The burgeoning multi-media empire known as So-Gnar puts on awesome events like the So-Gnar Snowboard Camp Tour and Shred Circuit contest series, then turns around fun little video edits within days to help fuel the stoke. Last week we previewed the kickoff to the 7th annual Snowboard Camp tour at…
Vail’s week-long Snow Daze celebration kicks off today with an after-dark party in the town’s Ford Park. Things will really heat up later in the week as the ski resort counts down to its fiftieth birthday, which will be celebrated on Saturday with a giant bash and fireworks display in…
We’ve been championing the local shred-stick economy as it has grown over the past few years, and not just out of sheer locavore pride. This year several national media outlets have taken notice, too: In “Gear of the Year,” Men’s Journal just proclaimed that the Odin by Venture Snowboards is…
Copper Mountain’s pouring 72-cent beers from 1 to 5 p.m. and hosting a ’70s costume contest at 2 p.m. Saturday, December 8 — both nods to the the resort’s fortieth birthday, with a special appearance by Neil Diamond tribute band Super Diamond to complete the circa-1972 vibe. The resort is…
“We wanted to do a super affordable snowboard camp for kids that is all about creativity, having fun, and getting to ride with some great pros, something parents could really get behind,” says Golden-based pro snowboarder Pat Milbery, who is getting his 7th annual So-Gnar Snowboard Camp Tour underway this…
The staff at Boulder’s Neptune Mountaineering is encouraging winter revelers to break out their best retro ski duds for the shop’s second annual Winter Fashion Show Fundraiser and Retro Costume Party, which will benefit the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. “We’ll be working our way up through the ages of the…
Pete Wagner of Wagner Custom Skis — one of five Colorado-based ski builders featured in our January 2012 cover story on the local “microbrew” ski scene — caught the attention of The New York Times’ Technology section over the weekend: his small factory and design shop in Placerville (near Telluride)…
Snowboarding season is getting into full swing up in the mountains, with resorts opening by the day (Steamboat and Eldora opened their 50th anniversary seasons this week, and Beaver Creek and Crested Butte are also now spinning chairs in time for Thanksgiving), but you wouldn’t know it down here in…
“If you’re ready to emerge from your Thanksgiving food coma and burn some of those holiday calories off, Copper Mountain has plenty of activities to be thankful for,” says resort spokeswoman Austyn Williams. “Our Olympic-sized, 22-foot superpipe will be opening for Thanksgiving weekend, and on Saturday, we also have our…
Nearly a dozen of Colorado’s coolest local ski and snowboard companies are banding together for the 2nd annual Colorado Demo Days event this weekend at Copper Mountain, a showcase of locally-made planks. “We have such an awesome snowsports industry right here in Colorado, and supporting local brands supports both the…
“I started filming in Vail before there were any lifts,” remembers Gypsum-based filmmaker Roger Cotton Brown, who was the principal cinematographer at Vail from 1962, when the resort opened, until 1989 and has continued filming skiing and snowboarding in the Vail Valley and around Colorado ever since. “I first went…
Look for delightfully retro nods to the 100-year history of “Ski Town, USA” as Steamboat Ski Resort opens its fiftieth-anniversary season today by selling heavily discounted lift tickets to benefit the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club scholarship program for young skiers and snowboarders. “We’re really looking forward to a couple…
“We revel in that experience of getting into a zone where you’re so incredibly focused on what you’re about to do and what you’re doing,” says Aspen-based skier Chris Davenport, explaining the title and concept behind Warren Miller Entertainment’s 63rd film, Flow State. “When you’re dropping into a line and…
Denver-based Icelantic Skis unveiled a new limited-edition John Denver signature ski today, produced in partnership with the John Denver Estate and featuring a portrait of the musician by in-house artist Travis Parr. The $699 skis — a variant of Icelantic’s popular Nomad shape, produced in a small batch of 100…
Basalt-based photographer/filmmaker Pete McBride is offering a sneak peek at his new film The Water Tower today, with the unveiling of a teaser trailer for his documentary that follows Golden-based climber Jake Norton’s Challenge 21 team to Mt. Kenya and its vanishing glaciers. See also: – Chasing Water, Truck Farm,…
Breckenridge opened for the 2012-’13 ski and snowboard season today, with two lifts and forty acres of terrain, joining Arapahoe Basin, Loveland, Keystone and Copper Mountain. And with the So-Gnar Snowboard Camp Tour kicking off tomorrow at Woodward at Copper and OpenSnow.com (a Westword Best of Denver 2012 winner) dubbing…
Some of Colorado’s favorite ski resorts will mark big anniversaries this season, and you’re invited to the party with The Edge, our annual insider’s guide to all of Colorado’s ski and snowboarding destinations. Copper Mountain turns forty, Vail and Steamboat celebrate fifty years in business, and Loveland is entering its…
Colorado-based filmmakers won four of the top prizes at the 2012 Banff Mountain Film Festival in Banff, Canada on Sunday, including three awards to the Boulder-based Sender Films crew – all for films featured in the Reel Rock 7 video compilation and film tour – and one to Carbondale-based director…
UPDATE 11/4/2012: The Denver Roller Dolls’ Mile High Club finished third overall at the 2012 “Grits and Glory” Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby Association Championships in Atlanta after beating the Texas Rollergirls’ Texecutioners 210-199 in Sunday’s consolation round, thanks to a 44-point surge in the final minutes of competition from…
When mountain climber and adventurer Erik Weihenmayer — who happens to be blind — set out to climb Mt. Everest more than a decade ago, a lot of people thought he was crazy, or worse: a danger to himself and others. They couldn’t believe any responsible guide would take him…
“Now that some of the ski areas are open and we’re getting our first snows of the season — with more expected this week — we’re right in that rush of anticipation: Winter is here,” says Joan Christensen, spokeswoman for the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Expo, which turns 21 this…
Loveland lost the annual race to open first this season to the neighbors at Arapahoe Basin, but first chair tomorrow at 9 a.m. will still be a hot ticket when the ski area marks the start of its 75th anniversary season with a top-to-bottom run on the Catwalk, Mambo, and…
