Many Colorado ski areas announced pre-season discounts on 2011/2012 season passes this week. Yes, we know there are still three or four good weeks of Spring skiing and shredding ahead of us, and that Arapahoe Basin will be keeping the dream alive until at least the end of May, but…
Only an evening? Tonight at 6:30 p.m. REI Denver presents An Evening With Earthwatch, your chance to learn about upcoming volunteer expeditions around the world where you’ll combine exotic adventure, scientific research and travel on the cheap. By this time next year you could be doing something meaningful with your…
If you need some inspiration for your next epic trek (or just prefer to live vicariously through the tales of others), stop by Neptune Mountaineering in Boulder, 633 South Broadway Suite A, tonight at 8 p.m., where Boulder-based adventurer Andrew Skurka will share a multimedia presentation documenting his recent Alaska-Yukon…
Is it just us, or does Denver’s Skyline Park look for all the world like a purpose-built skate spot? Today’s time-wasting video comes courtesy of 303 Boards, our pick for Best Skate Shop Skate Team in last year’s Best of Denver special issue, and features newcomer Spencer Semien, the latest…
Crested Butte-based Matchstick Productions (ski porn filmmakers extraordinaire) picked up its 7th Movie of the Year nod in January at Powder Magazine’s 11th annual Powder Video Awards for The Way I See It, carving its rep as the world’s premiere pusher of powder porn in ice, if not in stone…
Freeskiers Sean Pettit and Grete Eliassen won the 2011 Red Bull Cold Rush at Silverton Mountain on Friday, showcasing the best of one of Colorado’s most extreme ski destinations (check out the video highlights after the jump). Silverton opened up 22,000 acres of new heli-serviced terrain this season, which helped…
The moon was closer last night to earth than it has been for eighteen years, reflecting the light of the sun onto earth and lighting up the night sky. Photos shot and submitted to Westword by Dustin Schaefer of the Loveland Ski Area…
Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is? Echo Mountain is celebrating its 5th birthday party this year with $5 Friday night lift tickets for the next five weeks, tonight through April 18. And wait, there’s more! Echo’s annual Liptricks Not Lipstick terrain park contest…
The 5th annual Red Bull Cold Rush freeskiing competition is on this week, and for the first time ever it’s right here in Colorado, at Silverton Mountain, where the ski area has gotten more than 40 inches of new snow in the last week. On Day One the good folks…
Gear geeks, this one’s for you: The Women’s Wilderness Institute hosts its 9th annual Gear & Cheer fundraiser event tonight at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, 2590 Walnut Street, benefiting its Girls’ Wilderness Program. $35 gets you in the door, where sponsors like Left Hand Brewing Company,…
Queue up “Rocky Mountain High” for the 2011 Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum Hall of Fame awards: John Denver (who is on a roll here — he’s also about to be inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame) is among this year’s candidates. As his friend and fellow musician…
Transcript of chat with the incredulous Denver Nuggets fan sitting next to me on the plane last night on my way home from covering the Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships (where, incidentally, Summit County local Eric Willett took first place in the men’s slopestyle competition):…
Goofy-looking Texans on spring break at Colorado ski resorts will have a tough time standing out next week. While a jeans and cowboy hat getup will draw some finger-pointing, it’s got nothing on a band of pink cape-wearing, fake boob-carrying philanthropists…
Love it or hate it, Spring Break is getting into full swing in the mountains. Here are 5 ways to get wild this weekend: OmMG! Looking for a side-serving of serenity with your weekend helping of stoke? Try the 1st annual Telluride Yoga Festival Winter Retreat, a chillier version of…
Think you have what it takes to create a shred-ready masterpiece? Here’s your chance: Design Within Reach, SOS Outreach and Never Summer have issued a call for entries for the 2011 Design the Modern Board competition…
Denver Post travel editor (and former Westword restaurant critic) Kyle Wagner has one of the best gigs in town: Getting out of town, every chance she gets. Tonight the Carrying On blogger will be holding holding forth at REI’s Denver flagship store, 1416 Platte Street, to share some of her…
All week we’ve been hearing word that snowboarder Mark McMorris landed a first-ever triple cork 1440 in the terrain park at Snowmass during filming for the forthcoming TransWorld Snowboarding: Park Sessions video, and now TransWorld has the must-see video…
It’s a sad fact of living in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains that most urban teens will never experience them. Big City Mountaineers is a Denver-based youth development organization that pairs urban teens (13-18) with adult mentors and sends them packing in groups of five adults and five teens…
Lights! Camera! Action! Start your weekend in stoke off properly tonight at the Paramount Theater, where they’re screening films from the 35th annual Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, including Life Cycles, Still Motion, Miracle In The Storm, Into Darkness, Wildwater and The Fall Line: A Warrior’s Return, a profile…
Ready to have your ass handed to you by a dude in a wheelchair? Winter Park and the National Sports Center for the Disabled are hosting their 36th annual Wells Fargo Cup tomorrow through Sunday, benefiting the Denver-based NSCD and its programs in Denver, Winter Park and Kansas City. Qualifying…
The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour wraps its two-night stint at the Boulder Theater tonight before heading to Denver’s Paramount Theater on Thursday and Friday. Tonight’s seven featured films (peep the trailers after the jump) include The Fall Line, from Carbondale-based photographer and filmmaker Tyler Stableford, and The Swiss…
Ready for some vicarious adventure? The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour comes to the Boulder Theater tonight and tomorrow, then to Denver’s Paramount Theater on Thursday and Friday. Tonight’s program features eight films from the 35th annual festival held in the Canadian Rockies in October 2010, including Eastern Rises,…
