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The Great Ride in the Sky
Riding your bike 100 miles in a single day is one thing. Riding your bike 100 miles in a day over multiple mountain passes at altitude with a vertical gain of more than 12,500 feet is quite another. But every August, over a thousand mountain bikers (a good number of them from Utah) venture to […]
Everett Ruess: An Open, Shut (and Open Again) Case
Photos- Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah No one knew for sure who the skeleton was or how long it had been there. The dirt-encrusted bones seemed to have been hastily buried in the rock crevice along Comb Ridge, a gnarled 120-mile-long uprise of ancient rock near the Utah/Arizona border. Colorful […]
Skiing the Beehive’s Backcountry Yurts
Worlds away from the five-star restaurants, cush hotels, and general glitz of the modern mountain town experience, a night in a backcountry hut or yurt brings an element of adventure and connection with nature that’s often overlooked in the lift-powered, daytripping ski scene of today. Utah’s backcountry travelers are privy to a fairly extensive network […]
