Ever wanted to speed down an Olympic-style luge course, but didn’t have the guts (or access to the venue in Park City) to make it happen? Well, why not build you own? Karl Meltzer, a Utah ultrarunner, built his own handmade sledding luge in the Wasatch Mountains as part of his off-season training. Damn does…
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Beers and Bikes at the 3rd annual Tour de Brewtah
The Tour de Brewtah returns to Salt Lake City, as the third annual event hits the streets on May 5th, 2012. The Tour de Brewtah’s motto is, “Ride Bikes. Drink Beer. Do Good.” The event provides cyclists with a fun ride through Salt Lake City and its environs, while visiting Salt Lake’s excellent craft breweries…
Place your bet at the GeoPalz Active Nation OR Challenge
The 2012 Outdoor Retailer Winter Market is happening this week, and of course UtahOutside.com will be walking the Salt Palace Convention Center floor checking out all the new gear we can look forward to seeing in stores this fall. But this Outdoor Retailer show will be different, as every step I take will be monitored…
Celebrate the snow at 2012 Ogden Winterfest
Winter has been slow-in-coming around Utah this year, but maybe a celebration of all things cold and snowy will make the skies open up and cause temperatures to drop. The 2012 Ogden Winterfest may be just the thing to cure our winter doldrums when the city transforms the Historic 25th Street and Ogden Municipal Gardens…
Top Utah Outdoor Adventures of 2011
Top Utah Outdoor Adventures of 2011 – Jared Hargrave’s picks: Skiing on the 4th of July at Snowbird Skiing at Snowbird is such a common occurance, that it takes a huge event to make it into a “best of the year” list. Something like… skiing on the 4th of July. 2011 saw a July with…
Top 5 Articles of 2011
It’s always interesting to see what articles posted on UtahOutside.com get the most page views. Some are surprising, and some are pretty obvious as to why they skyrocket to the top. Overall, readers of this website love their gear, as four of the top five are gear reviews or articles about Outdoor Retailer. Another things…
Happy Dog Christmas from UtahOutside.com!
Wishing all of our readers a Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from UtahOutside.com! Although the Wasatch Front isn’t really having a white Christmas this year, we took a trip to the Front Range of Colorado to find powder snow, and our dogs LOVE it! May you all have a wonderful Christmas spent outdoors with family…
Win a pair of Ahnu hiking boots from OnlineShoes.com
UtahOutside.com has partnered with OnlineShoes.com to give away a pair of Ahnu Elkridge WP Hiking Boots! We recently tested and reviewed a pair of these kicks and found them to be comfortable, but burly at the same time. While hiking on snowy trails in the Wasatch, the Ahnu Elkridge shoes were stable, had very good…
Utah inspires surreal outdoor paintings by Chris Miles
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…
Get inspired at the Utah Adventure Journal Speaker Series
Utah it seems, has become the center of the outdoor recreation universe, and as a result, a lot of amazing adventurers choose to live here. We’re lucky to be the cultural hub of outdoorsyness, as stories of high adventure are shared by world travelers who bring their incredible stories back home. The Utah Adventure Journal…