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…
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…
Thunder Valley MX Park in Lakewood has become one the world’s premiere motocross venues in recent years, and this past Saturday it hosted the Toyota Thunder Valley National, the third event in the 2012 Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship series. Ryan Dungey (who also won the 2011 Thunder Valley…
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…
Not ready to let go of the ski/snowboard dream and put that crummy snow season behind you, even weeks after all the resorts have closed? Neither are the coaches at Woodward at Copper, where they’re gearing up for summer camps — and guaranteeing an on-snow experience…
This Sunday marked the seventh annual running of the Colfax Marathon. My training partner Anna was racing, and I jumped in at mile 12 to help her along. Here’s what I learned: 10. There are a lot of super-fast runners in Denver. Few of them ran the Colfax Marathon. That’s…
Although the Denver Roller Dolls and Rocky Mountain Rollergirls are often billed as crosstown rivals, their traveling all-star teams hardly ever skate against each other: The last time DRD’s Mile Club and RMRG’s 5280 Fight Club competed directly was at the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Championship tournament in…
The month of May, as any mountain biker can tell you, is mud season. Just three weeks ago skiers and snowboarders were still making decent turns at Breckenridge as the ski area closed out its fiftieth anniversary season, and in a typical year May is a month of downtime for…
“We made a very tough decision today,” reported Arapahoe Basin CEO Alan Henceroth in a dispatch sent out on yesterday. “Arapahoe Basin will close for the season Sunday, May 6. With the light snowfall, big wind events, and warm temperatures, Mother Nature made life for Colorado skiers very difficult this…
Hiking the 500-mile Colorado Trail from Denver to Durango is one of the most epic — and scenic — adventures in the state, and it’s a more accessible bucket-list goal than you might think: Last year the Colorado Trail Foundation added three kids under the age of twelve to its…
The new Arvada Skate Park took Best of Denver 2012 Best Skate Park honors last month, and the more time we spend there, the more we love it. This edit from local filmmaker Tristan Minton, of Royal Stain Design, which features 303 Boards team rider David Reyes and The Denver…
Denver-based filmmakers Robin Bond and David Wruck premiered their roller derby documentary Derby Baby on March 31 at the Atlanta Film Festival and screened it earlier this month at the Sonoma International Film Festival, but before they can bring it to a wider audience they need to sort out a…
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…
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…
Attention, would-be skater daters: The Denver Roller Dolls’ Mile High Club all-star roller derby team is putting its “Real men play with Dolls” slogan on the line this week with a “help us kick butt all over the country” date auction to raise travel funds for the team. Bids start…
USA Pro Cycling Challenge organizers revealed the winning design in a national poster competition yesterday, by Montrose-based artist Leanna Johnson, and this morning gave us a first look at the winning poster for the Denver Time Trial stage poster, the seventh and final stage of the second annual race, by…
Broomfield’s Crisis Skateboards shop is hosting the local premiere of the new Think Skateboards film Business As Usual tonight at 8 p.m., at a free screening at the shop at 6821 West 120th Avenue. Can’t make it? Boulder’s Meta Skateboards is presenting the film tomorrow at 8 p.m., with a…
With many Colorado ski areas closing this weekend (some of them ahead of schedule) and recent headlines bemoaning this season’s abysmal snowpack across the state, it’s easy to lament the sad state of this year’s ski and snowboard season. But let’s accentuate the positive for a moment: Yesterday, Wolf Creek…
Closing day at Vail is scheduled for Sunday, April 15, and Vail Resorts will barely let the door hit this sad snow season on the ass before looking forward to next winter: The very next day, the company will begin construction on a new gondola from Vail Village to Mid-Vail,…
Both Ski Halfpipe and Ski Slopestyle are confirmed as Olympic medal events at the Sochi Games in 2014, and it’s looking increasingly likely that a Colorado local — sixteen-year-old Aspenite Torin Yater-Wallace — could win them both. He won SuperPipe gold in the Winter X Games event in Tignes, France,…
This week a series of nine “Come to Life” television spots promoting Colorado tourism began airing in target markets across the country, with an emphasis on outdoor summer adventure. To get that vibe just right, the Colorado Tourism Office brought in a team including Denver-based ad agency Karsh/Hagan, photographer/Camp 4…
Although this past weekend felt like the start of summer, there’s still good riding to be had in Colorado — and this week is also a prime opportunity to catch some of the country’s best amateur snowboarders in action: The 23rd annual United States Snowboard Association’s USASA National Championships got…
