The Red Bull Rampage is underway today in Virgin, Utah, featuring 25 of the craziest dudes on mountain bikes competing on a course that drops 1,500 vertical feet and features a 63-foot canyon jump. The Rampage is the final stop on the Freeride Mountain Bike FMB World Tour …
Boulder’s Fox Theatre hosts The Reunion tonight with the premieres of The Arena from FODT Productions and Mark Frank Montoya, Videograss’ Bon Voyage, Airblaster’s Respect Your Elders and Instalite’s Ride With Us 2010 (trailers after the jump), plus autograph signings from many of the featured athletes and lots of swag…
The Motocross of Nations has only been staged in the United States three times in its 64 year history, but Lakewood’s Thunder Valley Motocross Park had the honor this weekend, hosting 32,000 spectators and top riders from around the world. Team USA went big for the occasion, beating out Belgium,…
Gotta love Loveland, where, in the race to claim earliest opening day honors in North America yet again, they’ve already got snowmaking crews on the mountain. After getting hit with a bit of the real deal yesterday, Loveland’s snowmaking crews went to work under the full moon last night, which…
We’ve been dutifully posting news of just about every ski & snowboard film premiere in the area this month — yes, we’re just as stoked for the snowy season as you are — and here comes the motherlode: Head up to Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House tonight for The Meeting, Aspen’s…
The Absinthe Films Sphere of Influence Tour makes its way to Denver tonight at 7:30 with the local premiere of NowHere at the Esquire. Featured riders Marie France Roy, Dan Brisse, Bode Merril, Cale Zima, and Annie Boulanger will be in the house with some Sharpies, and proceeds from the…
Snowboarder Jeremy Jones and Teton Gravity Research teamed up last season to bring out the biggest adventure film of the year, and the Denver premiere is tonight at the Oriental Theatre. Deeper: A Snowboard Adventure Into the Unknown follows Jones and friends ( Travis Rice, Xavier De Le Rue, Josh…
The world premiere of The Way I See It — skiing circa 2010, as seen by Crested Butte-based film crew Matchstick Productions — blew minds at the Boulder Theater on Saturday. It’s the 20th feature length film from MSP, and it’s a doozy, with Mark Abma, Sean Pettit, Eric Hjorleifson,…
Majestic landscapes filled with foliage are all well and good, but there’s only so much you can do with that. What you need is beautiful people in front of your foliage. It’s like putting dressing on your salad; it just tastes better. So to commemorate the Telluride Photo Festival, which…
The world premiere of Standard Films’ The Storming gets top billing at tonight’s Snowboard on the Rocks, and for good reason. In a film full of big names, big mountain lines and all-around ballsy boarding, featured rider Torstein Horgmo has the biggest trick of the year. Remember all of last…
Tomorrow night’s Snowboard On The Rocks event is being hyped as the biggest snowboard movie premiere of all time, with three world premieres including Never Summer’s Made In America, Think Thank’s double feature Right Brain/Left Brain (see trailer after the jump) and Standard Films’ The Storming, plus performances by Cool…
How gnarly is the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race? Plenty gnarly, and if you’re not among the hardcore to have completed the grueling race, you can get your gnar vicariously through Citizen Pictures’ 2009 documentary Race Across the Sky and the forthcoming sequel documenting the 2010 race (see trailer…
If you’ve been getting stoked for ski and snowboard season with all the big movie premieres around town this month, here’s some fuel for the fire: Breckenridge announced this morning that they’re overhauling the Freeway Terrain Park on Peak 8 for this season and adding a 22-foot Superpipe built to…
Denver-based Level 1 Productions takes over Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom tonight with the world premiere of Eye Trip, a “skiing counterculture” documentary that follows Ahmet Dadali, Tom Wallisch, Wiley Miller, Tanner Rainville, Phil Casabon, Duncan Adams, Adam Delorme, Josh Bibby, Parker White, Chris Logan, Mike Hornbeck, Corey Vanular, JF Houle, Henrik…
The first video feature from 303 Boards’ CLFX team premiered last week at the Bluebird and is online now for the bargain price of, yes, $3.03. Denver’s a serious skateboard town, with some of the best (and most plentiful) skateparks in the world, urban spots with a worldwide reputation, and…
Snowboard Colorado is a rad new freebie magazine in local shops this month. The mag is the latest project from Adam Schmidt, founder of the Boulder Snowboarding Group (Westword’s Best of Denver 2010 pick for Best Shred Heads) and it’s the real deal: A 100-page glossy celebrating every aspect of…
Now that Labor Day is behind us, we’ll be counting down the days until ski and snowboard season. In the meantime, watch for a busy schedule of video premieres around town, starting with a free all-ages premiere of Volcom’s 9191: A Mathematical Equation of Sideways Style tonight at 8 p.m…
We gave local shop 303 Boards “Best Skate Shop Skate Team” honors in our 2010 Best of Denver issue. Find out why at the Bluebird Theater tomorrow night with the premiere of CLFX, the new team video featuring Trevor Uriona, Alex Carrera, Jerel Roberts, Isiah Sanchez, Mike Marks, and a…
Retired lift chairs are an enduring furniture craze on the Front Range, apparently: When Arapahoe Basin put 110 chairs from its old Expedition Chairlift for sale online for $450 apiece at the end of the season, they sold out every last chair in less than 7 minutes. Every last chair…
If you didn’t make it to the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival in May, check out the encore this week at the Mountain Summit in Aspen, August 26-29 at the Wheeler Opera House (tickets here)…
Yeah, yeah, I know it’s not even Labor Day yet. But Denver schools are back in session this week, and as far as I’m concerned that means Summer’s over. Which, of course, means it’s time to start thinking about snowboarding.If you’re right there with me, check out Woodward at Copper’s…
While many people put their planks or boards away come April, the core know that you can ski all over Colorado well into summer. Usually, this means hiking, but if you are lazy, and willing to get a big enough group together that two cars makes sense, then skiing Mount…
