Where: Brewvies Theater, 677 S 200 W
When: March 10, 2010 at 7:30 pm
What: Movie premiere and the nationwide kickoff for the Continuum Tour
Info: http://www.alstrinfilms.com/

As spring rolls in just around the corner we have a special edition of “Movie Night” that should be guaranteed to get you stoked on the season. Join us March 10th, 2010 at 7:30 pm at Brewvies to check out the premiere of Chris Alstrin’s latest film, “The Continuum Project.”

“The Continuum Project” follows some of the world’s best climbing talent around the globe to document bold new routes and daring repeats on ice, rock, and in the alpine. Shot entirely in High Definition, watch as Guy Lacelle, Audrey Gariepy and Mathieu Audibert establish terrifying new ice routes in Norway and Rob Pizem and Mike Anderson crush brawny off-widths and delicate face climbing in Zion. Get on route with Ines Papert and Cory Richards as they blitz Kwangde Shar in Nepal and witness Majka Burhardt and Sarah Watson free the Beckey Route on Elephant’s Perch in the Sawtooths. Discover the rewards and risks of exploration with Jon Walsh and Ian Welsted as they establish a beautiful new mixed line in the remote Icefall Brook range of British Columbia and cool down on the difficult sport routes of Lions Head in Ontario with Sam Elias, Emily Harrington, Leslie Timms and Lauren Lee.
http://www.alstrinfilms.com/TCP-trailer.html

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased in advance at The Front Climbing Club, Momentum, and IME. Paid SLCA members can get tickets at half price, so log in, sign up with the SLCA and get the discount.
http://www.saltlakeclimbers.org/membership

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The Big LePowSki goes BIG!

THE DUDE shows up 4 times in winter 2010!

In the last two winters The Big LePowSki Freeride Happening was such a great success that we decided to let other freeride hotspots enjoy the fame as well.

Apart from our “Homebase” Davos  there will be The Big LePowSki Freeride Happenings in La Grave (France), St. Anton (Austria) and Brighton (USA).

Dates:
La Grave, February 19-21, 2010
Brighton, February 26-27, 2010
Davos, March 5-7, 2010
St. Anton, March 19-21, 2010

The program will be even bigger with special Women’s & Photography Workshops and more freeride courses for beginners. Our new sponsoring partner PIEPS is a perfect match for the avalanche rescue workshops that will be held on both days. Also, some of our sponsored worldclass Ski Athletes will take part at The Big LePowSki to give you an inside on the ski life of a pro rider.

Registration is open!

Host: Momentum Climbing Gym
Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010
Time: 4:00pm – 9:30pm
Comp Check-IN: 3:00pm
Location: Momentum, 220 west 10600 South Sandy, Utah
Description: Momentum is proud to present Pat Ament’s latest creation “Disciples of Gill.” And to celebrate, you know we HAVE to hold a bouldering comp!!!

Pat’s vision, however, has not been simply to preserve the critical footage but also build a new film around it. His efforts have resulted in a gorgeous, nostalgic piece that remembers the golden age of bouldering and chronicles its development and central characters. Featured are all the original, most significant pioneers of bouldering and the true disciples of Gill. Barry Bates, for example, the best California boulderer in the later 1960’s, known for his exploits in Yosemite and at Pinnacles, and known also for his quiet, genial spirit, has never until now been interviewed. His lovely insights are invaluable. Also legendary Greg Lowe, the remarkable Utah master boulderer and climber, has not until now been interviewed. He and Gill sit together and muse about time and its passing. Included are commentaries by Jim Holloway himself, Rich Goldstone, a disciple of Gill’s, and Jeff Lowe. Ament also, another partner to Gill and Colorado’s best boulderer during the golden age, provides a humble portrayal of his own bouldering exploits.

Join the Front Salt Lake for the first ever couples comp, Plastic Passion, on Saturday, February 13th. Grab your significant other, roommate, favorite climbing partner, or that guy (or girl) you’ve been eyeing at the gym that sends big and get your pre-Valentine passion on.  Another good-clean-fun event at The Front Climbing Club.

Also make sure to FAN The Front Utah on Facebook since The Front SLC and The Front Ogden recently joined forces for one ultimate Facebook experience.

Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort and the Utah Avalanche Center (UAC) are partnering to offer the first annual Freeride Avalanche Summit, Dec. 17-18. The two-day clinic targets advance and expert skiers and riders who want practical and professional instruction on avalanche awareness, safety and rescue.

The Freeride Avalanche Summit will include a unique blend of instruction that combines the expertise of industry leading avalanche forecasters with the experience and influence of local, professional athletes.

Eddie Bauer’s First Ascent Guide and Legendary Mountaineer Ed Viesturs will speak on Mountaineering at MountainFilm On Tour in Salt Lake City. Viesturs was the first American and 5th person in the world to summit all 14 of the world’s highest peaks without use of supplemental oxygen. He just released a new book – K2: Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain.

Running Down the Man
Ben Knight & Travis Rummel 22 Minutes – 2007
They said it couldn’t be done. One man’s quest to prove Baja’s Rooster fish could be tamed with a fly rod. Starring champion fly fisher Frank Smethurst, this documentary tells the story of a man who has spent almost a decade trying to pioneer a way to catch this magnificent fish by chasing it down on foot with only one chance at a perfect cast.

From an email:

This year The Front and Momentum have joined forces for the Deadpoint Bouldering Comp Series. Yes, you get two comps in two days.

REGISTER NOW at: http://www.frontslc.com/website/comps/registration/

More information can be found at the BD website.

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Event: Dual Comp Series (whoa)

What: Annual Deadpoint Comp
When: Friday October 30, 5:30 PM
Where: Front, 1450 S 400 W SLC, UT
Cost: $35/$5 off for Front members/$5 off for pre-registration

What: Dual Comp Series continues
When: Saturday October 31, 10:00 AM
Where: Momentum, 10600 S 200 W Sandy, UT
Cost: $35/$5 off for Momentum members/$5 off for pre-registration

Cost for both: $50/$5 off for members of either gym/$5 off for pre-registration
Dress: Costumes!

It’s that time of year when all the freaks come out at night!!! This year we have teamed up with Momentum and we are having a Dual Comp Series. Join us Friday, October 30 at The Front for our annual Deadpoint competition and then on Saturday, October 31 at Momentum. Festivities begin at The Front Climbing Club with check-in Friday night at 5:30pm and climbing from 6-8:30pm. Saturday wake up put on your costume and grab a monster energy drink and head down south to Momentum where the comp begins at 10am.

So, get dressed, have some fun, and pull down Friday night and Saturday and kick start your Halloween weekend. It will be a howling good time!!!

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What: Utah Snow and Avalanche Workshop
Who: Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center
When: Saturday, November 7th 2009, 1:00 PM
Where: The Depot, 400 W South Temple, SLC UT
Cost: $22.50
Tickets: 24tix.com

Coming off the heels of last year’s well-attended event, USAW is the venue where Utah’s snow and avalanche community can share local knowledge and history. This visionary seminar at an affordable price, taps into the vast amount of avalanche knowledge we have here in the state among our own local avalanche community.

The format will be much like a mini ISSW – presentations are 15 minutes with a 5 minute Q and A.

Momentum Delivers…
We’re not only reducing our membership prices, but we’re doing away with contracts! Sign up and your monthly fee is your monthly fee… Until you decide otherwise. Simple as that.

Come check it out! It’s going to be a party!

http://momentumclimbing.com/b2p.php

From an email from the legend himself, Jeff Lowe:

Your readers in the Ogden Area will be happy to know that they can catch a Steve House slide show and book signing this Friday, 09-25, at 7:30 PM in the Ogden Amphitheater, 343 25th St. Free to the public and will be followed by several great mountain films.

SLCA will be hosting a graffiti clean-up project in Little Cottonwood Canyon on Sept. 19. The main objective is to clean up the notorious graffiti on the Beer Can Cave Boulder.

Date: September 19, 2009
Time: 7:00am to Whenever we are finished
Place: Meet at the LCC Park and Ride
Bring: Work gloves, appropriate clothing, water, food, etc.

Register HERE. As an added bonus, the first 50 people to sign up will get day passes from The Front, Momentum AND Rockreation! If you have questions, or want to view more information, please visit our forum.

For the weekend the cost is $65 ($50 for AAC members). It’s $25 at the door if you’re interested in just attending Friday or Saturday nights’ festivities. Sunday night’s Film Festival at Brewvies is free (donations to the SLCA will be accepted).

Steve House slide show and book signing.
When: Wednesday, September 2, 7:00PM
Where: The Black Diamond Store
Admission: Free

16th Annual Fundraiser for the Utah Avalanche Center
http://utahavalanchecenter.org/bds_annual_fundraiser_utah_avalanche_center/051209
When: September 17, 2009 @ 6PM
Where: Black Diamond Parking Lot, 2084 East 3900 South, SLC, UT

HERA 8th Annual Climb4Life^SM Salt Lake
http://www.herafoundation.org/SLC/index.cfm
When: September 17 – 20, 2009
Where: Salt Lake City, UT

The Edge of Never Film
http://theedgeofnever.com
When: September 23, 2009 @ 7PM
Where: Tower Theater, Salt Lake City, UT

When: September 24, 2009 @ 7PM
Where: Egyptian Theater, Park City, UT

SLCA Adopt-a-crag
http://saltlakeclimbers.org
When: September 26, 2009
Where: Ferguson Canyon

Reel Rock Tour
http://www.reelrocktour.com/
When: Wednesday, September 30 at 7pm
Where: Tower Theater, Salt Lake City, UT

American Alpine Club Craggin’ Classic – October 9-11
http://www.americanalpineclub.org/pt/cragginclassic
When: October 9-11, 2009
Where: Salt Lake City, UT

I read this book over the weekend and it was a great, engaging read about one of the stories behind the skiing movie Steep. I can’t wait for the film.
Date: September 23, 2009 @ 7PM
Place: Tower Theater, Salt Lake City, UT

Date: September 24, 2009 @ 7PM
Place: Egyptian Theater, Park City, UT

Reel Rock Tour – Tower Theater
Wednesday, September 30 at 7pm
http://www.reelrocktour.com/

The third annual Reel Rock Film Tour makes a stop at the Tower Theater. Features the latest releases from filmmakers at Sender Films and Big Up Productions.

Films this year include: The Sharp End, Dosage: South Africa, The Aerialist, On Sight and Grand Canyon Walls.

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at Momentum Gym and the Tower Theater. This event usually sells out so get them early….

Presented by Momentum and Petzl

Please join Steve House for a free one-hour slide presentation through his new book, Beyond the Mountain on Wednesday, September 2, at the Black Diamond Store. Admission is free.  Steve will share stories from landmark climbs such as Slovak Direct and the Central Pillar of the Rupal Face as well as dish on several of his less-glamorous attempts at climbing, and living as a climber, over the past twenty years. Books will be available for purchase (cash or check only) from the author.

When: Wednesday, September 2, 7:00PM
Where: The Black Diamond Store
Admission: Free

HERA 8th Annual Climb4Life^SM Salt Lake

http://www.herafoundation.org/SLC/index.cfm

The 8th Annual HERA Women’s Cancer Foundation Climb4Life hosted by Utah-based Black Diamond will be held September 17-20 in Salt Lake City. The event, part of a national series that raises money for ovarian cancer research and awareness initiatives, roped in more than $100,000 last year! Join HERA as we bring together men, women and teens to climb for a cure, whether you are a newcomer or old pro. You, the participants, are really the heart of the event. We need your strength to help fight ovarian cancer and save the lives of women and girls!

When: September 17 – 20, 2009
Where: Salt Lake City, UT

Black Diamond’s 16th Annual Fundraiser for the Utah Avalanche Center

Start: 09/17/2009 – 6:00pm
End: 09/17/2009 – 10:00pm
Location: Black Diamond Parking Lot – 2084 East 3900 South, SLC, UT 84124

The unofficial precursor to ski season along the Wasatch and the biggest fundraising event of the year for the Avalanche Center!

Join us for an evening of Mexican food, drinks, music and a silent auction to support the UAC. Event is outdoors, and will be held rain, snow or shine! You must be 21 to attend, or accompanied by an adult. We will have the recycled cotton UAC logo T shirts for sale – bring some extra cash or a check.

Please no dogs this year.

For more information call 801-365-5522.

New this year – you can get your tickets online – go to http://www.mountaingear.com/blackdiamond/

Please see the previous SLCA post about two other dates, the SLCA Adopt-A-Crag on September 26 – rain or shine, and the AAC Craggin’ Classic October 9-11.

We hope everyone is having a great summer and is getting after it! Here’s an update regarding important SLCA news and upcoming events. Read more…..

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