Start Point: Popperton Park, 4860 feet High Point: Bobseld start, 5800 feet Trail Distance: 5.9 miles (round trip) Trail Time: 1 hour Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced Best Season: Spring/Fall The Bobsled is easily Salt Lake City’s most popular, notorious and swooping-fun downhill ride. It’s a wild descent from the Bonneville Shoreline Trail filled with a semi-technical...
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Start Point: Bonneville Shoreline Trail – Emigration trailhead, 4900 feet End Point: Dry Creek Canyon, 5050 feet Trail Distance: 7.8 miles (round trip) Trail Time: 1 hour Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate Best Season: Spring/Fall The Bonneville Shoreline Trail is among the most popular mountain biking routes in the Salt Lake Valley. Quick access from the city, lofty views, and...
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Current and past Salt Lake City Marathon, Half Marathon, 5K’ers, Kids Marathon, and Bike Tourers — UNITE! Monday’s tragedy in Boston wasn’t just an attack on America or Boston, it was an attack on runners of all speeds. “Can’t Slow Us Down!”, a Facebook event, has been created by a local SLC’er who plans...
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Splitboarders unite! Get your boards waxed, and stretch your swag hands because the 2013 Wasatch Splitfest is happening on February 6th-10th right here in Salt Lake City, which is the birthplace of the splitboard movement. The Wasatch Splitfest is a celebration of the splitboarding community in Utah, and will be full of gear demos,...
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Lake effect snow is a wonderful thing. We all know storms tracking across the Great Salt Lake soak up all that warm, salty water and puke it over the Cottonwood Canyons. But sometimes, once in a great while, a strange storm makes all that snow fall in the valley, and the foothills above downtown...
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The Backcountry Film Festival is returning to Brewvies Cinema Pub, and ski-touring specific films will once again be screened for all us freeheelers and lift shunners. This year it happens on January 24th. This year marks the 8th Annual Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival, and promises to be a celebration of the winter...
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Fall is the time for ski movie tours to spread out across the country, bringing the winter stoke. But in Utah this autumn, you can also catch some incredible climbing flicks at the Reel Rock Film Tour. The show comes to Logan at the TSC Auditorium on October 10th and Salt Lake City at...
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When people ask me what I think about the Summer Outdoor Retailer Open Air Demo at Jordenelle Reservoir, I can’t help but put a huge smile on my face. I had the opportunity to do so many awesome things for the very first time: stand-up paddle boarding (SUP), geocaching, dunk someone in a dunk...
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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...
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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...
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