Outdoors & Rec

I happened upon 3dskimaps.com on the intertubes last week and think it’s one of the biggest innovations in ski maps since, I dunno, folded paper…

The recent East Coast storm motivated one Teton Gravity Research follower to grab his short skis and trek 300 yards from his house in search of face shots. He found what he was looking for next to a stoplight on a newly constructed road. Here are nine photos and a…

We’re going to find out when GoI70.com officially launches.Developed by the I-70 Mountain Corridor Coalition, the site is currently in beta-testing mode, with hopes of unsnarling the assorted traffic jams, jellies, and marmalades that are all too common in Colorado’s high country…

Last Tuesday, freeskier/BASE jumper/announcer Ted Davenport, adventurer-of-all-trades Matt Hecker, software salesman/Base jumper Collin Scott, and photographer/BASE jumper Jacob Fuerst became the first people to be filmed ski-BASE-jumping off of a 460-foot wall in Glenwood Canyon — see the sick embedded video from ESPN.com above. Davenport, Hecker, and Fuerst actually became…

Snowboarding judges are notoriously stingy, especially at the beginning the season, and even getting close to a perfect score is pretty much unheard of, so Danny Davis’ 96.50 in the pipe at Breck for the first stop of the 2009-2010 Winter Tour on Saturday is something to talk about. Last…

While not hitting a tree is obviously tops, there are a few other things you can do to increasing your chances of staying healthy this season.On Wednesday, the New York Times Well Blog covered a study from the British Journal of Sports Medicine: Almost 800 injured skiers filled out questionnaires…

Last weekend, three climbers went up and attempted a climb of Mt. Hood in Oregon. Luke Gullberg was found dead from a combination of hypothermia and minor injuries sustained in a fall. His companions, Anthony Vietti and Katie Nolan, were nowhere to be found, and an exhaustive search was undertaken…

The Winter Dew Tour soared into Breck on Thursday, and photographer Soren McCarty was there. See more of his photos after the jump…

The Dew Tour is downright democratic compared to the X Games and other invitational pro snowboarding events: Any Fred Shred or Insane Jane who fights their way through the Open Qualifiers gets to throw down in Prelims, against the likes of Shaun White and Kelly Clark (last year’s Dew Cup…

Welcome to our weekly mountain buyer’s guide, because skiing or snowboarding is much more fun than shopping. 1. Wolf Creek Yes, it’s far away. Do you know how much snow they’ve had since December 6th? Suffice it to say it would bury Yao Ming up to about his nose. That’s…

On Monday, my colleague Ted Alvarez posted a video link to Erik Weihenmayer ascending the Naked Edge. The Edge, as many people call it, is a truly striking line that grabs the eye of every climber entering Eldorado Canyon. From the road at the parking lot, it looks much like…

OK, so this one’s on the Front Range, but it’s hard to pass up all-you-can-drink Avery beer, a chance to support a good cause, and a shot at winning jackets, goggles, pants, packs, a tent, and a complete avy gear setup. Tonight at 7 p.m. Avery Brewing in Boulder is…

Here’s an Olympic event you’re not going to want to miss. No, it’s not biathlon. (It’s hard not to appreciate the combination of skiing and shooting a gun, though, isn’t it?). Check out Snowboardcross at this year’s Vancouver Olympics. This relatively new Olympic event puts four snowboarders on a course…

Last weekend, spectators got a chance to check out the Snowboarding Grand Prix at Copper Mountain. If you didn’t manage to make your way up to Copper to see death-defying leaps of life and study potential mechanisms of injury, you’ll have another chance this weekend in Breckenridge…

It’s a hallowed skiing tradition, but probably not a favorite one: Miles and miles of skitards saddle up and drive into a blizzard, risking life, limb, and Subaru for a shot at once-in-a-season freshies. This results in highway pileups and automotive carnage galore — but ya gotta earn your turns, right?…

In their song “Fear of Falling,” the Badlees sing “I have no fear of falling, but I hate hitting the ground.” Those sentiments have been semi-embraced by an increasingly crazed set of daredevils who huck off cliffs…

Last week we gave you the story of a woman claiming she was getting a sex change to try and use her boyfriend’s ski pass at Keystone. She got busted — but compared to Vail, that was a relative rarity…

In our sparsely populated neighbor to the north, Yellowstone National Park opens up for winter use today. If you haven’t been to Yellowstone in winter — or alternately have been turned off by the park’s summer crowds — it’s an entirely different world after the snow falls. Not only are…

Year-round backcountry skier and a professor at the University of Nevada-Reno, Kam Leang is on the forefront of innovation in ski and snowboard technology. He currently is teaching a mechanical engineering class where his students are incorporating nanotechnology into skis they’re building. One set will somehow fold down to fit…

The U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix took place over the weekend at Copper Mountain, with Shaun White and his hair going home winners. See more photos from Soren McCarty after the jump…

Skiers are a conservative lot by nature, telemark skiers even more so.  While skis have gotten shorter and have more sidecut than they did 30 years, the shape hasn’t changed too drastically from the first wood planks that people strapped on their feet millennia ago.There is one brand of skis,…

Gentlemen,If you have a woman in your life who will make out with you on the chairlift and then give you a run for it on the slopes, I submit that you, like me, are a lucky, lucky man. Take care of that woman, hold on tight, and do everything…