In my mission to piece together head-to-toe snowboarding gear sourced from Colorado companies showing their wares at the SIA Snow Show, one stop was a no-brainer: Steamboat Springs-based Smartwool is my pick for socks, base layers, and mid-layers. The Merino wool in these products comes from New Zealand, mostly, so…
Walking around the SIA Snow Show this week, I made a project for myself to see if I could come up with head-to-toe snowboarding gear sourced solely from companies based here in Colorado. Although I came up short on boots, I did discover one cool local company working behind the…
On Day two of my “Follow the snow tour,” I traveled to Crested Butte. This was the second time I skied at the Butte, and the same feeling struck me: The Butte is a skier’s mountain. Other places may try to claim it, but the Butte is the real deal…
This guy Mike Douglas throws down the gauntlet in favor of skiing in the old skiing vs. snowboarding debate. (Wasn’t that settled at the Tahoe Accords back in ought-three?) He does it by throwing a bunch of skiing history in people’s faces, claiming it’s “the original adrenaline sport.”There’s the requisite…
Tuesday morning, I headed out in search of finding snow. First stop: Monarch Mountain…
Nobody ever said snowboarders need brains to win, but Shaun White gives us new, compelling scientific evidence to back this up. On a practice run Friday in Aspen, he mistimed his most difficult trick (a 1260 Double McTwist — anybody want to translate that from Riderese?) and smacked his skull…
More Ski >> We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this video of a backcountry skier exhibiting some of the worst luck and some of the best in the very same death-defying jump…
See Soren McCarty’s photos from the X Games on the slideshow page…
This Saturday, Arapahoe Basin will host the 8th Annual Beacon Bowl, which takes place at A-Basin’s avalanche beacon park at the base of Lenawee lift. Contests are held to see who can find a buried beacon fastest. Professional instruction will be available in how to use a use a transceiver,…
Would you rather hurt your knee or your wrist on the slopes? If you’re still undecided on whether you want to spend the rest of your life as a skier or snowboarder, you might want to ask yourself that question. Just as you might think, skiers tend to have more…
On Monday, all the gear manufacturers moved their wares from the giant confines of the Colorado Convention Center to the base of Winter Park for the first of two demo days. All show attendees got unlimited demos of skis, snowboards, boots, and accessories…
The Snow Show has traded the Colorado Convention Center for the slopes at Winter Park, and the demo orgy is now in full swing. On the convention floor, unnecessary but super-sweet gear was in bountiful supply, including the Zipfy sled profiled in this space a few weeks back. (I bought…
Saturday brought snowsports fans out in force to the Colorado Convention Center for Day 3 of the SIA show, while Sunday had a much more relaxed atmosphere. Plenty of cool toys were on display, and buzzwords abounded throughout the weekend…
The hottest product at the SIA Snow Show this year? Pamela Anderson stopped by the Colorado Convention Center last night to unveil her new snowboard collaboration with NDK Snowboards, benefiting People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and thousands of (mostly male) attendees dropped everything to get in line for…
Summit Daily News columnist Miles F. Porter IV opened with a shout-out to Jay Brossman for his 80th birthday on Sunday, and I wanted to second the notion.I briefly met Jay after getting onto his chair on the Lift 2 reload at Loveland last spring and our conversation sticks out…
Lo and behold: The blessed union between sneaker geeks and snow sports aficionados has finally hit the honeymoon hotness in Saturday’s Shoe Shine 4.0 Winter Sports Edition exhibit at Andenken Gallery. Since the snow boot is Colorado’s winter sneaker of choice, the shindig (hosted by PULSEarts) is going down as…
Braving the downtown parking prices, I hit opening of the Snowsports Industries of America show at the Colorado Convention Center. Hordes and hordes of exhibitors were on the main floor of the show, including several local Colorado companies.While the après-ski show parties haven’t really gotten into full swing yet, drink…
Overheard at the SIA Snow Fashion Show: “On the lookout for FYB, blue steel, and the assured unintentional comedy” – Jonny Burns, proprietor of SouthOfTheNorth.com and, ahem, FuckYeahBro.com, irreverent snowboarding blogs tracking the trends at the SIA Snow Show this week.If the fashion show at the Wells Fargo Theater (the…
The news keeps getting better: For one thing it’s actually snowing up in them thar hills this week, and for another — economyshmonomy — visits to Colorado ski resorts are up this year, according to Colorado Ski Country USA. A couple inches here, one lone percentage point there… We’ll take…
On Tuesday Vail Resorts hosted a media shindig at Earl’s downtown, part of the kickoff for the SIA Snow Show in town this week, and I took the opportunity to rib Keystone PR rep Katie Adamson about my longstanding grudge against the area, one of the last Colorado resorts to…
The SIA Snow Show’s in town this week, and we’ll be helping you sort through the swag: On Friday, start at the Fillmore for the 11th Annual TransWorld Snowboarding Rider’s Poll Awards ($17). Then hit Marc Frank Montoya’s party with DJ Crime at City Hall, benefiting Colorado’s Snowboard Outreach Society…
In this final episode of our four-part series on ski tuning strategies, Matt Hupperts of the Edgeworks in Denver shows you how to hot wax your skis, using a waxing iron and a plastic scraper. On the slopes, you can crayon on a cold wax to improve performance of your…
