Three Colorado ski legends will be inducted into the United States National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame next month at Beaver Creek’s Gerald R. Ford Hall on April 9:Jack Benedick (Golden, CO) lost both legs in the Vietnam War and went on to help develop the sport of adaptive…
Ah, Spring: The days are getting longer, the slopes are suddenly littered with Texans skiing in jeans, and I-70 is clogged with out of towners (drive from Copper Mountain to Denver last night? Just over three hours), but it is indeed snowing, and there’s more on the way. And, better…
The Colorado Department of Transportation reopened the stretch of I-70 through Glenwood Canyon yesterday afternoon, with one lane of traffic in each direction, less than a week after a rock slide with boulders as big as 10 feet in diameter damaged and blocked the road on Monday. That’s good news…
This week Vail Resorts announced the early buyer’s price for its 2010/2011 Epic Pass: A $49 down payment March 15 through May 31 guarantees a price of $599 for unlimited, unrestricted skiing at Vail, Beaver Creek, Keystone, Arapahoe Basin, and Heavenly. There’s also an unrestricted Epic 7-Pack for $449, an…
A 20 year-old snowboarder died in an avalanche yesterday afternoon in the sidecountry terrain known as The Beavers, just West of Arapahoe Basin, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC). For those of you familiar with the terrain, the slide and fatality occurred in The Beavers’ Gully #1 (they’re…
Loveland Ski Area’s perfect storm of wind, weather and wicked elevation (13,010 feet at the summit) means you might be in store for the best day of your life or the worst, sometimes within the span of a single day. “We’re a large area, with almost 16,000 acres of skiing…
Yesterday we reported on the rock slide that has turned I-70 into a disaster zone, closed the Glenwood Canyon stretch of the highway indefinitely, and forced motorists onto alternate routes including a 200-mile detour loop on US 40. The bad news doesn’t end there: This morning a woman was killed…
Whoever first thought up that old t-shirt slogan “Life’s a Mountain Not a Beach” must have spent one unfortunate Spring Break in Miami Beach, as skiers and snowboarders from around the world know that the real party is right here in Colorado. If you’re staying close to home this year,…
Vail Valley’s Lindsey Vonn crashed and burned in everything but the Downhill (Gold) and Super G (Bronze), but that hasn’t stopped the post-Olympics marketing bonanza: A gold medal is a gold medal, after all. Last week General Mills unveiled its Lindsey Vonn “Breakfast of Champions” Wheaties box art, making her…
Ready to live out those Dew Tour dreams and X Games fantasies and begin your Olympic odyssey? Your journey begins here: The United States Snowboard Association brings its 23rd annual Rocky Mountain Series to Copper Mountain this weekend, March 6-7, for the final event of the series before next month’s…
Fifteen years ago, after picking up an issue of Might Magazine and laughing my ass off, I set off on the Herculean collector’s endeavor of keeping up with everything Dave Eggers wrote, published or otherwise orchestrated. This year alone, in addition to writing the screenplay and monster fur-covered novelization for…
Local hero Steve Fisher’s been a busy dude since we last caught up with him for our Westword cover story at the beginning of the US Snowboarding Grand Prix series: That double cork got him in the end after all, and he missed another chance at the Olympics, but he…
The International Olympic Committee goes hard on athletes marketing products during the games, but now that it’s a wrap you’ll be seeing more and more of them cashing in. We think snowboarder Hannah Teter’s angle just might the sweetest: As if that sexy spread in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue…
If you’re looking around your cubicle this morning and noticing that an unusual number of your colleagues have called in sick, you might want to check the ski report: The light dusting we got down here in Denver (I woke up to the sound of my neighbor sweeping her sidewalk)…
Today the Woodward at Copper facility announced its full schedule of summer skateboard camps up at The Barn at Copper Mountain. The week-long skate camps for kids ages 10 and up run between $459 and $949 depending on the session and whether you’re planning on overnight stays. If you haven’t…
This year I’ve been going for the gold in the Winter Olympic sports of Fast Forwarding Through Commercials on the DVR, Snorting Hot Cocoa Out My Nose When People Fall Down and Get Hurt, and Falling Asleep On the Couch During Ice Dancing. If you’ve been watching religiously this month…
After the Boulder Snowboarding Group’s happy hour tonight at the Installation Shoe Gallery, head to Satellite Board Shop at 7pm for a Wax Your Junk tuning clinic, swag giveaways, and 20 percent off sale for BSG members. Not a member? That’s easy enough: Click here and sign up. You’ll be…
Double-digit weekend snowfall at just about every ski resort in Colorado this week, and more on the way? My fellow skiers and snowboarders, our winter prayers have finally been answered!Unfortunately, our I-70 prayers have not…
Any subsequent broadcasts of Shaun White’s victory lap in the Men’s Halfpipe Finals from Vancouver will assuredly be bleeped out, but anyone watching live last night heard the final instructions from coach Bud Keane: “Drop a double Mc at the end, do whatever you want and freakin’ send that thing…
We predicted that POWDR Corp’s recent purchase of Copper Mountain would be for the best, and if this new “swingers” campaign is any indication, then the “corporate vision” for the company’s newest mountain lady involves sexing things up considerably (and going head-to-head with some of the other players in town). …
So far so good: My seven-year-old son and five-year-old daughter seem to be sharing my lifelong love of snow sports and all things wintry, and this winter we’ve gone sledding and snowboarding together and generally fulfilling my fatherly fantasies of family fun. But this week, they’ve been working on some…
This week Venture Snowboards announced the five finalists in its Protect Our Winters art contest, and voting is online now. The winning design will be made into a top sheet graphic for a limited edition run of Venture x POW boards in the 2010/2011 line, raising environmental awareness and benefiting…
