This year marks the tenth anniversary of Vail’s Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Festival, and the organizers have something special planned. “Twenty-one breweries from around the world have created beers or are releasing new beers at our event,” explains organizer Laura Lodge. “Most are created specifically for our festival and…
The National Western Stock Show kicked off on January 9, a century-old reminder of how the West was fun! While most of the action is up at the NWSS complex in north Denver – at the Coliseum, and the Arena, and the Exhibition Hall (with the fabulous Cowboy Bar in…
Miles from the Village, the 885-acre Blue Sky Basin has been a must-explore-spot for Vail skiers for 10 years. The popular woodsy terrain beyond the mountain’s Back Bowls is blessed with plenty of snow, tight trees, steeps, open powder fields, and even a few groomers. On bluebird day, there are…
Three snowboarders from Colorado are among the qualifiers for today’s Men’s Halfpipe Finals at the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix event at Mammoth Mountain, the second of five U.S. competitions in the run-up to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In Heat One of yesterday’s qualifiers Broc Waring (Vail) and Matt…
If you’ve watched a Warren Miller video over the last 20 years, you’ve seen skiers getting choppered up to sick, exquisite terrain, jumping out of the helicopters and descending thousands of feet of virgin powder on ridiculously steep mountainsides…
Atop Wolf Creek Pass between South Fork and Pagosa Springs is one of the state’s highest (10,600 feet at its base) and oldest resorts (70 years old this season), and lift tickets are just $50. It’s also the snowiest (465 inches a year). And it’s 100% open, there’s plenty of…
Helmet cameras are about to get some company in the first person snow sports video market. Liquid Image, already the makers of a digital underwater camera mask, is unveiling a camera-equipped ski goggle at an electronics show this weekend in Las Vegas. The goggle has a 5-megapixel camera that shoots…
What’s the right age to begin teaching your kids to snowboard? Let’s just say that if, at the end of the day, you ask them what their favorite part was and they say “Falling down!” then you’re probably doing something right. January is Colorado Ski Country USA’s Learn to Ski…
Vail’s Gay Ski Week is back! According to the Associated Press, the days-long celebration of everything gay and ski-y was canceled last year due to the economic downturn. But this year, the economy is apparently healthy enough for Vail to host the event, which is scheduled for January 27 to…
Hey boaters! Wondering what to do if you don’t have the scratch to go where it’s warm and the rivers aren’t blocks of ice? Need a kayaking fix? Just because it’s winter doesn’t mean it’s time to put away the boats.Damon Gold has put together a video montage of some…
Jason Blevins’ story in Saturday’s Denver Post covered the impact of mobile technology on snow reporting. In the process, it also shined a light on a question raised in the comments of a previous On the Edge post about Bob Berwyn’s firing from the Summit Daily News for after criticizing…
Three days in to the 38-day trek and one of the women had already dropped out. Her hands were frostbitten. She couldn’t continue. The seven other women labored on, and on the last day of 2009 they completed their 562-mile cross country ski journey through blizzards, 80 mph winds, and…
A while ago, I wrote about rescues and who should save you in the mountains. The story arose from an incident on Mt. Hood. One of the overreactions to the deaths of the three climbers has been the idea of mandating that climbers carry personal locator beacons (PLBs) with them…
Allen True’s West. Allen Tupper True was Denver’s premier muralist during the first third of the twentieth century. Sadly, many of his commissions have been painted over or were lost when the buildings they were in were demolished. In an act of cooperation, the three big cultural institutions on the…
Hoping to entice Jeff Bridges to voice a washed-up surfer dude in the 2007 children’s movie Surf’s Up, the filmmakers sent the actor a video of an animated penguin declaiming a few of his lines from The Big Lebowski. They probably didn’t need to work that hard: An avid surfer,…
Girls Only. The trouble with Girls Only, a two-woman evening of conversation, skits, singing, improvisation and audience participation, is that it’s so relentlessly nice. Creator-performers Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein have worked together for many years; at some point, they read their early diaries to each other and were transfixed…
If your New Year’s resolution involves eating better or saving money, then learning how to cook would be a good start, because it can help you accomplish both of those goals. Find out how at the Cook Street School of Fine Cooking’s Kitchen Basics class, where “you’ll learn simple, multi-course…
It’s hard to imagine a film less likely to develop a cult following than Spice World. The 1997 film seems, on the surface, to be little more than a ninety-minute music video for a shallow pop group long since consigned to the dustbin of history and musty reunion tours. Indeed,…
Local documentarian and former gallerist Joshua Hassel goes back a long way with artist Rex Ray, whose beautiful works have most recently been seen at MCA Denver and T Gallery. Ray, who grew up in Colorado Springs before moving on to San Francisco, used to show work at Hassel’s now-defunct…
By now, most of us are more than ready to say “Bah, humbug!” to the plethora of light displays and other festivities that have dominated the past month or more. But if you’re not quite ready to hang up that Santa hat, two of Denver’s best light displays are still…
When Brooke Kline and Melissa Strasser of the White Owl decided to throw a New Year’s Eve bash with a 1920s/’30s theme, they called on Jessie de la Cruz of Betty Bluebird event planners. “The decade theme was pretty much the only framework they gave us, so we just ran…
Like so many people who helped remake the American landscape and identity in the 1800s, Augustus Saint-Gaudens wasn’t born in the United States. But the Irish immigrant was raised in New York, and his work — stately, noble sculpture that adorns everything from monuments to U.S. coins — crystallized a…
