All-star teams from both of Colorado’s premier roller derby leagues — Rocky Mountain Rollergirls and the Denver Roller Dolls — are in Portland, Oregon, this weekend for the Bridgetown Brawl Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) West Region Playoffs at Memorial Coliseum, and all of the tournament’s bouts will be…
The mere thrill of jumping out of a plane wasn’t enough for Denver-based skydiver Nick Batsch, who took up the sport of canopy piloting (where the action is closer to the ground) ten years ago. Batsch just won his third United States Parachute Association (USPA) National Skydiving Championships of Canopy…
September snowboard stoke continues tonight at the Fox Theater (1135 13th Street in Boulder) with the Colorado premieres of Capita’s Defenders of Awesome, Role Model Productions’ Cockfight!, the Givin film One, and the new team video from Boulder’s Satellite Boardshop, plus an encore screening of Familia 2, from FODT &…
Yesterday marked the official ownership transition at Grand Mesa’s Powderhorn Resort: Andy Daly and brothers Ken and Tom Gart bought the ski area at auction on August 4 for just $577,500, plus an additional 700-acre development tract below the resort for $825,000, spending a total of $1.4 million and announcing…
Colorado companies cleaned up at this weekend’s fifth annual IF3 International Freeski Film Festival in Montreal, with Boulder-based Sweetgrass Productions taking Best Cinematography for Solitaire, Denver-based Level 1 Productions winning Best Editing for After Dark, and Boulder-based Stept Productions claiming Best Jib Movie for Weight (the Boulder premiere of Weight…
Mmm… totally! “We are looking forward to 10,000 snowboarders getting together to celebrate the sport and the start of the new season,” says Waide Hoyt, production manager for Standard Films. The company is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Totally Board series tonight with the world premiere of TB:20 at…
Director Nick Waggoner and his Boulder-based Sweetgrass Productions crew spent two years filming in the backcountry in Argentina, Peru, and Chilean Patagonia to make Solitaire, a film unlike any of the other ski and snowboard porn premiering this month. We caught up with Waggoner and producer Zac Ramras in advance…
“What the fuck am I doing here?” asks mountain climber Cory Richards, in the opening seconds of Cold, one of six climbing films featured in the 2011 Reel Rock Film Tour that kicks off tonight at 6 p.m. at the Boulder Theater. It’s a poignant question: Richards is at 21,959’…
New Belgium Brewing, the Fort Collins-based brewery with the iconic cruiser bike logo and best known for its Fat Tire Amber Ale, raised more than $90,000 on September 3 for the Overland Mountain Bike Club, Bike Fort Collins, and Fort Collins Bike Co-op at its Tour de Fat event in…
Turn out the lights! Director Josh Berman and his Level 1 Productions crew — local heroes all — are bringing it tonight at 8 p.m. for the world premiere of After Dark at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, 2637 Welton Street ($15). The twelfth installment in the Level 1 ski porn filmography…
Roll out the white carpet: Tomorrow night’s world premiere of After Dark from Denver-based Level 1 Productions kicks off a busy Fall film schedule that serves as a reminder of just how awesome it is to live in Colorado, where — for a few months, anyway — we get the…
If, like us, you spent some of your Labor Day weekend trying on winter gear in stifling heat at the Ski Rex and Sniagrab sales, here’s a quick reminder that the day after Labor Day is a great time to buy summer gear. Gotta love living in topsy-turvy Colorado, right?…
!xeR ikS dna bargainS You know you’re a Coloradoan if the recent late summer temperatures approaching triple digits have you dreaming of powder days and wondering if your ski pants still fit. Join the club at either Sniagrab or Ski Rex this weekend for discounts up to 75 percent off…
If you nerded out on the EpicMix app while skiing or snowboarding at the Vail Resorts last season and love to boast on Facebook about just how sick your “sick days” are by posting photos and status updates from the mountain, then EpicMix 2.0 is just for you, adding EpicMix…
We came across this intriguing teaser for If You Want to Fly, from Carbondale-based Vital Films, Inc., while working on building out a mega-preview of all the many, many major ski and snowboard movie premiere events coming in September. It will be the second full ski flick from the company,…
Generally speaking, train-surfing is a practice employed by crazy people who want to relive that scene from Octopussy by acting like complete idiots and running around on top of a train. However, it appears the incredibly careless and ridiculous “sport” might have found some new life in India, although its…
If you’ve been following the USA Pro Cycling Challenge as closely as the hundreds of thousands of fanatics who came out last week for the prologue and six stages of the race to make it the largest spectator crowd for any stage race in U.S. history, then it probably isn’t…
The USA Pro Cycling Challenge concludes this weekend with Stage 4 today from Avon to Steamboat Springs, Stage 5 tomorrow from Steamboat Springs to Breckenridge, and Stage 6 on Sunday from Golden to Denver. Feeling inspired to get some adrenaline of your own pumping? Read on for our top 5…
After featuring the cool Revolights Kickstarter project last week, local reader Greg Hydle reached out to see if we’d have a look at his own Kickstarter project, which similarly solves a problem for adventurous types: Namely, saving your laptop or iPad from certain death…
Before that other big endurance event gets underway today, we thought we’d let you know that runner Lynette Clemons — a Leadville local — won the women’s division at the 28th annual Leadville Trail 100 with a time of 19:59:06 to beat out Rhonda Claridge (Ophir, CO; 21:11:24) and Andrea…
In the local skateboarding world, CLFX is code for one of the home teams at 303 Boards. But on the existential plane, CLFX is the place where we live, eat, shop. drink and party — a damn good reason to want to snap up one of these brand new CLFX…
This weekend we found five of the world’s gnarliest endurance events, all going down right here in Colorado. This is what you’ve been training for all summer, right? It’s all downhill from here! First up is the Trestle All-Mountain Enduro at Winter Park, a three-day, five-stage mountain bike event created…
