If building a custom bike frame is on your DIY to-do list, you’ll be able to cross it off next month. The Bamboo Bike Studio, with locations in Brooklyn and San Francisco, is taking its popular bike-building workshops on the road for the Celebrate American Bike Making Tour, with stops…
Come out of the closet, gapers! Hot pink and electric blue ski and snowboard gear from the 1980s lives forever thanks to events like tonight’s 8th annual 80s Ski Party at Mile High Station, 2027 West Lower Colfax Avenue, where they won’t even let you through the door unless the…
When the Son of God books his Second Coming tour, members of the Denver chapter of Snowboarders and Skiers for Christ like to think he’ll head to Colorado for some sliding on frozen water…
Ghost stories about the Croke-Patterson Mansion, 420-428 East 11th Avenue, date to the 1890s, when original owner Thomas Croke was too spooked to stay and sold the place to Thomas Patterson, then the owner of the Rocky Mountain News. The mansion is now busy haunting two new books from the…
We recently noticed an uptick in traffic to our December 2010 post about the 2011 Cyclepassion calendar, featuring Boulder’s Heather Irmiger wearing considerably less than she’d typically wear on her way to winning back-to-back-to-back mountain-bike championships. Why the sudden surge of new interest? Irmiger won Women’s Cross Country Mountain Bike…
Eleven of the twenty resorts profiled in Ski Magazine’s reader’s choice list of the top twenty ski resorts in the Western Unied States this year are from Colorado, including six of the top ten. And while Utah’s Deer Valley takes the top spot in a snub that just might force…
The season of winter stoke is upon us: Wolf Creek, Arapahoe Basin, and Loveland Ski Area were all open over the weekend and, this being the 21st century, we found some sweet video coverage — including wild remote-control helicopter footage from A-Basin — for you to wistfully watch on this…
The party so bright you’ve gotta wear shades! Don’t be caught with your bib-pants down when the EPIC Foundation’s eighth annual 80s Ski Party rolls into town next week: This year every Goodwill store in the metro region sent its ’80s ski stock to the Goodwill locations at 21 South…
The 2011/2012 ski season is officially upon us: Arapahoe Basin opened this morning and Loveland is opening tomorrow. Each will be open daily until well into the Spring skiing season…
“This race is much more than just running around and splashing through some mud,” says Brad Scudder, the man behind the Rugged Maniac 5K, slinging mud at a few adventure races put on by competitors. “We have large, involved, maniac obstacles like the Suicide Slide, which takes you into the…
This morning, Arapahoe Basin announced it will open tomorrow, October 13, at 9 a.m., for the season. The ski area is reporting an eighteen-inch base after a week of snowmaking and several inches of natural snow. That’s not quite as epic as the 36-inch dump that helped Wolf Creek temporarily…
Austrian climbers dominated both the men’s and women’s competition this past weekend, before a sold-out crowd at Movement Climbing + Fitness in Boulder for the 2011 International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Lead Climbing World Cup. Many climbers — and climbing fans — hope this event was a preview of…
Intrepid explorers who chased the storm out to Wolf Creek Ski Area for the first lift-served Colorado shred of the season were rewarded handsomely: In addition to the 36-inch dump we reported on Friday, Wolf Creek has since gotten another 10 inches, including 2 inches last night. The mountain, which…
“It would be sad to see this much snow not being skied on at a ski area,” says Elesha Goad, ticket office supervisor at Wolf Creek Ski Area, where they’re opening this weekend to take advantage of the 36 inches of new snow that has fallen in the last 24…
“Your job should be something you’re pumped on,” says Preston Strout, co-owner of the High Cascade Snowboard Camp. He’s the guest moderator at The Business of Fun, a free event starting at 6 p.m. tonight that’s the kick off for the three-day Launch of Winter celebration at Battery 621 (click…
Tonight’s October Snowboard Colorado Magazine release party at Casselman’s Bar & Venue ($10) features the “official” North American premiere of Bottom Line, from the Austrian crew at Pirate Movie Productions (they also showed it in Aspen last week at The Meeting) and the local premiere of Think Thank’s latest, Ransack…
“Who wouldn’t want to be entertained and encouraged and distracted while running 13.1 or 26.2 miles?” asks Ron Bostwick, entertainment director for the Sports Authority Rock ’n’ Roll Denver Marathon and Half Marathon. “We’ve got 26 local bands along the 26.2-mile course, and we highly encourage residents in all the…
The world-famous Banff Mountain Film Festival in Canada’s Banff National Park begins on October 29 and is well worth the cost of a plane ticket. For a teaser a bit closer to home, though, check out the Radical Reels Tour, which stops in Golden for a two-night engagement featuring nine…
Flylow, a Denver-based gear company specializing in skiing outerwear and accessories, won the first-annual Something Independent Snowsport Entrepreneur Award last night, presented at the Sypder Showroom at Battery 621. The $1,500 award comes with a marketing package to help take the winning entrepreneur to the next level, and was established…
Poor Boyz Productions’ 2011 ski epic The Grand Bizarre got its Colorado premiere over the weekend in Aspen at The Meeting ski and snowboard film festival; it comes to the Boulder Theater, 2032 14th Street, tonight at 7 p.m. with featured skiers Bobby Brown, Nick Martini, Simon Dumont, Matt Walker…
We’ve been getting ahead of ourselves with all the recent snowboard video premieres going down — and opening day still at least a month away at most Colorado resorts — but some of our favorite local film crews have been reminding us of an important fact: It’s still skateboarding season…
Skate & create! The fourth annual Bordo Bello skateboard art fundraiser runs tonight from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Redline Gallery, 2350 Arapahoe Street, with a silent auction featuring skateboard decks, vinyl toys and other artwork. Event organizers sent out blank Board Pusher decks and KidRobot Munny toys to…
