Admit it. You’ve watched the Olympics and thought ‘I could do that.’ Well, guess what? You can! The Utah Olympic Park, located a few minutes from downtown Park City, lets couch potatoes experience their favorite cold sports firsthand. You may remember watching the park on NBC during the 2002 Winter Olympics. (Has it really nearly…
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Sundancing to the extreme
This month thousands of people will to flock to Sundance while thousands of people will flock Sundance. Not a typo, but a reality! And it can only happen during January in Utah. While formally adorned moviegoers residents call ‘black coats’ try to mesh with local skiers and snowboarders in Park City for the Sundance Film Festival,…
Tour of the New Belgium Brewery
To begin, let me say that yes, beer doesn’t really have anything to do with the outdoors, especially in the alcohol-illiterate State of Utah. But for many people (myself included) enjoying a cold beer after a trip in the mountains or desert goes hand-in-hand. So let’s categorize this article as a “gear review.” High country…
Happy Holidays from Utah Outside!
From all of us here at Utah Outside, we hope you have a great Christmas. To everyone who visits and reads this website, we thank you. Although we’re pretty new (only 3 months old) we appreciate the support we’ve gotten so far and look forward to many more holiday posts in the future. Happy Holidays!
Praying for snow so the beard can go
A few weeks ago I mentioned to my husband that our neighbor wasn’t going to shave his beard until the first powder day. Jared thought that was a great idea. I thought the powder day would happen sometime that week, so I said go ahead and grow a beard….
Autumn winning seasonal tug-of-war
Winter can wait. Autumn is a schizophrenic season where sometimes the weather doesn’t know what it wants to be. Summer and winter play tug-of-war over the months of October and November, and we’re all caught in the middle. For those of us who recreate in the outdoors, the highs and lows of the temperature roller…