Editor’s note: The following is part of a series of articles compiled by the Colorado Snowsports Museum and Hall of Fame that will take a closer look at some of the artifacts and stories contained in ...

It’s finally March, and that means the meat of backcountry touring season is nearly here. To get prepared, local AT skiers and splitboarders are taking over the Summit Daily sports section in print ...

Over 130 athletes competed at the annual Vail Mountain Winter Uphill on Feb. 18. Breckenridge’s Joshua Ernst, a trail runner who finished 30th at the USA Track and Field vertical mountain running ...

Splitboarding flips the resort experience on its head: Rather than riding chairlifts, you climb uphill then descend untouched backcountry terrain. It’s equal parts challenge and reward. Choosing the ...

There’s the Jeremy Jones pro-model boot for the one percent (the $599.99 Jones MTB), and then there’s the Jones pro-model for the rest of us. This lace boot combines the stiff, hard-charging fit of a ...

For skiers, seeing a mountain you want to ski down but no chairlift isn’t a problem. If you have the right boots, you attach sticky, grippy “skins” to the bottom of your skis and ski your way up. It’s ...

In an average season, Alex Gelb gets about 85 days on the slopes. Not bad for a mountain town local — but only five of those days are spent jostling through lift lines at a ski resort. The other 80 ...

If you were on Mount Rainier or Mount Baker this past spring and summer—when the snow just wouldn’t melt—you probably saw the latest craze in backcountry snow travel: splitboarding. Local Alpine ...

Twix candy fans have a unique opportunity to help an Olympic snowboarder create a splitboard. A splitboard is a snowboard that splits into two skis. Twix is calling its version a “Doughboard” to ...