Sure it’s summer, but some of us are already dreaming for flying snow and powder turns. If you’re among us, then now is the time to win yourself a season pass and ski swag at the Second Annual Ski Utah Skootch’n Dash. Call it a competition, or call it a celebration to please Ullr so…
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Outdoor Retailer 2012 Summer Market preview
Get your walking shoes on and ready those hiking legs, because the great traverse of the Salt Palace Convention Center floor will commence once again at the 2012 Outdoor Retailer Summer Market. Downtown Salt Lake City will soon flood with tens of thousands of outdoorsy people as over 25,000 retailers, exhibitors and media are expected…
Stop and smell the flowers at the 2012 Wasatch Wildflower Festival
Summer in the Wasatch. Where we once were skiing deep powder in the winter, summer lets us mosey through fields of wildflowers that spread across the high alpine. To celebrate this explosion of mountain color, the Wasatch Wildflower Festival is there to take us through our favorite mountains and give us a close-up look at…
Video: The Winter That Wasn’t
Miss winter yet? Didn’t think so. But us skiers sure do, so much so that ski movie trailers are already being released… in July! But aside from the big production companies, Ski Utah’s own Powderhound Matt, made his own movie called “The Winter That Wasn’t” from the hundreds of hours of footage shot last season….
Snowbird to host new Full Suspension Mountain Bike Series
Here in Utah, we have lots of bikes, and lots of beer. Sometimes, they go together, like the Full Suspension Pale Ale Squatters makes that has a mountain biker on the label. So finally, these two great things that go great together really are joining forces at Snowbird for the Full Suspension Mountain Bike Series….
Race Euro style at Bell Wasatch Enduro at Canyons Resort
Italian-style Enduro mountain bike racing is coming to Utah in the form of the Bell Wasatch Enduro on July 21st, part of the North American Enduro Tour. The race will start and end at the Canyons Resort, and organizers promise it will be a world-class event. So, what is Italian-style enduro racing anyway? Basically, the…
Run the trails at R-Scape 18 Hours of Ogden 2012
In a world populated by runners, there are runners, and there are trail runners. And for the those trail runners, there’s the R-Scape 18 Hours of Ogden, 18-hour relay race that’s run entirely on trails that wind around Ogden’s east bench. This year’s R-Scape 18 Hours of Ogden begins on Friday, August 10th, and organizers…
Prepare to die at Crusher in the Tushar
Sixty nine miles, over 10,000 feet of climbing, and confusion over whether to ride a road or mountain bike. Welcome to Crusher in the Tushar. This one-of-a-kind bike race happens July 14th, 2012 in the Tushar Mountains above Beaver, Utah. The Crusher in the Tushar is the brainchild of professional cyclist, T. Burke Swindlehurst, who…
Video: Big Sick Mountain Biking Jumps
The I Street dirt jumps in Salt Lake City have been in the news lately, as this hugely popular and regionally well-known urban mountain bike area is under threat. This site, which was built by dedicated riders on city property, may be torn out to make way for new water tanks. The Wasatch Area Freeride…
Flow riding at the new Canyons Bike Park
Whistler, North Star at Tahoe, Keystone… Canyons? The first three ski resorts are well known as downhill mountain biking meccas, but there has never been a true lift-accessed bike park with flow trails in Utah. Canyons Resort in Park City aims to change that. In spring 2011, the resort announced that they would be building…