With many Colorado ski areas closing this weekend (some of them ahead of schedule) and recent headlines bemoaning this season’s abysmal snowpack across the state, it’s easy to lament the sad state of this year’s ski and snowboard season. But let’s accentuate the positive for a moment: Yesterday, Wolf Creek…
Closing day at Vail is scheduled for Sunday, April 15, and Vail Resorts will barely let the door hit this sad snow season on the ass before looking forward to next winter: The very next day, the company will begin construction on a new gondola from Vail Village to Mid-Vail,…
Both Ski Halfpipe and Ski Slopestyle are confirmed as Olympic medal events at the Sochi Games in 2014, and it’s looking increasingly likely that a Colorado local — sixteen-year-old Aspenite Torin Yater-Wallace — could win them both. He won SuperPipe gold in the Winter X Games event in Tignes, France,…
Spring sprung awfully early in the high country this year, but for the Keystone Slush Cup, that’s actually a good thing. “The Slush Cup is our annual pond-skimming contest, and it’s all about getting wet and having some fun in the sun,” says Keystone Resort spokeswoman Laura Parquette. “We encourage…
Snowboarding has played a huge part in the fifty-year history of Breckenridge Resort, something the ski area plans to acknowledge this weekend with the Rockstar Throwback Throwdown. “Breck was the first major resort in Colorado to allow snowboarding, and in 1986 we had one of the first competition halfpipes anywhere,”…
This week a series of nine “Come to Life” television spots promoting Colorado tourism began airing in target markets across the country, with an emphasis on outdoor summer adventure. To get that vibe just right, the Colorado Tourism Office brought in a team including Denver-based ad agency Karsh/Hagan, photographer/Camp 4…
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 Championships got…
“How many cameras have gone to Alaska and British Columbia and places that consistently provide good skiing?” asks Boulder-based filmmaker Nick Waggoner, director of Solitaire, the Best of Festival winner at this year’s Backcountry Film Festival. “In South America, that does not exist: There’s no promise. You think that there’s…
Population is the theme of this year’s Moving Mountains Symposium on Friday, May 25, kicking off the 34th annual Mountainfilm in Telluride film festival, which runs through May 28 over Memorial Day Weekend. The full roster of speakers for the symposium was just announced…
Stacy Peralta, a ’70s-era skateboarding legend in his own right — and co-founder of the Powell Peralta Bones Brigade skateboarding team that included Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Tommy Guerrero, Mike McGill and dozens of the top pro skaters of the ’80s and ’90s — will be the featured…
“This year the Colorado Mountain Club is celebrating its hundredth anniversary, and it’s also a big anniversary — the tenth — for our annual Mountain Fest outdoor education event,” says CMC spokeswoman Rachel Scott. “We have a great program on Saturday and six other big events this year as part…
The Vail Valley Foundation’s 2012 Korbel American Ski Classic gets underway today at 4:30 p.m. with the Volvo Legends of Skiing Giant Slalom competition on Vail’s Golden Peak, followed by a free concert at 6:30 p.m. featuring G. Love and Special Sauce, marking the 30th anniversary of “America’s original celebrity…
Stacy Peralta helped shape both skateboarding and pop culture, first as a ’70s-era skater with the Zephyr team, and later as the man behind the camera for a series of Bones Brigade videos starring the skater army he assembled, including Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Rodney Mullen, Lance Mountain, Tommy Guerrero…
Windsor James and David Reyes, two local skaters on the 303 Boards shop team, are blowing up big this month with the release of the final segment of Mystery Skateboards’ Color Theory video series. James is from Colorado Springs and just turned pro; Reyes is from Denver and is expected…
I’ve written about almost all of Colorado’s homegrown snowboard companies over the last year or so, but Highlands Ranch-based Origin Snowboards wasn’t even on my radar until earlier this month when my kids discovered it. With grom-sized boards starting at just 85cm and the biggest board in the line maxing…
“Retro Day has really become a tradition here, and everybody loves to break out their best back-in-the-day costumes to celebrate spring,” says Eldora Mountain Resort spokesman Rob Linde about the annual event. So break out your dazzling neon-hued suits from the ’80s or your old gear and outfits from the…
Seven of Colorado’s most colorful sports personalities could be headed for the White House if representatives of Team USA Roller Derby — the 2011 Roller Derby World Cup champions — get their way. Over the weekend Team USA issued a call to action asking President Obama to honor the team’s…
This week we’ve been following the Red Bull Cold Rush at Silverton Mountain from afar, and today we have the results in after the athletes voted last night in the peer-judged competition…
Mary Horrocks, curator of visual art and education at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, is fascinated by the way her fellow Coloradans merge sport, pastime, recreation, transportation and art in their daily lives. This month, she’s made the Dairy into a temple to the most beloved symbol…
“Photography is the most immediate medium for making an artistic statement,” says Terri Bell, founder of the tbellphotographic studio & gallery. “It can happen as quickly as pressing the shutter button. Beautiful art can be made when that sense of immediacy and spontaneity is involved in the process of creation,…
After eight years of revving up snowmobile charity events around the country, Michigan-based nonprofit Pink Ribbon Riders is bringing its first annual Snow Run to Colorado this weekend at Winding River Resort in Grand Lake. The two-day event, which supports breast cancer patients, kicks off tonight with a casual ride,…
Set your DVR to record the Red Bull Signature Series on March 24 at 11 a.m. MST, when NBC will air footage from the Red Bull Cold Rush freeskiing competition. The event concluded yesterday at Silverton Mountain, and the photos and video teasers from the last two days have us…
