by Julie | Aug 11, 2020 | Blog
Lisa Branner has her high-altitude, sunbaked, snow-caked hands full. In addition to running a craft snowboard manufacturer, she’s the community relations manager for the Town of Silverton, where she lives and with her husband has run Venture Snowboards —...
by Julie | Aug 3, 2020 | Blog
With the innovative NYAGI Project, Spine West has taken its mission to promote health, hope and function much farther than the Boulder County community. NYAGI, which stands for “Now You Are the Group’s Interest,” is Spine West’s global nonprofit. It provides...
by Julie | Jul 28, 2020 | Blog
Beth Howard is an icon — and an anomaly. Starting as a college intern at Colorado’s Beaver Creek Resort, she has spent 35 years winding her way through food and beverage and operational management roles at Vail Resorts nationwide, earning a SAMMY Industry Leadership...
by Julie | Mar 15, 2020 | Blog
Like all new sports, learning to splitboard requires practice — even if you already know how to snowboard. The technical gear, transitions, and body dynamics demand some long, slow days in the mountains just to figure it all out. I was lucky enough to get a beautiful...
by Julie | Mar 6, 2020 | Blog
Last year, Maddie Hart won the Tahoe Rim Trail 100 Mile Run, making her the youngest person — male or female — to ever sweep the ultrarunning event. Ultrarunning, 50 km or longer, is starting to skew younger and faster. But traditionally the sport has been dominated...
