“The Gem of the Wasatch.” The new Pinecone Ridge Trail in Park City has already earned that moniker, and is laregly considered an instant classic by those who have gone mountain biking up her singletrack. What originally makes Pinecone Ridge such a hit is the fact that riders have a new way to access the…
Category: Mountain Biking
Video: Colorado MTB Road Trip
Utah has some of the best mountain biking in the world, and we’re privileged to have it all right here in our back yards. But sometimes you just need to cut loose and explore the singletrack in neighboring states. That’s just what Utah mountain biker and friend of UtahOutside.com, Jared Anderton, did recently when he…
Park City Point 2 Point returns Labor Day Weekend
One of the most challenging point-to-point mountain bike races in the country returns to the Wasatch as the Park City Point 2 Point hits the singletrack on Labor Day Weekend. This summer marks the fourth year of the event, and it’s more popular than ever, proven by the fact that the race sold out in…
Snowbird to host new Full Suspension Mountain Bike Series
Here in Utah, we have lots of bikes, and lots of beer. Sometimes, they go together, like the Full Suspension Pale Ale Squatters makes that has a mountain biker on the label. So finally, these two great things that go great together really are joining forces at Snowbird for the Full Suspension Mountain Bike Series….
Mountain biking the Cassidy Trail in Red Canyon
The Cassidy Trail, located in Southern Utah’s Red Canyon, is well known as the place where the famous old-west outlaw Butch Cassidy hid out to escape the law after rustling cattle and robbing trains. But these days, the canyon that bears Cassidy’s name is a place of singletrack goodness where hiking, horseback riding, and most…
Race Euro style at Bell Wasatch Enduro at Canyons Resort
Italian-style Enduro mountain bike racing is coming to Utah in the form of the Bell Wasatch Enduro on July 21st, part of the North American Enduro Tour. The race will start and end at the Canyons Resort, and organizers promise it will be a world-class event. So, what is Italian-style enduro racing anyway? Basically, the…
Prepare to die at Crusher in the Tushar
Sixty nine miles, over 10,000 feet of climbing, and confusion over whether to ride a road or mountain bike. Welcome to Crusher in the Tushar. This one-of-a-kind bike race happens July 14th, 2012 in the Tushar Mountains above Beaver, Utah. The Crusher in the Tushar is the brainchild of professional cyclist, T. Burke Swindlehurst, who…
Giro Feature mountain bike helmet review
The Giro Feature mountain bike helmet, at first glance, looks like a ski helmet, or maybe a skateboard helmet with a bill added on the front. In any case, it sure is a strange departure from traditional, extremely vented bike helmets that we know and love. But this beefy-looking dude with full coverage for the…
Video: Big Sick Mountain Biking Jumps
The I Street dirt jumps in Salt Lake City have been in the news lately, as this hugely popular and regionally well-known urban mountain bike area is under threat. This site, which was built by dedicated riders on city property, may be torn out to make way for new water tanks. The Wasatch Area Freeride…
Flow riding at the new Canyons Bike Park
Whistler, North Star at Tahoe, Keystone… Canyons? The first three ski resorts are well known as downhill mountain biking meccas, but there has never been a true lift-accessed bike park with flow trails in Utah. Canyons Resort in Park City aims to change that. In spring 2011, the resort announced that they would be building…