Schralping the Wasatch

X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival and the Outdoor Retailer Winter trade show overlapped this year. Separated by a mere two city blocks, it made for a couple hectic days. But it was also a great opportunity to get three of our sponsored filmmakers together. Voleurz was in town for X-Dance, where they wound up winning the Short Film Festival with Fishbowl. Meanwhile, both KGB Productions and Thrillhead Creations got into town Wednesday night for OR.

We attended the X-Dance Filmmaker Institute Forum, then adjourned to the Brewery for our own "forum" over great food and even better beer. After getting our fill we high-tailed it to the X-Dance Awards Party, arriving just in time for Jan from Voleurz to accept his award.


The next day we were all at OR meeting with our respective sponsors and advertisers. Jake from Numa Tactical shows off his display of sunglasses and shows us how every day ends at the show.


But enough about eating, drinking, and partying. A full day working the floor of OR wasn't about to keep Ellis Smith from Thrillhead and myself from getting after some epic powder in Utah's Wasatch Range. We met up with four locals and rallied up Little Cottonwood Canyon. Ascending the ridge across from Alta to the sound of avy control bombs going off, we were rewarded with some of the best pow turns of our lives in Silver Fork.


Ellis is a sideways shredder, attacking both uphill and downhill on his preferred weapon of choice, the venerable splitboard. Check out Thrillhead's films Schralptown and Return to Schralptown to see more of these Coloradians.