June 19th, 8:00am – 2:00pm, Berthoud Pass Adopt-a-Highway litter clean-up.
We’ll spend an hour or two picking up other people’s candy wrappers and cigarette butts along US40, then fire up the grill, toss a Frisbee and down some cold ones.
Bring sunscreen and work gloves. We’ll provide trash bags, safety vests and lunch. Every volunteer gets a [...]

It’s an annual rite of spring. Pressure and temperature, acting over time, changes the form of snow crystals and the structural strength, permeability, thermal conductivity and density of the snow becomes a velvety, silken, slushy sprayfest.
The end result at Loveland is a shedding of clothes, a tapping of kegs and more tomfoolery than you could [...]

Friends of Berthoud Pass and the Winter Wildlands Alliance present the best work from a variety of grassroots film makers. Come enjoy a selection of short and longer award-winning films featuring the best human-powered, deep-powder skiing on the planet. Proceeds to promote and preserve winter wildlands and a quality human-powered snowsports experience on public lands, [...]

Over the weekend we attended the Colorado Avalanche Information Center Benefit Bash at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge. It was great to see so many friendly faces and to be part of the biggest avalanche fundraiser we’re aware of. Friends of CAIC raised in the neighborhood of $30,000 $40,000 in one night and we were [...]

2009 was another blowout year for the Powderwhore folks at the Oriental. Thanks to everyone who came out, we had a record-breaking year fund raising and everyone had a good time.