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Two hours after wearing a surveillance wire in a pot-hunting investigation, I placed a loaded .38 Colt revolver in my pickup. Just in case. I told my wife to lock the doors and windows, shut the blinds, and keep our small sons inside. The young pothunter I had just helped the feds bust knew I [...]
Lone Coyote in Husbandless Canyon
“Where’s your husband?” the ranger asked. My husband? I looked at him blankly. “The rest of your party?” he continued, scanning the canyon....
Desert R.A.T.S.- A Running Race of Heat, Sand, Slickrock, and Solidarity
In the red rocks surrounding Moab, the Earth’s skin splinters into a million, trillion towers, fins, spines,...
Lake Powell Pilgrimage- An Epic Adventure in Scale
Plunging into the liberal waters of Lake Powell when the summer sun blasts and blazes the landscape is an unforgettable and sublime...
Lost Canyons of the Green River
August, 1843. John Charles Fremont, the Pathfinder, is camped on the banks of the Green River in Browns Park, in what will one day be Colorado. ...
Spring Classics- 8 Weeks, 8 Adventures in Utah
It happens every year in Utah – winter’s death knell tolls and skiers mourn the melting snow. Spring, however, gives rise to the...
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Lone Coyote in Husbandless Canyon
“Where’s your husband?” the ranger asked. My husband? I looked at him blankly. “The rest of your party?” he continued, scanning the canyon. “I’m it.” I grinned as though this was no big deal, a matter of course. I grinned as though the assumption that I should have a husband didn’t bother me. The BLM [...]
Desert R.A.T.S.- A Running Race of Heat, Sand, Slickrock, and Solidarity
In the red rocks surrounding Moab, the Earth’s skin splinters into a million, trillion towers, fins, spines, spikes, hoodoos, mesas, arches, and rock formations so strange that they yet possess no name. The on-the-ground feel of this geologic jumble is a sense that one has wandered into a massive and infinite maze, or pretty much [...]
Lake Powell Pilgrimage- An Epic Adventure in Scale
Plunging into the liberal waters of Lake Powell when the summer sun blasts and blazes the landscape is an unforgettable and sublime outdoor pleasure. This year our sojourn is simply sketched. In seven days Sven and I can leisurely pilot his MacGregor sailboat up the Escalante River arm and back to Bullfrog Marina, touring remote [...]
Lost Canyons of the Green River
August, 1843. John Charles Fremont, the Pathfinder, is camped on the banks of the Green River in Browns Park, in what will one day be Colorado. It’s easy to imagine his guide, Kit Carson regaling the Pathfinder with tales of the old days, but Fremont’s attention was caught by what Carson said about what [...]
Spring Classics- 8 Weeks, 8 Adventures in Utah
It happens every year in Utah – winter’s death knell tolls and skiers mourn the melting snow. Spring, however, gives rise to the best time of year for outdoor recreation in the state. Mountain biking, hiking, rock climbing, canyoneering and backpacking fill the void winter leaves behind. Spring is the signal for our migration towards [...]
Road Warriors- UDOT’s Avalanche Battle on Utah’s Canyon Highways
They call it the Red Snake. This crimson serpent is the dread of all skiers and snowboarders in Little Cottonwood Canyon, and has a cruel tendency of only emerging on epic days when perfect Utah snow falls on the Wasatch. Overnight storms bring powder hounds to the canyon bottom in droves, yet what they seek [...]
Sent From Above- The History of the Air Ambulance in Utah
The hour is growing late and a small group of backcountry skiers are facing some critical decisions. Their companion has just sustained a fall and appears to have a broken leg. It’s clear that he will not be able to negotiate the difficult terrain ahead and they’re deep in a drainage that has seen [...]
Making Corduroy- The Life of a Ski Groomer
When you roll off your last ski run and into a hot-tub soak, when the chairlifts come to their quiet halts, when sunset leaves behind a black night: magic happens. Come every evening at each of Utah’s fourteen ski resorts, tiny armies of men and a few women climb into massive, machinated beasts of mountain [...]
Skiing Across the Range of Light
Now that backcountry skiing has tickled the consciousness of mainstream skiers, all sorts of destinations have become normal fare for the average hardcore skier. From the Green Mountains of Vermont to the Washington’s Cascade Range, Wyoming’s Tetons, the Wasatch of Utah, or California’s Sierra Nevada, the tracks of backcountry skiers are plainly visible where there [...]
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