Winter Scene

  I´ve strapped on my snowboard for the first time in two years, and I’m standing at the top of a man-made jump staring downwards at an intimidating 42-degree slope. I’ve snowboarded for 12 years — I traded last year’s snow season for a two-month jaunt around ...

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10 Eric Larsen: On Thin Ice, the Melting Arctic — Larsen talks about the “Last North Expedition,” what will likely be the last...

  Colorado is known for its summer festivals, with world-class events like the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Boulder’s own Creek Festival and many more. But fun in the sun doesn’t end when the snow hits the ground. The winter may be colder, but that doesn’t mean that...

Every mountain guide has their niche. For Zach Lovell, it’s the Alaskan Range in south-central Alaska.  “It’s a mountain range that instills humility,” says Lovell,...

Even for an expert, making the right decision can be tough. After three weeks camped on the Carroll Glacier in Alaska, waiting to ski a certain line after it went into the shade, longtime backcountry skier and guide Donny Roth finally set out for the summit. It was ...

Old Man Winter better make up for last year’s lousy snow season. After a good initial showing in late autumn 2011, most of the year was spent waiting for that big storm that never really came. Adding insult was the record-setting summer heat that broiled the ...

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9Welcome Home Weekend — Copper welcomes you to the season with a party and music from Tea Leaf Green and the Chris...

Colorado´s ski industry is the leader in North America for good reason. Visitation to local favorite Vail exceeds 1.5 million skier days each year. That number, 1,750,000 skier days (one skier, skiing one day) last year alone at Vail, means that the ski area has the ...

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 The Wolves — Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company presents a coming-of-age story about a girls soccer team that is about much more than...

  Amid dozens of debatably useless applications, iPhones offer numerous apps of particular interest for Colorado snow-sport enthusiasts. Such applications provide useful information about current slope and weather conditions, ski runs, avalanche risk, snow reports ...

Morgan Pearson was on the way back to his hotel in Paris, France.  He is one of the top triathletes in the world and has...

You click into your skis and tighten the buckles on your boots as snug as you can get them.  But you’re not at the top...