward at Copper opens this weekend

  published Jul 13, 2012

  If this week's climbing temperatures and the smell of burning pine from fires across the state have you pining for ski season, you're not alone: The Woodward at Copper action sports camp is opening it... More >>

• Conscious Fun in Copper

  published July 5, 2012

  “Colorado has a huge, mindful community of people engaged in yoga, organics, environmentalism and ethical consumerism who also love music... More >>

• Running Wild

  published June 28, 2012

  Arapahoe Basin is often the first ski resort to open and the last to close each year, but five new summer events — starting with... More >>

• It’s a Circus Up There

  published June 28, 2012

  Copper Mountain’s 3 Ring Weekend is a three-day family-friendly event celebrating the mountain lifestyle — and to spokeswoman... More >>

• Colorado on Screen

  published June 21, 2012

  This year’s Beaver Creek Documentary Film Series features five films with Colorado roots, including the opening act, the Academy... More >>

• The Shapeshifter: Skip Armstrong premieres Of Souls + Water portrait of kayaker Ben Marr

  published Jun 25, 2012

  This morning Forge Motion Pictures and Carbondale-based filmmaker Skip Armstrong premiered The Shapeshifter online, the third installment in Armstrong's five-part Of Souls + Water series profiling pad... More >>

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  Go Skateboarding Day: 303 ways to skate down a set of stairs

  published Jun 25, 2012

  Colorado skateboarders in Colorado don't need an official holiday to put wheels to pavement: after all, there are 159 skate parks statewide and eight more in development. But last Thursday's internati... More >>