I’ve never been a big competition climber myself, but the chance to watch the 2011 IFSC World Cup finals at the 2011 Teva Mountain Games (TMG) was too good to pass up. As a new intern at Backbone, I arrived at Carbondale just as the build-up and excitement for the Games was coming to a [...]
Posts under ‘Colorado’
PowderWhores in the Roaring Fork Valley
That’s right! Its time for the PowderWhore film, Television, showings in both Aspen and Glenwood. As the last stop on their Colorado tour, the Belly Up in Aspen will host the movie on Friday night, and the Glenwood Springs Rec Center will be the location for the Saturday night viewing. Tickets are $10 for both [...]
Not that kind of MEETING
Every year for the past six, Aspen locals, fans, sponsors, athletes, and avid filmmakers present themselves in Aspen for the biggest ski-film premiere event of the year: The Meeting. The idea behind this gathering is simple—create an opportunity for ski and snowboard films to be shown and, well, meet. It truly is one of the [...]
Lucky 13
As Backbone nears its 13th Anniversary – we took some time out for our mid year reviews and gathered the crew for a few days of fun, sun, bike rides and rivers here in Carbondale. Open table discussions, ping pong, New Belgium beer and evening bike rides kicked things off, followed by a run down [...]
Quality of Life
Spring in the Rockies is an exercise in patience. Weather is a wild card, and whether you are waiting for single track to dry or for a ski line to come into condition you learn that to achieve your goals you have to watch and wait rather than plan too far ahead. Sometimes it is [...]
Backbone News
A bunch of stuff going on… SmartWool, New Belgium and Aspen Skiing Company win Best Places to Work in Outside Magazine, for 3rd and 2nd times, respectively. Skiing is wrapping up. Spring is here with good road riding in the RF valley in between snow storms and powder tours. Backbone recently was named one of [...]
Stream of social/PR/media consciousness
Backbone 2010 goes something like this so far: Ski Day, conference calls, NYC, FAM trip, FB and mobile apps, Vail, Crested Butte, ice climbing, Steamboat, avy class, Beaver Creek, Fort Collins, 1% iTunes, Shot Show, Monarch Cat Skiing, truck crash (walk away), OR, Dawn Patrol, dog commute, SIA, Bluebird, On-Snow, Rando Race, ISPO, hut trip, [...]
Vail? Pfft. The Travelocity Roaming Gnome knows what’s up.
This past Saturday evening, while “Digital” Dave Amirault and I were sipping cocktails and putting out the vibe at the Sky, we had the pleasure of running into the coolest corporate identity around… the Travelocity Roaming Gnome! It was good to see the legendary dwarfish creature in Aspen after weeks of convincing him not to [...]
Strong Collaborative Statement on Climate Change from CEOs at Aspen Ski Co and TNF
High Country News just published this powerful op-ed collaboration by Aspen Ski Co CEO Mike Kaplan and The North Face CEO Steve Rendle. Definitely worth a read: Climate change threatens our livelihoods — and yours In the summer of 2003, one of the most legendary and fearsome mountaineering routes in the world –– the North [...]
Freeskier Takes the Backbone Kickball Classic Championship UPDATE: Now with Video!
Let’s get two things straight. One, the 3rd annual Backbone Fall Kickball Classic is a low key affair. Yes, we have pizza, Red Vines, beer and of course a 3-foot tall Champions of the Kickball World green trophy. And not just any beer either, this year we were blessed with a special barrel of New [...]
