Author: Jenny Willden

The North Face Donating to POW All Weekend Long The North Face is partnering with Park City Resort to celebrate the opening of a new retail store at 515 Main Street in Park City. The store opens on April 8th and all sales support Protect Our Winters (POW), a climate advocacy group for snowsports participants, this weekend only! All weekend long (April 8-10, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.), 5% of sales from the Park City Store will be donated to POW.  Go get your shop on and do some good while finishing off a great ski year at Park City Mountain…

Many Utah half marathons are just around the corner! Check out these local races we love and get signed up before they sell out! Ogden Half May 21, 2016 in Ogden The Ogden Marathon is a well-known race around the country, but even if you’re not ready to tackle 26.2 miles, you can still get in on the race-day action at one of the Utah half marathons we love. The half marathon begins at the marathon midway point and goes around Pineview Reservoir and down beautiful Ogden Canyon. Share in the fun finish line celebration with marathoners and 5K participants.…

FREE Brighton Easter Bunny Skiing and Easter Egg Hunt! Brighton Easter Egg HUnt and FREE Bunny skiing is the way to celebrate! Just head to Brighton on Easter Morning (March 27) for family fun and breakfast! You’ll first hunt for easter eggs in and around around the Milly Chalet, but make sure to bring your boots, you never know where the Easter Bunny’s eggs are hidden! For you skiers/boarders out there, DRESS LIKE AN EASTER BUNNY AND SKI FOR FREE! Brighton Easter Schedule 8:30 A.M. Easter Egg Hunt 9:30-10:30 a.m. Buffet Style Breakfast Breakfast $12 for adults, $6 for kids.

Thursday was an exciting night under the lights at the Deer Valley Visa Freestyle World Cup. Check out the results of the Deer Valley World Cup moguls. Dual mogul finals under the lights on Saturday, February 6 at 7:00 p.m. until 8:20 p.m. Results Men’s Mogul Results Matt Graham, Australia Mikael Kingsbury, Canada Ludvig S Fjallstrom Women’s Mogul Results Justine Dufour-Lapointe, Canada Yulia Galysheva, KAZ Chloe Dufour-Lapointe, Canada All photos by Jon Cracroft.

[dropcap style=”square”]E[/dropcap]njoy ski days in new ways at these upcoming skiing and snowboarding events and workshops at Utah’s resorts. ALTA Coed Steep Skiing Camp with Kim Reichhelm (February 29–March 3) Work on your technique in steep terrain, powder, and other challenging conditions in a safe, controlled environment. Alta’s large variety of slopes allow for terrain progressions suitable to different comfort levels. Includes four days of lift tickets, training, daily lunch, and après ski parties. Visit the website for details and pricing. Alta’s 3 Day Off Trail Workshop at the Snowpine Lodge (March 6–9) For advanced and expert skiers looking to…

Exploring the United States’ Largest Ski Resort I first visited The Canyons in 1997, when making the junior high Honor Role netted you a free season pass. It was the first Park City resort to allow snowboarders like me, and back then, the majority of their 2,800 acres were extreme and ungroomed, allowing my friends and I to get into plenty of trouble through our years of skiing/riding there for free. Since then, much has changed at the resort formerly known as The Canyons, including the price of a season pass. This season, for the first time, the new Quicksilver…

Come check out a FREE Know Before You Go avalanche safety class brought to you by The Utah Avalanche Center, 2nd Tracks and Red Rock Brewery on Thursday, February 4, 2016 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Learn the basics about avalanche safety in this excellent introductory presentation. There will be a raffle with tons of great gear and adult beverages provided by Red Rock Brewery, both of which will benefit the the UAC. All gear in the shop will be 10% off, including our selection of backcountry backpacks, AT boots and tech bindings! Admission is free, but you need to sign up for…

Mother Nature’s delivered plenty of Utah powder this winter sp far, but we’re still hoping for free refills until spring! Do you have an epic powder shot? We want to see it! Share your pow day pics with us on Instagram by tagging @sportsguidemag and #sportsguidemag. You’ll be entered to win a gift card to Porcupine Pub and Grille! Deadline to enter is March 31, 2016. This spring, keep your eye out for The Keeper issue—Utah’s biggest annual guide to races and events—featuring training guidance, nutrition tidbits, and our favorite Utah half marathons. Race directors: add your events and races…

A Luxury Forest Retreat in Northwest Pennsylvania A mist lingers on the brook as the sun begins peaking over the tree-covered hills. I cast the line again into the slow moving water. Immediately, there’s a tug on the line, “A fish! I got a fish!” “Start reeling it in!” our guide yells. I start taking in the line as quickly as I can, but I’m too slow for this fish. The trout is gone, and I’ve likely scared the others away too. For my first time fly-fishing, just hooking a fish was fun, and thankfully this is just the beginning of…

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