Today In Stoke: What if Tron’s light cycles were replaced by skateboards?

Today’s time-wasting video comes all the way from Australia’s Melbourne Museum, where they celebrated the premiere of Tron: Legacy with an interactive “extreme 3-D” projection-mapped halfpipe presented by ENESS and dared to ask the timeless question: What if the dudes in Tron were more into riding skateboards than racing crotch…

Win a box of Warren Miller stuff from Westword

Another day, another contest where we give away a box o’ free stuff. For the skiing and snowboarding-obsessed among us, legendary filmmaker Warren Miller, and his accompanying paraphernalia, is the subject of today’s comment contest…

Today In Stoke: Forecast calls for snow all week

If you’re planning a holiday ski vacation, you might want to go ahead and start it early: It snowed all weekend at most Colorado resorts, and it’s expected to keep coming down until Thursday, which means it’s officially time to call in some of those sick days you’ve been accruing…

Today In Stoke: Winter Dew Tour returns to Breckenridge

Breckenridge is hosting the first stop of the Winter Dew Tour this week for the third year in a row, and the event’s Peak 8 festival village opens today. All of the main-event finals action will happen on Saturday and Sunday, but head up today anyway: The format for the…

Today In Stoke: Men’s Shopping Night at Outdoor Divas

Holiday shopping, Colorado-style: Tonight is the annual Men’s Shopping Night at Outdoor Divas in Cherry Creek, 2717 East Third Avenue (or head to the Boulder store tomorrow night, 1133 Pearl Street), and these divas have us dudes all figured out: They’ll be plying us with pizza and Oskar Blues brews…

Today in Stoke: Sender Films releases Reel Rock Film Tour 2010 DVD

Boulder-based adventure film company Sender Films just put out a new DVD compiling all six climbing films from the 5th annual Reel Rock Film Tour (DVD trailer after the jump): The Swiss Machine documents Ueli Steck’s alpine speed record on The Eiger Nordwand; First Round, First Minute follows Chris Sharma…

Today In Stoke: Vail opens new Chair 5 High Noon Express lift today

The new High Noon Express Lift (Chair 5) at Vail opens a week from today, right after next week’s Snow Daze events. The high-speed quad chair replaces the old fixed-grip triple, cutting the ride from twelve minutes down to just under six and increasing the lift’s capacity by about 70…

Today In Stoke: Opening day at Echo Mountain

Echo Mountain opens up today, and this time you don’t even have to call in sick to get a piece of the action: They’re keeping the lights on until 9 p.m. Terrain park manager Marc Moline and his crew have been building new obstacles out of recycled materials — propane…

Wi-Fi is killing trees and will probably kill you too

The study by Wageningen University has been inconclusive, and more tests are needed before everyone panics and shuts down all wireless networks causing business and pleasure across the world to come to screeching halt. Let’s not overreact here, but all variants of deciduous trees in the Western world seem to…

Today In Stoke: Backyard Bang 2010 snowboard rail jam video highlights

Loveland, A-Basin, Wolf Creek, Keystone, Copper Mountain, Winter Park, and Vail were all open this weekend, so why were most of the top snowboarders in Colorado and from around the world hanging out in downtown Denver? SixEleven Productions has the video recap from the 2nd annual Backyard Bang in case…