Utah Adventure Journal

“Did you hear that? Sounded like rifle reports. Take!” Squinting my eyes in the November sun a rusted landscape fell south from a soaring buttress of sandstone. Peppered by juniper and pinion trees its numerous washes and draws fanned out like fingers. Above, the molted faces of Window Blind Butte, Assembly Hall and Bottleneck Peaks [...]

The Wasatch Front 100 Mile Endurance Run If someone tells me that an experience is part heaven and hell, I conjure images of unending purgatories, masochistic preferences, and insane people who can’t decipher the difference between pain and pleasure. It is perfect, then, that the motto for the Wasatch Front 100 Mile Endurance Run, the [...]

  The ground gives way abruptly at my feet, sloughing off as a massive sandslide; the only overland trail into the Bobway. I know below me are red slickrock narrows like worm holes carved from the Escalante River corridor. Graceful, serpentine hallways of red rock, continuous and smooth from the top of one 200 foot [...]

  Utah’s state flag sucks. Now, you may be asking why on earth I should care about our state flag enough to write about it in an outdoor-recreation magazine. Well, because Colorado’s state flag is awesome, and that pisses me off. Allow me to explain: I’m a Colorado native, and lived around Colorado’s flag from [...]

As a young canyoneer and backpacker, Steve Allen wanted to learn more about the red rock canyon country of southern Utah. He began a desert quest that took him into some of the wildest country in America. Forty thousand hard-hiking, boot-busting, knee-wrenching miles later he shares his knowledge in Utah’s Canyon Country Place Names, a [...]

          Desert Escape: Chesler Park in Canyonlands National Park Candyland. That’s that I think of each time I crest that slickrock ridge to enter a grassy meadow surrounded by pink, white and red spires of sandstone known as Chesler Park. In the right light, those rock formations resemble candy canes and [...]

The UAJ 99 A Non-Scientific Compilation of our Favorite Things in Utah, compiled by UAJ staff writers.   Utah has so much to offer in the outdoors in the spring. We compiled a list of 99 things, places and people submitted by our editorial staff- from the mountains to the deserts and everywhere in between. [...]

It’s a ski bum’s tragic reality: when livin’ the dream takes a backseat to a “real” job, and the art of powder chasing becomes the curse of pencil pushing. But for this dedicated crew of people, a simple wintertime hobby has turned into a lifelong job, whether intentionally or not. The result: a successful combination [...]