The Boulder Snowboarding Group is singing the praises of Vail’s big booters this Valentine’s Day weekend, taking its BSG crew to the 20, 25, and 30-foot hits in Vail’s Golden Peak Terrain Park for its Big Booter Lovin’ snowboard big air competition. The competition is open to all ages, with…
The Pagosa Springs Nordic Club is billing its WinterFest events as “Olympics in Pagosa,” with 1K, 5K and 10K classic cross-country and skate-ski races, plus a snowshoe race around the Spa Trail Head and surrounding environs. But Pagosa Springs has one event you won’t be seeing in Vancouver: The WinterFest…
We’ve been following Clair Bidez all season on the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix and Winter Dew Tour, but apparently we hadn’t seen everything yet: The 22 year-old snowboarder from Minturn, Colorado is peeling off her winter base layers this week for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2010, alongside Olympic snowboarder Hannah Teter,…
Heads up, artsy types: Rocky Mountain Underground is running a contest to design the top sheet for the Guyot backcountry skis in its 2011/2012 line. Winner gets a pair of the skis, serious bragging rights, and props in Skiing Magazine. Rocky Mountain Underground is a membership-based community-support ski manufacturer for…
Last week my On The Edge colleague Ted Alvarez shared a video clip of Mike Douglas stating his case with a historical perspective in favor of freeskiing in the great Skiing vs. Snowboarding debates. Alvarez closed his post with the question, “How ’bout it, snowboarders? Anybody got a quality Riders’…
Okay, so, I never did actually see Joe Biden on the slopes, even though the Vice President’s family was allegedly rolling 14 deep and their ski vacation at Beaver Creek happened to coincide with the resort’s official Media Ski Day. I valiantly rode all over the mountain wearing a helmet…
Breckenridge team rider JJ Thomas beat out Brennan Swanson and Steve Fisher to win the Men’s Snowboard Superpipe Finals at the Toyota Championships this weekend at Mount Snow.With a McTwist, a 1080, and a frontside 900 in his winning run (on a board made by Unity Snowboards in Silverthorne), Thomas…
Bobby Brown won the Freeski Slopestyle Finals at the Toyota Challenge with a double cork 1260 in his run this morning at Mount Snow in Vermont, beating out Andreas Hatveit and Tom Wallisch for the top spot on today’s podium. The win pushed him up to second place in the…
In my mission to piece together head-to-toe snowboarding gear sourced from Colorado companies showing their wares at the SIA Snow Show, one stop was a no-brainer: Steamboat Springs-based Smartwool is my pick for socks, base layers, and mid-layers. The Merino wool in these products comes from New Zealand, mostly, so…
Walking around the SIA Snow Show this week, I made a project for myself to see if I could come up with head-to-toe snowboarding gear sourced solely from companies based here in Colorado. Although I came up short on boots, I did discover one cool local company working behind the…
Summit County’s gold rush days may be long gone (and this season hasn’t exactly been an epic one for the snow rush, either), but the Frisco Gold Rush has been tapping the snow-sports vein in the White River National Forest since 1970, and we’ll happily take our riches where we…
The hottest product at the SIA Snow Show this year? Pamela Anderson stopped by the Colorado Convention Center last night to unveil her new snowboard collaboration with NDK Snowboards, benefiting People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and thousands of (mostly male) attendees dropped everything to get in line for…
Overheard at the SIA Snow Fashion Show: “On the lookout for FYB, blue steel, and the assured unintentional comedy” – Jonny Burns, proprietor of SouthOfTheNorth.com and, ahem, FuckYeahBro.com, irreverent snowboarding blogs tracking the trends at the SIA Snow Show this week.If the fashion show at the Wells Fargo Theater (the…
The news keeps getting better: For one thing it’s actually snowing up in them thar hills this week, and for another — economyshmonomy — visits to Colorado ski resorts are up this year, according to Colorado Ski Country USA. A couple inches here, one lone percentage point there… We’ll take…
On Tuesday Vail Resorts hosted a media shindig at Earl’s downtown, part of the kickoff for the SIA Snow Show in town this week, and I took the opportunity to rib Keystone PR rep Katie Adamson about my longstanding grudge against the area, one of the last Colorado resorts to…
The SIA Snow Show’s in town this week, and we’ll be helping you sort through the swag: On Friday, start at the Fillmore for the 11th Annual TransWorld Snowboarding Rider’s Poll Awards ($17). Then hit Marc Frank Montoya’s party with DJ Crime at City Hall, benefiting Colorado’s Snowboard Outreach Society…
Tim Canaday keeps an old wooden snowboard in his office at the Never Summer Industries factory as a reminder. The board, fit for a history museum, has rubber straps for bindings and metal fins bolted to the tail and midsection, to keep it steady in deep powder. He constructed the…
If you’ve ever gone to Buttermilk for the Winter X Games, you probably ended up watching them on the JumboTron like everybody else, freezing your butt off and realizing why these are made-for-TV events. This year, save yourself the trip and join 20,000 snow-sports industry insiders at Skyline Park instead,…
What’s the one thing most people remember about the introduction of snowboarding to the Winter Olympics twelve years ago in Nagano, Japan?Reefer madness.To the delight of sports page headline writers around the world, Canadian Ross Rebagliati — the first snowboarder to win Olympic gold — was found to have weed…
This week we’ll be reporting from the SIA Snow Show at the Colorado Convention Center, January 28-31. It’s the first time the annual SnowSports Industries America trade show is in Denver, kicking off an 11 year contract (the snow sports industry had been convening in Las Vegas for the last…
If all this Winter Dew Tour, Winter X Games and Winter Olympics business is stoking your kid’s fire, then head up to the halfpipe and terrain park at Keystone this weekend, where amateur snowboarders and freeskiers ages 21 and under will compete for a spot at the Gatorade Free Flow…
Big news today, though not much of a surprise: Banks have seized Intrawest Holdings, according to The Globe and Mail. Last month Fortress Investment Group failed to make the final payment on a $1.4 billion loan originally due in October.The bigger news, and bigger suprise: Lenders are planning to auction…
