Archive for the 'Entertainment' Category

Movies filmed in Colorado snow locations

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

CBS 4 Denver has compiled a listing of movies filmed in Colorado. We combed the list and found movies filmed in the Colorado mountains and snow towns that we’ve come to know and love:

It’s just some fun trivia. Now go! Impress your friends.

Posted in Aspen, Breckenridge, Entertainment | 1 Comment »

Spring Back to Vail 2008

Friday, April 4th, 2008

More spring fun starts next week up in Vail with a week-long festival celebrating the sun and the snow:

The mountains will be alive with free concerts from national headliners, on-snow events, street parties…and don’t miss the ever-popular…Bacardi World Pond Skimming Championships.

So head on up to Vail and have a good time. Check the website for details on the schedule, concerts, and information about pond skimming (sliding across a pond in a crazy costume on your skis/snowboard). It’ll be good!

Click here to visit the Spring Back to Vail website for details.

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Breckenridge Massive Beerfest

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

April 12th is the day to head up to Breckenridge and visit the Massive Beerfest:

The festival features 17 microbrews and craft beers with unlimited tasting. Breweries include Breck Brewery, Widmer, Red Hook, Kona, Stone Brewing Co, Bristol, Lefthand, Palisade, New Belgium, Sam Adams, Wolf Rock, Oaskar Blues, Ska Brewing, Steamborks, Great Divide, Flying Dog, Backcountry and Aspen Brewing! Enjoy live music from Tony Furtado, Subdudes and the The Rail Benders. For more information call KSMT (970) 453 2234.

For just $60 you can get into the 2008 Massive Festival, a bigger mug than everyone else and a catered lunch. Check it out!

Click here for more information on the Massive Beerfest.

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7th Annual Festival of the Brewpubs

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Sure, it’s April and it’s starting to look like Spring, that doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun! Over Memorial Day weekend, Arapahoe Basin is hosting the 7th Annual Festival of the Brewpubs and Memorial Weekend Beach party:

Join us for our largest party of the year! Spend the day sampling mugs of beer from a variety of Summit County brewpubs for one low price per 14 oz mug (must be 21). Breweries include Pug Ryan’s, Breckenridge, Dillon Dam, Backcountry and Wolf Rock.

Click here for more details on the festival of the brewpubs.

Get some spring skiing in and then buy your mug at 11am. Drinks flow from noon to four. See you there!

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Sweetgrass Productions presents Hand Cut

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Sweetgrass, a backcountry ski film operation out of Colorado has just released the trailer of their latest: Hand Cut. From Nick at Sweetgrass:

The British Columbia Teaser blends the hand-fired days of the Canadian Pacific
steam trains with blower skiing on Rogers Pass and Revelstoke. From these early railroad days to the miners of Colorado’s San Juan mountains, Hand Cut will convey the rugged, calloused-hand history of North American mountains. The film will focus on the purity of backcountry travel, blending self-propelled skiing with the rugged western history. DVD release september 2008, and check out www.sweetgrass-productions.com for our tour dates.

Our premiere will be in Colorado Springs next September, and our tour includes
10 dates in Colorado.

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Special screening of Playground

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

The Rippin Skiers have announced a special screening of Warren Miller’s newest film, Playground, to benefit SafeHouse Denver.

Details

Bonus: not only will your money go to a good cause, all ticket holders will also receive: coupons for Two-for-One lift tickets at Steamboat, Copper Mountain and Winter Park, and “swag” giveaways at the event.

Click here for all the details from Rippin Skiers.

Posted in Deals, Entertainment, Events, Tickets | 2 Comments »

Documentary: Heli-skiing: living the dream

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

I just finished up watching my first documentary in high definition: Heli-skiing: living the dream. Produced by Discovery HD Theater this was an awe-inspiring look at Mike Wiegele’s “Wiegele World” in BC, Canada.

An expensive trip that is worth every penny as Wiegele has cited numerous clients walking away telling him it was “best day of their life” every day of their trip. With snowcat and helicopter skiing you’re welcome to ski unlimited vertical feet on mountains that few have ever touched. You become part of a tour group (with highly skilled guides) and packages include three square meals, lodging and terrain you’ve never dreamed of. Things you won’t get at Wiegele World: crowds or lines.

Wiegele World

If you’re a Comcast HD subscriber check out the documentary ON Demand. Oh, and the local tie: the documentary was produced by a team from Beaver Creek.

Click here to visit Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing.

Posted in Beaver Creek, Entertainment, Terrain, Travel | No Comments »

Alpinist Film Festival offsets carbon footprint

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

This season Alpinist Magazine is hosting a film festival in Wyoming (which is a short-enough drive from Colorado, right?):

The 2008 Alpinist Film Festival will take place January 17-20, 2008, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. In addition to the Snow, Surf and Stone nights, which showcase, respectively, the world’s best skiing, surfing and climbing films, a new People’s Choice Ceremony will screen the People’s Choice award winners from the preceding evenings, allowing the audience to choose the 2008 Grand Prize award winner.

This year’s beer sponsor is none other than Fort Collins’ New Belgium. Certainly reason enough to go, right?

Learn more about the 2008 Alpinist Film Festival.

Not only does it sound like a great time, the festival will offset it’s entire carbon footprint (and then some):

In keeping with the Alpinist’s commitment to preserve the places of our inspiration, the 2008 Alpinist Film Festival will offset its estimated carbon footprint with the purchase of renewable energy. All energy consumed by the 2008 Festival–from the travel of the speakers and the audiences to snow removal, the delivery of films and the ink consumption for posters and banners–will be accounted for in the estimated carbon footprint. In order to eliminate unaccounted carbon, an additional ten tons of offsets, nearly double the Festival’s estimated footprint, will be purchased.

Read more about the green initiative details.

The festival is sponsored by Patagonia which (via it’s founder, Yvon Chouinard) is known for pioneering the ‘green movement’ back in the 1980’s.

Tickets are not yet available but you can visit their site and learn more about prior-year’s festivals. Colorado Snow may be there this year to cover the events–stay tuned.

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“Labor of Love” to debut in Boulder

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Roxy’s team skiers and snowboarders are announcing the first all-women team film, Labor of Love:

The Roxy Snow team has been hard at work. Follow Sarah, Amber, Alexis, Erin, Kjersti and Torah as they drop pillows in Japan, snowmobile into the midnight sun of Sweden, and ride their way through the southern hemisphere. From a producer of Misschief Films bring you this full-length feature flick about the ultimate Labor of Love. Doors open at 7pm for pro athlete autograph signings, & product raffle, including a chance to win $1000 shopping spree.

Read the full article at Freeskier Magazine.

Teaser:

View the teaser on YouTube.

Details:

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Telemarking Powderwhores

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

If you enjoy the Warren Miller productions, then it’s quite likely you’ll enjoy the Powderwhore videos. You don’t have to be a telemarker to appreciate the insane powder and drops these guys are skiing. It’s hard not to get excited for the season when watching their films.

I caught the PW06 film last year, and it was awesome. I’ll be at the Trailhead in Fort Collins tomorrow night for the PW07 film. Unfortunately, it looks like the only other remaining Colorado viewing is in Golden on Friday (11/16). The full tour schedule is on their website.

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Looking at Warren Miller’s “Playground”

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Warren Miller’s latest film included shots from Aspen and Copper Mountain:

Playground was shot at world-class ski locales in Sweden, Canada, Alaska, Japan and here in Colorado at Aspen and Copper Mountain. Part of it was even taken to an indoor ski area in a mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Several athletes from Colorado including Chris Anthony (Vail), Peter Olenick (Aspen), Gretchen Bieler (Aspen) and Taylor Gold (Steamboat Springs) make appearances in the film. (9NEWS)

Film trailer:

Film details:

Posted in Aspen, Copper Mountain, Entertainment | 6 Comments »

Free Hootie & The Blowfish concert at Steamboat

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

From RSN Cams:

Two-time Grammy Award winning artists, Hootie & The Blowfish, will perform a free evening concert on December 30th as the finale of the US Olympic Team Trials in Freestyle Skiing in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

“Hootie & The Blowfish will provide a terrific finish to a spectacular, energy-packed day of world-class, Freestyle competition and celebration of our community?s long-standing Olympic heritage,? said Andy Wirth, vice president of sales & marketing for the Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation.

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