This Weekend In Stoke: Happy Winter Trails Day to you
Need a good excuse to get out of town this weekend? Here are our six sweet reasons to head up to yonder hills…
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Today In Stoke: Icelantic’s Bangers and Mash Episode 3
Rather than saving it all up for one big year-end video, the ski crew at Denver-based Icelantic Boards has been dribbling out the goods all season with its Bangers and Mash One Degree TV series directed by Nick Hickling. Episode 3, nearly a half hour long, features a peek inside…
Worship Winter
In 1963, according to local lore, the ancient Norse god of winter packed up his skis and his bow and moved to Breckenridge, where villagers have been celebrating his arrival ever since. “We’re having an epic snow season this year, so there’s good reason to come out and praise Ullr,”…
On The Rocks
Small-town economics can get a little slippery. Take Ouray, for example, where the answer to the community’s sluggish winter scene turned out to be deceptively simple: Leave the water running when it’s cold outside. The Ouray Ice Festival (now in its sixteenth year) and Ouray Ice Park (free and open…
Mountain Traffic
Echo Mountain’s annual Traffic Jam Ski and Snowboard Contest starts today and, since it’s sponsored by Scion, will feature vehicle-themed terrain park obstacles: tire jibs, junker cars, old road signs, and anything else Echo’s mad scientist park designer Marc Moline can get his mittens on. “I couldn’t even tell you…
Today In Stoke: Aspen’s Jennifer Figge is swimming to Hawaii instead of smoking
Jennifer Figge, the Aspen-based endurance athlete who swam the Atlantic (from the Cape Verde Islands to Trinidad) in 2009, then did it again in 2010 just for kicks, is now swimming the Pacific. She dove in from the shore of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on December 30 and is headed…
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Today In Stoke: Denver Roller Dolls’ Junior Roller Derby and DRD team tryouts
The Denver Roller Dolls’ first home bout of 2011 at the First Bank Center isn’t until February 19, but it’s never too early to get a piece of the action: Tonight at 6 p.m. the Roller Dolls will host the first practice session and informational meeting for their new Junior…
Today In Stoke: Ruby Hill begins snowmaking, set to open Rail Yard terrain park this month
Ruby Hill Rail Yard sponsors Winter Park Resort, Denver Parks and Recreation and Christy Sports took advantage of the new snow and cold temperatures this weekend to fire up the snowmaking machines in the park at South Platte River Drive & Florida Avenue, in preparation for a mid-January opening for…
This Weekend In Stoke: Top five mountain New Year’s celebrations
This week we brought you nearly 100 great reasons to stay in town for New Year’s Eve. Here are five equally good excuses to get out of Dodge:…
Today In Stoke: Session the new airbag at Woodward at Copper
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, exactly, does one muster the cojones confidence to sack up, point…
Family Affair
“Kids are king of the hill this week,” says Keystone Resort spokesman Ryan Whaley, the biggest kid on the mountain. “Wait until you see the Kidtopia snow fort this year — it’s humongous!” Kidtopia Family Week activities run December 27 through January 2 at Keystone and include a New Year’s…
Skiing & snowboarding Colorado’s ghost mountains… There’s a map for that!
In November we published The Edge, our annual winter activity guide and comprehensive insider’s resource to 25 of Colorado’s top ski areas. It turns out we missed quite a few: According to the ghost hunters at Colorado Ski Country USA, there are 169 ski areas in the state, including 140…
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Today In Stoke: Snowporning, 10th anniversary snowboard film from Freeride.CZ
Ever wonder what a bunch of dudes from the other side of the world make of our mountains when they come here to ride? Freeride.CZ, a “riders driven” online action sports magazine based in the Czech Republic, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week with the online release of director…
The Beating Ski & Snowboard Film Fest returns to Silverton on New Year’s Day
In September I reported from The Meeting, Aspen’s 6th annual ski and snowboarding film festival showcasing most of the year’s big-budget snow-porn flicks. Not hardcore enough for you? The Beating is Silverton’s answer to The Meeting, an amateur film-shorts competition as different from Aspen’s festival as Silverton Mountain is from…
Hollywood in the Rockies
Glitzy Aspen will get even glitzier with the twentieth annual Aspen Film Academy Screenings, which sparkles tonight with a showing of the Coen Brothers’ new film, True Grit. The fest, which is open to everyone, will feature eighteen buzzworthy movies before it ends on January 1, including Rabbit Hole, The…
Treetops Glisten
If you’re dreaming of a white Christmas, why take your chances in Denver when merry and bright and white are guaranteed up at Winter Park? The free Christmas Eve festivities begin at 4 p.m. with Christmas carols by the bonfire at the base of the Zephyr lift, then continue at…
Today In Stoke: Shaun White shreds Woodward at Copper during trip to Colorado
Apparently a full day in the powder up in Summit County wasn’t enough for Shaun White: On Sunday he popped in to skate the bowl at Woodward at Copper. Looks pretty fun, right? Skateboard sessions in “The Barn” start at $4.99 for two hours or $9.99 for a full day…
Today In Stoke: Icelantic team set to throw down in Denver Big Air Battle of the Brands
We’ll have some locals to root for when the Denver Big Air competition erects its 102-foot tall monument to skiing and snowboarding in Civic Center Park next month: In addition to the pro athletes invited to the Nature Valley Challenge Big Air Freestyle Ski event on January 25 and the…
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Today In Stoke: What if Tron’s light cycles were replaced by skateboards?
Today’s time-wasting video comes all the way from Australia’s Melbourne Museum, where they celebrated the premiere of Tron: Legacy with an interactive “extreme 3-D” projection-mapped halfpipe presented by ENESS and dared to ask the timeless question: What if the dudes in Tron were more into riding skateboards than racing crotch…
Today In Stoke: Forecast calls for snow all week
If you’re planning a holiday ski vacation, you might want to go ahead and start it early: It snowed all weekend at most Colorado resorts, and it’s expected to keep coming down until Thursday, which means it’s officially time to call in some of those sick days you’ve been accruing…
This Weekend In Stoke: Top five events to administer a dose of adrenaline
Looking to get your blood pumping this weekend? Any of these should do the trick: 1. Winter Dew Tour at Breckenridge. Breckenridge is hosting the Nike 6.0 Open this week to kick off the 3-stop Winter Dew Tour. There are prelims events all day today (see AlliSports.com for full schedule),…
Today In Stoke: Winter Dew Tour returns to Breckenridge
Breckenridge is hosting the first stop of the Winter Dew Tour this week for the third year in a row, and the event’s Peak 8 festival village opens today. All of the main-event finals action will happen on Saturday and Sunday, but head up today anyway: The format for the…