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Cyber Monday Ski Deals

Just a quick post to give a heads up on a killer list I am aggregating for ski gear deals for Cyber Monday week. CLICK HERE to see the list. More offers are being added to that page each day this week. FEATURED DEALS

Killer deal on custom bamboo ski poles from [...]

Labor Day Ski Sales 2012

Every year around this time online ski stores need to clear space for new winter (and next year’s) gear. So there are more than just back-to-school deals to be had out there, especially if you’re active outside during winter months skiing or whatever. If you’re in the “gearing up for winter” mode, check out [...]

Safely Ski from A to Z -Childrens Book

Early this ski season I was contact by Mary Palmer who also lives here in Park City. She found this blog, noted we had two young kids, and offered to send us a copy of her children’s ski book: Safely Ski from A to Z

I have to say a big THANK YOU to [...]

Generation Alta

Here is a good one from Salomon Freeski TV. It’s about five minutes long, featuring some LCC local shredders who have been Alta pass holders since they were very small children. Fluid, natural, powder skiing…worth a watch.

One for the Road

Teton Gravity Research premiered their new film, “One for the Road,” last Saturday in Jackson, WY. Here is the play-by-play. I went to a premier up in Jackson once before, but considering it was almost a decade ago I couldn’t tell you which of their films it was that I saw. That was a [...]

Desert Spine Skiing

Last year there was an exceptional winter snowpak throughout southern Utah. They were getting pounded with storm after storm while we all drooled over their fortunes up north in the Wasatch. This is a killer piece documenting some incredibly rare, desert spine skiing in Southern Utah. Great story, great footage, great music. Nice work Provo [...]

Alta Opening Day 2010

Met up with Jesse and Johnny for skiing and lunch on opening day. The skiing was surprisingly good, although it was difficult to get to the good skiing. Just had to turn yourself into a bag of feathers in a few places on the high T is all. Although the light wasn’t good, here are [...]

Alta in 1971

Last November I posted a clip of Vintage Alta Powder that Mark Johnson originally posted to YouTube and then AltaCam. Folks loved it! In fact it’s still in the top 5 Google results for the search term “Alta Powder”. Not too shabby, eh?

Anyways Mark posted another great piece of vintage Utah skiing footage [...]

Viral Alta Rope Tow Wedgie

I have been watching this short YouTube clip go viral around the web over the past four days. It’s an episode that played out on the Alta transfer tow.

When I first saw it less than a week ago, there were 80 views. And as I type this post it’s closing in on 100,000 views, [...]

Go Fasssstttttt!

That’s what Ellie kept yelling at the top of her lungs on her first day skiing from the chair lift, last Tues February, 16th 2010. She rode up Sunnyside lift at Alta three times. She was between my legs for each run, and the last one we went top to bottom without stopping. On the [...]