There a new map of the Central Wasatch for backcountry skiers, and it’s a doozy. The Wasatch Backcountry Skiing Map by Steve Achelis is the most comprehensive map we’ve seen. It features every known, named ski route in Mill Creek and the Cottonwood Canyons, which covers over 1,100 skiable lines. In addition to the indexed,…
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SLUG Games Revenge of the Nerds for geeks and dweebs
For the last 13 years, SLUG Magazine has left their underground urban fortress to head in the hills for the annual SLUG Games. The SLUG Games is an amateur ski/snowboarding series with funky twists and inventive competitions that can only come from the people at SLUG. This year is the 13th annual SLUG Games, and…
Three ways to ski all Utah’s 14 resorts this season
Want to ski all of Utah’s 14 ski resorts in one season? Well, there are several season pass offers from Ski Utah that can make it happen with the Fifth and Sixth Grade Passport and the Yeti Pass. First up is the ever-popular Passport, which allows your fifth graders to ski or snowboard for free…
Friday video: Quarter Past Midnight
Oh, if only all ski movies could be shot so artistically and edited so creatively as the shorts from Salomon Freeski TV. Case in point, their newest release, which is this week’s Friday Video, “Quarter Past Midnight.” Salomon describes it as thus: Under twinkle of stars and light of moon spirits roam the world at…
Friday Video: Niños Jugando en Patagonia
It’s a bit early to post a ski edit, simply because there’s no skiing in Utah right now. But if you go to South America, there’s all the snow you need this time of year to farm some corn and shoot tons of video documenting the experience of skiing in the summer. We’ve been posting…
Backcountry skiing Patagonia: Refugio Baguales
The cold wood deck pressed against my back as I laid down in the frozen night at Refugio Baguales and gazed on an alien-looking sky. Trippy music emanated from Justin’s phone as we all stretched out in a row, picking out constellations our own imaginations had to conjure, as the southern-hemisphere night held no familiarity….
Backcountry skiing Patagonia: Catedral Norte
After our time spent at Refugio Frey, we needed to decide how to return to civilization. We debated about going back the way we came in through Valle Van Titter and The Notch, but overnight temperatures that dropped to 20 degrees meant that particular slope would be frozen solid. Most people who visit the hut…
Q&A with Mike Kilcheinstein of RAMP Sports, handcrafting skis in Park City
There are a lot of small, boutique ski companies popping up around the country, including here in Utah. Viice, Bluehouse, and Surface are just a few examples, and now there’s a new player in the local ski manufacturing community. RAMP Sports recently built a ski factory in Park City where they are making skis by…
Backcountry skiing Patagonia: Refugio Frey
“Refugio. Refugio. Refugio. Refugio? Refugio?” Our waitress stared at Adam with a complete lack of understanding on her face. He was trying to explain to her in a painfully American accent that we were on our way to Refugio Frey, a stone, backcountry hut located on the shores of Laguna Toncek beneath massive rock spires,…
Backcountry skiing Patagonia: Bariloche and Cerro Catedral
Summer in Utah means winter in the southern hemisphere, so for addicted-to-turns skiers like myself, traveling to a place like Argentina is the only option to defy the seasons and magically ski in September. Luckily, I have friends who have the same mindset, including Justin Lozier and Sean Zimmerman-Wall of Patagonia Ski Tours, who go…