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,…
Breckenridge local Eric Willett finished second behind Norwegian Aleksander Ostreng at the Burn River Jump contest this weekend in Livigno, Italy, part of the Swatch Ticket to Ride (TTR) World Snowboard Tour. Willett’s on fire, and it’s not just all those Italian fireworks: He won the Toyota Championships at Snowbasin,…
Traditionally the calm before the storm before Spring Break mania takes over in the mountains, the last weekend in February has become a storm of its own, with challenging events at just about every ski area in Colorado. Here’s a preview of the top five ways you could be busting…
Back in the day we had to ski to school uphill in both directions. Okay, maybe not, but you can still get an earful of old-school ski stories when representatives from Arapahoe Basin, Breckenridge, Keystone and Copper Mountain get together tonight to reminisce about the good ol’ days for the…
Erik Weihenmayer has climbed the Seven Summits, including Mt. Everest, and his resume of adventurous accomplishments also includes such feats as finishing the Leadville 100 on a tandem bike. Oh, and also: He’s blind. Tonight at 6 p.m., the author of Touch the Top of the World and The Adversity…
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…
Denver-based snowboard film crew SixEleven Productions released the first teaser from the 2011 video It’s Our Fault over the weekend, their fifth film and the follow-up to STOP… Hammertime!. The grisly slams you’re looking for commence at about the 2:11 mark…
What is it about a full moon in February that brings out the freeze-your-ass-off fanatics? If you’re looking to wolf out, this is your weekend:…
Tune in to the Discovery Channel tonight, when Ryan Van Duzer (Boulder’s “Out There Guy” endurance athlete and adventure journalist) gets dropped off at Angel Falls with a bunch of annoying people and has to help them find their way out in Out of the Wild: Venezuela. Better yet, head…
Crested Butte Mountain Resort celebrates 20 years of hosting the U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Championships this week, a truly extreme action sports event that predates the X Games and other extremism in sports lexicography by about four years. The resort bills itself as “the birthplace of Big Mountain competitions,” and it’s…
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…
