Snow Porn: Must-see ski and snowboard movies at The Meeting in Aspen

As if the explosion of Fall color isn’t reason enough to drive over Independence Pass this weekend headed for Aspen, tonight is also the NEPSA Video Awards ceremony at 7 p.m. at the Wheeler Opera House, the official kickoff of The Meeting, Aspen’s 7th annual ski & snowboard film festival…

Rocky Mountain Rollergirls to defend Hydra Trophy at 2011 WFTDA Championships

Break out your best black and red gear: The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ 5280 Fight Club finished in second place at this weekend’s Bridgetown Brawl West Region Playoffs, advancing to the 2011 Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Championships in November, where they’ll defend their 2010 title. RMRG destroyed the #7-seed…

Defenders of Awesome (and other awesomeness) tonight at The Reunion

September snowboard stoke continues tonight at the Fox Theater (1135 13th Street in Boulder) with the Colorado premieres of Capita’s Defenders of Awesome, Role Model Productions’ Cockfight!, the Givin film One, and the new team video from Boulder’s Satellite Boardshop, plus an encore screening of Familia 2, from FODT &…

Andy Daly and Gart brothers Ken and Tom take over at Powderhorn Resort

Yesterday marked the official ownership transition at Grand Mesa’s Powderhorn Resort: Andy Daly and brothers Ken and Tom Gart bought the ski area at auction on August 4 for just $577,500, plus an additional 700-acre development tract below the resort for $825,000, spending a total of $1.4 million and announcing…

This Weekend in Stoke: Snowboard on the Rocks drops in

Mmm… totally! “We are looking forward to 10,000 snowboarders getting together to celebrate the sport and the start of the new season,” says Waide Hoyt, production manager for Standard Films. The company is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Totally Board series tonight with the world premiere of TB:20 at…

Q&A: Director Anson Fogel brings Cold to the Reel Rock Film Tour

“What the fuck am I doing here?” asks mountain climber Cory Richards, in the opening seconds of Cold, one of six climbing films featured in the 2011 Reel Rock Film Tour that kicks off tonight at 6 p.m. at the Boulder Theater. It’s a poignant question: Richards is at 21,959’…

This Weekend in Stoke: Adrenaline junkies, eat your heart out

Turn out the lights! Director Josh Berman and his Level 1 Productions crew — local heroes all — are bringing it tonight at 8 p.m. for the world premiere of After Dark at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, 2637 Welton Street ($15). The twelfth installment in the Level 1 ski porn filmography…

Top 5 post-Labor Day summer gear sales

If, like us, you spent some of your Labor Day weekend trying on winter gear in stifling heat at the Ski Rex and Sniagrab sales, here’s a quick reminder that the day after Labor Day is a great time to buy summer gear. Gotta love living in topsy-turvy Colorado, right?…

Train-Surfing is back, and it’s ridiculous

Generally speaking, train-surfing is a practice employed by crazy people who want to relive that scene from Octopussy by acting like complete idiots and running around on top of a train. However, it appears the incredibly careless and ridiculous “sport” might have found some new life in India, although its…

Americans sweep the USA Pro Cycling Challenge

If you’ve been following the USA Pro Cycling Challenge as closely as the hundreds of thousands of fanatics who came out last week for the prologue and six stages of the race to make it the largest spectator crowd for any stage race in U.S. history, then it probably isn’t…