If you’ve ever skied Alta, perhaps you’ve seen dozens of perfectly spooned ski tracks falling in a row across a slope. Those parallels of turns were “farmed” by Dave Van Dame, also known as “The Farmer.” Van Dame is an icon at Alta, with his recognizable, sun-faded red Marmot jacket. Ever more recognizable are the…
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Featured video: Patrol – Early Mornings
It’s no secret that ski patrols work hard at ungodly hours to make resorts safe for us to enjoy deep powder. But there are few ski areas as challenging as Alta. The folks at Sweetgrass Productions released a spellbinding video all about Alta Ski Patrol called, “Patrol – Early Mornings.” “Patrol – Early Mornings” is…
REI presents “Follow Through” featuring Caroline Gleich
REI is well into their #ForceOfNature campaign. The goal is to “level the playing field” for women recreating outdoors. This week they launched a video featuring Utah’s own Caroline Gleich titled, Follow Through. The film documents Gleich’s successful attempt to be the first woman to ski all 90 routes in Andrew McLean’s classic steep-skiing guide…
Video: September Pow 2017
It’s only September in Utah but winter had already arrived in the Wasatch Mountains. A massive, early-fall storm dropped tons of snow in upper Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons that made the peaks look more like January than September. Of course diehard locals with no fear of gouging their skis hiked up Alta for some…
Backpacking Buckskin Gulch from Wire Pass to White House
Buckskin Gulch is easily among my top 3 favorite hikes in all of Utah. Located in the Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument near the Utah/Arizona border, Buckskin Gulch is widely considered to be the “longest slot canyon in the world.” After hiking through almost 15 miles of continuous, long and deep narrows in Buckskin, I’d say…
Video: Mountain Biking McCoy Flats and 2017 NUMB Fest
Vernal, Utah is slowly but surely becoming the state’s next great mountain biking destination. With trail systems like McCoy Flats, Red Fleet, La Pointe, and more, there’s plenty of desert singletrack to explore in Northeastern Utah. Plus, the 2017 NUMB Fest is happening Memorial Day Weekend, which is the perfect venue to check out these…
Video: Faces of Alta
My name is Jared Hargrave. I’m 40-years-old. And my favorite run at Alta is Eddie’s High Nowhere. If I were in 4FRNT’s new video, “Faces of Alta,” that’s what my ugly mug would say to the camera. 4FRNT is a Salt Lake City-based ski company and clearly they have a love for Alta, and it…
Alta’s Wildcat Chair featured in Powder’s Iconic Lifts
Alta’s Wildcat Chair is being featured in Powder Magazine’s Iconic Lifts video series. “Kitty,” as Alta locals fondly call it, is one of the most popular lifts at this Little Cottonwood Canyon ski area, as it accesses some of the most playful, sheltered, and steep terrain on the mountain. Westward Ho is a classic run…
La Sal Mountains skiing featured in “Sandstone and Snow”
Pro ski athletes tend to spend their winters in exotic, far away mountain ranges like those found in Alaska, British Columbia, or Japan. But Aspen, Colorado-based skier, Colter Hinchliffe, chose the path least traveled (or skinned) by exploring Utah’s comparatively-seldom-skied desert range, the La Sal Mountains of Moab. Of course no athlete goes skiing without…
ProEditors Video Editing Service review
If you have a lust for outdoor adventure and a POV action camera, you probably also have hours of unedited video stashed somewhere. You and the boys got sendy on your trip to Snowbird, but once you shot all that sweet footy and watched it at home, chances are that was the end of the…