Tomorrow is opening day for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival in Park City and Salt Lake City. This year it takes place from January 23 to February 2. For those of you who maybe aren't familiar, Sundance is the largest independent film festival in the US. In 2023, it had 423,234 combined in-person and online viewers, and, last year, it saw 72,840 in-person attendees (in a city with just over 8,000 people). So even though there's an online component, it's still very much an IRL experience.
If any of you have been before, you'll know that it's an awesome time to be in Park City. I have vivid memories of singing Phil Collins in a karaoke Uber. The bars and restaurants are also packed and the sidewalks are overflowing with people. So much so that, this year, Main Street is going to be converted to pedestrian only, which I understand is a first. The urbanist in me was obviously happy to hear this, and I now look forward to seeing it play out on the socials.
If any of you are interested in attending, Parkview Mountain House still has some dates available during the festival. Here's the link.
Cover photo by Kirby Taylor on Unsplash
For the last 16 years, I have been going on an annual ski and snowboard trip with some of my closest friends from Penn and from Toronto. Two years ago we went to Park City. Last year we went to Les 3 Vallées. And this winter we'll be going to Hokkaido, which has been on my bucket list for a very long time. I enjoy doing a lot of different sports, but nothing comes close to snowboarding for me. It's my first love. There's just something about being in the mountains. So I look forward to our "annual" all year.
Because of this, I have long had the goal of building a house and short-term rental in the mountains. Firstly, I felt that there weren't a lot of design-focused options in many mountain towns. You know, something clean and minimal. And secondly, I wanted a place that could embody and share our love of the mountains with others. As many of you know, this resulted in Parkview Mountain House. Globizen partnered with two regulars on the trip and we created what we refer to as a "creative retreat."
Here are a few photos of the house:
This weekend marks the opening of many of the resorts in Utah, and so I've got snowboarding on the mind right now. The social media algorithms have officially switched me over from cycling videos to ski and snowboard videos. I'm ready to go. The snowboard I have been using for the last few years is from a German company called KORUA. Their story is that the company grew out of a trip to Japan. A group of friends, who were all snowboard nerds in their 30's, fell in love with the snowboarding culture over there, specifically the focus on "deep powder boards", and so they decided to return to the Alps and create their own brand.
The result:
Tomorrow is opening day for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival in Park City and Salt Lake City. This year it takes place from January 23 to February 2. For those of you who maybe aren't familiar, Sundance is the largest independent film festival in the US. In 2023, it had 423,234 combined in-person and online viewers, and, last year, it saw 72,840 in-person attendees (in a city with just over 8,000 people). So even though there's an online component, it's still very much an IRL experience.
If any of you have been before, you'll know that it's an awesome time to be in Park City. I have vivid memories of singing Phil Collins in a karaoke Uber. The bars and restaurants are also packed and the sidewalks are overflowing with people. So much so that, this year, Main Street is going to be converted to pedestrian only, which I understand is a first. The urbanist in me was obviously happy to hear this, and I now look forward to seeing it play out on the socials.
If any of you are interested in attending, Parkview Mountain House still has some dates available during the festival. Here's the link.
Cover photo by Kirby Taylor on Unsplash
For the last 16 years, I have been going on an annual ski and snowboard trip with some of my closest friends from Penn and from Toronto. Two years ago we went to Park City. Last year we went to Les 3 Vallées. And this winter we'll be going to Hokkaido, which has been on my bucket list for a very long time. I enjoy doing a lot of different sports, but nothing comes close to snowboarding for me. It's my first love. There's just something about being in the mountains. So I look forward to our "annual" all year.
Because of this, I have long had the goal of building a house and short-term rental in the mountains. Firstly, I felt that there weren't a lot of design-focused options in many mountain towns. You know, something clean and minimal. And secondly, I wanted a place that could embody and share our love of the mountains with others. As many of you know, this resulted in Parkview Mountain House. Globizen partnered with two regulars on the trip and we created what we refer to as a "creative retreat."
Here are a few photos of the house:
This weekend marks the opening of many of the resorts in Utah, and so I've got snowboarding on the mind right now. The social media algorithms have officially switched me over from cycling videos to ski and snowboard videos. I'm ready to go. The snowboard I have been using for the last few years is from a German company called KORUA. Their story is that the company grew out of a trip to Japan. A group of friends, who were all snowboard nerds in their 30's, fell in love with the snowboarding culture over there, specifically the focus on "deep powder boards", and so they decided to return to the Alps and create their own brand.
The result:
Today, I'm super excited to announce that bookings are now open at PMH! If you'd like to book a stay, you can visit AvantStay's website (who is our hospitality manager) or you can book through Airbnb, if you prefer that. Because we've just gone live, all of the rates are at an introductory level while we build up our initial review base. So now is a good time to get something in the calendar this winter (or next summer which is also a really beautiful time). Neat B and I, and a few friends, will be there later this month and we can't wait.
Cover photo by Alex Moliski on Unsplash
To date, this has been my favorite board. The shape of it fits my riding style and I love the absolute simplicity of it. None of their boards have any designs or graphics -- they're just different shapes (optimized for different kinds of riding) with an all white top and an all red bottom. I joke that it's the Christian Louboutin of snowboards. But it's not really. The KORUA brand is all about performance, the aesthetic beauty of being in the mountains, and the simple pleasure of turning a board on snow. If you've ever watched any of their videos or if you follow them on the socials, you'll know that they have a very unique aesthetic. Black and white. Super simple.
To this end, they've just released a new photo book called Ten Years of Turning. The book tells KORUA's brand story through the lens of Aaron Schwartz, who is their in-house photographer. He's been with them since the founding of the company in 2014. And even though I've only seen a few of the pages online, I follow Aaron and I already know that this is a book we're going to need to have hanging around at Parkview Mountain House. If you're into snow and beautiful things, you may want to check it out as well.
Today, I'm super excited to announce that bookings are now open at PMH! If you'd like to book a stay, you can visit AvantStay's website (who is our hospitality manager) or you can book through Airbnb, if you prefer that. Because we've just gone live, all of the rates are at an introductory level while we build up our initial review base. So now is a good time to get something in the calendar this winter (or next summer which is also a really beautiful time). Neat B and I, and a few friends, will be there later this month and we can't wait.
Cover photo by Alex Moliski on Unsplash
To date, this has been my favorite board. The shape of it fits my riding style and I love the absolute simplicity of it. None of their boards have any designs or graphics -- they're just different shapes (optimized for different kinds of riding) with an all white top and an all red bottom. I joke that it's the Christian Louboutin of snowboards. But it's not really. The KORUA brand is all about performance, the aesthetic beauty of being in the mountains, and the simple pleasure of turning a board on snow. If you've ever watched any of their videos or if you follow them on the socials, you'll know that they have a very unique aesthetic. Black and white. Super simple.
To this end, they've just released a new photo book called Ten Years of Turning. The book tells KORUA's brand story through the lens of Aaron Schwartz, who is their in-house photographer. He's been with them since the founding of the company in 2014. And even though I've only seen a few of the pages online, I follow Aaron and I already know that this is a book we're going to need to have hanging around at Parkview Mountain House. If you're into snow and beautiful things, you may want to check it out as well.
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