With Oscar season in full swing, it’s time to wake up and smell the celluloid. And there’s no better way to get your fill of film than by attending the Boulder International Film Festival. Tonight through Sunday, this year’s BIFF will showcase some of today’s most compelling independent cinema. The…
It takes wit and creativity to write a play in which one of the main characters is a pig who wants to escape from a hog farm and become feral, but that’s the scenario Jason Grote has dreamed up for Civilization (All You Can Eat), which will receive a reading…
Make a pledge of love — and a legally binding commitment — at today’s annual Mountaintop Matrimony at Loveland Ski Area, where happy couples can be joined in marriage or renew their vows on top of a majestic peak. “I’d say that about 60 percent of those who participate are…
Uh-oh: Lindsey Vonn’s all-but-inevitable march to the podium in Vancouver might have just been derailed before it started. Today she revealed that she suffered a painful shin injury in training that could possibly keep her from competing at all.”It’s hard to focus on just being prepared for the Olympics when…
It pretty much goes without saying that you don’t need to make snow at home unless you have a mountain in the backyard, in which case you probably don’t need to make snow at home.Nonetheless, you can now buy a home snowmaking system from Connecticut-based SNOWatHOME for a few hundred…
The age-old method of cheering on a skier by shaking a cowbell in the air above your head has gone digital. Just in time for the Olympics, a boulder-based company has released an iPhone app that simulates the noise a rattling cowbell makes. Ringing a cowbell is the traditional way…
At the SIA show a couple of weeks ago, the Icelantic skis drew a lot of well-deserved notice. The graphics, which were based on a music theme this year, were stunning, and designed so that each ski made up half of a painting, a first for the company this year…
Dig climbing Colorado’s storied 14,000-foot peaks? You aren’t alone: 500,000 people attempt to bag one of our 58 high-country monarchs every year. But those mountains just don’t take care of themselves — each year, groups like the Colorado 14er Initiative and Colorado Mountain Club put in days of trail work…
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,…
Gray wolves were exterminated in Colorado in the first half of the 20th century by misguided federal agencies and their proxies. A few lone wolves have wandered into the state from points north in the past few years, but didn’t survive. (Check out stories here and here.) Now the High…
Psst, wanna get married, but can’t settle for giving up day of skiing during the season? Wanna ski for free? Loveland, appropriately, has the answer. This Sunday, February 14, Valentine’s Day (again, ridiculously sappy and appropriate), Loveland will host its 19th Annual Mountaintop Matrimony Ceremony. Couples are always looking for…
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’…
A rafting bill working its way through the state legislature that would allow for rafters to float through private land — and even portage on private land in the event of low water — faces a key test in the House Judiciary Committee today.A response to a Gunnison County landowner…
Amateur and professional backcountry enthusiasts descended on the Beacon Bowl at Arapahoe Basin on Saturday, competing in timed trials to locate a buried beacon, receiving instruction on how to dig a snow pit and read layers in the snow, and watching an avalanche rescue dog remonstration. The event raised $6,600…
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…
As announced in December, Arapahoe Basin is replacing the 32-year-old Exhibition triple chair in its first high-speed quad this summer. The resort decided to name it with a contest and got some interesting ideas from the peanut gallery. We have a winner…
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…
Cross one off. At the beginning of the year, I wrote a five things to do this year list. The number one thing to do was ski Silverton, and that goal has finally been achieved. Let me just say, it’s all it’s been promised to be and more…
7NEWS reports that the U.S. Forest Service relocated Stickers, Telluride’s resident porcupine, Wednesday because he had taken to aggressively begging every passing skier and ‘boarder for food. Since the story hit Denver TV news, the little guy has become a YouTube sensation. Perhaps the friendly porcupine could be the next…
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…
