Signal Snowboards brings iShred Steve Jobs tribute to Loveland

Signal Snowboards has built a special tribute to Steve Jobs, complete with an iPad mounted in the nose of the board and a glowing LED Signal logo in the aluminum base (similar to Apple’s iconic MacBook laptops). To test it, the California-based Signal crew brought the iShred to Colorado for…

Five best places to catch the U.S. Ski Team in Colorado

If you live in Colorado and love alpine ski racing, get ready for a season of unprecedented access to the best of the best, thanks to Tuesday’s grand opening of the new U.S. Ski Team Speed Center at Copper Mountain and several key events, including two World Cup races in…

Local Boards for Locavores

“We’re very proud to say our boards are built not just in the USA, but right here in Colorado in our Denver factory, and we’re not the only ones,” says Mike Gagliardi, snow-sales manager for Never Summer Industries. “If you love snowboarding — or any of the snow sports, really…

Snow Porn: Put your back into it with ThirtyTwo and Woodward at Copper

When we interviewed Woodward at Copper ripper Morrison Hsieh for The Edge, our 2011/2012 winter activity guide, we got an earful about all the new terrain park features we’d be seeing on the slopes now that Woodward’s partnership with Copper Mountain has moved into full swing and new terrain park…

Gotham Girls Roller Derby All-Stars win Hydra Trophy at WFTDA Championships

New York’s Gotham Girls Roller Derby All-Stars were the big winners at the 2011 Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Championships at the 1st Bank Center this weekend, beating out West Region champs the Oly Rollers Cosa Nostra Donnas, 140-97. Gotham Girls also trounced the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls 5280 Fight…

Colorado Snowboard History Museum: The Westword exhibit

This week’s cover story on the new Colorado Snowboard Archive collection at the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum, and the history of the effort by snowboarders to get respect alongside skiing, sent us digging through our online archives dating back fifteen years as we covered the subject from top to…

Anson Fogel, Colorado filmmakers top 2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival awards

Colorado filmmakers dominated the 2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival awards over the weekend at the annual competition in Alberta, Canada’s Banff National Park, with Carbondale-based director Anson Fogel (Forge Motion Pictures), Basalt-based director Pete McBride (Pete McBride Photography), Greeley-based director Ben Stookesberry (Clear H20 Films), and Boulder-based director Peter Mortimer…

Chasing Water, Truck Farm, Cold win big at 2011 Adventure Film Festival

Colorado-based photographer Pete McBride’s film Chasing Water, the companion to his book The Colorado River: Flowing Through Conflict, won the Adventure Through Activism Award over the weekend at the 2011 Adventure Film Festival in Boulder, one of two $500 cash prizes awarded this year (see trailer at www.PeteMcBride.com). The other…

Snow Porn: Flow Snowboarding brings Was Here to Casselman’s tonight

The Colorado premiere of Flow Snowboarding’s new team video Was Here drops tonight at 8 p.m. at Casselman’s Bar & Venue, 2620 Walnut Street, where Snowboard Colorado magazine is celebrating the release of its November issue, giving free PBRs to the first 500 folks through the door, tossing out a…

Skis and Brewskis

Since 1991, the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Expo has been the go-to event for stocking up on winter gear at discounts of up to 75 percent, as well as grabbing procrastinators’ deals on season passes, ski area four-packs, lesson packages and backcountry adventures. And this year, thanks to the addition…

Five must-see movies at the 2011 Adventure Film Festival this week

The 2011 Adventure Film Festival gets under way in Boulder this week with a free Adventure Film Community Night at the Patagonia store at 1212 Pearl Street on Thursday at 7 p.m. and a Photographer Seminar at REI Boulder, 1789 28th Street, on Friday at noon, before the first screenings…

Mountain Highs

The Colorado Mountain Club convened its first official meeting on April 26, 1912, was instrumental in winning federal designation for Rocky Mountain National Park just three years later, and is now celebrating a century of shaping mountain conservation, education and recreation in Colorado. Get a sneak preview of the 2012…