Hard to believe it’s happening, but we’re already talking about ski movies. Films produced for the sole purpose to stoke winter… uh…. stoke will soon be lighting screens up all over Utah. The major ski-movie companies have already booked their Utah dates, and some of the smaller guys have as well. It’s a yearly tradition to torture yourself at...
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Tags: Level 1 Productions, Matchstick Productions, Powderwhore Productions, ski movies, Skiing, Sweetgrass Productions, Telemark Skier Magazine, Teton Gravity Research, Utah, Warren Miller
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How about some outdoorsy coolness on video today? Friend of UtahOutside.com, Jared Anderton, recently went on a massively epic canyoneering trip to Zion National Park, and put his talented GoPro HD camera skills to work. He and his friends went on a guided expedition to Yankee Doodle and Pine Creek slot canyons, and Anderton...
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Tags: canyoneering, GoPro, Pine Creek Canyon, slot canyons, Southern Utah, trip report, Video, Yankee Doodle Canyon, Zion National Park
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It’s June 1st, the unofficial beginning of summer. But here in Utah, especially in the Wasatch, winter still grips the mountains as record breaking rainfall drenches the valleys. So to say hello to the summer months that are very unsummer-like this year, here’s some spring ski-stoke to celebrate. Spring Shreddin comes from our friend,...
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Tags: Big Cottonwood Canyon, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Skiing, Snowbird, snowboarding, spring, Utah, Video, Wasatch Mountains
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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...
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Tags: GoPro, Moab, Mountain Biking, Outdoor, Porcupine Rim, Utah, Video
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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...
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Tags: backcountry, backcountry skiing, Jackson Hole, ski resorts, Skiing, Tilt Shift, Video
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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...
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Tags: Canyons, outdoor events, photos, pond skimming, Skiing, snowboarding, Spring Grüv
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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...
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Tags: 18 Road, Colorado, Fruita, Grand Junction, Horse Thief Bench, Lunch Loops, Mountain Biking, Outdoor, Tabaguache, trip report, Video
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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,...
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Tags: "The Art of Flight" snowboarding, Brain Farm, Films, movie, news, Outdoor, trailer, Video
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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...
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Tags: Fisher Towers, GoPro HD, Marshall Miller, Moab, Movies, POV, speed flying, Speed Flying Fisher Towers, Video
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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...
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Tags: Films, FreeskiTV, Movies, Salomon, Skiing, Video
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