Now this looks fun! If you’re a park rat who’s up for showing off some skills in the terrain park, then why not do it at night, for free? The SLUG Games Shred the Park After Dark will do just that when the contest happens at Park City Mountain Resort’s 3 Kings park. What’s more, it will be a party as a DJ will be spinning tunes the whole time when you throw down on the rails. Shred the Park After Dark will happen on March 10th, and is the second contest of the year that will take place...
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Ski resort development in the Wasatch Mountains has been a controversial issue this year, with proposed projects like the Snowbird Roller Coaster and SkiLink Gondola setting off a firestorm of anti-development skiers clashing with resort owners. In recent weeks, many of these proposals to expand the reach of ski areas into the Wasatch backcountry have gained a lot of traction, and Salt Lake County has approved a revised plan for Snowbird to build their much sought-after roller coaster. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Snowbird will be able to “restart” the application process to get a permit for the...
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The clothes you wear against your skin is essential in keeping you warm and dry when recreating outdoors. Yet for some reason, many people ignore this and continue to wear plain, cotton underwear in cold, nasty weather. Perhaps one reason for this is the cost of technical underwear, especially merino wool, is expensive. Well, you frugal types now have a good option with the RedRam merino thermal underwear. RedRam is a division of Icebreaker, a New Zealand company specializing in merino wool garments. They put soft and warm wool in just about everything, from jackets to bike jerseys to...
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How much vertical do you think you can ski in six hours? How and you and three of your ski buddies? Well you can find out for a good cause at Bob’s Vertical Challenge at Snowbasin on February 28th. Bob’s Vertical Challenge, which is entering it’s 5th season, is a charitable ski event that helps fund underprivileged youth programs through Scoutreach, and the Trapper Trails Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Basically, you organize a team of four, and everyone gets a GPS that tracks each participant’s vertical feet skied in a six hour period. Teams will have...
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Another avalanche fatality has occurred in Dutch Draw, located just off the 9990 lift in the backcountry outside the Canyons ski resort. A 24-year-old Salt Lake City man, Timothy Robert Baker, was killed after being buried in a slide at around 3 p.m. in the afternoon. According to KSL, Baker was snowboarding out of bounds when he triggered the slide and was then buried under three feet of snow. He was flown by a medical helicopter after being located by rescue crews which included Canyons ski patrol and the Summit County Sheriff’s Office. He later died at the hospital....
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The name just oozes with, uh, shrediness. The Trifecta of Shred is coming to Ogden and will feature top snowboarders from Utah and around the world competing in skate, surf, and snowboard events. Each participant will battle it out for the title of “Chairman of the Boards.” The Trifecta of Shred will happen on March 1-3 at Flowrider Utah, Crossroads Skate Park and Wolf Mountain. Competitors will boast their skills in various board sports on the mountain, in the park and on the wave during Utah’s largest spring freestyle boarding event. The shredfest is hosted with the goal to...
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Little Water Peak is a nondescript summit between Mill Creek and Big Cottonwood Canyons that rises to an elevation of 9605 feet. But what it lacks in stature, it more than makes up for in honest-to-goodness killer backcountry ski lines. North, south, east and west, you can make tracks off the summit of Little Water until your heart’s content, but you have to be willing to work for it while also being vigilant of avalanche danger on the notoriously dangerous north face. While many ski touring party ascends Little Water for the peak-bagging experience, the mountain is also a...
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The video is called, “World’s Largest Rope Swing.” Whether that is true or not is irrelevant and would probably require the folks at Guinness Book of World Records to be on hand to confirm it. Instead of that debatable title, the following video should instead be called, “World’s Most Sick Video Ever!” Imagine running and jumping off the top of the gigantic Corona Arch just outside Moab with nothing more than a rope and harness keeping you from certain death. It seems instead of tipping cows, these kids, led by video-maker-who-goes-by-name-of-DevinSuperTramp, prefer instead to huck their meat into the...
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The Wasatch Powderkeg celebrates its 10-year anniversary this year. The 2012 event will once again take place at Brighton Ski Resort and will be held on an 11-mile course with six climbs and 6,000 feet of vertical. Better have your touring legs under you! The 10th annual Wasatch Powderkeg happens on March 10. New to this year’s Wasatch Powderkeg is updated divisions that bring the race in line with other USSMA SkiMo races. We Awards will go to the top 3 finishers of the following divisions: Men’s AT Race: race gear Women’s AT Race: race gear Men’s Heavy Metal...
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Women’s winter boots come in all shapes and styles, but if they’re not waterproof, fancy looks mean nothing when your feet are cold and wet. Slipping on the ultra-chic Rockport Katrina boots, I thought there’s no way these lace-ups would keep out wet rain and snow, but it turns out these shin-high kicks would (bad pun coming) keep out the hurricane that shares the same name. The Rockport Katrina boots accomplish this dry-feet-in-any-weather task thanks to their Hydro-Shield waterproofing that is incorporated into the leather upper. Although Utah has had a pretty dry winter this year, on the days...
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The 2012 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is coming to Utah and will have several stops from Logan to Moab. The Banff Mountain Film Festival is a world tour of the best outdoor films of the year. Notable films that will be screened on the tour are: “All.I.Can.” winner of the Best Feature Length Mountain Film, as well as “Chasing Water” (Best Short Mountain Film,) “The Freedom Chair” (Best Film on Mountain Sports,) “Kadoma” (Best Film on Exploration and Adventure,) “On the Trail of Genghis Khan: The Last Frontier” (People’s Choice Award,) and “Cold” which won the Grand...
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