Commuters passing Federal on 6th Avenue on their way into Denver may have noticed construction on what is shaping up to be an epic new mountain bike and BMX skills park, designed by Gravity Logic and pro rider John Cowan. The park will be operated by Winter Park’s Trestle Bike…

It’s going to be hot today in Denver. Damned hot. Too hot. Thinking of going for a run today? Forget it, you’ll kill yourself out there. Thankfully Aquaman is coming to the rescue. “Aquaman, here in landlocked Colorado?” Yes, Aquaman…

You don’t want to go up against a local in a race like the Xterra Mountain Championship at Beaver Creek: On Saturday Vail’s Josiah Middaugh set a new course record on his way to winning the triathlon with a 19-second lead over Scott Wealing (Boulder) and Brian Smith (Gunnison), making…

Kick it! Local photographer Terry “The Rat” Ratzlaff — best known for his snowboarding and action sports photography — is one of ten featured artists at tonight’s 1st annual Sole Food art show presented by Division West at Black Book Gallery, 555 Santa Fe Drive, from 6 p.m. to midnight…

The Colorado Roadless Project and the Outdoor Alliance have a cool new campaign promoting their efforts to protect Colorado’s 4.2 million acres of National Forest lands currently designated as “Roadless Areas” for mountain biking, hiking, climbing, paddling, backcountry skiing and snowboarding, and other outdoor activities. They’re breaking out the big…

We know it’s kind of torturous of us to keep showing you the new trailers for this year’s forthcoming ski and snowboard porn in the middle of July, but we just can’t help ourselves. Keystone and Breckenridge get some love in The Grand Bizarre, this year’s film from Poor Boyz…

Tickets go on sale on Saturday at 10 a.m. for the second annual Snowboard on the Rocks at Red Rocks. The September 16 event will feature the world premieres of three films: TB20 is the twentieth-anniversary installment of the Totally Board series from Standard Films, Familia 2 is the second…

Last week we reported on the International Olympic Committee’s announcement that ski and snowboard slopestyle events have officially been added as medal sports for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games and on the local ramifications of that decision. And wait, there’s more: Other big news with a solid local angle coming…

Breck Bike Week just got underway yesterday, but already the town’s cycling community is looking forward to Fall: In just 46 days the USA Pro Cycling Challenge (August 22-28) will be off to the races, bringing many of the world’s top cyclists to Colorado. Breck is hosting Stage 5 of…

Something about this recent run of three-digit-degrees days and Monday’s closing day at Arapahoe Basin have us looking forward to next ski season already, and it turns out we’re not alone: On Monday director Josh Berman and the Denver-based ski porn specialists at Level 1 Productions released the first trailer…

Yesterday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board approved the addition of ski and snowboard slopestyle events at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. The announcement came yesterday from the 123rd IOC Session in Durban, South Africa, and follows an April announcement that ski halfpipe will also be a…

Get ready to give up any excuse you might have for not staying active and living a life of adventure: This weekend the National Sports Center for the Disabled is hosting No Barriers Summit 2011 at Winter Park “to promote innovative ideas, approaches and assistive technologies which help people with…

The charmingly-titled local rag Fuck Off Zine is known as much for its for offend-everybody headlines like “How To Give Yourself an Abortion” and “Spitting on Bulldykes” as for its skateboard photography, and has now been potty-mouthing its way through “skateboard carnage from the bowels of ColoRADo” for 11 issues…