There’s a purity in “earning your turns” and more people are backcountry skiing than ever before. In fact, ski touring off the beaten path has blown up so much that entire films are being made on the subject. Enter the Backcountry Film Festival. Celebrating the Human Powered Experience, this year’s event will feature ten new…
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2012 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour comes to Utah
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…
“The Art of Flight” may revolutionize snowboard movies
In 2008, Brain Farm Cinema offered up a snowboarding video that was anything but the norm. ”That’s It That’s All” was more than just a couple of years worth of high quality snow-porn, it was a game-changer. Curt Morgan and Travis Rice (along with a crew of the world’s best schralpers) used HiDef, 35mm, and…
2010/2011 Banff Mountain Festival tours through Utah
The Banff Mountain Film Festival is on tour and has several stops scheduled for mountain towns in Utah. This event is the de facto film fest for all things outdoors with a focus on rock climbing, mountaineering, skiing and exploring the vertical world in remote places across the earth. According to festival organizers, the Banff…
Salomon FreeskiTV videos the perfect stoke builder
After all this Outdoor Retailer 2011 Winter Market coverage, we need a break from writing (and reading) about gear, gear, gear! Today is a day to dig out from technical specs of jackets and shoes and get stoked on ski season again. The Salomon FreeskiTV videos are a series of short movies with episodes released…
X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival 2011 in Utah
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…
Utah Filmmaker Bill Kerig presents “Ready to Fly”
Utah Filmmaker, Bill Kerig, is the man who brought us the ski documentary The Edge of Never. As a follow up to the success of that film, Kerig has turned his attention to the highly controversial subject of the women’s ski jumping team and their struggle to be accepted into the Winter Olympic Games. Ready…
Stroll art galleries to benefit the Access Fund
Art and outdoor recreation is an unusual combination, but an upcoming event aims to bring the two together and raise money for the Access Fund. The 4th annual Hammers Inc. Art Festival and gallery stroll will bring Utah artists and local rock climbers together to raise awareness and money for conservation. This year the funds…
Utah Outside movie review: “127 Hours”
Those of us living in Utah are well versed in the tale of Aron Ralston, the man who famously became stuck in southern Utah’s Blue John Canyon when a chockstone came loose and smashed on his hand, pinning it to the slot canyon wall. In an act of courage, determination and desperation, Ralston cut off…
Utah screening of “Cheap Ski Movie”
“Cheap Ski Movie” looks unlike any ski porn ever made. Although most ski movies are usually pretty dumb, at least the skiers in them seem to be aware of this, and are able to make fun of themselves. Maybe that’s the point of “Cheap Ski Movie,” which is described by the filmmakers as, “the Wayne’s…