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,…
Drink up at the First Annual Snowbasin Beer Fest
So ski season is still months away, but summer activities like lift-served mountain biking and hiking are winding down. What’s a ski resort to do? How about throw a brewfest and drink the fall away? Snowbasin is doing just that with their First Annual Snowbasin Beer Fest on October 5th. It seems the Germans were…
A loopy journey on Mount Timpanogos
At around 10 p.m. I received an invite from my friend Adam Fabrikant for a run the next morning on Mount Timpanogos. Adam is a fierce mountain goat, and while he may hesitate to use those words exactly, he shows no limit to his energy stores. Therefore, I dabbled with some second guessing after I agreed…
The First Annual (?) Utah Bikes n’ Beers Tour
Two things we do pretty well here in Utah are bikes and beers. Leave it to Mike D (who does insane bike rides while eating junk food) to find a way to combine the two into one hell of a day. A few years back, Mike got to thinking: why not ride to every single…
Keen Custom Sandals review
The KEEN Newport H2 sandals have been around forever, so much so that it’s a damn icon for the company. As a result, there’s not much that can be done to make them new and exciting for people, right? Well, KEEN found a way by enabling you to custom design your own sandals. This new…
Black Diamond shows off new apparel to Salt Lake fans
Thursday night was party time at the Black Diamond Store in Salt Lake City, when a handful of ravenous Black Diamond fans got to take a first-hand look at the company’s brand new line of outerwear. Invites went out earlier in the week, and space was very limited. So much so that sending in my…
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…
Hiking the timeless Mount Olympus and not quite getting lost
Olympus stands apart from the Wasatch front peaks by its light-brown craggy summit, diagonal striations below on the upper mountain, and its large stature. It looms over the southeast corner of 215, and is visible from about the entire valley. The butting up of the flat valley to the instant-steep base of Olympus demonstrates the…
Therm-A-Rest NeoAir XTherm and Pillow review
Bad night of sleep in the backcountry? The reason I hear more often than not is warmth. Numerous are the times in camp when I’ve been brewing coffee and heard a friend say “I just couldn’t get warm.” A good sleeping bag is a start, but all too often campers overlook the value of a…
Cecret Lake – the everyone trail
The pinnacle of unextreme hiking takes place in the heart of Alta, and I quite enjoyed it. You don’t have to sacrifice any of your grizzled nature to enjoy such an outing. It doesn’t put an asterisk on your trans-Wasatch, Tri Canyon ski-running feats to admit to a relaxed stroll in the woods. We have,…