The Denver Zine Library at 2727 West 27th Avenue is hosting a special Rad Dad reading on Saturday at 1 p.m. featuring Tomas Moniz, editor of the Rad Dad zine and co-editor (with Daddy Dialectic editor Jeremy Adam Smith) of the new book Rad Dad: Dispatches From the Frontiers of…
Just Dew It! Women’s Superpipe semifinals for the Winter Dew Tour’s Nike Open at Breckenridge get underway today at 9:15 a.m., followed by semifinals for Men’s Freeski Slopestyle, Men’s Snowboard Superpipe, Men’s Freeski Superpipe, and Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle. Tonight also happens to be Breck’s 50th birthday bash, so get up…
Powderhorn Mountain Resort fired up its lifts this morning at 9 a.m. for its 45th anniversary season (and its first season under new ownership). Appropriately enough, it’s a powder day: The resort is reporting thirteen inches of snow in the last 48 hours. Powderhorn is a five-hour drive from Denver,…
“I realized I would really love a space to talk with other fathers about parenting that’s not based on the gender-normative examples that we’re typically given, and also to talk about some of the radical politics that were on my mind with regard to parenting,” says Tomas Moniz, editor of…
Breckenridge Ski Resort marks its fiftieth anniversary today with an all-day Birthday Bash that coincides with the Nike Open, the first stop on the 2011/2012 Winter Dew Tour. Catch the snowboard and freeski superpipe and slopestyle semi-finals on the mountain from 9:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. (free to spectators from…
Governor John Hickenlooper and others who are eager to put together a Colorado bid for a future Winter Olympics Games must be making a case study out of our state’s worldliness this month. Since Thanksgiving, Colorado has hosted the Aspen Winternational FIS Women’s World Cup at Aspen Mountain and the…
Today was supposed to be the big reveal of the host cities for the 2012 Pro Cycling Challenge — but that list leaked on Friday, in the Denver Post. Still, organizers are going to make an event out of the announcement, with a live Internet broadcast at 5:15 p.m. MST…
In the 2011 Best of Denver, Westword awarded Best Ski Pass Deal honors to Copper Mountain’s $99 Snow Day Pass, a deal so sweet — last year there were more than thirty eligible “Snow Days” at Copper, and $99 is less than the price of a single-day lift ticket at…
After two years of watching his Frends and fans sport “I Ride 4 Kevin” stickers on their boards in tribute, snowboarder Kevin Pearce is asking them to join him on Tuesday at Breckenridge, where he’s planning to take his first runs since the traumatic brain injury that kept him out…
If you’ve been bitching about the freezing temperatures this week here in Denver, get a dose of perspective tonight at 7 p.m., when Outside Magazine will be presenting the online premiere of Anson Fogel and Cory Richard’s award-winning film Cold at OutsideOnline.com…
So-Gnar’s Mighty Midwest Snowboard Camp Tour and Shred Circuit terrain-park competition kicks off this weekend at Echo Mountain with an amateur contest on Saturday at 9 a.m. ($20) and a two-day camp on Saturday and Sunday for snowboarders looking to improve their freestyle skills ($179 includes lift tickets, instruction, and…
If winter clothing and technical mountaineering gear don’t exactly scream “sexy” to you, let the hard-bodied models–male and female–in Neptune Mountaineering’s first-ever winter fashion show, Neptune’s Paradox: What’s Hot for the Cold, tempt you into the backcountry to see what you’ve been missing. “We have nineteen models each doing two…
The word “disabled” continues to shed meaning this week as many of the biggest names in adaptive sports are in Breckenridge for the Disabled Sports USA Hartford Ski Spectacular, an annual winter sports festival that brings hundreds of athletes and aspiring athletes to Colorado for adaptive ski and snowboard lessons,…
The first ever Roller Derby World Cup, which concluded yesterday in Toronto, can be best summarized by the following chronological countdown of vicious verbs compiled from headlines at DerbyNewsNetwork.com:…
The wind beneath your wings! The Birds of Prey World Cup — the only men’s FIS World Cup alpine skiing event in the U.S. this year — begins today at Beaver Creek, with the Men’s Downhill competition beginning at 11 a.m. and a U.S. Ski Team autograph session tonight at…
The first-ever Roller Derby World Cup gets underway today in Toronto at 5 p.m. EST (that’s 3 p.m. here in Denver), kicking off with a Canada vs. France bout. The entire tournament is being webcast live at www.DerbyNewsNetwork.com, and DNN is calling Team USA the “prohibitive favorite,” thanks in no…
What does climate change have to do with skiing and snowboarding? Everything, according to Auden Schendler — Vice President of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company, board member of Protect Our Winters, and author of Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution. Schendler is the…
Copper Mountain opened its Olympic-sized 22-foot superpipe on Friday, in time for athletes competing in the The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) Sprint U.S. Grand Prix to work on their double corks before next week’s competition, December 5-10. That makes it the first 22-foot pipe of the season in…
If your favorite part of any skate or snowboard video is seeing people fall down and get hurt, then we’ve got a treat for you: This week, we found three locally-produced clips full of brutal bails, courtesy of the new Royal Stain H-DTS Down to Skate promo, Never Summer Smash!…
Crested Butte Mountain Resort marks its fiftieth birthday on Wednesday with a throwback nod to its old Ski Free promotion: Stop by the CB Adventure Center to pick up a free lift ticket, then jostle for first-chair bragging rights when the lifts start turning at 9 a.m. Stop by the…
Tonight at 6:30 p.m. the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) brings its free Avalanche Terrain — Beyond the Basics workshop to REI Denver, 1416 Platte Street, aimed at skiers, snowboarders, and others heading into the backcountry this winter. But, as the CAIC points out, even “a 1.5 hour presentation on…
Opening day! Vail opens today with a 52-inch base, thirteen inches of new snow in the last week, an opening day terrain park on Born Free, and access to the mountain from both Vail Village and Lionshead. Still need a season pass? The $699 early-season price on the Vail Resorts’…
