Of all the mountain bike rides in Utah, no trails can promise to have a little bit of everything quite like the Whole Enchilada in Moab. The name itself describes the ride, as it’s a trail that truly does have it all: from forested mountain singletrack, to doubletrack in sagebrush flats, to slickrock in red…
Category: Video
Sweetgrass Productions “Solitaire” review
Attending a ski movie screening can feel like deja vu. You arrive at a theater and the parking is lousy with Subarus sporting gear boxes. You go in, get free energy bars, buy a t-shirt and raffle tickets, wait in the dark with hundreds of fellow skiers, and finally watch some ski porn that is…
Sweetgrass Productions “Solitaire” screenings at Brewvies Cinema Pub
Brewvies Cinema Pub in downtown Salt Lake City is the place to be this year for ski movie screenings in Utah. This week they’re hosting the the long awaited “Solitaire” from soul-ski filmmakers Sweetgrass Productions. “Solitaire” is the third movie from Sweetgrass, and is the followup to their highly original Japanese ski and snowboard tale,…
DPS releases video of elusive Spoon skis in action
Salt Lake City-based ski company, DPS, turned heads in the ski industry with the prototype of a very unusual looking ski called the Spoon. The convex-shaped skis brought a range of reactions from anyone who laid eyes on it, as the dimension of the skis defy everything we know about ski construction. Everybody (myself included) wondered…
Video: Speedflying Box Elder Peak
Utah has some of the best hiking in the world, and along the Wasatch Front, the opportunity to stand atop a peak just minutes away from a major metropolitain area is a blessing. But once you get to the top, you have to hike back down. Not so for Jason Jones, who prefers to fly…
Video: Canyoneering Zion
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 says…
Video: Spring Shreddin
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, Mike…
Video: Lower Porcupine Rim Singletrack
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…
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…
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…