What’s the right age to begin teaching your kids to snowboard? Let’s just say that if, at the end of the day, you ask them what their favorite part was and they say “Falling down!” then you’re probably doing something right. January is Colorado Ski Country USA’s Learn to Ski…
Vail’s Gay Ski Week is back! According to the Associated Press, the days-long celebration of everything gay and ski-y was canceled last year due to the economic downturn. But this year, the economy is apparently healthy enough for Vail to host the event, which is scheduled for January 27 to…
Jason Blevins’ story in Saturday’s Denver Post covered the impact of mobile technology on snow reporting. In the process, it also shined a light on a question raised in the comments of a previous On the Edge post about Bob Berwyn’s firing from the Summit Daily News for after criticizing…
Three days in to the 38-day trek and one of the women had already dropped out. Her hands were frostbitten. She couldn’t continue. The seven other women labored on, and on the last day of 2009 they completed their 562-mile cross country ski journey through blizzards, 80 mph winds, and…
A while ago, I wrote about rescues and who should save you in the mountains. The story arose from an incident on Mt. Hood. One of the overreactions to the deaths of the three climbers has been the idea of mandating that climbers carry personal locator beacons (PLBs) with them…
Saw this story in the Sky-Hi Daily News about these nifty GPS units available for about $20 a day for rent at Winter Park. Dubbed flaiks (and made by the Boulder company of the same name), the gadgets can be tracked in real-time, so the user’s location can be pinpointed…
It’s that time of year again, when every media outlet (including us) floods the Web with their ‘best of this’ and ‘best of that’ lists.Let’s be honest, though. Everyone loves them. They’re fun to read and argue about.Here’s one such list. Let the arguing begin…
Traditionally, New Year’s resolutions are about self-improvement of some sort. Of course, most people fail miserably at them, making me wonder what the point of the resolutions is. But no matter.Why not apply the concept of New Year’s resolutions to outdoor activities? Most people who have a passion for the…
This is our first serving of a semi-regular post about a mountain bar of note…or at least disrepute.We stop in Georgetown for a beer on our way back from Loveland. Downtown, the normally reliable Red Ram is shuttered, with a for-sale sign in the front window. So much for that…
I got my first view of Denver from a train, my first view of a Colorado ski resort from another train. But now it looks like the revived Ski Train to Winter Park will never leave the station: Yesterday, Iowa Pacific called a halt to the season…
So U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn played the role of the Grinch on Christmas Eve eve to Iowa Pacific Holding’s Cindy Lou Who, denying the company’s request for a temporary restraining order to force Amtrak crews to start operating the new Rio Grande Scenic Ski Train on December 27. The…
Officials from Summit and Eagle counties spent yesterday rescuing a man from Quandary, a 14,000-foot peak south of Breckenridge, after he fractured both legs in a ski-gliding-gone-wrong accident, according to the Summit Daily News…
Earlier this month, Eric Peterson wrote about a new iPhone app that turns your phone into a virtual reality display of the ski resort. The video demonstrating its function makes it seem pretty high tech, but it also looks a lot like info overload.Most skiers, however, do like to have…
So it almost goes without saying that Santa Claus isn’t known for being the dude with the most wicked moves on the mountain. He’s better known for superlatives involving his stomach, his speed in a flying sleigh, and his generosity with his stash. But as the following videos attest, Mr…
“We are a local store that could use a leg up this season,” writes Marily Macdonald, marketing coordinator for the Outdoor Divas shops in Boulder and Cherry Creek, just as I’m heading out the door to scrape the snow off my car and scrape together the last of my last-minute…
When Breckenridge team rider and Summit County local JJ Thomas took 3rd and stepped to the podium after the Dew Tour Superpipe Finals at his home mountain on Saturday, he did right by both the Summit Unchained “Buy Local” campaign and his new sponsors at Unity Snowboards.Unity hooked the 2006…
Well, maybe only if you’re Swiss: A study built from questionnaires given to 782 injured skiers at trauma centers and 496 uninjured skiers in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland found that drinking alcohol was not likely to contribute to injury, but indulging in marijuana did.Keeping in mind that this…
I happened upon 3dskimaps.com on the intertubes last week and think it’s one of the biggest innovations in ski maps since, I dunno, folded paper…
The recent East Coast storm motivated one Teton Gravity Research follower to grab his short skis and trek 300 yards from his house in search of face shots. He found what he was looking for next to a stoplight on a newly constructed road. Here are nine photos and a…
We’re going to find out when GoI70.com officially launches.Developed by the I-70 Mountain Corridor Coalition, the site is currently in beta-testing mode, with hopes of unsnarling the assorted traffic jams, jellies, and marmalades that are all too common in Colorado’s high country…
Last Tuesday, freeskier/BASE jumper/announcer Ted Davenport, adventurer-of-all-trades Matt Hecker, software salesman/Base jumper Collin Scott, and photographer/BASE jumper Jacob Fuerst became the first people to be filmed ski-BASE-jumping off of a 460-foot wall in Glenwood Canyon — see the sick embedded video from ESPN.com above. Davenport, Hecker, and Fuerst actually became…
Snowboarding judges are notoriously stingy, especially at the beginning the season, and even getting close to a perfect score is pretty much unheard of, so Danny Davis’ 96.50 in the pipe at Breck for the first stop of the 2009-2010 Winter Tour on Saturday is something to talk about. Last…
