Forget about Sundance. If you’re any sort of action sports/outdoor recreation/mountain lover, and you’re in Utah the third week of January, then the GoPro X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival is your ground zero for the biggest, baddest and best rock climbing, surfing, mountain biking, skiing, and outdoor documentary films of the year. This go-round is…
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Ski your legs off at 12 Hours of Snowbird
A new ski event makes its debut at Snowbird this year, and it sounds like a doosy. 12 Hours of Snowbird is a non-stop ski fest where, as the title implies, you ski for 12 hours straight. Plus, it’s a competition that benefits the Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center which is reason alone to…
January is Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month
Utah’s resorts are all open, huge storm have given us a deep snowpack, and conditions this January are perfect to learn how to ski and snowboard. So it makes perfect sense that January is officially “Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month.” Utah has joined 34 other skiing states this month to offer special discounts to…
Ski Utah iPhone App to feed powder addiction
Did you ever wake up late one winter morning and casually check the snow report, only to realize in despair that it snowed an unexpected foot of powder in the Wasatch? It’s a painful event that has happened to us all. But thanks to Ski Utah and their new app for the iPhone, involuntary snowfall…
Secretary of State orders BLM to protect Utah’s wild lands
Secretary of State Ken Salazar has ordered a revocation of Bush-era BLM wilderness management guidelines. In 2003, then president Bush decreed that there would be “no more wilderness” in Utah. This policy resulted in the potential of oil and gas drilling and off-road vehicle use in what normally would be considered wilderness quality landscapes. The…
Grand opening of Utah’s 14th ski resort Eagle Point
Eagle Point, Utah’s newest ski resort (bringing the total to 14,) had their grand opening on Wednesday, December 15th. Skiers and snowboarders from around the state made the trip to the Tushar Mountains above Beaver to be a part of Utah ski history and be among the first to ride the lifts and make turns…
Black Diamond issues AvaLung recall
Black Diamond has issued a recall of certain 2010 model AvaLung backpacks. They sent out the recall notice on Tuesday, December 14th and encourage anybody who owns one of the affected packs to immediately return it to Black Diamond for a replacement. Below is the recall notice as found on Black Diamond’s website: Salt Lake…
Canyons fires up the Orange Bubble Express on opening day
Canyons opened for the 2010/11 on Friday, December 10th to much fanfare over the new, first-of-its-kind in North America, Orange Bubble Express with heated seats. According to Canyons, the seats are set at a toasty 56 degrees, and judging from people’s reactions on the first day, the Orange Bubble is a hit. The first 100…
Chairity Lift auction to benefit the Kimball Art Center
Have you ever wanted an old chair lift as a swing or bench in the backyard? Well now is the time to plunk down the cash and get one, while supporting a worthy cause in the process. The Chairity Lift project aims to auction off 40 dismantled chairlifts that came from the historic Golden Eagle lift…
Time to enter the Ski Salt Lake Shootout 2011
Grab your camera and head for the mountains with your skiing buddies, because the annual Ski Salt Lake Shootout registration has begun for 2011, and this year the competition is also open to local professional ski photographers and pro athletes (both skiers and snowboarders.) The 2011 Ski Salt Lake Shootout takes place February 7-12, and the…