Here’s your chance to represent for your favorite mountain: The annual TransWorld Snowboarding Resort Poll just went online, asking riders to rate their three favorite resorts for 2011 in categories including Parks & Pipes, Grooming & Upkeep, Variety, Challenge, and Overall (Jumps, Rails, Boxes, Pipe).Colorado resorts dominated last year’s poll,…
Get your resumes ready, fast: Two of the three top spots in Outside Magazine’s annual list of the 50 Best Places to Work went to Colorado companies this year, and we imagine there will be several more when the full list drops. The issue hits stands April 27. Natural Habitat…
Heads up, bargain hunters: Echo Mountain is planning to stay open through May 2, and a new $199 Dual Pass deal on next season’s passes includes the rest of this season’s Spring shredding for good measure. Details after the jump.Echo TV Season 3 – Episode 8 from Echo Mountain on…
Snowboarder Kelly Clark rode away with first place and the $10,000 prize at the 3rd Annual CoverGirl Snow Angels Invitational this weekend, hosted by Aspenite Gretcen Bleiler in the superpipe at Snowmass. Clark beat out Ursina Holler (Switzerland), Soko Yamaoka (Japan), Paulina Ligocka (Poland), and Bleiler for the win, and…
The United States of America Snowboard Association (USASA) will hold its premier amateur snowboarding event this week, April 3-10 at Copper Mountain with the USASA National Championships, bringing nearly 1,500 competitors from across the country to Summit County for the amateur championships in slopestyle, superpipe, boardercross, slalom, and giant slalom…
Pack your poop, people: This week the Fort Collins Coloradoan and LovelandConnection.com are reporting on a new program at Rocky Mountain National Park to distribute free bags for packing out human waste, after park rangers noticed rising coliform bacteria counts in the groundwater near popular camping areas.The double-bagged disposable travel…
Icelantic, the local ski company-slash-gallery in the Santa Fe Arts District (948 West 8th Avenue), will be featuring artists Ryo Tomo and Mackenzie Berg this month with a grand opening on Friday April 2 from 6 p.m to midnight for the First Friday Gallery Hop. True to Icelantic’s made-in-Colorado vibe,…
Graphics have been an important part of snowboard culture from the beginning, and lately, they’ve been elevated to high art, with most board companies employing full-time art directors and contracting with A-list artists. Today the Design Within Reach Denver Studio, 2500 East Second Avenue, Suite 120, hosts the fourth annual…
Even if you hit spring break a little too hard, you can’t blame the booze for the snowboarding chickens, skiing bunnies and yetis you’ve seen out of the corner of your beer goggles on the slopes. New Belgium Brewing concludes its three-mountain Scavenger Hunt series today at Loveland, and costumed…
Aspen snow princess Gretchen Bleiler (don’t miss her CoverGirl Snow Angels Invitational this weekend in the Superpipe at Snowmass) and pro surfer Anastasia Ashley are putting “interns” to the test in a new social media marketing campaign from Old Spice. The athletes will be mentoring two winners of the Old…
The ski and snowboard season is winding down, but it’s not over yet – especially at Arapahoe Basin, where they’re hoping to keep the party going until June 6: Pick up A-Basin’s Spring 3 Pass for $130 this week through April 4 to get three days for the price of…
Snowboarder and Aspenite Gretchen Bleiler will be hosting the 3rd Annual CoverGirl Snow Angels Invitational this weekend, April 2-4 in the Snowmass Superpipe. The main event is on Saturday April 3, with a jam format contest bringing some of the top female riders from around the world and special awards…
Aspen wraps up its 10th Annual Spring Jam this weekend with Schneetag on Saturday at Snowmass and the Helly Hansen Battle in the Bowls at Aspen Highlands on Sunday.Schneetag will feature four-person teams performing skits in silly costumes then propelling designated pilots down Spider Sabich in sliding/skimming machines for a…
This week our friends at PowderRoom.net (“for girls who know snow”) and Boardistan are pointing to news of a new Hollywood snowsploitation flick based on the 2007 novel The Chalet Girl: Falling In Love Can Be a Slippery Slope, the first book in the Little Black Dress romance series by…
Okay, so it’s not exactly Girls Gone Wild, but with another six inches of new snow at Echo Mountain in the last 24 hours, on top of the 18 they reported the day before, the closest ski area to Denver is looking more and more like the place to be…
How many runs down Pallavicini can your knees handle? Participants in the 2010 Ski/Board-a-Thon for the Children will be pushing their limbs to the limit as they lap the lifts at Arapahoe Basin today to raise money for the Children’s Hospital Foundation. A-Basin’s hoping to have the East Wall open…
Today’s probably the best day of the year for an urban assault, and I know some of the local video crews are going to be out around town on filming missions.For those of you looking for more of the deep stuff close to home, check out Eldora or Echo Mountain…
This week TransWorld Business has a cool profile on Four Pine Design, the Denver-based firm responsible for the new terrain park features at Eldora and one of the companies leading the charge for greener and more sustainable practices in the snow sports industry. As part of its Earth Day-themed April…
The Acclamation of the Double Cork from SixEleven on Vimeo.Here’s a fun new video collaboration between two cool Colorado companies, Boa Technology and SixEleven Productions, featuring snowboarder Scott See. For more on Boa Technology check out our On The Edge interview from the SIA Snow Show. Peep the trailer for…
The “Intent to Submit” deadline for the 4th Annual Design the Modern Board competition is Friday, March 19, and the entry deadline is April 2. The contest, sponsored by Design Within Reach and Never Summer, benefits the Snowboard Outreach Society, and the winner will get a one-off Never Summer board…
In roller derby, it’s not enough to just stay ahead of the other team: To score points, you have to lap your opponent — at the risk of getting knocked on your ass. And tonight’s 7 p.m. season opener for the Denver Roller Dolls at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield…
As if you needed another excuse to support the three companies making excellent snowboards right here in Colorado, The Burlington Free Press reports today that snowboard giant Burton is closing shop on its Vermont manufacturing facilities in South Burlington, cutting 43 US jobs and moving the last of its US…
