Denver Big Air organizers at the Denver Sports Commission and the LG FIS Snowboard World Cup were right to be upset that top riders like Canadian Sebastian Toutant (aka “Seb Toots”) stood them up in favor of getting in some extra practice at Buttermilk for X Games 15, a scheduling…
The SIA Snow Show rang in its second year in Denver yesterday with Governor John Hickenlooper rocking a green 686 snowboard jacket and talking about how stoked he is to go snowboarding with his family this weekend, and Mayor Bill Vidal sporting a puffy black Spyder coat and urging SIA…
More than 14,000 snowboarding fans turned out for the LG FIS Snowboard World Cup Big Air competition on the Denver Big Air ramp in Civic Center Park, according to the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association’s estimate, about 4,000 more than for the previous night’s ski competition. Take that, skiing! Alas,…
This weekend’s Winter X Games 15 marks the tenth year in a row that Aspen has hosted the X Games at Buttermilk. Getting a room won’t be easy and definitely won’t be cheap — but as always, the Games themselves are free for spectators. “We love having the crowds up…
The Snowsports Industries America (SIA) Snow Show that starts today at the Colorado Convention Center is mostly about business and mostly closed to the public. So if you want a piece of the action, get a job. Seriously: One of the primary parts open to the public is the SchmoozaPalooza…
Let’s face it: If you build a 106-foot launch tower and then send competitors — some of them as young as 14 — careening down the face of it on skis towards a big-ass kicker for a competition like last night’s Nature Valley Big Air Challenge in Civic Center Park…
The 100-foot launch tower erected in Civic Center Park for the Denver Big Air competition will see its first official action today at 5 p.m. (doors open at 3:30 p.m.) for the Nature Valley Ski Big Air challenge, a Battle of the Brands format that will pit the ski teams…
This week the Snowsports Industries of America (SIA) Snow Show is coming to the Colorado Convention Center, where all the major ski and snowboard companies will show off their latest innovations for the 2011/2012 winter season. Here’s one we’d like to see on the showroom floor: The one-off Signal Snowboards…
Next week we have the Denver Big Air competitions, the entire snowsports industry in town for the SIA Snow Show and Winter X Games 15 at Buttermilk. But first, this weekend. Here’s this week’s frozen five: 1. Breck yo’ ass! There’s not really anything specific going on at Breckenridge this…
The Winter Wildlands Alliance brings its Backcountry Film Festival tour to Boulder’s Neptune Mountaineering (633 South Broadway) tonight at 8 p.m…
No, that’s not a new skyscraper going up in Civic Center Park. This week is officially Mile High Snow Week, with the SnowSports Industries America Snow Show taking over the Colorado Convention Center — but even at 5,280 feet, Denver is still 100 feet shy of the ramp requirements for…
Today’s stoke comes to us via our ever-watchful friends at YoBeat (tagline: “Making fun of snowboarding since 1997”). Director Jim Mangan’s short film Winter’s Children: Naked Ambition features vintage snowboards, woven Native American blankets, and a noticeable dearth of winter clothing (or any clothing at all) on the seven featured…
There are more bears than cougars in Aspen this week, as my fiancée and I noticed when we rolled into town last night, and more rainbow flags than usual, too. That would be because it’s the 34th annual Aspen Gay Ski Week, and this year’s theme is “Wild Wild West,”…
We’re loving the SixEleven Sundays series from Denver-based snowboard film crew SixEleven Productions: Sign up for the email newsletter for video clips like this week’s installment, set in the A-51 Terrain Park at Keystone with local riders Nick Bilawky, Scott See, Steven Waters, Colin Defenbau, Colin Spencer and Erik VanAssche…
If you’re looking to try something new, this is the weekend for you: January is Learn to Ski & Snowboard Month and Winter Trails Month, it’s been dumping in the mountains and there are more camps, demos and competitions this weekend than you can shake a snowboard at. Here are…
Breck’s Ullr Fest Parade is an annual winter spectacle dating back to 1963, and it’s one of the craziest events in Colorado. This year’s parade theme? “Still Crazy After All These Years.” When the parade gets underway on North Main Street today at 4:30 p.m. watch for half-naked revelers freezing…
“There weren’t many women out here on the ice twelve years ago, which is why I started all this in the first place,” says Kim Reynolds, the head chick behind the Chicks With Picks and Chicks Rock climbing clinics. “I like to think we’ve helped make ice climbing more approachable…
Last month, Torin Yater-Wallace, a fifteen-year-old skier from Basalt, finished in fifth place in the Winter Dew Tour’s Men’s Ski Super-pipe Finals at Breckenridge. Torin who? Exactly: Yater-Wallace is a product of the Gatorade Free Flow Tour, an amateur series that also serves as a feeder system for sending new…
The Professional Ski Instructors Association, which is headquartered in Lakewood, will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in 2011, starting with the annual Learn to Ski & Snowboard Month. The organization known as PSIA-AASI (it includes the American Association of Snowboard Instructors) partners each year with the National Ski Areas Association, the…
Looking to get away from it all and head out under your own steam? Boulder’s Neptune Mountaineering is hosting a series of cool events this week leading up to the Backcountry Film Festival next Thursday: Start with tonight’s BYOB (bring your own beacon) practice session at 6 p.m., followed by…
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 ticket at some other nearby resorts. The deal — $99 for a season pass good any day Copper…
Don’t feel like sitting in ski traffic to ride the rails? The Ruby Hill Rail Yard Terrain Park at South Platte River Drive & Florida Avenue opened on Saturday with rails, slider boxes, jumps and open slopes for sledding and learning to ride. Bob Holme, who oversees the terrain parks…
