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  • November 16, 2016

    Icey Shop Spotlight - Bent Gate Mountaineering

    Since 1994, Bent Gate Mountaineering has been a place that believes in community and thrives on promoting fun and safety in the outdoors. BG's goal is to sell the gear that has the best chance of improving your outdoor experience. Whether you are a bad-ass backcountry skier or a newbie rock climber, you will feel welcome in this shop.

    *Make sure to come down tonight for a Backcountry 101 clinic with Icelantic's Annelise Loevlie and Scotty VerMerris. If you have specific questions about Icelantic products, this is the bc 101 session to attend! BC 101 sessions are designed to introduce skiers and boarders with the equipment and resources that are available for fun and safe backcountry tours. Bring your gear and your questions about backcountry touring!

    Topics Include:
    Backcountry essentials, clothing systems, ski touring & splitboard gear, avalanche safety gear and backcountry resources.
    Wednesdays at 6:15pm at Bent Gate Mountaineering. Check our calendar at www.bentgate.com/events/ for alternate events.

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  • December 15, 2015

    Storm Pummels The West - Chasing Pow To Steamboat - Photo Update

    A huge storm struck the west this week. Mountains and cities from the Northwest down through the central Rockies are getting pummeled with snow. So what did we do in this situation?.. We made an early morning departure from Evergreen, CO to chase down the white stuff in none other than Steamboat. We found even more snow and less tracks than expected and are still thawing the ice from around our shit eating smiles. 

    Check out the photos from the past few days! We've been here for 3 days and it has snowed a foot every day on top of two feet that fell previously. Is this El Nino??

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  • November 29, 2015

    Adventure Seeker Series Is Live - Check Out Episode 1

    Icelantic athlete Max Meissner AKA "Lord Of SnowFront" out of Germany brings you another insanely rad and entertaining web series called "Adventure Seeker". This 5 part series documents Max's season long visit to the US to ski as much of Western...

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  • March 25, 2015

    Earlyups - Owen Leeper Interview

    Icelantic athelte Owen Leeper has been all over the radar this past season.  Recently he was just featured on earlyups.com with a sweet little interview peice.  Below is the full interview featured on their site.  Scope out earlyups.com   These...

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  • March 13, 2015

    The Audi Driving Experience - Kaylin Richardson

    Kaylin Richardson is much more than an Olympic skier. According to Audi she's an "exotic personality that puts a smile on people's faces." Well we'd have to agree with that.  Check out Kaylin and her involvement with the Audi Driving...

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  • February 16, 2015

    Silverton To Telluride - Icelantic Continues To Tour SW Colorado

    After some serious time at Silverton Mountain with the Bent Gate Crew we headed over to Telluride to see some friends and ride the coat tails of our athletes Julian Carr and Whit Boucher as they were on their way to ski with Telluride Helitrax for an article in The Ski Journal.

    We arrived to more spring conditions and learned that we had an opportunity the to get a heli drop first thing in the morning to the top of the iconic Lightning Bolt Couloir which sits across the valley from Telluride Resort...

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