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Win day passes to Loveland Ski Area!

While most of us are ready for spring to hit full bloom already, Mother Nature (and let's face it, a few of our friends) are still desperately clinging to the last days of winter. And it's not too late to spend a last few moments out on the snow: We're giving away two free day passes to Loveland Ski ... More >>

10 things to do for $10 in Denver this weekend (7 free!), April 19-21

Yes, weed is now legal in Colorado. And yes, this weekend is the giant 4/20 celebration. But that doesn't mean that all the fun will be in Civic Center Park.From an alternative 4/20 celebration with music and comedy to Record Store Day to a free theater performance, this weekend is full of events th ... More >>

Win tickets to Wanderlust at Copper Mountain!

Despite today's weather, the season of wanderlust is on its way, and with summer comes the big-W Wanderlust festival at Copper Mountain. The annual event gathers yoga teachers and enthusiasts together with chefs, winemakers, musicians (including Moby) and, of course, the great outdoors for meditatio ... More >>

Spring snow brings extended ski season

Never mind those epic closing-day celebrations last weekend at Vail, Copper Mountain, Breckenridge, and Powderhorn: All four resorts have announced they'll be spinning the chairlifts again this weekend and reopening Friday, April 19 through Sunday, April 21, to make the most of massive dumps of late ... More >>

Rob Redmond: Learn more about Virginia man who became ski season's fifth official casualty

Update: Rob Redmond died doing something he loved. As we've reported, Redmond died early yesterday morning from injuries sustained while skiing at Breckenridge on Sunday, becoming the fifth official casualty at a Colorado resort this season; see our previous coverage below. Now, we've learned more ... More >>

Win day passes to Loveland Ski Area!

Valentine's Day is coming up next week, and if you haven't already, it's time to decide where you stand, whether to gift and how much to spend. In honor of the holiday spirit, Show and Tell has a free option for you, no anxiety required: We're giving away two free day passes to Loveland Ski Area. Co ... More >>

Ski area death of Patsy Hileman shouldn't count toward resort fatalities, industry group says

Update: In a post yesterday about ski area deaths thus far in the 2012-13 season (see it below), we noted that resorts have established rules to determine whether or not fatal accidents count toward the total. As evidence, note that Colorado Ski Country USA disagrees with the claim that three people ... More >>

X Marks the Spot

Opening day at Breck, So-Gnar Shred Circuit at Copper, 'Obamney' storm on the way

Breckenridge opened for the 2012-'13 ski and snowboard season today, with two lifts and forty acres of terrain, joining Arapahoe Basin, Loveland, Keystone and Copper Mountain. And with the So-Gnar Snowboard Camp Tour kicking off tomorrow at Woodward at Copper and OpenSnow.com (a Westword Best of Den ... More >>

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A Guitar Town Art Guitar sneak peek at Kanon Collective

Copper Mountain's axe-centric Guitar Town music festival turns five this year when it returns to the resort two weeks from today. It'll also mark the fourth year for the fest's Art Guitar Silent Auction, which features twenty cast-away instruments donated by the Guitar Center and brought back to lif ... More >>

Pulp Friction

Conscious Fun in Copper

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, June 29-July 1, 2012

The great outdoors is hot, but so is the city, with an incredible array of things to do that won't set you back more than $10. From comedy shows to vegan dance parties to cute dogs jumping through hoops, you're sure to find something to do this weekend that won't burn through your bank account. Fo ... More >>

It’s a Circus Up There

USASA National Championships under way at Copper Mountain

Although this past weekend felt like the start of summer, there's still good riding to be had in Colorado -- and this week is also a prime opportunity to catch some of the country's best amateur snowboarders in action: The 23rd annual United States Snowboard Association's USASA National Championship ... More >>

Video: Copper Mountain runs racist?, asks Kevin Nealon on Conan O'Brien

Comic Kevin Nealon shared a funny bit on Conan O'Brien's show (H/T Denver Egotist) about Copper Mountain. Nealon says he'd forgotten about ski run ratings like Black Diamond when a local talked about how "the blacks" at Copper can be fun, but they'll beat you up -- and they're all over the mountain ... More >>

This Weekend in Stoke: How are those New Year's resolutions coming along?

Get to steppin'! The 3rd annual Estes Park Winter Festival opens tonight with a free "Ceilidh" Irish barn dance and runs through Monday at the Fairgrounds at Stanley Park, with a CandyLand Ice Castle for kids and family-friendly events including ice skating, ice bowling, horse and carriage rides, a ... More >>

Santa shreds the slopes: Six sick shots from ski country

Photo courtesy Copper Mountain Resort​Santa didn't bring much in the way of fresh snow for Christmas (apparently some of you skiers and snowboarders out there have been naughty this year) but he did manage to get some turns in after making his rounds in Colorado, shredding his way into the Fac ... More >>

New Year's Eve 2011 Denver: ten best family-friendly events

​Finding a quality babysitter any time of year can be rough, but on New Year's Eve -- when most babysitters would rather be rocking out with their friends than making sure your rugrats don't choke on dinner -- it's almost impossible. Thankfully, there are plenty of events on December 31 that w ... More >>

Copper Mountain brings back $99 Snow Day season pass deal

​In the 2011 Best of Denver, Westword awarded Best Ski Pass Deal honors to Copper Mountain's $99 Snow Day Pass, a deal so sweet -- last year there were more than thirty eligible "Snow Days" at Copper, and $99 is less than the price of a single-day lift ticket at certain other Summit County res ... More >>

Copper Mountain opens first 22-foot superpipe in Colorado for 2011/2012 season

Copper Mountain opened its Olympic-sized 22-foot superpipe on Friday, in time for athletes competing in the The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) Sprint U.S. Grand Prix to work on their double corks before next week's competition, December 5-10. That makes it the first 22-foot pipe of the se ... More >>

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

Jack Affleck/Vail ResortsEverything's Hunky-Dory for opening day at Vail​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 Lionshead. Still need a seas ... More >>

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

Colin BaneBode Miller lets loose over the new U.S. Ski Team Speed Center at Copper​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 Copper Mount ... More >>

Local Boards for Locavores

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

​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 now that Woodward's partnership with Copper Mountain has moved into full swing and new terrain ... More >>

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

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 EpicMix Photo social media app: A small army of professional photographers on the mountain will be ... More >>

Colorado ski areas dominate Ski Magazine's 2011-2012 resort rankings

Photo by Jeff Cricco, via SkiNet.comVail makes #2 in Ski Magazine's annual Western U.S. Resort Rankings.​Eleven of the twenty resorts profiled in Ski Magazine's reader's choice list of the top twenty ski resorts in the Western Unied States this year are from Colorado, including six of the top ... More >>

Photos: Glorious October snow in the mountains

This afternoon marked the first real snow in the high country, which means the days of playing hooky to go skiing and snowboarding are just around the corner. To hold you over until then, enjoy these crowd-sourced photos from the mountains via the resorts.

This Weekend in Stoke: Top 5 ways to put human endurance to the test

​This weekend we found five of the world's gnarliest endurance events, all going down right here in Colorado. This is what you've been training for all summer, right? It's all downhill from here! First up is the Trestle All-Mountain Enduro at Winter Park, a three-day, five-stage mountain bike ... More >>

Strung up at Copper Mountain: Bid online now or this weekend at the ArtGuitar Silent Auction

ArtGuitar beaters, pre-art.​For some of us in this errant world, it's hard to choose between a best friend and a best guitar, and if you fall in that hardscrabble category, you'll want to be up at Copper Mountain this weekend for the annual Guitar Town festival, which features big names doing ... More >>

U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association plans new Speed Center at Copper Mountain

Photo courtesy Copper Mountain ResortThe USSA announced yesterday it's bringing its early-season U.S. Ski Team Speed Center training facility to Copper Mountain​Copper Mountain's apparently not content to be merely a focal point of the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association's freestyle Grand Prix se ... More >>

This weekend in stoke: Top five ways to work out and work it out

​Gimme a Breck! The Babes in the Backcountry babes are leading by-women/for-women mountain bike skills clinics today at 10 a.m. as part of the Breck Bike Week festivities (meet at the Expo village at Blue River Plaza, $35 suggested donation). Afterwards, the International Mountain Bicycling As ... More >>

International Olympic Committee brings Ski and Snowboard Slopestyle to Winter Olympics

​Yesterday the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board approved the addition of Ski and Snowboard Slopestyle events at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. The announcement came yesterday from the 123rd IOC Session in Durban, South Africa, and follows an April announcement tha ... More >>

Video: Tomato Battle 2011 uses 300,000 lbs. of tomatoes for evil

​First, imagine 300,000 lbs. of tomatoes. Now, imagine those tomatoes are overripe and mildly rotten. Now, imagine all of those tomatoes in a humongous pile at Copper Mountain and a crowd of people gathered for no other reason than to throw that third-of-a-million-pound heap of tomatoes at eac ... More >>

Top five ways to bike, fight, skate, run and climb your way through this weekend

​Push On! In the seven months since Clayton Brown opened his Pusher BMX shop at 5777 East Evans Avenue, "Colorado's Only BMX Rider-Owned and Operated BMX Shop" has been getting props from the likes of TransWorld Business and ESPN, doing double the business Brown projected for himself and attra ... More >>

Tomato Sauced

This Weekend in Stoke: Top 5 Father's Day festivities

Arapahoe Basin photo archivesSame as it ever was: Summer season on the Beach at Arapahoe Basin​Snow's out for the summer! Today is opening day at the Breckenridge Peak 8 Fun Park, where a $65 all-day pass ($32 for kids) buys unlimited access to the Gold Runner Coaster, SuperSlide, SuperPutt, M ... More >>

Three Colorado athletes named to first-ever U.S. Freeskiing National Team

​The new U.S. Freeskiing National Team announced its first official team roster today, following April's news that Ski Halfpipe will be an Olympic medal sport at the 2014 Games in Sochi and that Copper Mountain will host the first Olympic qualifier for the event in December 2013. Three of the ... More >>

This weekend in Stoke: Easter eggcelence edition

​Thank you, Easter bunny! Copper Mountain's Spring Sunsation festival and 2010/2011 ski season winds up this weekend with a world record attempt on Saturday at 10 a.m. "Time to break out those swimsuits and sunglasses, because we're going to be trying to break the world record for most people ... More >>

Today in Stoke: Last-chance Spring lift ticket deals

​Beaver Creek, Silverton Mountain and Echo Mountain all called it quits for the season yesterday, but that doesn't mean there isn't still perfectly good skiing and snowboarding to be had: Copper Mountain, Vail, Winter Park, Aspen Highlands and Snowmass are all throwing rites of Spring bashes t ... More >>

This Weekend in Stoke: Yes, ski season is two weeks longer this year. Go big!

​Rock out with your sunblock out! The Spring Back to Vail concert lineup kicks off tonight at 6 p.m. in Vail Village with Grace Potter & the Nocturnals and The Chain Gang of 1974 at Solaris Plaza (Train and Saint Motel play tomorrow night at Ford Park and The Greyboy Allstars and Jonn Mogambo ... More >>

Today in Stoke: Copper Mountain, freeskiing capital of the world?

​Last week the International Olympic Committee officially announced that Ski Halfpipe will debut as an Olympic medal sport at the 2014 Games in Sochi. That's big news for one local ski resort: For U.S. athletes the road to Sochi will begin at Copper Mountain, host of the first Olympic qualifie ... More >>

This Weekend in Stoke: Altogether awesome April action

​Seek and ye shall find! The New Belgium Scavenger Hunt returns to Loveland on Saturday, sending shredding scavengers all over the mountain. The $10 price to play (plus lift tickets, available for discounted price of $35) and proceeds from the raffle will benefit the Alliance for Sustainable C ... More >>

Today in Stoke: 'Pioneers on Planks' drop old-school ski history lesson at CMC

Arapahoe Basin photo archives, via SummitDaily.comOn "the Beach" at Arapahoe Basin, back in the day​Back in the day we had to ski to school uphill in both directions. Okay, maybe not, but you can still get an earful of old-school ski stories when representatives from Arapahoe Basin, Breckenrid ... More >>

This Weekend in Stoke: Top five ways to howl at the full moon

​What is it about a full moon in February that brings out the freeze-your-ass-off fanatics? If you're looking to wolf out, this is your weekend:

Protip: Catch an advance Denver Big Air preview on the sly at practice tonight

​It may be that the powers-that-be of Civic Center Park have Denver Big Air, which starts tomorrow, locked down tighter than a low-income high school, but that's not going to stop the determined winter sports enthusiast from seeing it for free. It is, after all, an enormous ramp in a public pa ... More >>

Sugar Lips Mini Donuts now open at Copper Mountain

Sugar Lips Mini Donuts is now open.​If you're heading up to Copper Mountain to take advantage of the foot and a half or so of snow that has fallen on the ski area in the past 24 hours, you might want to make time in all that powder thrashing for a powdered doughnut. After three months of pla ... More >>

Today In Stoke: Last chance for Copper Mountain's cheap Snow Day Pass

Photo by Forrest Miller, January 10, courtesy Copper Mountain"Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?"​If you'd bought Copper Mountain's Snow Day pass back when we first told you about it, you could have already had 15 powder days for the price of a single day lift tick ... More >>

Today In Stoke: Session the new airbag at Woodward at Copper

Photo courtesy of Copper MountainThis could have been worse...​Progression in snowboarding and freeskiing moves pretty fast: Last year's double corks are already giving way to this year's triple corks, and gaps as big as 70 feet are now terrain park features at many Colorado ski areas. How, ex ... More >>