Snowy adventures in Colorado in Colorado

Colorado is the land of adventure, and I love winters here. There are so many activities to try and so many places to try them at. We'll describe some of the resorts we enjoy, show you pictures and examples of the various activities, and hopefully motivate you to come out and enjoy the Colorado snow!

If you're looking to improve your alpine snowboard skills, check the ideas in the Alpine Carving Lessons article, complete with video.

Here are over 50 trip reports and other articles:

	1. Monarch Mountain snow kiting Activity: Snow kiting I've been wanting to try kiting up there all season. The resort closed in mid-April, and we had a day with some fairly fresh snow and supposedly good winds. But in the end it tu......
	2. WCS/SES 2010 Here we were again, a week to ride with Joerg, Remo, and the rest of...
	3. Ajax synchro-surf at SES 2010 Mats (blue jacket) and Tom (orange jacket) get together for some...
	4. Bomber TD3 Sidewinder bindings I have been riding the
	5. Lake Dillon Marina snow kiting Activity: Snow kiting Winds were forecast to be in the 10-15mph range and so we braved the Being somewhat obstinate I decided to take out my 11 meter foil kite We set up the 3 meter trainer and took ......
	6. Snow kiting near Chicago Chicago got 5-6" of fresh snow, and the -10/-5C temperatures kept it This video shows my second day on the Ozone Frenzy FYX 11 meter foil...
	7. Luge at Muskegon State Park From my TripAdvisor review: We spent a day at the Winter Sports Complex, mainly to take the luge class. Apparently there are only three luge complexes in the USA, and this is the ONLY ONE open to the......
	8. Snowkiting Clear Creek Reservoir Activity: Snow kiting A few people told me recently that the Clear Creek Reservoir is well I had missed him, but seeing the snow and feeling the wind I decided The plan was to stand the kite up, ski ......
	9. Snow kiting Frantz Lake near Salida Activity: Snow kiting Frantz Lake near Salida freezes over most winters, and I was told by It worked well -- so then H. and I did two more runs, he loved...
	10. Spring skiing on Independence Pass Late spring snow storms, Lisa's Mom in town to watch Henry, road opened on Memorial day: all together they made it possible for us to try out Independence Pass again! I have ridden there once before ......
	11. Riding a noboard prototype Noboarding is basically riding on a snowboard that has no bindings. People who like it appreciate the truer "surfboard" feel, where it's the action of the feet and the riders balance that drives the ......
	12. Last days at Monarch: Steeps and fakie Lisa, Scott, and I rode up at Monarch a few days before closing. Some of I was experimenting with riding lower....
	13. Aspen and Pureboarding 2009 We joined the Pureboarding group on their annual April trip. Here are some pictures... Our friend PaulK always does so much work posting rub-in pictures that we thought we'd help :) Today it felt lik......
	14. Leadville Skijoring We were invited to Brian's house in Leadville for the skijoring Brian explained to us that the horse teams (horse + its rider) enter If riding behind a horse at 40+ mph and going over big jumps wasn'......
	15. Silverton Powdercats Silverton is a magical word -- I always associate it with an mining town buried in snow along the most avalanched road in Colorado. It seems to always be out of the way, and I have only driven throug......
	16. SES 2009 Yet another visit to the yearly carving event -- it was a very good time. We rode with Joerg of the Pureboarding group for almost a week, click here to see their pictures. Then joined up with all the......
	17. Goals for 2008/09 season Having new things to learn keeps a sport fresh, so I start every season thinking about what I'd like to accomplish. Here are some thoughts, not in order of importance: More on my progress with these ......
	18. Skating Indian School Ditch The Indian School Ditch is a water-channeling ditch in Albuquerque, I have never skated anything non-flat -- so the ditch took some...
	19. Follow the carver I recently bought some motion stabilizing video processing software,...
	20. How to carve a 360 snowboard turn For me, the most interesting BOL post this year was about carving a 360 turn. In true BOL fashion, although the original poster asked for video, the following 8 pages were full of "i do it all the ti......
	21. Aspen and Pureboarding 2008 We joined the Pureboarding group on their annual April trip. Here are some pictures... Day 1 was 20" of powder at Snowmass. Day 2 we carved on a nicely set up snow at Ajax. Day 3 was 2-3" fresh over ......
	22. Jimmy and Frank hit Monarch Jimmy and Frank came to visit from Chicago -- first two days they rode at Monarch. Dr. Scott and I joined them, had a great time!...
	23. Angelfire NM Having the Monarch season pass entitles us to three free days at Angelfire, NM. We found a few days to head down there before the spring break madness starts, and it was a great trip! We loved the sk......
	24. Fourth anniversary of snowboarding! Ha! Tempus fugit! Today marks the fourth year that I've been snowboarding -- probably got in some 200-250 days over those four years. I started riding when I met Lisa, she was already a skilled rider......
	25. SES 2008 This was the worst session for me so far -- due to the fact that both Sunday, before we got sick, we spent the morning riding with Joerg...
	26. Monarch Invasion Session 2008 The Loveland crew decided to use up their free passes at Monarch and came up for three days. A few other riders showed up too, namely newcarver from Montrose, RDY_2_Carve and his friend Shawn from Al......
	27. John Gilmour carving clinics John Gilmour wrote on the bomberonline.com forum about being available for coaching in Colorado this season. I thought it would be a great way for me to open yet another "door", get more ideas about ......
	28. Lisa's "B" turn I really enjoyed seeing Lisa's turn on the SES 2007 DVD that can be...
	29. Hardbooting in powder Ken wrote me a letter: A few of us here have been talking, and we really think you have a Hardbooting in powder is just unhealthy, and it really hurts us If you don't get some softboots on that powst......
	30. Monarch opening weekend 2007 Monarch opened three weeks late this year, due to lack of snow. But...
	31. Review: Pureboarding "TWO" Last year Joerg started producing a new board, the TWO, and in February he kindly left me a 164 board to ride and experiment with. I really enjoyed riding it -- it was a blast. I rode the 164cm board......
	32. Lessons in carving on alpine snowboards Feel like you hit a wall with carving? Carving in the "park and ride" style, where you get nice deep and fast carves, stand up in the transitions, then lower your body into the next turn? Still think......
	33. Riding "A-style" with PureBoarding Joerg from PureBoarding and a dozen guests came to Aspen again for a 10-day April trip. Lisa and I had a great trip riding with PureBoarding last year, and jumped at the opportunity to ride with them......
	34. Profile: Mats Some pictures I took of Mats, our Swedish carving fiend/friend, during the World Carving Session....
	35. World Carving Session 2007 My third year at the session in Aspen, this year renamed from SES to Day 1 of the World Carving Session in Aspen -- 2007. Spent that day The day started out foggy, but there was blue sky over Big Bur......
	36. Post-WCS week After the World Carving Session was done, a few of us stayed and rode for another week. Lisa and I skipped riding over President's weekend, but skinned up Buttermilk one day, and rode the other mount......
	37. Review: Prior Metal WCR I rode one at Arapahoe For more info, visit Prior Snowboards....
	38. Carving Monarch 9-Jan-2007 I've been pretty comfortable riding with hands behind my back, but...
	39. Alpine practice: Switch - steeps - and fresh Getting better, but still having a hard time dealing with the terrain I have been initiating turns a lot earlier, traversing the hill on Oh, still tons of counter-rotation, but I felt good on my Prio......
	40. Riding class with Lowell Hart at Vail We heard great things about a hardbooting instructor, Lowell Hart, He had us work on separation of joints and on understanding ways that It was an outstanding day -- we were up on the first chair, an......
	41. Swallowtail snowboarding at Wolf Creek I bought the Prior Pow-stick swallowtail board, and it arrived two Thankfully, the Lord hath provided, and the weekend brought snow. It was the last day of the season for Wolf Creek -- $23 tickets as......
	42. Mountain Dew Vertical Challenge race at Beaver Creek Copper was a zoo on Saturday -- fortunately we missed it, running In the early afternoon Jeff and Kim headed over to race -- it was the...
	43. Carving at Copper with Dr. Scott I easily settled into the routine of getting up before 5 to get work On Thursday I had the biggest fall of the season -- I was riding down On Friday Dr. Scott and Greg came with us, and Lisa spent so......
	44. Riding with PureBoarding in Aspen Joerg from NEWSFLASH: (4 April 2006) Check photos from Richard NEWSFLASH: (7 April 2006) Check out the
	45. Review: Prior Powstick I've been going back and forth on whether to buy a powder board -- Read more about the board at the riding swallowtails at Wolf Creek. As of 2008 season, I ride it with hardboots (Snowpro Race bindin......
	46. 2006 Summit Expression Session It's that time of the year again -- Scott Firestone of Over two or three days we took a number of runs with Joerg Egli and I saw their movies last year, and wanted to learn how to ride their On our l......
	47. Practicing push-pull carving turns We got back from Christmas in Europe and were very stoked to finally I am working on three different things at once, hoping that they will I put together a video from a bunch of short clips, quality ......
	48. More carving exercises Easter came along, seems like just a few weeks of the season left, Following each of the pictures are my comments on what I think we're Lisa has sometimes a hard time with her heel-to-toe transitions......
	49. Telluride weekend See the thumbnails of all pictures. Telluride -- I've been there only once, during the summer, and have With a dinner stop in Montrose (excellent Chinese buffet with lots The first day we all snowboa......
	50. Carving at Beaver Creek My Lisa was a bit freaked with all the people on the slope, and that Scott was ripping it up! We didn't ride a ton with him, but I got a I noticed that I'm still C-shaping a little bit -- especially ......
	51. Drills for alpine carving One of the main comments that I get on my snowboarding technique is To see the recommendations from folks on BomberOnline, click here. Following are some pictures of what happened, and a video that L......
	52. Starting 2005 carving season at Monarch Whoo-hooo! Monarch opened Lisa got back into the swing of things fairly quickly -- had some I had a harder time -- although there is no doubt in my mind that But with all the falling, I still had a g......
	53. Learning to snowboard at Monarch As a telemark skier, I always thought that picking up snowboarding My friends Michael and Kanyu came to visit for a few days, and as I'd like to think that I picked it up reasonably quickly -- and I ......
	54. Learning to carve at Monarch Carving -- I saw the movies of Patrice and Jacques on the web (at
	55. Skiing at Wolf Creek Well, just a few days ago I wrote about how I feel I live in Kathy Mears and I drove down to meet Jody and Thai at Wolf Creek. They and their Not much to say here -- snow was outstanding, it was the ......
	56. Winter ski trip to Conundrum Hot Springs Other weekend plans failing, Mike, Scott, and I decided to ski out to The plan was to drive out to Crested Butte, go to The I got up at 0445, finished packing my gear, made bacon with We reached Gunn......