Huge props to the Alta snowmaking and grooming crew! Alta opened the 2017/18 season with better than expected snow and excellent skiing. Skiers enjoyed top-to-bottom skiing thanks to a delayed opening day and cold enough temperatures to make snow that was actually fun to ski on. Alta celebrates their 80th anniversary this year. Opening day…
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How to protest Trump’s Utah national monument reduction
On Monday, December 4th, President Trump travels to Utah to announce massive reductions to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monuments. Do you support public lands? Do you think the monument’s boundaries should be left alone? Then you can protest Trump’s Utah national monument reduction at the “Rally Against Trump’s Monumental Mistake.” How to protest…
Some Utah ski resorts open this week, others delay
the 2017/18 ski season officially begins this week in Utah as three ski resorts will open around Thanksgiving. But a dry and warm autumn with little snowfall has caused other ski resorts to delay their planned openings. LET THE SKI SEASON BEGIN! Four Utah ski resorts have planned openings, including Brian Head, Brighton, Snowbird and…
Takeaways from the 2017 Utah Snow and Avalanche Workshop
The 2017 Utah Snow and Avalanche Workshop was held this year for the first time at Snowbird. I think it was the best one yet. I pondered why the venue change, as it limited the amount of participants (the South Towne Expo Center had plenty of room for everyone). But I suppose the aesthetics of…
2017 Backcountry Film Festival is coming to Brewvies
“Celebrating the Winter Human-Powered Experience.” That’s the motto of the Winter Wildlands Alliance. If that’s a mantra you also live by, then get your butt to downtown Salt Lake City on November 16th because their 2017 Backcountry Film Festival is coming to Brewvies. Adventure, environment and climate, youth outdoors, ski culture- you’ll find it…
Interview with “This is Home” skier, Johnny Collinson
Johnny Collinson is a Utah born and bred ripper. His big mountain backcountry exploits have been captured by the lenses of Teton Gravity Research, and now, Faction Collective. I caught up with Johnny at the SLC premiere of This Is Home, just as his autograph line was filling up. He was kind enough to talk about…
Mountain biking Alexander Creek trail
There has never been a better time to be a mountain biker in Utah than right now. You can ride hundreds of trails with flow, berms, and not-too-steep climbs. Those trails are fun, sure, but sometimes you just feel like going old school. Sometimes you need to go mountain biking on an obscure, backwoods ride…
SLC premiere of “Numinous” at Fisher Beer
It’s that time of year when ski films are rolling through Salt Lake City. While Warren Miller and the Ascent Slide Show, plus This is Home by Faction have already dropped, you’ll have another chance to get stoked on winter. On Sunday and Monday, October 22 & 23, pair local beer with your ski porn…
Ski Movie Review: This Is Home by Faction Collective
October: the perfect time to start getting hyped for the winter. The air is cooler, the leaves are turning, and ski and snowboard films are being released by the dozens. Faction Collective released their first ever ski film, and I was lucky enough to catch a screening at The Depot back on October 12th. True…
How you can run mountain-bike only trails this weekend
A brand new trail system opened up this past summer in Kamas, but hikers and trail runners were dismayed to discover them to be mountain-bike only. The High Star Ranch trail network has nearly 17-miles of singletrack forbidden to those on foot… except for this weekend at the first ever 5k trail run on Saturday,…