Skiers competing at the Red Bull Cold Rush this week at Silverton Mountain got their first reminder of just how hardcore the venue is yesterday when an early morning avalanche wiped out a third of the planned course for the Day 1 Big Mountain portion of the three-day freeskiing event…
Tonight, photographer Terri Bell opens her tbellphotographic studio & gallery up to a group of seventeen Colorado artists she met, quite by chance, after issuing an open call and inviting Mark Sink to serve as juror for a show celebrating “the art of being in the right place at the…
Local light artist Collin Parson has been stepping into the limelight with hip-to-be-square works like his recent “Square Variations,” featuring illuminated geometric shapes and patterns of straight lines that create visual echoes of the boxes containing them. But this month, he says, he’s rounding a corner. “I’ve always been influenced…
Collaboration is the new competition, and eight of Colorado’s coolest local skate shops and skateboard brands are banding together in an unprecedented partnership to release Malfunction, a new video from filmmakers Brandon Greer, Corey Miller, and Travis La featuring skaters James Batcheller, Dan Hunter, Scott Johnson, Mike Marks and Garrett…
If you — or your kid — have been dreaming of making your own custom skateboard decks, don’t miss this week’s three-day Build Your Own Skateboard Workshop at Art Lab Fort Collins, 239 Linden Street, starting on Friday, February 24 at 4:30 p.m. The $60 workshop, which continues February 25…
The Banff Mountain Film Festival in Canada is an annual tribute to mountain culture, the mountain environment, and mountain sports and adventure, says REI Boulder spokeswoman Sarah Leone. And the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is the best way to see it without going abroad. “Each year we bring…
The greatest adventures are always more about the journey than the destination, but that truism can be easy to forget when you can’t wait to get that heavy pack off your back. If the actual hiking isn’t the most enjoyable part of your backpacking trips, then you just might be…
If you still have decent legs under you after hitting the slopes this weekend, stop by the Barn at Woodward at Copper on Sunday at 5 p.m. to get a session in with pro skateboarder Andy MacDonald. The Barn has a pretty sick wooden skate bowl in addition to all…
In January we reported on a handful of homegrown Colorado ski companies making handcrafted and custom skis that stand up to or surpass anything else on the market. If we’d waited a few weeks, we could have added another local brand to the mix: Silverton-based Venture Snowboards. For the last…
“This is the first Telluride Gay Ski since the defeat of the marginalizing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy for our LGBTQ U.S. military service members,” says Reichen Lehmkuhl, celebrity host of Telluride Gay Ski Week, in a news release touting the event. Telluride Gay Ski Week 2012 runs from February…
The first annual Winter Teva Mountain Games went down this weekend at Vail, and some of the first video edits are already popping up. Not surprisingly, the flashiest are from the Telemark Big Air & Biking Best Trick contests. Chad Kagy — a BMX star best known for dominating events…
If you’ve been known to wear sandals with socks in the winter, this one’s for you. After a decade of hosting the Teva Mountain Games in the summer, the Vail Valley Foundation is bringing the same festival atmosphere and spirit of competition to its new Winter Teva Mountain Games today…
Salomon Freeski TV’s clip of paraplegic skier Josh Dueck hucking the first-ever Sit Ski backflip has us as stoked as any other trick we’ve seen filmed this season. Dueck — formerly a competitive freestyle skier before a T11 spinal chord injury in 2004 — won bronze in the Mono Skier…
Fred Beckey, author of more than a dozen mountaineering guides, has made more first ascents than any other North American climber — and possibly more than any climber anywhere. And that’s not just because he’s been at it the longest, though the fact that he just turned 89 and is…
To make the most of your snow day today, believe it or not, you’re going to want to stay fairly close to home: Denver got more snow than most of the ski areas, and you might find more powder at your local sledding hill than at your favorite ski resort…
If you’ll be sad to see the Art of Winter exhibit downtown conclude when it comes down on February 6 you can still get in on the auction of one-off artist works and brand gallery items from the show, including original work by 20 local artists as well as skis…
Here in Denver we like to throw the number 5,280 around a lot. Skiers and snowboarders at Breckenridge prefer a much bigger number: 12,840. That’s the elevation at the top of the Imperial Express SuperChair, the highest chairlift in North America, and it’s open this morning for the first time…
“Team Canada-Quebec created a sculpture that demonstrates all virtues of carving snow: clean execution, anatomically correct figures and animals, texture, balance and more,” said Jenn Cram, judge coordinator for the 22nd annual International Snow Sculpture Championships and Arts District administrator for the Town of Breckenridge. The team won the competition…
Aspen is X-rated this weekend. “If you’ve only seen the Winter X Games on TV, you’re missing an incredible opportunity to see some of the most amazing athletes in the world, get behind the scenes and take advantage of everything Aspen and our four mountains have to offer,” says Aspen/Snowmass…
Recent powder dumps across the state couldn’t have come at a better time: This week the entire snow sports industry is in town for its annual SIA Snow Show confab at the Colorado Convention Center and related Mile High Snow Fest events all over town, all the top pros are…
Sometimes I don’t know if I should let anyone know I’m making skis in here, because I’m not sure if it makes me look cool or if it makes me look stupid,” says David Liechty, the founder of Grace Skis, who uses his living room in north Denver for part…
It was a big weekend for Colorado athletes on the Winter Dew Tour, with Breckenridge snowboarder Eric Willett and Aspen skier Torin Yater-Wallace each topping the podium at the Pantech Invitational in Killington, VT. Check out the highlight reels after the jump…
