We’ve only just said goodbye to a mostly dismal ski season, but it’s never too early to start planning for next year. What kind of plans? Mostly the kind that contribute to the End of Snow that should hit us in, oh say, 50 years.Copper Mountain has announced plans to…
April seems to be race month at Arapahoe Basin. After hosting the Enduro, with its punishing amount of vertical, this Saturday, the Basin hosts the 8th annual Grind, an uphill/downhill race with two divisions and prize money in each…
This Saturday, Loveland will host the ninth annual Corn Harvest. The fun day of skiing, drinking, and prizes benefits the Colorado Avalance Information Center. Hawaiian shirts and leis are encouraged for the day, and if you don’t have your own lei, they’ll provide one. The Corn Harvest goes on whether…
Not ready for ski season to end, but balking at dropping large for a final weekend on crap snow? You don’t have to–not if you’re prepared to ski uphill. (Yeah, yeah–backcountry skiers do this all year, but this is an elegant solution if you don’t want to worry about wearing…
After several trips through Colorado for skiing this winter, it was time to journey out of state. Sometimes, it’s all about timing. So it was Tuesday night, when I got to Snowbird the day after a foot of snow hit the mountain. Luckily, some of the terrain wasn’t opened on…
There should be some prime skating, spectating and people watching at the Denver Skatepark this Friday when the Bones Wheels team rolls into town.Pro skaters on the trip include Jake Duncombe, and Danny Cerezini, with ams Boo Johnson, Felipe Gustavo, Nick Tucker, Kevin Romar, Matt Berger, and Nathan Fantasia is…
As you head into Boulder Canyon, the first series of rocks you pass on the right includes the Elephant Buttresses and the Dome. The Dome is one of the most popular formations in Boulder, with excellent moderate climbs on smooth granite. On the right side of the formation is one…
Summer is not only road-work season in the Rockies, it’s also trail-work season. In the latter category’s equivalent of a T-REX project, Hanging Lake Trail east of Glenwood Springs is shutting down from mid-May to mid-September for a major rebuild.From an Aspen Times story by Dale Shrull: The closure is…
STOP…Hammertime! Try Again Teaser from SixEleven on Vimeo.Colorado snowboard film crew SixEleven Productions dropped a new trailer for its forthcoming flick STOP… Hammertime! this week, and while the film itself promises hammers galore, this clip’s all about the less glorious side of putting in work with a video crew. Ouch!…
For many skiers, April 18 marks the end of the ski season. It’s the last big weekend of resort closings. After Sunday, only three more resorts, Echo Mountain, Arapahoe Basin, and Loveland, will be open regularly, with Aspen Mountain opening for two more days the following weekend. Six resorts will…
Mount Sopris, at 12,965 feet high, dominates the view as you drive south to Aspen from Glenwood Springs. The twin-summited peak rises over 6,000 feet above the valley, making it look taller than it actually is. Lou Dawson, one of the godfathers of ski mountaineering in the U.S., writes of…
This week Copper Mountain and the United States Snowboard Association (USASA) close out a week of snowboarding and freeskiing competition with the winter events of The Alt Games College Action Sports Championships on Saturday April 10 in the Catalyst Terrain Park.Colorado colleges represented in the event include University of Colorado,…
The last week or so not withstanding, given the challenges the Front Range resorts have had with snowfall this season, it seems appropriate that Arapahoe Basin is promoting environmental consciousness. This Saturday, the Basin will host its second Save Our Snow celebration, a fundraiser for the High Country Conservation Center…
Oh, Utah: A skier at Alta captured footage of a fellow skier in front of him who was vastly unfamiliar with the concept of riding a rope tow. Normally, this might result in just a sloppy fall and a bruised ego, but this guy managed to straddle the Poma in…
Talk about my father the hero: A former Vail ski patroller jumped into the East River to rescue his 2-year-old daughter after she fell off a gangplank at a ship museum at Manhattan’s South Street Seaport. Californian David Anderson quickly emptied his pockets, ditched his shoes, and dove into the…
In November we reported that Aspen Mountain, Buttermilk, and Aspen Highlands nabbed the three highest scores in Colorado in the Ski Area Citizens’ Coalition environmental report card rankings, with Aspen Mountain and Buttermilk taking two of the top three spots out of all U.S. resorts (just behind Squaw Valley).This week…
Here’s your chance to represent for your favorite mountain: The annual TransWorld Snowboarding Resort Poll just went online, asking riders to rate their three favorite resorts for 2011 in categories including Parks & Pipes, Grooming & Upkeep, Variety, Challenge, and Overall (Jumps, Rails, Boxes, Pipe).Colorado resorts dominated last year’s poll,…
Traditional backpacks plop all of the weight you’re carrying on your back and aim to distribute it via an ever-more-complex series of straps and buckles. New Zealand’s Aarn Tate saw a better way: Why not start by distributing the weight more evenly? Your front is just as good as your…
Developer Tom Chapman has a parcel of land in Telluride’s backcountry and now he’s blocking skiers from traversing old guided routes that cross it. Chapman paid $246,000 for old mining claims in the Uncompahgre National Forest and probably is hatching a plan to build a luxury home there. Or at…
Snowboarder Kelly Clark rode away with first place and the $10,000 prize at the 3rd Annual CoverGirl Snow Angels Invitational this weekend, hosted by Aspenite Gretcen Bleiler in the superpipe at Snowmass. Clark beat out Ursina Holler (Switzerland), Soko Yamaoka (Japan), Paulina Ligocka (Poland), and Bleiler for the win, and…
This past weekend, five resorts had their closing day. This coming weekend, another seven will join in the shutdown of the lifts. It has seemed at times, with the start and stop snowfall, that the season barely got started, although the seven inches of fresh powder at A Basin certainly…
Came across this story in the Summit Daily News about a Wyoman who got nabbed at Keystone using a buddy’s pass, then decided to escalate things. From Robert Allen’s story:The man caught using someone else’s pass in the lift line told a deputy it was cheaper “to have a pass loaded”…
