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Cold Play

Cold Play

Frigid temperatures, snow and ice don’t mean you have to forgo your cardio fix.
ON YOUR FEET

RUNNING
1. Ahnu Firetrail Winter
Ideal for slush and mud, this shoe provides just enough waterproofing—in the form of a breathable hydrophobic mesh—to shuck off the nastiness without deviating too far from a standard trail runner. The Vibram sole and special lug [...]

Elle Yes!

Elle Yes!

Pay attention dudes. These gifts are guaranateed to please your woman.
Hip. Edgy. Beautiful, but built to love the elements. That’s how you like your women—and that’s how they like their gifts. Still stumped? Here’s a fool-proof guide to what to give your better half this holiday season.
NO: SOFT, PINK SKIS.
Yes: Movement Spicys
She’s had it with [...]

Eat, Play, Sleep

Eat, Play, Sleep

Ladies, the fastest way to a man’s heart is through his gear.
That Y chromosome makes us predictable in so many ways but buying your man gifts is sort of a mystery. Despite our seemingly one-track minds, the gifts we dudes covet require a subtle sophistication beyond our obsession with powder days and fantasy football. We’re [...]

Ski Colorado Giveaway

Ski Colorado Giveaway

Win a Snow Cat Tour at Chicago Ridge, sunglasses and goggles from Bolle and more!

Board Room

Board Room

The best new snowboards rely on carbon, rocker and variable camber for versatility.
SNOWBOARDS
Light is right.

SAY WHAT?:
TAKIN’ ALL COMERS: Rome SDS Anthem SS
The perfect board for Colorado’s variability, the Anthem SS combines carbon (to make it light) with built-in impact plates (for strength), so it can launch and suck up the landings. Better still, the [...]

Frozen Festivaaaal!

Frozen Festivaaaal!

Leftover Salmon celebrates 20 years with New Year’s shows in Boulder and Denver and EO gets in on the party with a little retrospective and essential discography.
If any band defined the Colorado trend of taking traditional bluegrass and beating it over the head with rowdy long-hair revelry, it was Leftover Salmon. When Vince Herman [...]

Riding the Mongoose

Riding the Mongoose

Sometimes the danger is part of the allure.
High in the San Juans, the steep white gash of the Mongoose opens at the top of the north face of 12,800-foot Reconnoiter Peak. The line spirals down a 1,000-foot couloir, pinches into a 45-degree slot—the likely trigger zone should the slope unleash—and then spills out into a [...]

Get Schooled

Get Schooled

Yeah, we know . . . you rip, you shred, you schuss. But as you sip that yerba mate, consider this: Colorado is one of the greatest alpine playgrounds on earth, and chances are you haven’t done it all. Curious to try tele? Heli? We’ve got mountains of local experts just waiting to light a [...]

Skiing Toward the Super Bowl

Skiing Toward the Super Bowl

Here in the Rockies, we experience a powerful converge of epic powder days and big games.
Almost all of my most vivid football memories, especially those of the Broncos’ six Super Bowl appearances—two glorious wins and four heart-stabbing losses—are inextricably tied to the wind-in-your-face sensation of speeding down a snow-covered hill. I was in Salt Lake [...]

Where the Wild Things Were

Where the Wild Things Were

Despite the sprawl, Colorado could be welcoming back its charismatic megafauna. Wolves and wolverines have been crossing the border and grizzly bears may not be far behind. But can the Centennial State save the big swaths of land these predators need to make a true comeback?
On Friday, May 22, 2009, a male wolverine wearing a [...]