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…
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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…
Hiking the Lake Blanche Trail to Sundial Peak
The Lake Blanche Trail in Big Cottonwood Canyon is one of the most popular and crowded hikes in the Wasatch. But there is a good reason for the amount of human traffic on the trail, and that is the view from Lake Blanche is one of the most scenic in the Wasatch Front. The trailhead…
Video: Speedflying Box Elder Peak
Utah has some of the best hiking in the world, and along the Wasatch Front, the opportunity to stand atop a peak just minutes away from a major metropolitain area is a blessing. But once you get to the top, you have to hike back down. Not so for Jason Jones, who prefers to fly…
Mountain bike movie “Klunkerz” free screening in Cedar City
Award winning mountain bike documentary, Klunkerz is screening in Cedar City to benefit the 222nd Family Readiness Group. Klunkerz is a nostalgic look at mountain biking’s beginnings, and how a group of Northern California hippies modified fat tire bikes for off-road trails which lead to the mountain bike as we know it today. Klunkerz will…
Photos and video: 4th of July skiing at Snowbird
Skiing the 4th of July has only happened three times in Snowbird’s history. 2011 was year #3, but the season will also go down in the books as the longest season at 202 days, and for record-breaking snowfall with a total 783 inches. To celebrate these amazing stats, but to mostly experience the novelty of…
Video: Canyoneering Zion
How about some outdoorsy coolness on video today? Friend of UtahOutside.com, Jared Anderton, recently went on a massively epic canyoneering trip to Zion National Park, and put his talented GoPro HD camera skills to work. He and his friends went on a guided expedition to Yankee Doodle and Pine Creek slot canyons, and Anderton says…
Video: Spring Shreddin
It’s June 1st, the unofficial beginning of summer. But here in Utah, especially in the Wasatch, winter still grips the mountains as record breaking rainfall drenches the valleys. So to say hello to the summer months that are very unsummer-like this year, here’s some spring ski-stoke to celebrate. Spring Shreddin comes from our friend, Mike…
Video: Lower Porcupine Rim Singletrack
Porcupine Rim. It’s a Moab mountain biking legend. Our friend, Jared Anderton took a spring trip to southeastern Utah and tackled the ride with his GoPro. The subsequent edit got accolades from the online community, even winning the GoPro Video of the Day on Facebook. Here’s how Anderton describes it: “We took a late spring…
Video: tiny skiers shred tiny mountains from a tiny tram
Sometimes a video comes along on the internet that just makes you stop and go, “wow.” The past few years, tilt-shift photography has been making waves. This technique involves using a special camera lens that allows for a very narrow depth of field and blurry edges to give the impression that everything in the shot…