Active family lifestyle in Utah
Posted in Utah Outdoors on Jan 8th, 2009
What all the folks who come out to Francis/Kamas during the summer to road bike or run don’t realize is that winter is just as nice. There are even less cars than during the summer, the wildlife is down from the mountains hanging out along the river and the roads are (basically) clear of snow. [...]
Posted in Utah Outdoors on Jan 6th, 2009
On Saturday, December 10th The Utah Nordic Alliance (TUNA), REI, The Cottonwood Canyons Foundation and Wild Rose Mountain Sports will be celebrating National Winter Trails Day by holding a FREE ski demo day at Mountain Dell Golf Course. There will be guided snowshoe walks, classic cross country ski clinics and skate ski lessons. All activities [...]
Posted in Utah Outdoors on Dec 18th, 2008
Does it seem like it’s been snowing off and on since last Friday? I think it has. Yesterday was a beautiful, chilly, blue bird day. This morning we woke up expecting it not to start stormin’ until tomorrow but it is another white out. There is a winter storm warning until 5 P.M. Check out [...]
Posted in Utah Outdoors on Dec 16th, 2008
On December 23, 2008 White Pine Touring is offering a free Avalanche Awareness Class, a $10 donation suggested. The class will be held at the Jim Santy Auditorium in Park City, 1255 Park Avenue and will start at 6:00 P.M. and run until 9:00 P.M. Snowboarders, skiers, snowshoers and snowmobilers are encouraged to attend this [...]
Posted in Utah Outdoors on Dec 2nd, 2008
Winter is almost here and I am sure the debate between the backcountry skiers and the helicopter tours will reignite. There are 3 chopper companies currently flying over head and they are (correct me if I am wrong) Wasatch Powderbird Guides, Utah Interconnect and Exum of Utah.
Wasatch Powderbird Guides is the dominant chopper as [...]
Posted in Gear Deals, Utah Outdoors on Nov 3rd, 2008
Winter is almost here. We had a small storm move through this past weekend and more in the forecast throughout the week.
Check out these early season deals from some of the resorts.
Discount lift tickets to Sundance Resort, Utah
Discount lift tickets to Brighton, Utah.
Discount lift tickets to Snowbird, UT
Discount Lift Tickets to The Canyons [...]
Posted in Utah Outdoors on Oct 23rd, 2008
October 16th - 30th
Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
“Once Upon a Time… Your favorite storybooks come to life amidst the fall beauty of Red Butte Garden at Storybook Garden After Dark. Experience the Garden unlike ever before for a night of face painting, magic shows, activities, crafts, and of course—storytelling! Dress as [...]
Posted in Utah Outdoors on Oct 20th, 2008
I love how the local news around here always lets us know about these amazing outdoor contests and events after they have already happened.
Take for example the Red Bull Rampage which took place October 2-5, 2008 near Virgin, Utah. Take a peek at these videos and you’ll be as bummed as we are about missing [...]
Posted in Utah Outdoors on Oct 16th, 2008
October 30 - November 1 is the Moab Canyons Endurance Ride, 50 and 25 miles in three days. I myself will not be riding in this but it looks so awesome I just might take up horse back riding. Haha. What I really want is for my mom to come ride this and I will [...]
Posted in Utah Outdoors on Oct 11th, 2008
A friend of ours runs an outdoor gear product search engine called OutdoorGearEngine.com. They just released a new version of the site which features over 400,000 outdoor products from all the top online stores, product comparisons, product reviews and store reviews.
It’s really useful for finding which online stores carry the products I’m looking for and [...]