Five best places to catch the U.S. Ski Team in Colorado

If you live in Colorado and love alpine ski racing, get ready for a season of unprecedented access to the best of the best, thanks to Tuesday’s grand opening of the new U.S. Ski Team Speed Center at Copper Mountain and several key events, including two World Cup races in…

Snow Porn: Put your back into it with ThirtyTwo and Woodward at Copper

When we interviewed Woodward at Copper ripper Morrison Hsieh for The Edge, our 2011/2012 winter activity guide, we got an earful about all the new terrain park features we’d be seeing on the slopes now that Woodward’s partnership with Copper Mountain has moved into full swing and new terrain park…

Gotham Girls Roller Derby All-Stars win Hydra Trophy at WFTDA Championships

New York’s Gotham Girls Roller Derby All-Stars were the big winners at the 2011 Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Championships at the 1st Bank Center this weekend, beating out West Region champs the Oly Rollers Cosa Nostra Donnas, 140-97. Gotham Girls also trounced the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls 5280 Fight…

Snow Porn: Flow Snowboarding brings Was Here to Casselman’s tonight

The Colorado premiere of Flow Snowboarding’s new team video Was Here drops tonight at 8 p.m. at Casselman’s Bar & Venue, 2620 Walnut Street, where Snowboard Colorado magazine is celebrating the release of its November issue, giving free PBRs to the first 500 folks through the door, tossing out a…

Five must-see movies at the 2011 Adventure Film Festival this week

The 2011 Adventure Film Festival gets under way in Boulder this week with a free Adventure Film Community Night at the Patagonia store at 1212 Pearl Street on Thursday at 7 p.m. and a Photographer Seminar at REI Boulder, 1789 28th Street, on Friday at noon, before the first screenings…

This Weekend in Stoke: Make the ’80s Ski Party last all weekend

Come out of the closet, gapers! Hot pink and electric blue ski and snowboard gear from the 1980s lives forever thanks to events like tonight’s 8th annual 80s Ski Party at Mile High Station, 2027 West Lower Colfax Avenue, where they won’t even let you through the door unless the…

Bike porn! Heather Irmiger wins mountain bike gold at 2011 Pan American Games

We recently noticed an uptick in traffic to our December 2010 post about the 2011 Cyclepassion calendar, featuring Boulder’s Heather Irmiger wearing considerably less than she’d typically wear on her way to winning back-to-back-to-back mountain-bike championships. Why the sudden surge of new interest? Irmiger won Women’s Cross Country Mountain Bike…

Goodwill has the neon stretch pants you need for the 80s Ski Party

The party so bright you’ve gotta wear shades! Don’t be caught with your bib-pants down when the EPIC Foundation’s eighth annual 80s Ski Party rolls into town next week: This year every Goodwill store in the metro region sent its ’80s ski stock to the Goodwill locations at 21 South…