The American Alpine Club announced this week that it is accepting applications through March 31 for its new Copp-Dash Inspire Award to help fund and document climbing adventures around the world.The awards will come from an available pool of $20,000, administered by the AAC as a tribute to Boulder’s Johnny…
The Boulder Snowboarding Group — a local Meetup group, more than 1,000 strong, that can barely contain itself — is breaking out the SWAT team gear (snowboard weapons and tactics?) this weekend for its Rail Riot event at Loveland.The Saturday contest, open to the first 100 rioters with a lift…
January is Learn a Snow Sport Month, and this week’s as good as any to get your whippersnappers whipped into shape: Keystone is hosting the second of its Kidtopia Festival events, Thursday Jan. 13 through Tuesday Jan. 19, building up to its signature family event next month.Send your spawn careening…
“If you’re one of those people who has only been to Estes Park in the summer, the Winter Festival is a perfect time to see what you’ve been missing,” says Suzy Blackhurst, the town’s public information officer. “Winter is our down season, so the hotel rates are extremely affordable, the…
Today’s Time-Wasting Video, courtesy of the intrepid reporters at The Onion News Network: “Are young people ignoring the dangers of being stoked?”…
The Gatorade Winter Free Flow Tour kicked off this weekend with amateur events at Vail and Big Boulder Ski Area in Pennsylvania, and four Colorado locals will be on their way to the Free Flow Tour Finals next month: Tanner Coulter, 15, from Vail won the Freeski Slopestyle contest on…
The big (though not at all surprising) news from Mammoth Mountain this week: Snowboarders Shaun White and Kelly Clark have each earned enough points on the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix to claim their spots on the U.S. team for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver next month.White, the 2006 Olympic…
Heads up, local groms: This is your big chance.The Dew Tour’s amateur series, the Free Flow Tour, has helped launch the careers of young skateboarders like Chaz Ortiz, Timmy Knuth, and David Loy, and BMX riders like Kevin Kiraly and Mike Spinner. This year the series got itself a new…
Three snowboarders from Colorado are among the qualifiers for today’s Women’s Halfpipe Finals at the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix event at Mammoth Mountain, the second of five U.S. competitions in the run-up to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver: Gretchen Blelier (Aspen) qualified in third, behind Kelly Clark and Hannah…
So, you took your kids to Cirque du Soleil and now they’re dreaming of running away with the circus? Yeah, me, too. But I’m keeping my would-be runaways closer to home for a little while longer, thanks to Boulder’s new Frequent Flyers Productions Aerial Dance Studio. “Aerial work is a…
“You’ve got to love ice climbers,” says Erin Eddy, executive director of the Ouray Ice Park. “Anybody who’s up for playing in the snow and ice when it’s 5 degrees out is somebody who loves the outdoors and has a positive attitude.” And the annual Ouray Ice Festival, presented by…
Three snowboarders from Colorado are among the qualifiers for today’s Men’s Halfpipe Finals at the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix event at Mammoth Mountain, the second of five U.S. competitions in the run-up to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In Heat One of yesterday’s qualifiers Broc Waring (Vail) and Matt…
What’s the right age to begin teaching your kids to snowboard? Let’s just say that if, at the end of the day, you ask them what their favorite part was and they say “Falling down!” then you’re probably doing something right. January is Colorado Ski Country USA’s Learn to Ski…
The annual Polar Bear Plunge at Boulder Reservoir has attracted New Year’s Day nutters since at least 1983, and as a tradition, its appeal is elemental. Freezing temperatures shock the body into a state of fever that is briefly invigorating. If it’s cold enough, your heart rate and blood pressure…
January is Learn to Ski & Ride Month, an annual project of Colorado Ski Country USA in association with the American Association of Snowboard Instructors, Professional Ski Instructors of America, and Go With a Pro. By coincidence, this month is also the beginning of a very personal project: I’m getting…
Winter Park’s annual Christmas Eve Torchlight Procession down Lower Hughes takes on extra significance this year as part of the resort’s 70th anniversary celebration. Santa and his crew will be on hand to get one last run in before clocking in for the night, and the aprés ski scene includes…
Best ski deal…best ski deal. Echo Mountain earned Best Ski Deal honors in the Best of Denver 2009, and the deal keeps getting sweeter. Now that Echo offers night skiing until 9 p.m., its lift tickets are a real bargain: a full twelve hours of skiing will cost you about…
“We are a local store that could use a leg up this season,” writes Marily Macdonald, marketing coordinator for the Outdoor Divas shops in Boulder and Cherry Creek, just as I’m heading out the door to scrape the snow off my car and scrape together the last of my last-minute…
When Breckenridge team rider and Summit County local JJ Thomas took 3rd and stepped to the podium after the Dew Tour Superpipe Finals at his home mountain on Saturday, he did right by both the Summit Unchained “Buy Local” campaign and his new sponsors at Unity Snowboards.Unity hooked the 2006…
Snowboarding judges are notoriously stingy, especially at the beginning the season, and even getting close to a perfect score is pretty much unheard of, so Danny Davis’ 96.50 in the pipe at Breck for the first stop of the 2009-2010 Winter Tour on Saturday is something to talk about. Last…
The Dew Tour is downright democratic compared to the X Games and other invitational pro snowboarding events: Any Fred Shred or Insane Jane who fights their way through the Open Qualifiers gets to throw down in Prelims, against the likes of Shaun White and Kelly Clark (last year’s Dew Cup…
NBC Sports and the Dew Tour have been trying since 2005 to give action sports a season-long arc that fans of more traditional sports can follow: Rather than a one-off annual competition like the X Games, Dew tour athletes accumulate points over a series of events, collecting statistics that mainstream…
