The Mid Mountain Trail in Park City is a classic, alpine mountain bike trail that gives riders everything they would expect: buff singletrack, trails stretching through tunnels of pine and aspen trees, some technical sections, some fast and easy sections, and a whole lot of scenery and views. Stretching from Deer Valley to The Canyons…
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In living color: Top Utah spots for Autumn
Don’t let the recent 90-degree days in the Salt Lake Valley fool you: autumn is here. Over the next few weeks fall colors will dazzle those who seek them out. The east coast strongholds like Vermont and Appalachia might be the first places that come to mind for leaf watching, but Utah has numerous spots…
Red Bull Rampage 2010 video and photos
The 2010 Red Bull Rampage went off over the first weekend of October in Virgin, Utah, where the world’s best pro mountain bikers rode downhill on crazy, cliff and ramp-filled lines. Words don’t describe what these athletes are doing out there, so just watch the video: Red Bull Rampage 2010 from Utah Outside on Vimeo….
Mountain biking to Dog Lake on Big Water Trail
Dog Lake is one of those mountain bike rides that every local who owns a bike with fat tires has done at least once. There’s a reason for its popularity, mainly because the trail is perfect, smooth, buffed-out single track that ascends on a low angle as it winds through gorgeous pine groves and aspen…
Zion National Park approves Soundscape Management Plan
As a lifelong outdoor recreationist, one thing I’ve never much considered when hiking in any of Utah’s National Parks is sound pollution. Unless you’re standing in a developed area within a park, all one would expect to hear is wind in the trees and birds singing. But apparently sound pollution is such a concern that…
2010 ski movie trailers and Utah tour dates
Snow has already fallen in the Wasatch and chill wind is in the air. If that wasn’t enough evidence that winter (and ski season) is near, then the plethora of ski movie trailers being released right now should be. All the major players like Matchstick Productions and Teton Gravity Research have new flicks on the…
Hiking Bryce Canyon: Queens Garden/Navajo Trail Loop
There’s no two ways about it: Bryce Canyon is incredible. Located in the high desert of southern Utah, Bryce is a place where your imagination can run wild. A Paiute Indian tale explains how the hoodoos of the canyon came to be: “Before there were any Indians, the Legend People… lived in that place. There…
Utah Avalanche Center’s 2010 Fall Fundraising Party at Black Diamond
You can almost smell winter in the air when Utah Avalanche Center Fundraisers are on the horizon. In fact, the big party at the Black Diamond Store in Salt Lake City is on September 16th, and tickets are on sale right now. Like every year, the Utah Avalanche Center depends on backcountry users to help…
Kiva Walk makes footprints across Utah
Driving on the most desolate stretch of Highway 6 between Price and Green River over Labor Day Weekend, a strange vision lumbered in the distance. What looked like a large moose through waves of desert heat clarified into a man pushing a pack-filled cart as we sped closer. He was followed by another man carrying a large backpack. The…
127 Hours trailer features Utah landscape
“127 Hours” is a film about Aron Ralston, who famously got his hand smashed and stuck between a boulder and a slot canyon wall in Utah’s Blue John Canyon. What made Ralston famous is the fact that he was trapped there for days (hence the title “127 Hours”) and when rescue never came, he cut…