Porcupine Rim. It’s a Moab mountain biking legend. Our friend, Jared Anderton took a spring trip to southeastern Utah and tackled the ride with his GoPro. The subsequent edit got accolades from the online community, even winning the GoPro Video of the Day on Facebook. Here’s how Anderton describes it: “We took a late spring…
Category: Media
Video: tiny skiers shred tiny mountains from a tiny tram
Sometimes a video comes along on the internet that just makes you stop and go, “wow.” The past few years, tilt-shift photography has been making waves. This technique involves using a special camera lens that allows for a very narrow depth of field and blurry edges to give the impression that everything in the shot…
Photo Gallery: Spring Grüv pond skimming at Canyons
At the end of every ski season, Canyons hosts the annual Spring Grüv celebration, where the highlight is a Pond Skimming Contest. Dozens of people suited up in crazy outfits to attempt a ski or snowboard crossing on a pond filled with 36 degree water. A huge crowd filled the slopes around the venue to witness…
Video: Mountain Biking Fruita + Grand Junction, Colorado
Skiing in Utah is still going full blast. Meanwhile, skiers are missing out on mountain biking that is already approaching peak season in southern Utah and western Colorado. While Moab and the St. George areas are home to our favorite desert trails, we also take road trips to another sweet place to ride this time…
“The Art of Flight” may revolutionize snowboard movies
In 2008, Brain Farm Cinema offered up a snowboarding video that was anything but the norm. ”That’s It That’s All” was more than just a couple of years worth of high quality snow-porn, it was a game-changer. Curt Morgan and Travis Rice (along with a crew of the world’s best schralpers) used HiDef, 35mm, and…
Video: Speed Fly Fisher Towers by Marshall Miller
Utah local, Marshall Miller, is making a name for himself by posting POV videos of him “speed flying” off Utah’s iconic natural features. Last December, we featured his amazing video “Superior Speed Fly” in which Miller skis from the top of Mount Superior above Alta, and flies among the mountain’s headwalls and fins. This time…
Salomon FreeskiTV videos the perfect stoke builder
After all this Outdoor Retailer 2011 Winter Market coverage, we need a break from writing (and reading) about gear, gear, gear! Today is a day to dig out from technical specs of jackets and shoes and get stoked on ski season again. The Salomon FreeskiTV videos are a series of short movies with episodes released…
Discrete Headwear: Julian Carr, Utah hats, and killer ski videos
Utah has long been a community oriented-type state, and a good example is the recent push to “buy local.” As Utah’s outdoor community, we too can live by this mantra. One of our local outdoor gear companies is Discrete Headwear, owned and operated by none other than Utah ski pro, Julian Carr. Not only does…
Utah Filmmaker Bill Kerig presents “Ready to Fly”
Utah Filmmaker, Bill Kerig, is the man who brought us the ski documentary The Edge of Never. As a follow up to the success of that film, Kerig has turned his attention to the highly controversial subject of the women’s ski jumping team and their struggle to be accepted into the Winter Olympic Games. Ready…
Amazing video: speed flying Mount Superior
A sweet video came out this week on Vimeo of Utah skier Marshall Miller and his friends “speed flying” off the summit of Mount Superior. What is speed flying you ask? It’s when you ski down a mountain with a paragliding parachute strapped to yourself. This allows a skier to not only make some turns…