Say the words “class 4 rapids” and you’ll make my palms sweat. Of all the outdoor adventures in Utah, rafting is one I’m most afraid of. So rafting through Westwater Canyon on the Colorado River near Moab was a brave moment for me. I’m notoriously a “fish-out-of-water” when I’m in the water, and the thought…
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Video: Snowbird Big Mountain Trail and Moab Singletrack
There’s never been a better time to be a mountain biker in Utah. New trails are being cut every year from north to south, east to west and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. The explosion of new mountain bike-specific trails is so unprecedented that the TV show, KSL Outdoors, went to…
Video: KSL Outdoors – Mountain Biking Southern Utah
The KSL Outdoors show is usually about hunting, fishing, and motorized outdoor sports in Utah. But last week, a very different episode hit the airwaves when they dedicated a whole show about mountain biking in Southern Utah. From the Red Bull Rampage, to Outerbike in Moab, to riding the Good Water Rim Trail at the…
Friday Video: “KSL Outdoors: Fly fishing the Weber River”
For years we’ve intended on featuring fly fishing articles on UtahOutside.com, but it’s been a challenge to find writers who not only write, but are avid fly fishermen (or women) in Utah. So it’s with great relish that we bring you this week’s Friday Video, titled “Fly Fishing the Weber River.” This clip comes from…
PCMR and Canyons Resort battle in land spat
Talisker, the Canadian company that owns the Canyons Resort, is making a lot of people angry this season. First, they’ve got environmentalists, local officials and backcountry skiers worked up by trying to ramrod their SkiLink proposal down the public’s throat via federal legislation. Now, they’ve got Park City Mountain Resort up in arms enough that…
Avalanche fatality in Dutch Draw near Canyons Resort
Another avalanche fatality has occurred in Dutch Draw, located just off the 9990 lift in the backcountry outside the Canyons ski resort. A 24-year-old Salt Lake City man, Timothy Robert Baker, was killed after being buried in a slide at around 3 p.m. in the afternoon. According to KSL, Baker was snowboarding out of bounds…
Avalanche kills snowboarder on Kessler Peak
An avalanche claimed the second fatality of the 2011/12 winter season when a snowboarder triggered a deep slab on the west side of Kessler Peak in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Alecsander Barton, a 25-year-old man living in Salt Lake City, was backcountry touring on the morning of January 28 with two other people. The party skinned…