Where to get some action this weekend? Where to begin? For starters, you’ll want to call in sick this morning and make it a three-day weekend: Copper Mountain opens today with its annual Lift Off party running through the weekend. Hit the slopes all day then stop by Jack’s at…
Getting ready to hit opening day tomorrow at Copper Mountain or Keystone? Stop by the Retro Room tonight, 2034 Larimer Street, for a Pre-Shred Kickoff Party and a raffle to benefit Burton Snowboards’ non-profit Chill Foundation. The Chill program partners with local non-profits serving at-risk and under-served youth each year…
In the great tradition of ski porn, there’s no name as porntastic as Powderwhore, the free-your-heel, free-your-mind company responsible for the new telemark ski epic TeleVision. It’s the company’s 6th film in as many years, and the Powderwhore film tour is making its way around Colorado this month with a…
Copper Mountain and Keystone both open on Friday — sick day, anyone? — which means it’s time to start waxing up the old sticks for early season snow conditions. If you’ve never done it yourself or need a refresher (or if you’re just looking to sip some wine and meet…
Shout it from the mountaintops: The Travel Channel announced this week that it has picked up First Ascent, a six-episode climbing and adventure travel series from Boulder-based filmmaker Peter Mortimer and his crew at Sender Films. First Ascent, co-produced by National Geographic International, has been winning big on the festival…
In addition to making feature-length flicks like STOP… Hammer Time!, Denver-based snowboard film crew SixEleven Productions releases weekly video episodes in its Ride With Us series every Sunday during snowboard season, which — now that Loveland, Arapahoe Basin, and Wolf Creek are all open — is officially now. This week’s…
It’s been dumping at Wolf Creek, a perfect excuse to get your tricks and treats on the slopes this weekend: Saturday is opening day, and 10 inches of new snow in the last few days means the Treasure, Bonanza, and Nova lifts will all be running. Early season lift tickets…
Feeling a little Friday flu coming on? Tomorrow’s a perfectly good day for a sick day, with more than 33 inches of snow at Loveland since opening day on Sunday and Chair 6 opening tomorrow. Loveland opened Nix Nox and Spillway this morning, and will open Keno, Blackjack, Roulette, Straight…
The Loveland Ski and Arapahoe Basin Ski areas opened on Sunday, October 24, and Monday, October 25, 2010 respectively, ushering in another season. Soren McCarty brings back these photos from the slopes. See the full slideshow here: Opening Days! Loveland and A-Basin…
In case you haven’t heard already, it’s a powder day up in the mountains. Loveland won the race to open first yesterday, and Arapahoe Basin’s hot on its heels this morning with more than nine inches of fresh snow (and counting) in the last 48 hours — on top of…
Official word just in from Loveland Ski Area: With five inches of snow last night on top of the snowmaking operation they’ve been running all month, opening day is tomorrow, Sunday October 24. Loveland’s staking their claim as the first ski area open in Colorado for the second year in…
Forum Snowboards, Special Blend, and Foursquare dropped all pretense for their 7th feature film and accompanying collection of f-bomb snowboards and apparel, ripe for controversy on the mountain this season and in a school near you. The film is titled, inappropriately enough, Fuck It. It does take a certain kind…
We caught Never Summer’s new Made In America video at Snowboard On the Rocks in September, but in case you missed it we’ve got the full 30-minute video after the jump in all its HD local pride glory…
If you’re the praying-for-snow type, the Saint Francis Center Episcopal Diocese of Denver is ready to make you a believer on Saturday, presenting the Early Bird Rail Jam “first snow shred of the year” at the Believer’s Center of Denver (180 S. Garrison Street in Lakewood) on the campus of…
TGR’s Light the Wick gets its local premiere tonight at the Boulder Theater (with a Denver encore tomorrow, 10/16, at Gothic Theatre). If, unlike us, you’re feeling overwhelmed by the onslaught of all these ski movie premieres, trust us on this one: Light the Wick is epic. The film was…
Tomorrow at 10 a.m. at the City Park bandstand, you’ll find a lot of flexible people hoping to beat out a yoga event that was recently held in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by lululemon athletic gear, Yoga in the City aims to top a recent lululemon event in D.C. that drew…
Just about every ski area in Colorado is getting natural snow this week and firing up the snowguns to help it along, and opening day at a couple of Colorado resorts could be any day now. To further stoke the fire, here’s another round of snowboard video premiers: Burton Snowboards…
Loveland loves to lay down its annual earliest opening day claim, and we have to say things are looking pretty good up there this week, with a little bit of natural snow and perfect conditions for snow-making operations. They’re already behind last year’s pace (Loveland opened on October 7 last…
Denver-based snowboard film crew SixEleven Productions drops the world premiere of Stop…Hammer Time! tonight at Gothic Theatre (6 p.m., $10, ages 16+), along with the Denver premiere of Pirate Productions’ Hooked and a mess of free stuff from SixEleven’s new sponsors, including Ride Snowboards…
The Poor Boyz Productions Triple Threat Tour comes to Boulder Theater tonight with the local premiere of the 2010 ski film Revolver (trailers after the jump) and an autograph signing with featured athletes including Simon Dumont, Nick Martini, Matt Walker, and Dane Tudor, followed by an afterparty with music by…
Crested Butte-based company Matchstick Productions won Best Film for The Way I See It over the weekend at the International Freeski Film Festival (IF3) in Annecy, France, where Henrik Windstedt also won Best Freerider honors for his part in the film (peep the trailer after the jump). Another Colorado company,…
The Gothic Theatre gives itself over to the local snowboard scene once again tonight at 7 p.m. when 720 Boardshop presents the Denver premieres of The People Crew’s Cheers and Sup Bro? from local crew Mistaken Productions (trailers after the jump)…
