The first-ever Roller Derby World Cup gets underway today in Toronto at 5 p.m. EST (that’s 3 p.m. here in Denver), kicking off with a Canada vs. France bout. The entire tournament is being webcast live at www.DerbyNewsNetwork.com, and DNN is calling Team USA the “prohibitive favorite,” thanks in no…
What does climate change have to do with skiing and snowboarding? Everything, according to Auden Schendler — Vice President of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company, board member of Protect Our Winters, and author of Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution. Schendler is the…
Copper Mountain opened its Olympic-sized 22-foot superpipe on Friday, in time for athletes competing in the The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) Sprint U.S. Grand Prix to work on their double corks before next week’s competition, December 5-10. That makes it the first 22-foot pipe of the season in…
If your favorite part of any skate or snowboard video is seeing people fall down and get hurt, then we’ve got a treat for you: This week, we found three locally-produced clips full of brutal bails, courtesy of the new Royal Stain H-DTS Down to Skate promo, Never Summer Smash!…
Crested Butte Mountain Resort marks its fiftieth birthday on Wednesday with a throwback nod to its old Ski Free promotion: Stop by the CB Adventure Center to pick up a free lift ticket, then jostle for first-chair bragging rights when the lifts start turning at 9 a.m. Stop by the…
Tonight at 6:30 p.m. the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) brings its free Avalanche Terrain — Beyond the Basics workshop to REI Denver, 1416 Platte Street, aimed at skiers, snowboarders, and others heading into the backcountry this winter. But, as the CAIC points out, even “a 1.5 hour presentation on…
Opening day! Vail opens today with a 52-inch base, thirteen inches of new snow in the last week, an opening day terrain park on Born Free, and access to the mountain from both Vail Village and Lionshead. Still need a season pass? The $699 early-season price on the Vail Resorts’…
Signal Snowboards has built a special tribute to Steve Jobs, complete with an iPad mounted in the nose of the board and a glowing LED Signal logo in the aluminum base (similar to Apple’s iconic MacBook laptops). To test it, the California-based Signal crew brought the iShred to Colorado for…
If you live in Colorado and love alpine ski racing, get ready for a season of unprecedented access to the best of the best, thanks to Tuesday’s grand opening of the new U.S. Ski Team Speed Center at Copper Mountain and several key events, including two World Cup races in…
When we interviewed Woodward at Copper ripper Morrison Hsieh for The Edge, our 2011/2012 winter activity guide, we got an earful about all the new terrain park features we’d be seeing on the slopes now that Woodward’s partnership with Copper Mountain has moved into full swing and new terrain park…
Welcome to the online version of The Edge 2011-2012, Westword’s annual insider’s guide to winter activities. This season has already seen plenty of snow, and that’s just the beginning, as the 25 resorts profiled below have added new terrain, lifts, features, events and restaurants. To sort it all out, we…
New York’s Gotham Girls Roller Derby All-Stars were the big winners at the 2011 Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Championships at the 1st Bank Center this weekend, beating out West Region champs the Oly Rollers Cosa Nostra Donnas, 140-97. Gotham Girls also trounced the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls 5280 Fight…
National Geographic announced the finalists for its 2012 Adventurers of the Year awards on Friday, and they include two Boulder locals: Cory Richards, the first American to complete a winter ascent of an 8,000 meter peak, and Nick Waggoner, whose South American ski epic made for one of the year’s…
In honor of Nigel Tufnel Day, we present our Top 11 picks for weekend adventure. “These go to eleven.” A pair of skis pointed for the Park Lane terrain park jump line on Peak 8 for opening day of the 50th anniversary season at Breckenridge looks like an 11 to…
Chuck Morris has been a roller derby fan since he was ten years old, and in 2010, he made news by bringing the Denver Roller Dolls to the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield and then attracting the 2011 Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Championships to that venue for this…
The Bunker Company’s Sno-Surf, patented in 1939 by Vern Wicklund and brothers Harvey and Gunnar Burgeson, is the “holy grail” of the new Colorado Snowboard Archive at the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum, according to museum board member and Colorado Snowboard Archive co-founder Trent Bush. While researching this week’s cover…
Keystone and Copper Mountain open today, joining Arapahoe Basin, Loveland, and Wolf Creek. And make sure you smile for the cameras at Keystone, where its parent company, Vail Resorts, debuts the new EpicMix Photo social media app: A small army of professional photographers on the mountain will be snapping away…
The Colorado premiere of Flow Snowboarding’s new team video Was Here drops tonight at 8 p.m. at Casselman’s Bar & Venue, 2620 Walnut Street, where Snowboard Colorado magazine is celebrating the release of its November issue, giving free PBRs to the first 500 folks through the door, tossing out a…
The 2011 Adventure Film Festival gets under way in Boulder this week with a free Adventure Film Community Night at the Patagonia store at 1212 Pearl Street on Thursday at 7 p.m. and a Photographer Seminar at REI Boulder, 1789 28th Street, on Friday at noon, before the first screenings…
Trick or treat, indeed: fourteen inches of new snow this weekend at Silverton Mountain brought the mid-mountain base tally to an incredible eighty inches (see powder porn after the jump). Wolf Creek got 22 inches before opening for the weekend, bringing the October total to 68 inches, and will be…
Are you sitting in a cubicle? Do you wish you were hitting the slopes? Well, we can’t buy you a ticket, but we can give you a little taste of what is going on in the high country — both at resorts that have opened already and a few that…
Thinking about taking a snow day and heading for the hills this morning? Crank up the Black Flag and point towards the Continental Divide, because the first snow of the season here in Denver hit ski country even harder, with Loveland reporting over 10 inches this morning at 5 a.m…
