Pat Milbery longed to ride with the professional snowboarders he looked up to when he was a kid in Minnesota — but they all made tracks for the Rocky Mountains the first chance they got and never looked back. So after Milbery turned pro and moved to Colorado himself, he…
“Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…well, okay, maybe a rat,” says Nancy Smith, founder and artistic director of Boulder’s aerial dance troupe Frequent Flyers Productions. “In our version of The Nutcracker, the Rat King wins and Clara goes flying through Rat World. Instead of interacting with the…
If you’re one of those local loonies who gets as stoked about skiing uphill as skiing down, this one’s for you: Breckenridge-based adventure racer Monique Merrill is the featured guest tonight at 7 p.m. at the REI Denver Flagship store, 1416 Platte Street, where she’ll be talking about the thrills…
Holiday shopping, Colorado-style: Tonight is the annual Men’s Shopping Night at Outdoor Divas in Cherry Creek, 2717 East Third Avenue (or head to the Boulder store tomorrow night, 1133 Pearl Street), and these divas have us dudes all figured out: They’ll be plying us with pizza and Oskar Blues brews…
This week, Breckenridge is hosting the first stop of the Winter Dew Tour for the third year in a row. The Nike 6.0 Open runs December 16-19 and, since they’ve completely redesigned the Freeway terrain park and halfpipe for this year’s competition, we headed up for a sneak peek and…
Why should you get out of Denver and head for the hills this weekend? Let me count the ways…
If you can still stand sideways after riding in the powder all day at Copper Mountain today, stick around for the Grand Slam Bowl Jam skateboard contest in The Barn at Woodward at Copper tonight at 6 p.m. (registration and practice starts at 5 p.m.) There’s a $10 cash entry…
If you didn’t get all the holiday adrenaline out of your system fighting for your life on Black Friday, lace some jingle bells into your sneakers and make a run for it today at the nineteenth annual Jingle Bell Run in Washington Park. “We’re encouraging people to come dressed up…
Yet another reason to head for the hills this week: The new Summit Action Sports Film Festival in Breckenridge opens tonight at 5 p.m. at Brooklyn’s Tavern, 500 South Main Street, with screenings of the People Crew’s Cheers and five other ski and snowboard films. The festival continues tomorrow and…
Huge news from Silverton Mountain this week: The Red Bull Cold Rush big mountain and big air freeskiing competition is coming to Colorado, March 14-18, after being held in Canada (first at Red Mountain, then at Retallack Lodge) each year since its inception in 2007. “We worked closely with Red…
Boulder-based adventure film company Sender Films just put out a new DVD compiling all six climbing films from the 5th annual Reel Rock Film Tour (DVD trailer after the jump): The Swiss Machine documents Ueli Steck’s alpine speed record on The Eiger Nordwand; First Round, First Minute follows Chris Sharma…
The new High Noon Express Lift (Chair 5) at Vail opens a week from today, right after next week’s Snow Daze events. The high-speed quad chair replaces the old fixed-grip triple, cutting the ride from twelve minutes down to just under six and increasing the lift’s capacity by about 70…
There comes a humbling time in the career of every blogger when he must face the fact that, for example, the article he wrote in February about Clair Bidez, Hannah Teter, Lindsey Vonn and Lacy Schnoor taking their clothes off for Sports Illustrated got more pageviews than anything else he…
You’d have to be a dummy to huck yourself off some of the biggest kickers in Vail’s terrain parks this season, which is precisely why you ought to send one in your place if you’re not looking to make the agony-of-defeat reel this season. Vail’s 5th annual Snow Daze event…
The U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix event at Copper Mountain has traditionally been the opening salvo of the pro snowboarding season in North America. This year, with Olympic rings in its sights, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association is letting skiers into the Grand Prix pipe, too. “Right now we’re operating…
Echo Mountain opens up today, and this time you don’t even have to call in sick to get a piece of the action: They’re keeping the lights on until 9 p.m. Terrain park manager Marc Moline and his crew have been building new obstacles out of recycled materials — propane…
Earlier this month we joined Boardistan and others in bitching about the pre-sale prices for the Denver Big Air contests coming to Civic Center Park January 25-26. This week, the Metro Denver Sports Commission announced new lower prices: Tickets for the Nature Valley Challenge Big Air Freestyle Ski event on…
Skip the holiday shopping headache and head for the hills instead: The ninth annual Leftover Yam Jam, in the Eagle Jib Park at Copper Mountain, is the perfect place to burn some post-feast calories and come down from your tryptophan trip. “It’s a super-fun vibe up here for this contest…
“The list of things I’m thankful for this year begins with the piles and piles of early-season snow we’ve been getting this month,” says Winter Park spokeswoman Mistalynn Lee. “It’s looking especially white and wintry up here considering it’s only November.” To help keep your holiday celebration from interfering with…
When Telemark Skier magazine editor Josh Madsen set out to explore the history of his sport in order to provide some contrast to the terrain-park tricks and extreme backcountry skiing that were the hallmark of his first Freeheel Life film, he was surprised to learn that there wasn’t much contrast…
It’s been a couple years now since Boulder-based Null Skateboards dropped its last full team video, Null & Void, but this Nullvember promo proves they’ve been keeping busy in the meantime:…
Might as well go ahead and make it a 5-day weekend: Beaver Creek is opening today with at least 426 acres of terrain and 11 lifts, not to mention the annual Beaver Creek Cookie Competition — 2 p.m. near the ice rink in the Beaver Creek Village — which will…
