Have you ever skinned your way up a hidden backcountry stash, only to wipe the stinging sweat from your eyes and think to yourself, “There’s GOT to be a better way!”Um, there is: Ken Block’s Subaru WRX-based Trax ST1 is probably the fastest snow cat ever built, and roaring along…
An estimated 30,000 ski and snowboard junkies will flock to the Colorado Convention Center this weekend for the 18th annual Ski and Snowboard Expo. Here, five reasons you should be one of them:…
Tomorrow night at their Boulder location, Outdoor Divas is hosting a free gear panel and punch session. They’ll have K2 ladies alliance member Lindsey Yaw, Babes in the Backcountry founder Leslie Ross, Heather Paul of K2 Ultimate Groove Tele camps, and Krista Crabtree of SheSkis on hand to answer your…
As we anxiously wait for the winter snow, it’s important to remember the building block of a blizzard — the humble snowflake — is not necessarily a unique individual.Scientists now believe that of the million billion cubic feet of snow that annually falls on the planet, some might well be…
Old man Miller doesn’t have much to do with the films that bear his name these days, but his dynasty lives on all the same: Denver screenings of the annual ski porn from Warren Miller Films are as reliable as the changing of the seasons. Warren Miller celebrated his 85th…
Threatening skies over Denver, courtesy of Dr H’s Flickr. To have your photos featured in Morning Dew, send them to edge@westword.com or post them to the Westword Flickr pool…
Keystone opened last week, and the above video should have you jonesing even more to make it there this winter…
Oscar Pistorius was told he couldn’t compete in the 2008 Olympics because his prosthetic legs gave him an unfair advantage. The ban was eventually lifted, but the debate lacked an authoritative conclusion until early this month, when a team of six researchers — a CU professor, student, and former student…
Among Colorado ski towns, Vail gets ragged on for being totally, painfully fake. Unfortunately, the town can now boast of hosting an Old-West tradition that rivals Aspen and Telluride would probably rather do without: the drunken-bar shootout.At 7:30 on Saturday, 63-year-old Richard “Rossi” Moreau allegedly shot up the Sandbar in…
[jump] On Saturday, the Basin opened the Norway lift, offering top-to-bottom skiing via Lenawaee Face and Dercum’s Gulch on the upper mountain, and Ramrod and High Noon on the lower mountain. All of the trails are intermediate runs. Skiers raced to be the first ones to get up Norway on…
Heads up, tree-hugging tree skiers: Aspen Mountain Ski Resort ranked number one out of all western ski resorts on the Ski Area Citizens’ Coalition annual environmental impact report cards for the 2008-2009 ski season. Three other Colorado resorts — Buttermilk Mountain, Aspen Highlands, and Telluride — made the Coalition’s top…
Copper opened on November 6, and photographer Soren McCarty — who also shot Keystone’s Opening Day — was there to capture the snowy goodness. See more photos after the jump…
The view from Chataqua Park in Boulder, courtesy of erunder’s Flickr feed. To have your photos featured in Morning Dew, send them to edge@westword.com or post them to the Westword Flickr pool…
Keystone opened for the season on Thursday, and photographer Soren McCarty was there. We’re a little jealous, are you? See more photos after the jump…
Via Visit Colorado’s YouTube channel comes this segment from Ski Scene, hosted by Johnny Morris. It’s basically a promo video for Steamboat from forty years ago. Highlights include: Cowboy hats, full body jumpsuits, harmony, more bad puns, some shockingly inane conversation and a mildly creepy ski commercial. Noticeably absent: Snowboards,…
Here’s the best thing about living in Denver in the winter: Snowy and cold up in the mountains, sunny and warm down in the city. Snow/Sun … Wet/Dry … see how that works? Then, in 2007, Winter Park and the City of Denver’s parks department had to go and come…
Morning view of the Rockies from the peak of Mt. Evans, courtesy of Zachd1_618’s Flickr page. To have your photos featured in Morning Dew, send them to edge@westword.com or post them to the Westword Flickr pool…
For when extreme skiing and snowboarding just aren’t extreme enough…
Each week, we’ll tell you which three resorts should win your weekend. Last week, it was also the only three running lifts. This week, however, we had to actually make a decision or two to bring you the choicest mountains. Spoiler alert: you’re looking at one of them. 1. Copper…
Is it us, or do these folks have a slightly skewed understanding of how large rocks work?…
Forget the traffic on I-70 and the hours-long liftlines at Keystone. Head out for a long weekend this winter to poach the secret stashes at Colorado’s small-time mom-and-pop resorts. There’s Cooper (not Copper!), Monarch, Sunlight, the bad-boys down by Telluride and more. Everybody would love to ski Aspen — there’s…
Snowshoeing allegedly has merits of its own — REI calls it “one of the fastest growing sports in Colorado” and my folks are nuts for it — but for me its real value has always been as a stepping stone.I grew up snowshoeing/snowboarding in the Colorado backcountry alongside a few…
