Of all the mountain bike rides in Utah, no trails can promise to have a little bit of everything quite like the Whole Enchilada in Moab. The name itself describes the ride, as it’s a trail that truly does have it all: from forested mountain singletrack, to doubletrack in sagebrush flats, to slickrock in red…
Category: Media
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…
Sweetgrass Productions “Solitaire” screenings at Brewvies Cinema Pub
Brewvies Cinema Pub in downtown Salt Lake City is the place to be this year for ski movie screenings in Utah. This week they’re hosting the the long awaited “Solitaire” from soul-ski filmmakers Sweetgrass Productions. “Solitaire” is the third movie from Sweetgrass, and is the followup to their highly original Japanese ski and snowboard tale,…
Powderwhore Productions “Breaking Trail” review
“Breaking Trail” is the new ski flick from Utah’s own Powderwhore Productions. Their modus operandi is to make ski movies featuring backcountry skiing, with a focus on the Wasatch Mountains. This is the reason I like Powderwhore’s work, because they shuck the ski porn stereotypes of heli accessed luxury and urban jibbing tomfoolery, and instead…
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…
Featured website: SummitBrew.com
Today we’re featuring a new website that is part of the UtahOutside.com family – SummitBrew.com! It’s a website dedicated to the supreme bliss of climbing peaks, combined with the supreme bliss of another favorite pastime of mountain denizens; drinking quality microbrews after a day spent outside. The idea of SummitBrew.com is simple – bag a peak,…
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…
Compilation of 2011 Utah ski movie screenings
Hard to believe it’s happening, but we’re already talking about ski movies. Films produced for the sole purpose to stoke winter… uh…. stoke will soon be lighting screens up all over Utah. The major ski-movie companies have already booked their Utah dates, and some of the smaller guys have as well. It’s a yearly tradition to torture yourself at the…
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…