As if the explosion of Fall color isn’t reason enough to drive over Independence Pass this weekend headed for Aspen, tonight is also the NEPSA Video Awards ceremony at 7 p.m. at the Wheeler Opera House, the official kickoff of The Meeting, Aspen’s 7th annual ski & snowboard film festival…
Dinosaur paleobiologist Dr. Philip J. Currie has news for you in case the terrifying Tyrannosaurus rex fossils at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science haven’t already ripped their way into your nightmares: The T. rex may have been much, much smarter than previously believed and most likely hunted in…
“What we’re shooting for is to give people a reason to get up here in the fall and pretend to be lumberjacks,” says Adam Williams, co-founder of the Man of the Cliff competition, a celebration of rugged outdoorsmanship in the tiny town of Red Cliff (just south of Vail on…
The month-long lurch towards Halloween begins on Saturday with the Zombie Dash, an urban race that provides a perfect training ground for the impending World War Z, no matter which side you’ll be fighting for. “Whether you’re trying to survive the upcoming Zombie Apocalypse or part of the ever-growing flesh-eating,…
In the 1880s, English explorers Teresa and St. George Littledale — with their fox terrier, Tanny, in tow — mounted expeditions in the Rocky Mountains and across North America. And then they headed even further afield, to the Caucasus, the Pamirs, Russian Central Asia, Mongolia and eventually Tibet, in an…
The most-hyped snowboard film of the season gets its Colorado premiere with a sold-out show at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House tonight at 8 p.m., when snowboarder Travis Rice and Brain Farm Digital Cinema director Curt Morgan bring The Art of Flight to town (there are still tickets available for…
Break out your best black and red gear: The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ 5280 Fight Club finished in second place at this weekend’s Bridgetown Brawl West Region Playoffs, advancing to the 2011 Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Championships in November, where they’ll defend their 2010 title. RMRG destroyed the #7-seed…
Denver-based snowboard manufacturer Never Summer Industries celebrates its 20th anniversary season this winter, and the party starts tonight at 7 p.m. at Summit Music Hall with the world premiere of the second full-length team video, Shred Em’ All, followed by a thrash-rock set and Metallica covers by It Should Have…
All-star teams from both of Colorado’s premier roller derby leagues — Rocky Mountain Rollergirls and the Denver Roller Dolls — are in Portland, Oregon, this weekend for the Bridgetown Brawl Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) West Region Playoffs at Memorial Coliseum, and all of the tournament’s bouts will be…
The mere thrill of jumping out of a plane wasn’t enough for Denver-based skydiver Nick Batsch, who took up the sport of canopy piloting (where the action is closer to the ground) ten years ago. Batsch just won his third United States Parachute Association (USPA) National Skydiving Championships of Canopy…
What’s the first step to improving the quality of your photographs? Head to Telluride amid the explosion of fall colors this week and start shooting. Making the most of the local landscape is at least part of the idea behind the second annual Telluride Photo Festival, says executive director Eric…
Snowboarder Travis Rice and director Curt Morgan nearly blew the doors off the Ellie Caulkins Opera House the last time they were in town, showing their 2008 film That’s It, That’s All to a sold-out crowd. Now Rice says that was a mere baby step on their way to truly…
September snowboard stoke continues tonight at the Fox Theater (1135 13th Street in Boulder) with the Colorado premieres of Capita’s Defenders of Awesome, Role Model Productions’ Cockfight!, the Givin film One, and the new team video from Boulder’s Satellite Boardshop, plus an encore screening of Familia 2, from FODT &…
Yesterday marked the official ownership transition at Grand Mesa’s Powderhorn Resort: Andy Daly and brothers Ken and Tom Gart bought the ski area at auction on August 4 for just $577,500, plus an additional 700-acre development tract below the resort for $825,000, spending a total of $1.4 million and announcing…
Colorado companies cleaned up at this weekend’s fifth annual IF3 International Freeski Film Festival in Montreal, with Boulder-based Sweetgrass Productions taking Best Cinematography for Solitaire, Denver-based Level 1 Productions winning Best Editing for After Dark, and Boulder-based Stept Productions claiming Best Jib Movie for Weight (the Boulder premiere of Weight…
Mmm… totally! “We are looking forward to 10,000 snowboarders getting together to celebrate the sport and the start of the new season,” says Waide Hoyt, production manager for Standard Films. The company is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Totally Board series tonight with the world premiere of TB:20 at…
Director Nick Waggoner and his Boulder-based Sweetgrass Productions crew spent two years filming in the backcountry in Argentina, Peru, and Chilean Patagonia to make Solitaire, a film unlike any of the other ski and snowboard porn premiering this month. We caught up with Waggoner and producer Zac Ramras in advance…
“What the fuck am I doing here?” asks mountain climber Cory Richards, in the opening seconds of Cold, one of six climbing films featured in the 2011 Reel Rock Film Tour that kicks off tonight at 6 p.m. at the Boulder Theater. It’s a poignant question: Richards is at 21,959’…
“Over the last twenty years, the annual Totally Board movies from Standard Films have been as much a part of the snowboard life for me and the Snowboard on the Rocks founders as lacing up our boots, waxing our boards or looking at the snow report,” says promoter and Snowboard…
New Belgium Brewing, the Fort Collins-based brewery with the iconic cruiser bike logo and best known for its Fat Tire Amber Ale, raised more than $90,000 on September 3 for the Overland Mountain Bike Club, Bike Fort Collins, and Fort Collins Bike Co-op at its Tour de Fat event in…
Last month, upon reporting the news that seven of the 28 skaters on the Team USA roster for the first-ever Roller Derby World Cup in Toronto are from Colorado, we wondered aloud if the World Cup was shaping up to be an international incident concluding with a red, white, and…
Launch: Community Through Skateboarding and the proposed Launch Creative Center in Fort Collins are ready to drop in, thanks to money raised at the All Hands On Deck art show and a fully-funded Kickstarter campaign that concluded last week, surpassing its fundraising goal by more than $1,000 for a total…
