Gentlemen,If you have a woman in your life who will make out with you on the chairlift and then give you a run for it on the slopes, I submit that you, like me, are a lucky, lucky man. Take care of that woman, hold on tight, and do everything…
My friends at YoBeat.com have been “making fun of snowboarding since 1997” and they’re also up with the first footage from yesterday’s U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix Finals at Copper Mountain, in case you want to see what those double corks I’ve been talking about look like in real life. Shaun…
This week’s Westword cover boy Steve Fisher finished in seventh place in qualifiers at Copper Mountain today, just making the cut for finals tomorrow. That skin-of-his-teeth finish underscores how hard his Olympic quest is going to be: He finished behind Shaun White, Louie Vito, Greg Bretz, Danny Davis and Scotty…
This week I profiled snowboarder Steve Fisher and his Olympic quest for the Westword cover story (“Pipe Dreams: Steve Fisher’s Olympic hopes reach a cork in the road”). By the time the paper hits the racks this morning, he’ll be dropping in for his first runs at the U.S. Snowboarding…
The foyer at Steve Fisher’s home in Breckenridge is crowded with swag from Sims Snowboards, O’Neill, Giro, PowerBar and Sprint, and his fridge is full of beverages from Vita Coco and Anheuser-Busch. Fisher’s dog, Guru, is crazy for the coconut water; the beers come in handy with all the pro…
Can’t make it to the Olympics in Vancouver this February? This week the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix drops in on the superpipe at Copper Mountain, and all of the Olympic contenders for Team USA — including 2006 gold medalists Shaun White and Kelly Clark — will be there, as will…
Crazy Colorado weather patterns like we’ve been seeing this week make for a bad concoction when it comes to avalanches: In the span of about 10 days, the high country has seen balmy, summery temperatures, some snow, severe temperature drops below zero, and strong winds, with more of all of…
When the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix kicks off this week at Copper Mountain, snowboarders will be competing for a chance to ride with the Team U.S.A. for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in February — and the chance to wear the rockin’ new team uniform, unveiled this week by Burton.The…
Generations is a new film available for free online today, documenting the consequences of climate change from the perspective of skiers and snowboarders. The film was made by Teton Gravity Research in partnership with The North Face, Clif Bar, and Protect Our Winters (POW), and features athletes Jeremy Jones, Ingrid…
We’re just now getting the full scope of everything Simon Dumont got up to last year, now that his footage for Riley Poor’s Transitions, Poor Boyz Productions’ Every Day Is Saturday, and Matchstick Productions’ In Deep has been unleashed on the world (as if winning the Winter Dew Tour event…
This week, Silverton Mountain announced new early season mid-week dates, effective for today’s December 2 opening date, to help meet demand on the Western Slope now that Purgatory has gone to a weekend-only (Friday-Sunday) schedule. If you’re heading to the San Juan Mountains for some of the sickest powder Colorado…
Go easy on the Thanksgiving feast this year, skip the Black Friday shopping melee, and head for the hills instead: Copper Mountain is tentatively scheduled to open its Superpipe later this week, in advance of the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix, December 9-12, and is also hosting its 8th Annual Leftover…
If you know any teenagers in a local school or youth agency, check out the Urban Riders Snowsports Club: The Denver Parks & Recreation program is the best deal running this season.For $50 a head, groups of 13 first-time skiers and snowboarders get five full days of riding at Winter…
Parents and high school guidance counselors reading this might want to go stick their heads in the snow for a minute: Recent Cherry Creek High School graduate Bobby Brown is making good on his promise to keep Professional Freeskier at the top of his resumé.Brown’s post-graduation plans last year included…
There’s not a lot of new news about the proposed sale of Copper Mountain from Intrawest to Powdr Corp beyond the press release I reported on Tuesday, but it looks like a done deal, pending U.S. Forest Service approval, with sale price speculation in the $100 million-plus range. The initial…
Wild news breaking today: Intrawest is selling Copper Mountain to Park City-based Powdr Corp, with plans to close the deal as soon as next month. Intrawest, based in Vancouver, owns nearly a dozen other resorts around the world, including Winter Park and Steamboat Springs here in Colorado, but has been…
Winter Park kicks off its 70th Anniversary season when it opens its lifts tomorrow at 9 a.m., staking its claim as the longest continually running ski resort in Colorado (Ski Monarch, open November 25, is also claiming platinum anniversary status this year). Winter Park, formerly known as West Portal, opened…
Here in Colorado we’ve gone and confused our gods, what with all our prayers for snow in the high country and the ones we’ve been sending up on behalf of our hockey team to help smite our enemies: It’s been nearly a decade since we’ve been able to say our…
The Winter Dew Tour doubles back to Breckenridge to kick off its second season in December with the Totino’s Open, and we just got hold of a roster of the first round of pre-qualified athletes confirmed for the competition:Last year snowboarder Danny Davis won the Superpipe Finals at the Breck…
You pick up produce at your local farmer’s market, support your local arts and crafts fairs, shop exclusively at local indie books and records stores, and generally buy local whenever you can. So why are you riding a snowboard made in China when some of the best boards in the…
Jonny Copp’s avalanche death in June during an attempt on China’s Mount Edgar serves as a grim reminder of the inherent risk in the adventure sports he celebrated as founder of Boulder’s annual Adventure Film Festival. Copp was an elite climber and an expert on avalanches in particular, and it’s…
In this week’s Westword, I wrote about the Adventure Film Festival in Boulder this weekend (and the tragic death of AFF founder Jonny Copp in an avalanche earlier this year). The AFF has a full schedule of great films this weekend — including First Ascent: Point of No Return, a…
