Today in Stoke: Register for Colorado Freeride Championships at Snowmass

Ready to send it off some sick cliffs “thrill of victory and agony of defeat” style? “Registration is still open for all fields of the Colorado Freeride Championships going down this weekend, February 25-27, 2011 in Snowmass,” reports Aspen Skiing Company spokeswoman Meredith McKee. The event is open to male…

Colorado’s top skiers and snowboarders rock Winter Dew Tour in Utah

Breckenridge Ski Resort is getting a good return on investment from its Breck Freeride Team and its stepped-up park & pipe programs: Yesterday, Breckenridge snowboarders Eric Willett and Janna Meyen-Weatherby won the Men’s and Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle contests (respectively) at Snowbasin in Ogden, Utah, the final stop of the Winter…

Today in Stoke: SIA Snow Show actually makes it to the snow

Now that the SIA Snow Show is officially over, after two days of on-snow demos at Winter Park following the trade show at the Colorado Convention Center, it’s hard to imagine the snow sports industry ever got away with having this thing in Las Vegas. Anovia Daniels, spokeswoman for SnowSports…

Over the weekend: The Winter X Games wrap up at Buttermilk

Denver Big Air organizers at the Denver Sports Commission and the LG FIS Snowboard World Cup were right to be upset that top riders like Canadian Sebastian Toutant (aka “Seb Toots”) stood them up in favor of getting in some extra practice at Buttermilk for X Games 15, a scheduling…

Last Night: American snowboarders get trounced at Denver Big Air

More than 14,000 snowboarding fans turned out for the LG FIS Snowboard World Cup Big Air competition on the Denver Big Air ramp in Civic Center Park, according to the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association’s estimate, about 4,000 more than for the previous night’s ski competition. Take that, skiing! Alas,…

Last Night: Thrills and spills at Denver Big Air

Let’s face it: If you build a 106-foot launch tower and then send competitors — some of them as young as 14 — careening down the face of it on skis towards a big-ass kicker for a competition like last night’s Nature Valley Big Air Challenge in Civic Center Park…