May 31st in Glenwood Springs, CO. The second Whitewater Stand Up Paddling Championship will be held at Two River’s Park. 2010 Whitewater SUP Championship

The 2010 Whitewater Stand Up Paddling Championship will be held Memorial Day (May 31) in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. This one of a kind event features the world’s best river stand up paddlers displaying their paddling prowess on the snowmelt swollen Colorado River.

The event starts with a downriver race from Two Rivers Park in Glenwood Springs down to South Canyon. This fast and furious whitewater 6+ mile (approx) balancing act launches with a mass start. Next up is a new and exciting event called SUPCROSS.  This event (run similarly to boardercross races on snow), features heats of competitors paddling intensely upriver then pealing into the current and charging downstream.  To spice up the action, this all out sprint includes an eddy turn at a C4 Waterman flag midway down a river right channel of the raging Colorado River.

The championship’s culmination will be a surfing contest on the world famous wave at the Glenwood Springs Whitewater Park. The champion(s) will be determined by a point system with scoring accrued during the 3 events. After the surf contest, everyone will head back to the Two Rivers Park for the award ceremony at the park’s stage…and then its time to celebrate!

While visiting this site, don’t forget to check out the promo video for RiverSUP. In addition to being a great visual lesson on how to stand up paddle in whitewater, RiverSUP contains outrageous action and a bonus movie featuring amazing footage from last year’s Whitewater Stand Up Paddling Championship. You can also order the DVD via links from this site. We’ll see you on the river!

Two River StandUp Paddle events for the TEVA Mountain Games this summer in Vail

Teva Mountain Games Stand up Paddling
SUP Surf Sprint

Hop in the water and paddle like hell.
Date/Time: Saturday June 5th, 2010 @ 9:00 am
Cost: $35 Online/ $40 On-Site
Location: Vail on Gore Creek East Vail to Vail Village SUP
Difficulty: Class II – III with fairly heavy early season flows
Distance: 3 Miles

SUP Surf Cross

Mass start event with the same general rules as Boarder Cross or Skier Cross. As the rednecks say in NASCAR “rubbin’s racing”, there is sure to be a little rubbin’.
Date: Sunday June 6, 2010
Time: 11:00am Qualifier
2:30pm Finals
Cost: $30 Online/ $35 On-Site
Location: Covered Bridge – International Bridge, Gore Creek in Vail Village

Wanna learn?

Teva Mountain Games IFSC Bouldering World Cup in Vail, Colorado
June 3-6th, 2010
http://www.tevamountaingames.com/

Yup, it is true. We get the pleasure of once again of hosting the Bouldering World Cup event out here in Western Colorado!

The Teva Mountain Games will host the IFSC Bouldering World Cup Friday, June 4th for the qualifiers and Saturday June 5th for the semi-finals and finals. This event is invitation only.
http://www.tevamountaingames.com/ev_climb_pro.cfm
There will be a Citizen Bouldering Competion for the rest of us on Sunday June 6th from 11 AM to 4:30 PM. http://www.tevamountaingames.com/ev_climb_citizen.cfm
A Youth Competion will be held on Sunday June 6th from 8AM – 10:30 AM.
http://www.tevamountaingames.com/ev_climb_highschool.cfm

Ok, so this isn’t Colorado, but it will be worthy as heck to spend a little time on Saturday April 24th watching live.

Unified Bouldering Championships

Direct from the UBC website:

“Earth Treks Climbing Centers, Mountain Hardwear and the Unified Bouldering Championships are proud to announce the first event on the 2010 UBC Pro Tour; The Earth Treks Roc Comp, Presented by Mountain Hardwear April 23 & 24, 2010. The 2010 Roc Comp will span two days of climbing and will host climbers ranging from the top pros in the world to beginners psyched to check out their first comp. The event will be held at two of the top climbing gyms in North America; Earth Treks Columbia and Earth Treks Timonium, MD.

The top climbers worldwide, including Chris Sharma, Lisa Rands and Paul Robinson will compete for an $11,000 cash purse as well as cumulative individual point rankings towards the overall UBC Pro Tour Championship.

Representing one of the top pro events ever held on the East coast, the 2003 and 2004 Roc Comps set a high bar for competitions that the whole crew at Earth Treks is eager to improve on. “Since our last Roc Comp, we’ve been in mourning,” says Earth Treks Founder, Chris Warner. “The excitement that the Roc Comp brought to our staff, our community and professional climbers was so rewarding. After distracting ourselves for the last few years with opening new gyms and expanding old ones, we’re ready to get back into the party.”

“Ever since Earth Treks opened, it has been known as one of the top competition venues worldwide and we are pumped up to partner with Mountain Hardwear and roll out the first ever UBC Pro Tour event with them,” said Pete Ward of NE2C Productions. “The future of pro climbing is in huge scale events featuring the top climbers, the top venues and top shelf production value. The Earth Treks Roc Comp is guaranteed to deliver all of the above. If you’re north of the equator and west of Istanbul, you won’t want to miss it!”

Featuring spectacular action, the top pros, a full sponsor village hosting the top brands in the industry and something for everyone, the Roc Comp is the first can’t miss event of the season. “If you can’t out-climb them, you might as well host them!” says Warner, (who will conveniently be climbing Makalu, the world’s fifth tallest boulder, during the Roc Comp).

The 2010 Earth Treks Roc Comp takes place April 23 & 24. For registration and more information, please visit http://earthtreksclimbing.com/et-roc-comp.html “