Choose your wacky Denver event! (flow chart)

It seems like every weekend in Denver there’s another fun run with a theme, which is great, really. Sure, there are themed runs (often involving beer before, during or after) in other cities, but probably not with the frequency, participation level or gusto as we can boast here in Colorado…

Photos: New Belgium’s Urban Assault Ride in Denver

The Urban Assault Ride, the nation’s biggest bicycle obstacle event series, took place on the streets of Denver on Sunday, July 21, with competitors racing Big Wheels and BMX bikes along the route. Teams of two set out on a city-wide quest for checkpoints, dropping their bikes and completing a…

Run for Your Lives at the end of the world

On Saturday morning, I ventured to Lakewood to experience the Run for Your Lives 5K apocalypse obstacle course. One part Tough Mudder, one part The Walking Dead, Run for Your Lives had 5,000 people crawling under barbed wire, racing through smoked-filled rooms and sliding into pits of muddy water. In…

Summer snow: Woodward at Copper opens this weekend

If this week’s climbing temperatures and the smell of burning pine from fires across the state have you pining for ski season, you’re not alone: The Woodward at Copper action sports camp is opening its outdoor summer terrain park (previously open only to summer camp participants) to the public for…

2012 Capitol Christmas Tree Campaign kicks off tonight

Every year the “people’s tree” takes center stage at the various Christmas festivities in Washington, D.C., and this year that tree will be a Colorado native from the White River National Forest. Colorado was selected out of 155 national forests. A celebration starts tonight in Lakewood, with help from Rolling…

Five ways to celebrate Go Skateboarding Day in Colorado today

The International Association of Skateboarding Companies declared June 21 as “the official holiday of skateboarding” back in 2003, and there are hundreds of killer concrete skate parks across Colorado to help you celebrate Go Skateboarding Day today. Here’s a quick roundup of events and places where you can show your…

Vail Valley Foundation’s 2012 Teva Mountain Games off to the races today

The Vail Valley Foundation’s 2012 Teva Mountain Games get to paddlin’ today in Vail with both the Mountain Click photo competition and the Steep Creek Championships kayak race running concurrently along a 1/4-mile stretch of Homestake Creek with sections affectionately known to kayakers as “Leap of Faith” and “Piece of…

Snowboard Colorado presents 2013 Demo Day at Loveland Ski Area

On Saturday Snowboard Colorado and Loveland Ski Area will co-host a demo-day event featuring next season’s gear from at least sixteen different brands, including boards from Colorado companies Never Summer, Unity Snowboards and Oz, as well as boards from YES, Capita, Technine, Salomon, Niche, Echelon, Mervin Manufacturing, Signal, Arbor and…

Photographer Cory Richards wins American Alpine Club’s 2012 Rowell Award

The American Alpine Club announced this week that Boulder-based photographer Cory Richards has won its 2012 Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure. The $15,000 award, which will be officially presented next month during Mountainfilm in Telluride, is named for photographers Galen and Barbara Rowell, who died in a plane…