This Weekend in Stoke: Make the ’80s Ski Party last all weekend

Come out of the closet, gapers! Hot pink and electric blue ski and snowboard gear from the 1980s lives forever thanks to events like tonight’s 8th annual 80s Ski Party at Mile High Station, 2027 West Lower Colfax Avenue, where they won’t even let you through the door unless the…

Bike porn! Heather Irmiger wins mountain bike gold at 2011 Pan American Games

We recently noticed an uptick in traffic to our December 2010 post about the 2011 Cyclepassion calendar, featuring Boulder’s Heather Irmiger wearing considerably less than she’d typically wear on her way to winning back-to-back-to-back mountain-bike championships. Why the sudden surge of new interest? Irmiger won Women’s Cross Country Mountain Bike…

Goodwill has the neon stretch pants you need for the 80s Ski Party

The party so bright you’ve gotta wear shades! Don’t be caught with your bib-pants down when the EPIC Foundation’s eighth annual 80s Ski Party rolls into town next week: This year every Goodwill store in the metro region sent its ’80s ski stock to the Goodwill locations at 21 South…

A-Basin opens tomorrow, October 13, for the 2011/2012 ski season

This morning, Arapahoe Basin announced it will open tomorrow, October 13, at 9 a.m., for the season. The ski area is reporting an eighteen-inch base after a week of snowmaking and several inches of natural snow. That’s not quite as epic as the 36-inch dump that helped Wolf Creek temporarily…

Was the IFSC World Cup Lead Climbing competition an Olympic sneak peek?

Austrian climbers dominated both the men’s and women’s competition this past weekend, before a sold-out crowd at Movement Climbing + Fitness in Boulder for the 2011 International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Lead Climbing World Cup. Many climbers — and climbing fans — hope this event was a preview of…

Wolf Creek had a record opening day, and the snow is still falling

Intrepid explorers who chased the storm out to Wolf Creek Ski Area for the first lift-served Colorado shred of the season were rewarded handsomely: In addition to the 36-inch dump we reported on Friday, Wolf Creek has since gotten another 10 inches, including 2 inches last night. The mountain, which…

Photos: Glorious October snow in the mountains

This afternoon marked the first real snow in the high country, which means the days of playing hooky to go skiing and snowboarding are just around the corner. To hold you over until then, enjoy these crowd-sourced photos from the mountains via the resorts…

Battery 621 celebrates The Launch of Winter and The Business of Fun

“Your job should be something you’re pumped on,” says Preston Strout, co-owner of the High Cascade Snowboard Camp. He’s the guest moderator at The Business of Fun, a free event starting at 6 p.m. tonight that’s the kick off for the three-day Launch of Winter celebration at Battery 621 (click…

Flylow Gear wins first annual Something Independent Snowsport Entrepreneur Award

Flylow, a Denver-based gear company specializing in skiing outerwear and accessories, won the first-annual Something Independent Snowsport Entrepreneur Award last night, presented at the Sypder Showroom at Battery 621. The $1,500 award comes with a marketing package to help take the winning entrepreneur to the next level, and was established…

The gold rush: A walk through the woods of Boulder in autumn

You’ll never look at an urban tree in quite the same way after you’ve been on the Fall Tree Walk offered annually on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus by the CU Museum of Natural History. That ‘s because it’s leaf-peeping with a purpose, a serene evening stroll led…

Get your leaf-peep on with these photos from Aspen Mountain

At the height of fall in Colorado, as the leaves mature from sun blazed umbrellas into a landscaped rug, Colorado experiences a glowing transformation. Aspen Mountain, in particular bursts with an electric glaze, one that was too bright to ignore over the weekend when I was in Aspen to cover…

In Colorado, it’s boarding season all year long

We’ve been getting ahead of ourselves with all the recent snowboard video premieres going down — and opening day still at least a month away at most Colorado resorts — but some of our favorite local film crews have been reminding us of an important fact: It’s still skateboarding season…