Videos about skiing at Alta are beautiful, mostly because it’s hard to shoot anything ugly at the place… there’s beauty all around! But if you add in a ripping skier, shredding on a powder day to soulful, grey music, accompanied by the artistic musings of white-boy-afro-painter Bob Ross talking about how to create mountains, and…
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Video: KSL Outdoors – Mountain Biking Southern Utah
The KSL Outdoors show is usually about hunting, fishing, and motorized outdoor sports in Utah. But last week, a very different episode hit the airwaves when they dedicated a whole show about mountain biking in Southern Utah. From the Red Bull Rampage, to Outerbike in Moab, to riding the Good Water Rim Trail at the…
Videos: Alta Love Compilation
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,…
Friday Video: Dub Tales Episode 2 by Andrew Whiteford
“This guy is a better skier than me.” That’s what everybody will say after watching this week’s Friday Video called, “Dub Tales Episode 2.” Okay, maybe there are some skiers that are more talented than Andrew Whiteford, but it’s not you. Rest assured, you’ll understand why after watching “Dub Tales Episode 2.” You know, there…
Friday Video: How Not to Perform an Avalanche Rescue
Every year, avalanche workshops around the country show videos to backcountry skiers of avalanches caught on tape. It’s great for education and as a scare-you-straight tactic while witnessing the immense power of snow sliding down a mountain. Usually the footage is captured on a GoPro that the victim is wearing. It’s not often that the…
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…
A look at the Whole Enchilada Enduro mountain bike race
Enduro mountain bike racing, the format of combined cross-country and downhill, has been gaining in popularity as of late, and the biggest, baddest ride in Moab is about to play host to one of these test-of-fitness events. The Whole Enchilada Enduro mountain bike race will test competitor’s technical bike-handling skills and heart rates in a…
Video: Brighton Powderfest
No matter how you got down the hill or who you did it with, the 2011 season was epic. Greatest season ever? That one is up for debate, but one thing is certain: as far as the Utah record books go, it was the deepest season ever. Record breaking snowfall? Bluebird days with two feet…
Video: Mountain Biking the Whole Enchilada
Of all the mountain bike rides in Utah, no trails can promise to have a little bit of everything quite like the Whole Enchilada in Moab. The name itself describes the ride, as it’s a trail that truly does have it all: from forested mountain singletrack, to doubletrack in sagebrush flats, to slickrock in red…
Video: Canyoneering Zion
How about some outdoorsy coolness on video today? Friend of UtahOutside.com, Jared Anderton, recently went on a massively epic canyoneering trip to Zion National Park, and put his talented GoPro HD camera skills to work. He and his friends went on a guided expedition to Yankee Doodle and Pine Creek slot canyons, and Anderton says…