Go easy on the Thanksgiving feast this year, skip the Black Friday shopping melee, and head for the hills instead: Copper Mountain is tentatively scheduled to open its Superpipe later this week, in advance of the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix, December 9-12, and is also hosting its 8th Annual Leftover…
They’re only three volumes in, but The Ski Journal has already distinguished itself as the type of publication that takes a deep-think approach to the sport. Like The Alpinist for mountaineering, it ditches copious ads in favor of luxurious paper stock, drool-inducing photography, and thoughtful articles that reflect on the…
Level 1 – Refresh Teaser from Level 1 on Vimeo. Level 1 Productions’ new flick Refresh is a celebration of the Denver-based production company’s decade of badass freeskiing filmmaking, a simultaneous look back and glimpse of the future. Native New Yorker Josh Berman, Level 1’s mastermind, started shooting his buddies…
While glossy ski-resort brochures often show pictures of wide open bowls and endless powder, many dedicated skiers know that the trees are where it’s at. Tight, technical, often magical, tree skiing can be a place where there’s powder to be found days after a storm. On bad light days, trees…
The lifts started turning at Vail on Friday, and photographer Soren McCarty was there. See more photos after the jump…
We stopped by the Art Institute’s Rail Jam on Saturday, and it was pretty sweet: Lots of people, lots of rail-jamming, and a festive atmosphere, as evidenced by the photo above. For more such photos, check out Aaron Thackeray’s slideshow…
If Hollywood determined proper climbing technique, everybody would walk around with backpacks full of nitroglycerin and believe they could clear just about any jump as long as they yelled hard enough. You can witness this sensibility in the hilariously annotated video, “The Vertical Limit Guide To Climbing”: Note to self:…
Skiing is a difficult enough sport without your feet feeling like they’ve been coal-walking all day. But many skiers go through multiple seasons spent in various states of denial about how their ski boots may be severely limiting their skiing.”If you go to the hill on a busy weekend, I’d…
Every week On the Edge is giving you the skinny on where you should be hitting the slopes, as if our humble opinion will somehow make you reconsider your riding loyalties despite having sold your soul for that season pass.Just in case, you know?…
The first-annual Denver Backyard Bang Rail Jam is a good reason to stay off the slopes and in the city tomorrow while still getting a healthy dose of tasty shred. Salomon Snowboards and The Art Institute of Colorado have teamed up to host the event that will bring top pro…
Apparently, the first rule for season pass holders at Durango Mountain Resort is “you do NOT talk about Durango Mountain Resorts.” Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort canceled Lauren Slaff’s season pass after she publicly criticized the resort in the Durango Herald for changes in this year’s operating schedule.At the beginning…
After breaking the seal on my Loveland pass yesterday, I woke up this morning feeling like I’d been run down by a truck, or at least a compact SUV. I can’t be alone in having a few early-season aches and pains in certain cranky muscles that weren’t in high demand…
Parents and high school guidance counselors reading this might want to go stick their heads in the snow for a minute: Recent Cherry Creek High School graduate Bobby Brown is making good on his promise to keep Professional Freeskier at the top of his resumé.Brown’s post-graduation plans last year included…
You’re skiing along, reveling in the crisp mountain air and distinct absence of your cubicle walls, when “WHAM!” — you’re knocked onto the snow.”Sorry dude, I didn’t see you,” someone says from above you, an earbud hanging down from his ear. He (or, yes, she) quickly takes off, leaving you…
There’s not a lot of new news about the proposed sale of Copper Mountain from Intrawest to Powdr Corp beyond the press release I reported on Tuesday, but it looks like a done deal, pending U.S. Forest Service approval, with sale price speculation in the $100 million-plus range. The initial…
Winter Park became the sixth Colorado ski resort to open this morning, when the resort’s lifts started turning at 9 a.m. (Wolf Creek also opened today, bringing the total to seven). Winter Park is running three lifts up the mountain: Arrow, Endeavor, and Gemini. The lifts serve four trails: Larry…
Hold on to your butts, powder hounds: Freaking Alabama has a ski resort (they currently have a zero inch base and also offer golf and horse riding). Wisconsin has 24 ski resorts to Wyoming’s eight. Think Colorado has the most ski resorts? Not even close–New York has the most, and…
Wild news breaking today: Intrawest is selling Copper Mountain to Park City-based Powdr Corp, with plans to close the deal as soon as next month. Intrawest, based in Vancouver, owns nearly a dozen other resorts around the world, including Winter Park and Steamboat Springs here in Colorado, but has been…
A telemark skier in the backcountry, making us all look bad. Photo courtesy of agrinberg’s Flickr stream. To have your photos featured in Morning Dew, send them to edge@westword.com or post them to the Westword Flickr pool…
Telemark skiers are a funny breed. How else to explain the passion of people who are pursuing a turn invented in Norway in the 1860s that amounts to genuflecting your way down the hill?…
Okay, so it didn’t even miss a single winter, but the news that Phil Anschutz was pulling the plug on the Ski Train because it wasn’t making money — although it never made any money — was met with a collective groan.But the company that operates the Rio Grande Scenic…
Here in Colorado we’ve gone and confused our gods, what with all our prayers for snow in the high country and the ones we’ve been sending up on behalf of our hockey team to help smite our enemies: It’s been nearly a decade since we’ve been able to say our…
