“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 Cyclepassion, the infamous German Calendar of International Cycling Stars often disparaged/celebrated as bike porn. “We work hard…
After eight years of running his magazine’s signature Adventures event in, of all places, New York City, Backpacker magazine editor-in-chief Jonathan Dorn says he’s eager to bring Adventures Denver to Sloan’s Lake Park. “We look at these events as a way to share all the different activities that we cover…
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 dreamy, contemplative, non-literal piece” about Rob Elliot, 68, a Grand Canyon river guide with more than 200 trips…
Here’s the upside to last year’s dismal snow season and all-around bum year for the snowsports industry: the annual Labor Day weekend Sniagrab and Ski Rex sales are offering bigger selections and deeper discounts. Translation: If you’re paying full price for your gear this year, you’re blowing it. “Given the…
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 closest ski area was put up for sale in June after operating at a loss for six consecutive seasons,…
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/national/international filmmakers and snow-dancing revelers. We’ve put together the most comprehensive guide we could muster — with…
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 the bunch is, of course, this Colorado clip from Ernie Torres, who notes in his…
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 Shattered, his portrait of alpinist Steve House (see it in full after the jump); Skip Armstrong and Forge Motion…
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 leader Tejay van Garderen is a Boulder transplant) and the race concludes, spectacularly,…
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 Garderen rode 99 miles from Montrose to Crested Butte in three hours, 52…
NBC and NBC Sports will be airing thirty hours of USA Pro Challenge coverage next week as the country’s biggest pro cycling event returns to Colorado for its second year, but die-hard fans will want to see the action firsthand, and it’s a great excuse to see some of Colorado’s…
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 Productions (MSP), Level 1 Productions and Stept Productions have already released tantalizing teasers for their 2012 films. Here’s a…
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 thirty years in Vermont — 27 of them at Stratton Mountain. The 31st annual Burton US Open will be…
“The slopestyle course up here will blow you away, and the things these kids are doing on mountain bikes are just mind-boggling,” boasts Bob Holme, general manager of the Trestle Bike Park at Winter Park and the man behind its new signature event, the Colorado Freeride Festival. “Once people see…
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 contest win in Denver earned him an invite to skate in the amateur finals at the X Games in Los…
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 profiling a series of athletes and adventurers whose lives revolve around water in different ways. We’ve been following the series…
The downhill mountain-biking trails at Winter Park’s Trestle Bike Park will see some serious thrills and spills next week when the Colorado Freeride Festival hits the slopes, but today’s action is decidedly mellower, says Ashley Skrdlant, spokeswoman for the annual TreadFest Charity Mountain Biking Festival. “The Tread Head Rec Ride…
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 skateboard art show and auction, a fundraiser for mentorship programs including the annual Robert Taylor AIGA Colorado Scholarship and the…
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 its outdoor summer terrain park (previously open only to summer camp participants) to the public for…
“Colorado has a huge, mindful community of people engaged in yoga, organics, environmentalism and ethical consumerism who also love music and having a good time,” says Jeff Krasno, co-founder of the Wanderlust festival. The yoga-centric festival has grown into a four-stop summer tour, with events in Vermont, California and British…
Arapahoe Basin is often the first ski resort to open and the last to close each year, but five new summer events — starting with today’s Summer Trail Race and BBQ — are helping to make it more of a year-round destination. “The wildflowers are starting to pop right now,…
Copper Mountain’s 3 Ring Weekend is a three-day family-friendly event celebrating the mountain lifestyle — and to spokeswoman Erin Woods, that means “combining healthy physical activities and events with entertainment, music, science and an eco-friendly message about sustainability and the environment.” The festivities fire up today at 10 a.m. with…
