Outdoors & Rec

Need to get out more? Join the club tonight at 6:30 p.m. at REI Denver, where Sheri and Randy Propster from Backpacker Magazine will be stopping by on their 2011 Get Out More tour…

Attention, ski and snowboard bums: Vail Resorts has a job just for you. This winter you could be riding out the recession at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Heavenly and Northstar-at-Tahoe as part of the Sprint Snow Squad blogger team. For your trouble — a trifle, really — you’ll get…

The world premiere of TB:20 — the 20th anniversary edition of Standard Films’ Totally Board series — will be on Friday, September 16 at Red Rocks Amphitheater, where it’s the headlining film at the 2nd annual Snowboard On The Rocks film and music festival. Standard released the first full trailer…

Seven of the 28 skaters on the Team USA roster for the first-ever Roller Derby World Cup in Toronto in December are from Colorado. The lineup, announced yesterday, includes five skaters — Amanda Jamitinya, DeRanged, Frida Beater, Psycho Babble and Urrk’n Jerk’n — from the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ 5280 Fight…

Andy Weiss (former owner of the Market Skateshop in Fort Collins), Alison Alter (an art teacher at Fort Collins High School), and Justin Hocking (co-editor of Life and Limb: Skateboarders Write From the Deep End) called in some favors and brought out some heavy hitters for tonight’s All Hands On…

On Sunday, hometown hero Julian Christianson won the Hometown Heroes amateur skateboarding finals at X Games 17 — it’s his fourth time winning the contest — and later this month he’s headed to Las Vegas to compete in the Maloof Road Tour finals, after winning the Denver stop at the…

If you’ve been dreaming up how you’d do things differently as king of the mountain, this could be your week: Powderhorn Ski Area CEO and President Steve Bailey and Dean Skalla, who have owned the ski area since 1999, are selling it in an auction on Thursday at 1 p.m…

Red Bull Media House, Brain Farm Digital Cinema and Quiksilver have announced world tour dates for director Curt Morgan’s latest snowboard film extravaganza The Art of Flight after unveiling a high-profile ad campaign promoting the film during X Games 17. The high-definition film (check out the trailer below) will get…

Look out, Leadville 100 competitors: Lance Armstrong is coming for you again after winning yesterday’s Crested Butte Alpine Odyssey mountain bike race with a time of 4:32:21, three seconds ahead of second-place finisher Greg Krause and third-place finisher Travis Scheefer. The 63-mile Crested Butte Alpine Odyssey is the third and…

Make it rain! Crankworx Colorado continues today at Winter Park with the Rainmaker Air Downhill Slopestyle qualifiers starting at 12:15 p.m. (finals start on Saturday at 1 p.m.). The weekend is also full of spectator-friendly XC and downhill mountain bike races. Better still: Most of the Trestle Bike Park trails…

In 1996, adventurer Göran Kropp famously set out by bike from his home in Sweden, loaded with gear, and rode all the way to Nepal to climb Mount Everest. He made the summit on May 23 of that year, without bottled oxygen and without Sherpa support, then climbed down, got…

Denver-based BMX star Jay Eggleston was rendered unconscious during competition at the Dew Tour’s Pantech Open in Ocean City on Saturday, and was sent to a nearby trauma center. The Eggleston family has set up a page at CarePages.com to send updates, and announced last night that he was briefly…

Apparently, Copper Mountain isn’t content to merely be a focal point of the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association’s freestyle Grand Prix series — not to mention the first stop for any U.S. athlete with Olympic dreams in ski or snowboard slopestyle or superpipe. Yesterday, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association…

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…