From Oktoberfest to the Night Market, a Dozen Free Things to Do in Denver This Weekend
Colorado ski areas got pounded with as much as twenty inches of early-season snow in late October, just as we were going to press with the Edge, our annual guide to Colorado’s ski resorts — and Loveland was the first to announce an opening date — October 29. You can find…
Sophia Capua was four years old the first time she noticed the cartoonish graffiti monster characters drawn on a banner at the base of Loveland Ski Area. She also liked the sight of Pat Milbery, co-founder of the So-Gnar Snowboard Camp Tour, riding the rails with a giant monster mask…
Jeff Popp and Casey Lorenzen founded their backpack brand Mile High Mountaineering — now known simply as MHM — in 2009, and have since grown it into a full line of innovative and award-winning backcountry packs for hiking, backpacking, skiing and snowboarding. Last year they launched a successful Kickstarter campaign…
“It’s huge for us to have the whole industry right in our back yard, because we’re from here, all of our skis are made here, we ski here, and now most of our business is done here through the SIA trade show,” says Icelantic Skis co-founder Ben Anderson, who will…
If your New Year’s resolution for 2015 was to get fatter, then Copper Mountain has just the event for you: the fourth annual WinterBike race, which sends pedal-pushers on a fifteen-mile loop through snow, ice and slush on super-sized bikes with extra-fat tires. “The fat-bike thing has turned out to…
Old stories have been coming out of the woodwork for Winter Park’s 75th anniversary season, even as the resort takes big steps into its future, like the opening of a new 16,000-square-foot restaurant at the Lunch Rock peak of Mary Jane. But for the full time-machine effect, stop by any…
When metal sculptor Jamie Vaida packed up and moved his Grand Junction studio to Oakland, California, a few years ago, he quickly found an audience for the architectural details he specializes in — like some of the coolest spiral staircase handrails and hottest fireplace screens you’ve ever seen — and…
Before Erin Ries could invite any artists or performers to the Telluride Fire Festival, there was one small but very important bit of red tape to work through: applying for a special exemption to the mountain town’s burn ordinance. “These are artists who normally don’t get to showcase their fire…
Steamboat’s annual Cowboy Downhill race is now officially over the hill, celebrating its 41st year starting today at 5 p.m. with hot air balloons lighting up the base of the ski area, night skiing, and a raucous party at Bear River Bar & Grill featuring music by Banks & Shane…
By day, the Ice Bar at Uley’s Cabin at Crested Butte is best known as a high-end, on-mountain, reservations-recommended dining experience for the pampered powder chaser. But Wednesday through Saturday nights, it hosts five-course gourmet meals for diners who travel by sleigh for the experience. Tonight’s Full Moon Party, however,…
This being Colorado and all, there’s no telling what the weather might be like on the day of the 32nd annual Boulder Polar Plunge, when tradition calls for jumping into the Boulder Reservoir for a brisk bath to celebrate the New Year while helping others. “Our volunteers don’t mind when…
“Aspen is a wonderful, crazy circus at the holidays,” says Laura Thielen, co-director of Aspen Film, which will kick off its 23rd annual Academy Screenings Festival today at the Wheeler Opera House, 320 East Hyman Street. “It’s a great time to come up and see the heart and soul of…
“This is the 36th year of our holiday torchlight parade tradition, and I think, obviously, that the longevity is a tribute to the fact that it really is pretty spectacular,” boasts Winter Park spokesman Steve Hurlbert. “You’re sitting by a bonfire at the base singing Christmas carols, when all of…
“We are excited to bring a second weekend of free live music to our guests this year and cap off the Vail Snow Daze event with performances from 10,000 Maniacs and Rusted Root,” says Vail spokeswoman Sara Lococco. “So if you missed out on the first weekend, there is still…
Director Travis La and the crew behind the latest 303 Boards skateboard team video, Landrace, liked the sound of 12/13/14 for a premiere date. While we’re counting, this marks the thirteenth team video from the little Colfax shop that could (tagline: “Holding down the Colorado skate scene since 1997”) and…
Missed the trip to Sochi last winter? Nearly all of the Winter Olympic freeskiing and snowboarding medalists will be in Breckenridge this week for the Dew Tour Mountain Championships. It begins with the men’s ski slopestyle semifinals on Thursday at 9:30 a.m., featuring gold-medalist Joss Christensen, silver-medalist Gus Kenworthy and…
“We couldn’t believe how much emphasis there was on ski jumping from the beginning: It was really the extreme sport of its day,” says historian Caryn Boddie. She and her husband, Peter Boddie, wrote the book Lost Ski Areas of Colorado’s Front Range and Northern Mountains, and they’ll be sharing…
Colorado’s entry in the “Lost Ski Areas” series from History Press turned out to be a bigger project than Caryn and Peter Boddie imagined: They found 140 abandoned ski hills in all and ended up writing two books. They’ll introduce the first, Lost Ski Areas of Colorado’s Front Range and…
Ski Cooper near Leadville, and Sunlight Mountain Resort, near Glenwood Springs are both opening today. Ski Cooper got so much snow recently, in fact, that it is opening two weeks early. They join many other Colorado mountains that have already opened for the season. We profiled them all in The…
The weather has been good for skiers and snowboarders so far this season, and that means more openings. Steamboat and Crested Butte plan to open for the season today, while Monarch, Snowmass and Telluride will open tomorrow, on Thanksgiving. We profiled all of Colorado’s ski-country destinations in The Edge, our…
Colorado’s two glitziest, most well-known ski resorts open for the season this weekend, along with a locals’ favorite, joining a few others that have so far. Vail goes first, giving customers access out of both Vail Village and Lionshead at 9 a.m., as well as return routes to both base…
Boulder-based Warren Miller Entertainment, the granddaddy of all ski-film production companies, is celebrating 65 years in the business this week with its latest film, No Turning Back. Think about that for a minute: Warren Miller began making ski films in 1949. And while Miller himself is no longer directly involved…
