When the first kayakers put in today at 4 p.m. for the Pro Freestyle prelims at the Lyons Outdoor Games, they’ll be paddling like crazy. “This year we had the biggest snowpack we’ve seen in as long as I can remember, well over 200 percent of average, and it’s just…
Today Denver-based snowboard company Never Summer Industries released the first trailer for Shred ‘Em All, the second feature-length film showcasing its team riders. The world premiere will be in Denver in the Fall, but we figured the trailer was news hook enough to catch up with director Micah Cook for…
Lift tickets, lesssons, lodging, and gear rentals for a posse rolling more than 20 deep? Duggar family parents Jim Bob and Michelle may not have had ponying up for family ski vacations on the brain while they were getting busy and getting down to business with the practical side of…
If you skipped the action in Vail this weekend at the 10th annual Teva Mountain Games, never fear: Students from the Outside Adventure Film School camp held in conjunction with the games will be getting their footage featured online shortly (click here for an hour’s worth of awesome from the…
Dive in! Red Bull Illume — “The world’s biggest action sports photography competition” — brings its touring exhibition to the Denver Performing Arts Center’s outdoor Galleria tonight through June 12 from 8:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., with massively large-format backlit prints of the top 50 finalists from 2010. Chris Burkard’s…
The Women’s Flat Track Derby Association announced yesterday that it has accepted eight new roller derby leagues from its apprentice league program, including Colorado’s Castle Rock ‘n’ Rollers (catch them in action on June 11 at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, skating against Greeley’s Slaughterhouse Derby Girls). For those of you…
Photographer Chris Burkard won this year’s Red Bull Illume international action-sports photography competition with an epic shot of Peter Mendia surfing in Buchupureo, Chile. See the winning image — along with all fifty finalists, including shots of skateboarders, skiers, divers, mountain bikers, motocross racers, parkour free-runners and more — in…
Vail’s annual Memorial Day whitewater festival has exploded into one of North America’s premier outdoor sports events and turned a sleepy week between spring and summer into one of the Vail Valley’s biggest boom times. This year’s tenth annual Teva Mountain Games features kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding, rock climbing, mountain biking,…
Richard Louv first coined the term Nature Deficit Disorder — “an atrophied awareness, a diminished ability to find meaning in the life that surrounds us” — in his 2005 book Last Child In the Woods, diagnosing a root cause of the degeneration of our bodies and brains (and our planet)…
The winners of the 32nd annual Mountainfilm in Telluride festival were announced on Monday and include eight films in five categories. We’ve got the trailers after the jump, and we’ll shout them out on this blog later in the year if and when any of them will be screening in…
The Girl Bike Love crew has been known to quote Susan B. Anthony — “Let me tell you what I think of bicycling: I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world” — and other feminist icons when talking about its mission to “empower,…
Road trip! The 32nd annual Mountainfilm in Telluride film festival gets into full swing today at 9 a.m. with opening remarks from filmmaker Tom Shadyac and a Moving Mountains “Awareness into Action” symposium. The first screenings start tonight at 6:30 p.m. See our previous posts for the must-see action sports…
Solitaire, the new backcountry skiing and snowboarding film from Colorado-based Sweetgrass Productions and director Nick Waggoner, isn’t scheduled for its Denver premiere until September 16 when the Fall flick frenzy gets into full swing. That hasn’t stopped the company from dribbling out sweet little teaser tastes: On the Road with…
“Winter just ended yesterday, pretty much,” says Keystone spokesman Ryan Whaley. The resort had so much snow this year that it even had to push the opening of its golf course back a week. The weather’s been so wacky that Whaley’s just decided to run with it. “Our Summer Remix…
“Denver has this explosive cycling scene, and it seems like everyone around here has a good bike story,” says Andrew Orvedahl, the local comedian behind The Narrators, a storytelling event held at 8 p.m. the first Wednesday of every month at Paris Wine Bar, 1553 Platte Street. “If anybody has…
“The BolderBoulder has become a big Memorial Day tradition for a lot of people, and race morning is always very energetic around here,” says BolderBoulder spokesman Matt Jenkins. “I was pretty young when the first race came through town, and I watched my dad run it, so it’s been pretty…
What to do as snowboard season finally starts winding down? Today’s time-wasting video clips come courtesy of Boulder’s Meta Skateboards shop, Denver’s Never Summer Skateboards and Broomfield’s Crisis Skateboards shop. Enjoy:…
The 32nd annual Mountainfilm in Telluride festival kicks off tomorrow night with free outdoor screenings at the Base Camp Outdoor Theater in Telluride Town Park; the full festival runs through the three-day weekend. While the festival has come to embrace documentaries about the environment, global politics, and personal responsibility (see…
Today I’m headed for the slopes at Arapahoe Basin, where it has snowed more than 23 inches in the last three days and where, as I reported last week, the season has officially been extended through at least June 19 (seven days a week through June 5, then three-day weekends…
Watch out for the Libyans! Who cares if the world is ending tomorrow when you can fire up the Flux Capacitor, hit 88 miles per hour and travel to happier times at tonight’s Bike to the Future Bike Prom at 8 p.m. at Casselman’s, 2620 Walnut Street? Tickets are $20…
This week, Mountainfilm in Telluride promoters released the full program for the 32nd annual festival (May 25-30). Since there are more than 70 films on the schedule, we caught up with Mountainfilm’s program director Emily Long to bring you a sneak peek at some of this year’s most hotly anticipated…
The 32nd annual Telluride Mountainfilm Festival officially runs May 27-30, but head west early to catch the free outdoor screenings at the Base Camp Outdoor Theater, new this year on the main stage in Telluride Town Park. The first is tonight at 9 p.m. and features director Tom Shadyac’s documentary…
