For my money, Kayakers seem to be doing some of the most interesting things with video of late. Witness this test footage from Forge Motion Pictures using the RED and 5d mk2 cameras (ultra-pricey, ultra-high-definition snazzy-poo cameras). Here, they’re shooting a sequence on Colorado’s Crystal Gorge, and damn it if…
We’re going to find out when GoI70.com officially launches.Developed by the I-70 Mountain Corridor Coalition, the site is currently in beta-testing mode, with hopes of unsnarling the assorted traffic jams, jellies, and marmalades that are all too common in Colorado’s high country…
Last month fellow blogger Eric brought you his top 10 ski movies of both the good and bad variety. Here’s a look at a soon-to-be-released flick that might end up deserving a spot on ski movie lists in the it’s-so-bad-it’s-good category. Coming out in March, Hot Tub Time Machine stars…
Last Tuesday, freeskier/BASE jumper/announcer Ted Davenport, adventurer-of-all-trades Matt Hecker, software salesman/Base jumper Collin Scott, and photographer/BASE jumper Jacob Fuerst became the first people to be filmed ski-BASE-jumping off of a 460-foot wall in Glenwood Canyon — see the sick embedded video from ESPN.com above. Davenport, Hecker, and Fuerst actually became…
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…
Let’s face it: at this time of year, almost everyone is a blithering basket case as the last days of the holiday season approach. If you’ve already done all your shopping, good for you; go have a hot toddy with the rest of the well prepared people you know.For me,…
While not hitting a tree is obviously tops, there are a few other things you can do to increasing your chances of staying healthy this season.On Wednesday, the New York Times Well Blog covered a study from the British Journal of Sports Medicine: Almost 800 injured skiers filled out questionnaires…
Last weekend, three climbers went up and attempted a climb of Mt. Hood in Oregon. Luke Gullberg was found dead from a combination of hypothermia and minor injuries sustained in a fall. His companions, Anthony Vietti and Katie Nolan, were nowhere to be found, and an exhaustive search was undertaken…
The Winter Dew Tour soared into Breck on Thursday, and photographer Soren McCarty was there. See more of his photos after the jump…
Hold your breath, adrenaline spectators: The Winter X Games 14 in Aspen will get two new events this year: Skiing SuperPipe High Air and the amazing-sounding Snowmobile Knock Out. Skiing SuperPipe High Air takes the top six skiers in the world and challenges them to compete in a 30-minute session…
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…
Welcome to our weekly mountain buyer’s guide, because skiing or snowboarding is much more fun than shopping. 1. Wolf Creek Yes, it’s far away. Do you know how much snow they’ve had since December 6th? Suffice it to say it would bury Yao Ming up to about his nose. That’s…
On Monday, my colleague Ted Alvarez posted a video link to Erik Weihenmayer ascending the Naked Edge. The Edge, as many people call it, is a truly striking line that grabs the eye of every climber entering Eldorado Canyon. From the road at the parking lot, it looks much like…
OK, so this one’s on the Front Range, but it’s hard to pass up all-you-can-drink Avery beer, a chance to support a good cause, and a shot at winning jackets, goggles, pants, packs, a tent, and a complete avy gear setup. Tonight at 7 p.m. Avery Brewing in Boulder is…
Longtime mountain reporter Bob Berwyn has seen his name in headlines almost as much as in bylines in recent weeks. After criticizing the ski industry in the Summit Daily News for hyping a snowstorm on the Front Range when the weather was clear in the high country, Berwyn got an…
The excellently photographed vest at right, brown and soft and new (I promise), is up for grabs, along with a couple of older Warren Miller DVDs, a T-shirt that won’t fit you and some lint from my belly button a sticker or something! The prizes are courtesy of Warren Miller…
Based on my experience — and my files — I figure there are 300 serious contemporary artists in Colorado. I make note of this because three of them died in November, which strikes me as a pretty high number. On November 8, Elaine Calzolari succumbed to cancer (Artbeat, November 19);…
Barnaby Furnas: Floods. Furnas is a New York artist who’s been exhibiting his work since 2000, and this exhibit, in the MCA’s Large Works Gallery, is made up entirely of his large abstract paintings. A unique feature of Furnas’s personal history is his early embrace of watercolors as his medium…
Absurd Person Singular. The Denver Center Theatre Company should be applauded for selecting Absurd Person Singular, Alan Ayckbourn’s dark comedy, as one of its Christmas offerings. Ayckbourn’s trademark is intensely clever, laugh-out-loud farce capering over the surface of a sad and penetrating cynicism, and it’s the perfect antidote to the…
“Colonialism is always part of the expansion of capitalism,” opines Bolivian vice president Álvaro García Linera in The End of Poverty?, director Philippe Diaz’s devastating, radical critique of the colonialist enterprise as inextricable from the current global economic model. While most state-of-the-world docs are content to map the state of…
The money is on the screen in Avatar, James Cameron’s mega-3-D, mondo-CGI, more-than-a-quarter-billion-dollar baby, and, like the Hope Diamond waved in front of your nose, the bling is almost blinding. For the first 45 minutes, I’m thinking: Metropolis! — and wondering how to amend ballots already cast in polls of…
The joke’s on someone in Werner Herzog’s awkwardly titled Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. Possibly Abel Ferrara who, exploding in fury when he learned that the German conquistador was planning to remake his 1992 career movie, opined that Herzog and his accomplices (among them, an original Bad Lieutenant…
