Adventure sports – check. Incredible short films – check. Unbeatable entertainment in a historic downtown Rapid City location – check. It’ll all be there in this weekend’s Mountainfilm on Tour show.

This weekend the touring road-show version of Colorado’s famous Mountainfilm in Telluride festival makes a two-night stop in the Black Hills. The film festival, held in downtown Rapid City’s famous Elks Theatre, is this Saturday, March 27 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 28 at 6:30 p.m.

Both nights will feature a variety of outdoor adventure documentary films – some as short as 60 seconds, others just over one hour in length. There are eight films scheduled for Saturday and another eight for Sunday. Each evening’s total showing looks like it will run about two and a half hours in length.

There are films about rock climbing, mountain biking, surfing, back-country skiing, kayaking, extreme unicycling and winter ice climbing. The mix of subjects, styles and film lengths promises to make each evening unique.

The actual Mountainfilm in Telluride is held annually in Telluride, Colorado and began in 1979. It originally began as just a group of local climbing enthusiasts getting together to share some of their own climbing films and has become hugely popular since then.

Tickets are still available for both nights and are $10 in advance or $12 at the door. For more info about the weekend film festival in Rapid City or to get your tickets check out the Elks Theatre web site or give them a call at 605-343-7888.