Ah, those guys over at the Utah Avalanche Center sure know how to take a serious thing like avalanches and make them lighthearted and fun. Well, more avalanche forecaster Craig Gordon than anyone else. Of course he doesn’t really take slides lightly, but for the past few years, he and his cohort, Trent Meisenheimer, compiled…
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Video: KSL Outdoors – Mountain Biking Southern Utah
The KSL Outdoors show is usually about hunting, fishing, and motorized outdoor sports in Utah. But last week, a very different episode hit the airwaves when they dedicated a whole show about mountain biking in Southern Utah. From the Red Bull Rampage, to Outerbike in Moab, to riding the Good Water Rim Trail at the…
Video: Pre-Halloween Powder at Alta
For most in Utah, ski season is a few weeks away, but for a dedicated few, skiing and snowboarding started a while ago. Alta has been hammered by early-season storms, and quite the base is building up for the 2013/14 ski season. As ski bums are wont to do, they’ve been touring up on low-angle…
Video: Adventure is Calling
A stunning video was posted on Vimeo recently. It’s one of those timelapse deals with scenic landscapes and an impossibly brilliant night sky. We’ve all seen them, but Shane Black has upped the ante with his video “Adventure is Calling.” There’s a lot of scenes from around the country, but of course most are of…
Video: Dub Roots from Dubsatch Collective
Nothing gets skiers jazzed up for ski season more than over-the-head powder footage. In this week’s featured video, the new short film “Dub Roots” by the Dubsatch Collective, there’s plenty of it, and they even keep it mellow with one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs. The video is shot entirely at Alta. It’s basically…
Sweetgrass Productions “Valhalla” review
Sweetgrass Productions has done it again. The ski movie company known for creating the most art-house flicks in the ski world drove their famous school bus through Salt Lake City where I caught their latest offering, “Valhalla.” If you’ve seen a Sweetgrass movie before, like “Signatures” and “Solitaire,” then you have an expectation of beautiful…
Powderwhore Productions “Elevation” review
The boys over at Powderwhore Productions sure know how to get a Utah backcountry skier amped up for the upcoming season. Sure the production quality isn’t at the level of MSP or Brain Farm, but the lack of heli shots and superstar skiers mugging for the camera is exactly what makes “Elevation,” the new ski…
Video: Voile – French for “Made in America”
One of our favorite ski companies, Salt Lake City based Voile, has long been misunderstood. They have a French name, therefore people assumed they are a French company. But no, they are American, headquartered in Utah, and their awesome skis and backcountry gear is made in West Valley City. So to put to rest any…
Videos: Alta Love Compilation
Mornings are cold all of a sudden here in Utah, and Alta recently posted a picture of frost covering everything up at 8,000 feet. It may be September, but winter is making herself known already. So for this week’s featured video, we’re showing three ski-related edits, and they all come from Alta. The first one,…
Video: Snowbird Ski Patrol
It’s not often that you can see a commercial for a ski resort featuring nothing but the ski patrol, but in this week’s video, the Snowbird Ski Patrol takes center stage. Of course the terrain, snow, and yes, explosions are all present as well, but it’s the sweet footage of the patrollers at work and…