Local Echo Mountain Park rider Colin Spencer, 19, took top honors in the snowboard slopestyle pro division Saturday at the Last Park Standing event at Echo Mountain near Evergreen.
The upstart amateur rider bested Breckenridge pro Erich Dummer, 24, in the $12,000 single-day event. Jake Larue, 17, of Nederland finished third. Pat Goodnough of Breckenridge won the Pro ski division in the event that saw 80 pro-level competitors and more than 100 overall.
Boulder series to begin.
Details have been announced for the 2008 Boulder Time Trial Series, a seven-race time trial series from Lyons to Boulder that begins May 7 and continues every Wednesday evening through June 25. The 10.1-mile course attempts to match all riders’ skills by starting with a challenging uphill and finishing with a long flat stretch approaching the Boulder city limits along Highway 36.
Individual, two-person and four-person team categories are available for all ages and abilities from junior racers 10 and older through 65-plus. Riders can pick start times in 30-second intervals from 5-7 p.m. to accommodate their schedules during online registration. Complete details of the drawing and race registration are available at .
Backpacker online.
Boulder-based Backpacker magazine recently announced the launch of its redesigned website, . . includes more than 1,200 editor-approved GPS-supported hikes, daily blogs from experts devoted to survival, fitness, news and trends, on-the-scene videos featuring Backpacker editors, and a database of approximately 1,900 products that can be searched and compared in the site’s interactive GearFinder tool. .’s online community also now can post and share gear reviews, photos, GPS coordinates and reports of their favorite trips.
Nalgene bottles being shelved.
Hard-plastic Nalgene water bottles made with bisphenol A will be pulled from stores during the next few months because of growing consumer concern over whether the chemical poses a health risk.
Nalge Nunc International, a division of Waltham, Mass.-based Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., said it will substitute its Nalgene Outdoor line of polycarbonate plastic containers with BPA-free alternatives.
Scott Willoughby
