The second annual Iron Artist live-art competition at The Other Side Arts borrows the Iron Chef “kitchen stadium” concept and brings it to the gallery, where fifteen artists will battle it out in a live contest built around one secret ingredient that won’t be revealed until today at noon. “The…
Shaun White picked up his Epic Pass yesterday after signing on to make Northstar-at-Tahoe his home resort and agreeing to represent all six of the Vail Resorts properties (including Vail, Beaver Creek and Breckenridge here in Colorado) in what Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz says is a multi-year partnership agreement…
Look out, Moonlight Classic 2012, here’s a product surely destined for just about every nocturnal bike in Colorado: The Revolights project is less than $10,000 shy of its $43,500 goal on Kickstarter.com, with 42 days to go as of this writing, which means fully-functional wheel-mounted cycling lights could soon be…
Jake Norton, a mountain climber from Golden, CO, is in Uganda this week to climb Mount Stanley’s Margherita Peak, a 16,763′ peak in the Ruwnezori Range, as the next step in what he’s calling Challenge21. Climbing the Seven Summits — the tallest peaks on each continent — has long been…
Get the lead out! Will he? Won’t he? As of this writing Lance Armstrong hadn’t yet tweeted his intention to compete in the Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race on Saturday (he pre-qualified by winning the Crested Butte Alpine Odyssey on July 31), but one of the gnarliest events in Colorado…
In 2006 Sheri and Randy Propster sold their home and most of their belongings, gave their car away, got married and set out to enjoy a 253-day honeymoon, backpacking the coast-to-coast American Discovery Trail together. Their blogs from the adventure became an educational “virtual fieldtrip” in partnership with several high…
Need to get out more? Join the club tonight at 6:30 p.m. at REI Denver, where Sheri and Randy Propster from Backpacker Magazine will be stopping by on their 2011 Get Out More tour…
Attention, ski and snowboard bums: Vail Resorts has a job just for you. This winter you could be riding out the recession at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Heavenly and Northstar-at-Tahoe as part of the Sprint Snow Squad blogger team. For your trouble — a trifle, really — you’ll get…
The world premiere of TB:20 — the 20th anniversary edition of Standard Films’ Totally Board series — will be on Friday, September 16 at Red Rocks Amphitheater, where it’s the headlining film at the 2nd annual Snowboard On The Rocks film and music festival. Standard released the first full trailer…
Seven of the 28 skaters on the Team USA roster for the first-ever Roller Derby World Cup in Toronto in December are from Colorado. The lineup, announced yesterday, includes five skaters — Amanda Jamitinya, DeRanged, Frida Beater, Psycho Babble and Urrk’n Jerk’n — from the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ 5280 Fight…
Andy Weiss (former owner of the Market Skateshop in Fort Collins), Alison Alter (an art teacher at Fort Collins High School), and Justin Hocking (co-editor of Life and Limb: Skateboarders Write From the Deep End) called in some favors and brought out some heavy hitters for tonight’s All Hands On…
On Sunday, hometown hero Julian Christianson won the Hometown Heroes amateur skateboarding finals at X Games 17 — it’s his fourth time winning the contest — and later this month he’s headed to Las Vegas to compete in the Maloof Road Tour finals, after winning the Denver stop at the…
If you’ve been dreaming up how you’d do things differently as king of the mountain, this could be your week: Powderhorn Ski Area CEO and President Steve Bailey and Dean Skalla, who have owned the ski area since 1999, are selling it in an auction on Thursday at 1 p.m…
Red Bull Media House, Brain Farm Digital Cinema and Quiksilver have announced world tour dates for director Curt Morgan’s latest snowboard film extravaganza The Art of Flight after unveiling a high-profile ad campaign promoting the film during X Games 17. The high-definition film (check out the trailer below) will get…
Look out, Leadville 100 competitors: Lance Armstrong is coming for you again after winning yesterday’s Crested Butte Alpine Odyssey mountain bike race with a time of 4:32:21, three seconds ahead of second-place finisher Greg Krause and third-place finisher Travis Scheefer. The 63-mile Crested Butte Alpine Odyssey is the third and…
Make it rain! Crankworx Colorado continues today at Winter Park with the Rainmaker Air Downhill Slopestyle qualifiers starting at 12:15 p.m. (finals start on Saturday at 1 p.m.). The weekend is also full of spectator-friendly XC and downhill mountain bike races. Better still: Most of the Trestle Bike Park trails…
In 1996, adventurer Göran Kropp famously set out by bike from his home in Sweden, loaded with gear, and rode all the way to Nepal to climb Mount Everest. He made the summit on May 23 of that year, without bottled oxygen and without Sherpa support, then climbed down, got…
Denver-based BMX star Jay Eggleston was rendered unconscious during competition at the Dew Tour’s Pantech Open in Ocean City on Saturday, and was sent to a nearby trauma center. The Eggleston family has set up a page at CarePages.com to send updates, and announced last night that he was briefly…
Silverton Mountain is a good seven-hour drive from Denver in the winter, but we’re going to argue that their season pass deal is too good to pass up, especially if you buy one this week while they’re 50 percent off: Silverton is selling a limited number of 2011/2012 season passes…
David Roberts, author of Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer, researched the life, writings and artwork of the young adventurer who vanished somewhere in the American Southwest in the 1930s, and has written the first true biography of the young man. Roberts (and…
Divide & Conquer! The Denver Roller Dolls are hosting the Continental Divide & Conquer (the 2011 Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby Association Championships) November 11-13, and tickets go on sale on Saturday with early-bird pricing through July 31. It ought to be quite a battle: The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls, DRD’s…
Apparently, Copper Mountain isn’t content to merely be a focal point of the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association’s freestyle Grand Prix series — not to mention the first stop for any U.S. athlete with Olympic dreams in ski or snowboard slopestyle or superpipe. Yesterday, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association…
