Art and outdoor recreation are strange bedfellows. In the digital age of instant photos and videos capturing skiers and mountain bikers shredding the mountainside, there’s little room for the slow brush of paint strokes to capture a scene of action-sports beauty. But one local artist, Chris Miles, has been doing just that: painting surreal landscapes…
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Snowbird hosts 3rd Annual Freeride Avalanche Summit
Due to northern Utah’s pathetic, low snowpack this fall, avalanches aren’t a major concern right now. But the snow will come, and when it does, all that rotten, old snow will be a prime weak layer that will rip out deadly slides. To stay safe in the backcountry, education is key. Before you head out,…
Alta gets love from Salomon Freeski TV
If you’re a skier and you ever need justification of why you chose to live in Utah, then the latest installment of Salomon Freeski TV will not only justify, it will make you want to never leave. Season Five, Espiode 8 features Alta, Utah, and the video captures everything that’s amazing about the place in…
Ski Brighton for $20 on Quad Wednesdays
Of all the ways to score discount tickets at one of Utah’s ski resorts, none are quite as well known or feel-good as Brighton’s Quad Wednesdays. For three weeks in December, the holiday spirit of giving falls upon Big Cottonwood Canyon as thousands of skiers and snowboarders fill Brighton’s slopes to give to charity, and…
Celebrate Snowbird’s 40th Birthday
Get out the disco ball and platform shoes because Snowbird will turn back time to 1971. Snowbird may be approaching middle age, but the ski and snowboard resort in Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon has never looked better. Well, maybe in some ways they looked better as far as the hippie skiers who frequented the place…
On-snow refresher tips for your first ski day
Now that the resorts are open or are opening in the next couple of weeks, it’s finally time to remind your feet how to turn, stop and stay balanced. As a wise old patrolman once told me, “if you’re not turning right, you better be turning left”. Assuming you have already had your skis tuned, adjusted and checked for safety… now…
Learn to photograph like a pro with Scott Markewitz
Ever bring a camera to the ski resort thinking you’ll get some sweet shots of your friends ripping powder, then discover that your pictures flat-out suck? Well then step away from the point-and-shoot, grab your gear, and sign up for the Third Annual Scott Markewitz Photo Workshop at Snowbird. Scott Markewitz is one of the…
DPS Skis opens ski shop and demo center in Sugar House
Salt Lake City based DPS Skis has opened a new ski shop and demo center in Sugar House, right next door to the company’s headquarters. On Friday, November 18, the new shop, which they’re calling the DPS Ski Salon, officially opened to the public with a launch party where they showed off the new digs, as…
Brighton and Solitude first Utah ski resorts open
In the race to see who can claim bragging rights as the first Utah ski resort open for the 2011/2012 ski season, Brighton and Solitude both win. The Big Cottonwood Canyon resorts fired up their lifts early on Thursday morning, November 10th, to the cheers of excited skiers and snowboarders. Both Brighton and Solitude have three…
First tracks of the season at Alta
Snow conditions weren’t perfect, and it was a far cry from the chest deep, 30-something inches that blew the minds of anyone who touched Alta’s slopes in October last year, but my first ski day for the 2011/2012 ski season was fun nonetheless. It was a party atmosphere on November 6th as skiers and snowboarders…