Update: SOLD OUT

Upcycle old snowboards into your own personal hanging wall art. Beloved local artist Ali H will walk you through painting your board. Ali will guide you through painting an approachable mountain scene on an upcycled snowboard.  If you have your own vision for how you would like to paint your snowboard, we still encourage you to attend and bring your vision to life!  We will provide snowboards, or feel free to bring your own old board! Space is limited, registration required.

Cost $35

The snowboards from Colchuck are upcycled for art purposes and not intended for riding.  If you are bringing your own snowboard (whether upcycled or one you are still riding), please drop it off to the shop by 1/18 so we can prep it for you! If you have an old snowboard that is no longer suitable for riding and you would like to donate it to the shop, we would welcome your donation!

Last year we got together to discuss some of the latest research on performance for the female physiology. It’s a rapidly growing field—easy to do when just a few years ago research on female performance made up just 4% of studies…

A big question that came up during and after that session swirled around the “How” and “Why” of training. The words make it sound like something reserved just for competitive athletes striving for a goal to win something or reach a personal best achievement.

But these training protocols are proving to be a critical component of health and longevity for anyone with a menstrual cycle--with huge potential to help manage symptoms as this cycle wanes through peri- and post-menopause. And the strategies will help anyone who enjoys outdoor activities to get even more time and enjoyment out of them.

Bring a notebook and a pencil to this session! Lyra will guide you on how to build a plan, calibrate your effort, and monitor your recovery. You can take a look at her own log, and see the way that she puts this knowledge into practice as a coach and career mountain guide solidly in early perimenopause herself!

As always, all are welcome! It is great for everyone to be aware of the best practices in training the female physiology. (If you didn’t make it to last year’s talk, that is OK, you won’t be left behind!)

Lyra Pierotti is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and IFMGA Licensed Mountain Guide based in Leavenworth. She coaches through her own company, MOVEmentum, and guides around the world with Alpine Ascents International and Cascade Mountain Ascents.

Sign up here!

Meet Mission Ridge Ski Patrol to practice your beacon search skills! You will meet patrol in the base area by the Outback Shack (located to the left of the rental shop, next to the entrance of the Summer Road) at 10:30 and then proceed behind the lodge to “Chili Fries.” The practice will take place in a location that does not require a lift ticket.

If you have your own beacon be sure to bring it. If you don’t there will be extra beacons available to borrow.

Register here! (FREE!)

The Northwest Avalanche Center (NWAC) offers free avalanche classes to the public throughout our forecast area. These classes are a 90 minute introductory presentation geared towards the novice wintertime backcountry user. Avalanche Awareness Classes are offered from October-March.

Course Description

Whether you ski, snowshoe, snowboard, or snowmobile, recognition of avalanche danger is an essential and potentially lifesaving skill. This introductory class provides a basic approach to managing risk. NWAC instructors will explain how to access avalanche and mountain weather forecasts and recognize basic signs of avalanche danger.

Please bring a camp chair to sit in!

Join us to celebrate 5 years of existence!

-Coffee from Gaucho (bring your own mug!)

-Hot chocolate/tea for non-coffee drinkers

-S’mores

-10% off your purchase

-Balloon sale (first come first served)

-3 $100 gift cards hidden throughout the store!

RESCHEDULED FROM 12/11!

Please register here! (FREE!)

The Northwest Avalanche Center (NWAC) offers free avalanche classes to the public throughout our forecast area. These classes are a 90 minute introductory presentation geared towards the novice wintertime backcountry user. Avalanche Awareness Classes are offered from October-March.

Course Description

Whether you ski, snowshoe, snowboard, or snowmobile, recognition of avalanche danger is an essential and potentially lifesaving skill. This introductory class provides a basic approach to managing risk. NWAC instructors will explain how to access avalanche and mountain weather forecasts and recognize basic signs of avalanche danger.

PLEASE BRING A CAMP CHAIR TO SIT IN!

Cancelled- not enough snow! We will hold another beacon search on January 11!

RESCHEDULED TO 12/18 DUE TO THE STORMS!

Please register here! (FREE!)

The Northwest Avalanche Center (NWAC) offers free avalanche classes to the public throughout our forecast area. These classes are a 90 minute introductory presentation geared towards the novice wintertime backcountry user. Avalanche Awareness Classes are offered from October-March.

Course Description

Whether you ski, snowshoe, snowboard, or snowmobile, recognition of avalanche danger is an essential and potentially lifesaving skill. This introductory class provides a basic approach to managing risk. NWAC instructors will explain how to access avalanche and mountain weather forecasts and recognize basic signs of avalanche danger.

PLEASE BRING A CAMP CHAIR TO SIT IN!

Join us at Colchuck for a night of women-centric short ski films!

Ever heard of “Girl Dinner”? Filled with yummy small bites and your favorite snacks, we wanted this film tour to reflect the dinners we love so much - short films with range. These stories will fill you up with rad skiing, deep storytelling, and good humor - just like your favorite mix of food for “girl dinner.”

Film Line-Up:

• Mimic - Feat. Piper Kunst

• Trails Still Blazing - Feat. Megan McJames

• Queen of the Catskills - Feat. Julie McGuire

• Dear Superhero - Feat. Janina Kuzma with Leanne Pelosi and Evelina Nilsson

• Let My People Go Skiing - Feat. Ellen Bradley

• That One Friend - Feat. - Sierra Schlag and Waverly Chin

We hope these screenings will provide a space to continue the celebration of women in snow sports. All are welcome!

For more information about the films, go to girlwinterfilmtour.com/films

Doors 6:30 PM // Films 7:00 PM

Please bring a camp chair!

Girl Winter is brought to you by our partners at Stio and supported by Ski Utah.

Join local packrafting enthusiast Jon Strahl for a slideshow presentation and discussion on exploration, climate change, and glaciers. The Alsek, is a free flowing river the size of the Columbia that cuts through two 16,000’ tall mountain ranges, and runs through three major protected areas: Kluane National Park and Reserve in the Yukon, Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park in British Columbia, and Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska. These parks form part of the largest contiguous protected wilderness area in the world. Over numerous trips down different parts of the river, Jon has witnessed the changing landscape.

Please bring a camp chair!  

Join us for a fun night of friendly cribbage games! Overall winner of the night receives a $50 giftcard! Open to all abilities including those who have never played. Please bring a board and a deck if you have one, and don’t forget a camp chair!

7:00 PM

We will be following this tutorial from Bikepacking.com to make seat harnesses for bikepacking from old tires! We will provide materials for a fee of $15, or you can bring your own old tire and Voile straps!

Butterfly in a Blizzard offers a deeply personal look into professional snowboarder Kimmy Fasani’s journey into motherhood, exploring how this new phase reshapes her past. Fasani and her family open all of the doors to capture her transformation from a globe-trotting winter sports icon to mom, while delving into the newly coined term matrescence. Experts in maternal health, with one calling it “the biggest story never told,” highlight this rarely explored time in a parent’s life. Throughout the film, Fasani faces repeated “blizzards” in her life, including identity shifts, childhood trauma, relationship struggles, and a breast cancer diagnosis. Over five years, raw and intimate footage reveals Fasani’s evolution as she navigates these storms. Join the ride as she works to maintain her place in snowboarding while striving to become the mother she aspires to be, shedding light on the complex balance of passion, career, and parenthood.

Doors 6:30 PM // Film 7:00 PM

Bring your camp chair!

Pressure Drop is the latest chapter in a 30-year journey—forged from a dream, fueled with cash from commercial fishing in Alaska, and driven by an obsession with life on the edge.

This film follows the world’s best skiers and snowboarders, alongside the next generation, through Alaskan spines, stacked pillow lines, massive cliffs, giant couloirs, deep powder, and insane jumps. From Norway to British Columbia, California to Alaska, and home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, each line becomes a brushstroke in the art of descent.

Pressure Drop captures that fleeting space between calm and chaos—when breath slows, vision sharpens, and the mountain demands everything. It’s the moment before gravity takes over.

For three decades, we’ve stood at the edge—where fear meets flow and everything else fades. Pressure Drop continues the tradition of what it means to dedicate your life to the fall line.

Locations: Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Lofoten Islands, Norway, Valdez, Alaska, Grand Targhee, Wyoming, Interior British Columbia, Haines, Alaska, Palisades Tahoe, California.

STARRING: Sage Cattabriga-Alosa, Ian McIntosh, Nick McNutt, Kai Jones, Parkin Costain, McRae Williams, Maggie Voisin, Colter Hinchliffe, Jim Ryan, Molly Armanino, Kirsty Muir, Grace Henderson, Troy Podmilsak, Teal Harle, Kelly Hilleke, Madison Rose Ostergren, Simon Hillis, Jeremy Jones, Cass Jones, Mia Jones.

Doors: 6:30

Film: 7:00

Cost: FREE!

Bring your camp chair!

Partner event at Luna Sandals! See you there!

Trailer

Doors: 6:30 PM

Films: 7:00 PM

Tickets at the door only: $12

All proceeds benefit Evergreen MTB Alliance!

Please bring a camp chair if you have one!

Let’s Talk: Body Shop

Let’s have some fun talking about these crazy skin bags we live in. Hali Fiano will be at Colchuck Consignment to discuss common movement patterns, connective tissue issues, and interesting things about the way we walk that make us less efficient. She comes with over 23 years of experience studying human movement and loves to talk shop. Sometimes just a little biomechanical hint can make all the difference. We will have a short lecture based on some of the common pain points she sees in her practice then follow it up with a healthy Q & A and freebies. 

Feel free to send your questions in ahead of time to Hali@awakebodies.com 

Please bring a camp chair if you have one!

EVENT INFO

Title: Return of a Wild Peshastin

Description: 

Rivers are wild by nature. But over time, we’ve drawn boundaries, built walls, and carved roads too close to their banks—shaping their paths to serve our needs rather than their own.

Now, Peshastin Creek has a rare opportunity to return to its wilder self—with a little kick-start from us. Through large-scale restoration efforts, the river will be given space to move again: to meander, to deposit wood, to rebuild the complexity that both salmon and paddlers thrive on.

For those of us who read water, this shift brings new features, a wilder experience, new hazards, and the opportunity to experience the transformation of a river that’s finding its voice again. This isn’t the same Peshastin Creek you’ve known—but that’s the point.

Join American Whitewater and Cascade Fisheries on May 21st at 5:30 pm at Colchuck Consignment to learn what’s changing, what it means for boaters, and how we can all embrace the return of a wilder Peshastin.

Buy tickets here!

For the third year, Colchuck Consignment and Icicle Creek Center for the Arts bring you No Man’s Land Film Festival at Snowy Owl Theater. Join us on May 16th the premier all-women + genderqueer adventure film festival, celebrating the full range of athletes and adventurers by un-defining femininity in adventure, sport, conservation, and film. We are proud to bring new stories told by diverse voices to our valley, and we can't wait for you to join us for an unforgettable evening of outdoor films!  

Don't miss out on this incredible event! It's an evening you won't want to miss, so grab your friends and come join us at the Snowy Owl Theater. We look forwad to seeing you there!

This year’s films feature stories of running, cycling, mountaineering, climbing, and skiing, told through Native, autistic, queer, trans, and Black voices.

Doors open at 6:30

Films begin at 7:00

Children are welcome; please note films include the following topics: eating disorder, death of a parent, and injury.

Join local bike and travel enthusiast Ryan, as he recounts a spiritual mountain bike trip through western Bhutan discovering amazing single track and experiencing Buddhist culture. Enjoy photos, a short film, and discussion.

Please bring a camp chair if you have one.

Join us to celebrate a successful winter season! Our consignors blew us away by consigning over 10,000 items this winter, helping us outfit the valley for skiing, snowboarding, XC skiing, snowshoeing, and more! Consignors will get first dibs on our winter sale at this after hours event. Colchuck Consignment will provide tacos and beverages to enjoy while you shop and socialize. Consider bringing your own plate and cup to keep this a low waste event. Please RSVP so we can have the appropriate number of tacos!

7-9 PM.

Tacos

Beverages

First dibs on End of Season Sale! 30% off all winter gear and apparel!

Training Strategies for the Female-Bodied Athlete

Lessons from research and experience for athletes wishing to train in alignment with their menstrual cycle--and key adjustments to keep thriving through peri- and post-menopause

Let’s start with the good news—in the last few years, research on female athletes has increased by 50% The bad news? It’s gone from 4 to 6% of the total exercise science research… yikes. So how do you train when you’re not adequately represented in the research?

Come by Colchuck Consignment at 7pm, February 20th, to hear about what the research is starting to reveal about training for female bodied athletes, from pre- to peri- and post-menopause. Lyra Pierotti of MOVEmentum Training will present some of the current science, share things she has learned from coaching athletes (and being a lifelong athlete), and present some tools to help you tune in and personalize your training. 

All are welcome! The differences are critical for all who exercise to understand, so we can support each others’ athleticism and avoid unhelpful, unrepresentative, and uninformed training advice. You’ll leave with a list of monitoring tools and an abundance of training tips for all phases of a female athlete’s life.

Lyra Pierotti is a NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and an IFMGA Licensed Mountain Guide. Her career as a coach started out of necessity: Injury and overtraining threatened to end her beloved guiding career at just 30 years old. The common training approaches just weren’t working. Now 40, she is enjoying all of it more than ever, and looking forward to the next decade—armed with experience and a growing body of research to support female athletes through the menopause transition, and beyond.

Please bring a camp chair if you have one!

So you want to know about snowmobiling? An introduction to motorized snow travel.

We'll cover how to get started on the snowmobile journey, sled selection & basic maintenance, where and how to find places to ride, local clubs, and gear

The Farrell family, veteran backpackers, struck gold getting a Wonderland Trail lottery permit for mid August, and they had ambitious plans. Confronted with formidable weather, they had to pivot, but kept on, completing the loop and considering it one of the best trips they've ever taken. They want to share their story and inspire others to enter the lottery to visit this treasure of a trail.