“First time?” the guy behind the Loveland rental stand asked as he installed the gadget that would hook my boots on to the board. I don’t think he ended the question with “dude,” but with his slouched over ‘tude, I wanted to hear “dude” or “gnarly” or something else incredibly…
Santa didn’t bring much in the way of fresh snow for Christmas (apparently some of you skiers and snowboarders out there have been naughty this year) but he did manage to get some turns in after making his rounds in Colorado, shredding his way into the Facebook feeds of many…
Travis Parr, the local artist best known for making Icelantic skis into mountain masterpieces, opened a major new solo show, The Landscapes of Perception, at Spacejunk Art Centers last week in Bayonne, France. The show runs through January 28, capping a French tour which included stops in Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Grenoble, and…
Shaun White’s tight pants: After just four days on his snowboard this season, White dominated the Superpipe semifinals on Friday with a nearly perfect score of 98.00. In finals on Saturday he launched a massive backside air on his first hit then followed it up with a 900, backside 540,…
Just Dew It! Women’s Superpipe semifinals for the Winter Dew Tour’s Nike Open at Breckenridge get underway today at 9:15 a.m., followed by semifinals for Men’s Freeski Slopestyle, Men’s Snowboard Superpipe, Men’s Freeski Superpipe, and Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle. Tonight also happens to be Breck’s 50th birthday bash, so get up…
Powderhorn Mountain Resort fired up its lifts this morning at 9 a.m. for its 45th anniversary season (and its first season under new ownership). Appropriately enough, it’s a powder day: The resort is reporting thirteen inches of snow in the last 48 hours. Powderhorn is a five-hour drive from Denver,…
Governor John Hickenlooper and others who are eager to put together a Colorado bid for a future Winter Olympics Games must be making a case study out of our state’s worldliness this month. Since Thanksgiving, Colorado has hosted the Aspen Winternational FIS Women’s World Cup at Aspen Mountain and the…
Today was supposed to be the big reveal of the host cities for the 2012 Pro Cycling Challenge — but that list leaked on Friday, in the Denver Post. Still, organizers are going to make an event out of the announcement, with a live Internet broadcast at 5:15 p.m. MST…
In the 2011 Best of Denver, Westword awarded Best Ski Pass Deal honors to Copper Mountain’s $99 Snow Day Pass, a deal so sweet — last year there were more than thirty eligible “Snow Days” at Copper, and $99 is less than the price of a single-day lift ticket at…
After two years of watching his Frends and fans sport “I Ride 4 Kevin” stickers on their boards in tribute, snowboarder Kevin Pearce is asking them to join him on Tuesday at Breckenridge, where he’s planning to take his first runs since the traumatic brain injury that kept him out…
The November issue of Thrasher included the results of a contest in which the magazine had asked readers for the worst skateparks in their towns for a list titled “Certified Piece of Suck: Doo-Doo Skatepark Construction.” One of these pieces of suck is located in Colorado…
If you’ve been bitching about the freezing temperatures this week here in Denver, get a dose of perspective tonight at 7 p.m., when Outside Magazine will be presenting the online premiere of Anson Fogel and Cory Richard’s award-winning film Cold at OutsideOnline.com…
The first ever Roller Derby World Cup, which concluded yesterday in Toronto, can be best summarized by the following chronological countdown of vicious verbs compiled from headlines at DerbyNewsNetwork.com:…
The wind beneath your wings! The Birds of Prey World Cup — the only men’s FIS World Cup alpine skiing event in the U.S. this year — begins today at Beaver Creek, with the Men’s Downhill competition beginning at 11 a.m. and a U.S. Ski Team autograph session tonight at…
The first-ever Roller Derby World Cup gets underway today in Toronto at 5 p.m. EST (that’s 3 p.m. here in Denver), kicking off with a Canada vs. France bout. The entire tournament is being webcast live at www.DerbyNewsNetwork.com, and DNN is calling Team USA the “prohibitive favorite,” thanks in no…
What does climate change have to do with skiing and snowboarding? Everything, according to Auden Schendler — Vice President of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company, board member of Protect Our Winters, and author of Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution. Schendler is the…
Copper Mountain opened its Olympic-sized 22-foot superpipe on Friday, in time for athletes competing in the The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) Sprint U.S. Grand Prix to work on their double corks before next week’s competition, December 5-10. That makes it the first 22-foot pipe of the season in…
If your favorite part of any skate or snowboard video is seeing people fall down and get hurt, then we’ve got a treat for you: This week, we found three locally-produced clips full of brutal bails, courtesy of the new Royal Stain H-DTS Down to Skate promo, Never Summer Smash!…
Crested Butte Mountain Resort marks its fiftieth birthday on Wednesday with a throwback nod to its old Ski Free promotion: Stop by the CB Adventure Center to pick up a free lift ticket, then jostle for first-chair bragging rights when the lifts start turning at 9 a.m. Stop by the…
Tonight at 6:30 p.m. the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) brings its free Avalanche Terrain — Beyond the Basics workshop to REI Denver, 1416 Platte Street, aimed at skiers, snowboarders, and others heading into the backcountry this winter. But, as the CAIC points out, even “a 1.5 hour presentation on…
Opening day! Vail opens today with a 52-inch base, thirteen inches of new snow in the last week, an opening day terrain park on Born Free, and access to the mountain from both Vail Village and Lionshead. Still need a season pass? The $699 early-season price on the Vail Resorts’…
Signal Snowboards has built a special tribute to Steve Jobs, complete with an iPad mounted in the nose of the board and a glowing LED Signal logo in the aluminum base (similar to Apple’s iconic MacBook laptops). To test it, the California-based Signal crew brought the iShred to Colorado for…
