The Burton U.S. Open Snowboard Championships will be in Vail today through March 3, marking the end of a thirty-year run in Burton Snowboards’ home state of Vermont and the start of a new chapter in snowboarding history. That move came as a surprise to many, but Burton’s roots in…
Denver will welcome the Snowsports Industries America (SIA) Snow Show for the third consecutive year this coming weekend, and while the trade show at the Colorado Convention Center is industry-only, promoters have surrounded it with a citywide celebration of hot events dedicated to the cold: Art of Winter. “SIA is…
Sixteen-year-old Steamboat Springs local and U.S. Snowboarding team rookie Arielle Gold, who was landing 720s on her way to winning the 2013 FIS Snowboarding Halfpipe Championship last month in Stoneham, Quebec, might not have been precisely what Nordic ski-jumping pioneer Carl Howelsen had in mind when he founded the Steamboat…
Cherry Manilow, a jammer for the Doom’s Daisies, and Pippi Skullknockings, who skates for the Red Ridin’ Hoods, are roller-derby rivals — not to mention rivals in the running for best nom de derby — and they’ll both step to the line tonight when the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls league opens…
Breckenridge’s Keri Herman is a favorite to win the women’s slopestyle event this weekend, when the Winter X Games return to Aspen’s Buttermilk Mountain for the eleventh consecutive year. A current leader on the FIS World Cup Freeskiing circuit, Herman is also likely to be a top candidate to represent…
CBS confirmed today that two stars of the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ 5280 Fight Club will be among the contestants for the $1 million prize on the 22nd season of The Amazing Race, premiering February 17. While local roller-derby fans know them best by their noms de derby, Triple Shot Misto…
Denver hasn’t had enough of a snow dump this winter for a proper sledding run, much less urban snowboarding jibs, but — thanks to last week’s temperature drop and a special agreement with Denver Water to facilitate artificial snowmaking — the Ruby Hill Rail Yard ski and snowboard terrain park…
“Wow. Lucky number 13, I guess? Kind of at a loss for words here,” stumbled Denver-based filmmaker Josh Berman of Level 1 Productions, accepting the prize for Best Movie last night at the 2013 Powder Awards in Park City on opening night of the Sundance Film Festival. “To actually spend…
On Monday filmmakers Anson Fogel and Skip Armstrong of the Carbondale-based collective Forge Motion Pictures released Cascada, a new adventure short produced in partnership with NRS, the Idaho-based gear brand. The film documents a trip to the jungles of Mexico with photographer Tim Kemple and some of the world’s top…
“Loveland Ski Area has come a long way since 1937, and we want to thank our customers for supporting us through the years,” says Rob Goodell, director of business operations at the mountain, long a locals’ favorite among Front Range skiers and snowboarders. Loveland, the second-oldest ski area in Colorado,…
The nominees for Powder Magazine’s 2013 Powder Awards were announced last week, and Colorado film crews — including Denver-based Level 1 Productions, Boulder-based Stept Productions, and Crested Butte-based Matchstick Productions (MSP Films) and Two Plank Productions — are heavy in the mix in just about every category, including Movie of…
In 2012 Westword reported on the award-winning arty adventure films from the Carbondale-based collective of filmmakers known as Forge Motion Pictures nearly a dozen times — they just might be the hardest working film team in Colorado — and the crew is kicking off 2013 with a splash: over the…
In a year of big ski-town anniversaries — including a 40th bash at Copper Mountain, 50th anniversaries at Vail and Steamboat and Eldora, the 75th anniversary celebration at Loveland, and the upcoming 100th anniversary of Steamboat Springs’ Howelsen Hill — the wildest party of all just might be this week…
Beaver Creek – home of the Birds of Prey World Cup ski race and famed double-black runs with names like Golden Eagle, Peregrine and Osprey – gets literal with its raptor motif today, offering up a free interactive exhibit hosted by Nature’s Educators starting at 3:30 p.m. in Beaver Creek…
On Saturday, Denver-based filmmaker Tristan Minton is premiering his new skateboard film H-DTS Mile High Alumni: Down to Skate at the BOPPO Warehouse at 4120 East Brighton Boulevard, Unit B13 ($5 at the door, screenings at 7 and 10 p.m.) The film stars Julian Christianson — a Westword Best of…
The Winter X Games, which return to Aspen January 24-27, are an invite-only affair, with a guest list filled with the likes of Shaun White and Kelly Clark. But the United States of America Snowboard Association has developed a workaround, staging an annual amateur rail jam at the Winter X…
“The torchlight parade is one of my favorite mountain-town holiday traditions,” says Tucker Burton, spokeswoman for Keystone Resort. “There’s something ethereal about this gliding, glowing stream of light snaking its way down the mountain that gets me every time.” On December 31, Keystone’s annual New Year’s Eve Torchlight Parade will…
Upgrade your holiday movie-going plans and prep for that 84th Academy Awards viewing party in style, with a trip to Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House, where Aspen Film is presenting a program of Oscar contenders from now through January 1. The Aspen Film Academy Screenings have become a beloved film-industry tradition…
Although the official cast list for the 22nd season of the CBS reality series The Amazing Race hasn’t been released, Reality Fan Forum, Reality Blurred and other sources are spilling the beans early, and report that a pair of Rocky Mountain Rollergirls will be among next season’s competitors. Google away…
“I knew they had a great thing going as soon as I got there,” says filmmaker Roger Cotton Moore, who was hired in the early 1960s to film top ski racers in the backcountry playground that would become Vail’s famed back bowls as a way to woo investors to the…
Denver-based backpack company Mile High Mountaineering (MHM Gear) won the top prize at the local Something Independent Awards in October; in July, MHM’s “Snake-Loader” Salute 34 pack made the cover of the 2013 Backpacker Magazine Gear Guide and also won an Editor’s Choice Award. And this week the local brand…
On Saturday, December 8, filmmaker Buck Harrison will be presenting the world premiere of One Degree Celsius, his documentary following a year in the life of the artists and athletes behind Denver-based Icelantic Skis. Harrison says he set out to make a small film about an independent ski brand with…
