Erik Weihenmayer has climbed the Seven Summits, including Mt. Everest, and his resume of adventurous accomplishments also includes such feats as finishing the Leadville 100 on a tandem bike. Oh, and also: He’s blind. Tonight at 6 p.m., the author of Touch the Top of the World and The Adversity…
Ready to send it off some sick cliffs “thrill of victory and agony of defeat” style? “Registration is still open for all fields of the Colorado Freeride Championships going down this weekend, February 25-27, 2011 in Snowmass,” reports Aspen Skiing Company spokeswoman Meredith McKee. The event is open to male…
Denver-based snowboard film crew SixEleven Productions released the first teaser from the 2011 video It’s Our Fault over the weekend, their fifth film and the follow-up to STOP… Hammertime!. The grisly slams you’re looking for commence at about the 2:11 mark…
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:…
Tune in to the Discovery Channel tonight, when Ryan Van Duzer (Boulder’s “Out There Guy” endurance athlete and adventure journalist) gets dropped off at Angel Falls with a bunch of annoying people and has to help them find their way out in Out of the Wild: Venezuela. Better yet, head…
The Denver Roller Dolls are looking to break some hearts at the end of this season, when they’ll host the 2011 Women’s Flat Track Derby Association’s national championships on their home turf for the first time and attempt to wrest the national title from their local rivals, the Rocky Mountain…
Cyclists in Leadville have been letting thin air go to their heads since at least 1889, when the Cloud City Wheelmen first brought together a group of hardy local gents and their penny-farthing bikes for early acts of extreme sportsmanship at 10,154 feet, predating the town’s modern endurance-sports craze by…
Crested Butte Mountain Resort celebrates 20 years of hosting the U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Championships this week, a truly extreme action sports event that predates the X Games and other extremism in sports lexicography by about four years. The resort bills itself as “the birthplace of Big Mountain competitions,” and it’s…
Breckenridge Ski Resort is getting a good return on investment from its Breck Freeride Team and its stepped-up park & pipe programs: Yesterday, Breckenridge snowboarders Eric Willett and Janna Meyen-Weatherby won the Men’s and Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle contests (respectively) at Snowbasin in Ogden, Utah, the final stop of the Winter…
1. Ladies first! Winter Park is hosting the Burton Women’s Ride Camp and the Gravity Goddess Progressive Ski Clinic this weekend. Gentlemen: If you still don’t have the Valentine’s powder day date of your dreams sorted out, this is the après-ski scene you’re looking for. And, if it’s love at…
Penguin Books, eager to eclipse Twilight with a new moon of its own, sharpened its stakes and rounded up five authors of hot new fantasy titles for Young Adult readers from its various imprints, unleashing them on the world for the Breathless Reads National Book Tour, which haunts the Tattered…
So, you’ve found the second love of your life, the one who can passably keep up with you on the slopes till death do you part, and now it’s time to put a black diamond on it? Well then, today is your big day. Loveland Ski Area, never shy about…
As young adults graduate from Harry Potter and the Twilight Saga, publishing companies are racing to meet the demands of a new generation of readers. This year, there are so many good YA fantasy titles that Penguin’s Young Readers Group assembled a rock-star lineup of authors and sent them out…
The park and pipe crew at Buttermilk is a well-oiled machine after a decade of hosting the Winter X Games, making crazy stuff like Torstein Horgmo’s triple flip, Kelly Clark’s 1080 and Shaun White’s tight pants possible, year after year. And the best part? Each year, Buttermilk’s left with a…
Time for some Time-Wasting Video! Breckenridge-based Celia Miller, a star of the all-female snowboard film Let’s Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow, recently joined up with Ride Snowboards and Denver’s SixEleven Productions for the fifth episode in the Ride With Us weekly video series. Miller and the crew hit Denver’s Ruby Hill…
Ready to climb something crazy and then tell the tale in style? The Jonny Copp Foundation is now accepting applications for its $20,000 in 2011 Copp-Dash Inspire Awards, named in memory of Copp (Boulder’s Adventure Film Festival founder) and his climbing partner Micah Dash, who died in 2009 in an…
We’re #1! Come see the best roller derby league in the country in action when the Rocky Mountain Roller Girls (2010 Women’s Flat Track Derby Association national champions) open their 2011 season on Saturday at the Fillmore at 7 p.m. The bout pits two of the league’s teams – Dooms…
Husband-and-wife photography team Brian Mohr and Emily Johnson are doing things the hard way with their Wild People, Wild Places project: For their most recent adventure, featured on the cover of Wend Magazine’s January 2011 issue, the duo toured Norway’s Arctic Alps for a month using only skis and bicycles,…
“Nothing against the guys, but sometimes it’s great to spend the day on the slopes with just the girls,” says Breckenridge ski resort spokeswoman Austyn Williams. “Women challenge each other and learn from each other in different ways, and it makes for a completely different experience on the mountain.” Breck’s…
Now that the SIA Snow Show is officially over, after two days of on-snow demos at Winter Park following the trade show at the Colorado Convention Center, it’s hard to imagine the snow sports industry ever got away with having this thing in Las Vegas. Anovia Daniels, spokeswoman for SnowSports…
Snow day! Denver Public Schools and others around the region are closed today “due to severe weather conditions and below-freezing temperatures,” and Loveland Ski area has just the thing to keep all those rugrats from going stir crazy: They’re slashing adult ticket prices from $59 to $30, and kids’ tickets…
We sifted through a mess of 893 snow sports brands representing at the SIA Snow Show to find the Colorado companies we love most, then asked them to show off their best boards for the 2011/2012 season. Click through for a fast-forward look at the boards locavores will be craving…
