It may officially be fall, but winter is upon us. That means ski season is about to arrive, and sooner than one might think considering the dry fall season Utah has experienced so far. Solitude and Brighton are once again competing to be the first ski resort to open for the 2011/2012 season, and it’s…
Tag: Skiing
Party with Bluehouse Skis for a GnarBQ
Salt Lake City’s Bluehouse Skis are throwing a party at their ski factory, and everyone is invited! But this isn’t just some hang out and chill with the boys kind of deal. No, this party is going to be a GnarBQ, which means it’s also a free screening of the ski movie parody, “G.N.A.R. The…
Pray for snow at 2011 Ullr Ball fundraiser
It’s officially time to pray for snow. Get out your retro ski clothes, ritualistically burn ski wax, climb mountains to give alcoholic offerings to the ski gods, and attend the 2011 Ullr Ball “pray for snow” fundraiser to benefit Save Our Canyons. This year’s Ullr Ball takes place on Tuesday, November 15th from 7-10pm and…
Get yourself and your gear in shape for Utah’s ski season
“Skiing is Life!” Those who ski more than two or three times a year really do live by that creed. I bumped into this idea 15+ years ago as a new ski instructor at Brighton Resort in Big Cottonwood Canyon, deep in the Wasatch Front. The other philosophy used by avid skiers is that there are…
Video: “The Deepest Season”
We here at UtahOutside.com are not professional ski movie makers like Powderwhore Productions, or flat out artistic geniuses like the folks at Sweetgrass. But we do like to whip out the video camera from time to time while traveling and skiing the mountains in Utah’s backcountry. During the record snowfall of the 2010/2011 ski season, we shot a lot…
Enter Snowbird’s Local Hero POV Video Contest
Got any badass POV footage of yourself skiing or snowboarding? Then you have a chance to win Snowbird’s Local Hero POV Video Contest. If you don’t, then charge up those camera batteries and wipe off the lens because as soon and the snow flies, you’ll want to start shooting footage to edit together and send…
Black Diamond Fall 2011 Gear Swap and Sale
Need to make space in your gear garage or closet for some swanky new skis? Or are you flat broke and looking for a good deal on some used boards to replace your sad, neon ’93 K2 Extremes? Then get thee to the Fall 2011 gear swap and sale at the Black Diamond retail store…
Sweetgrass Productions “Solitaire” review
Attending a ski movie screening can feel like deja vu. You arrive at a theater and the parking is lousy with Subarus sporting gear boxes. You go in, get free energy bars, buy a t-shirt and raffle tickets, wait in the dark with hundreds of fellow skiers, and finally watch some ski porn that is…
DPS releases video of elusive Spoon skis in action
Salt Lake City-based ski company, DPS, turned heads in the ski industry with the prototype of a very unusual looking ski called the Spoon. The convex-shaped skis brought a range of reactions from anyone who laid eyes on it, as the dimension of the skis defy everything we know about ski construction. Everybody (myself included) wondered…
Canyons wants to build a tram to Solitude
Once again, Utah’s ski resorts are plotting ways to connect with each other in an effort to create a European style ski experience. This time it’s the Canyons, and they’re proposing to build a tram that would fly over the Wasatch crest and down into Big Cottonwood Canyon to Solitude. According to KSL, who broke…