The Grit Mill Project in Little Cottonwood Canyon
The Lower Little Cottonwood Canyon (LCC) Hiking & Climbing Trail Project is the largest climbing access trail project on US Forest Service (USFS) land in the nation. This project is a large scale public private partnership in which the user group is taking the lead and providing the experts. The Salt Lake Climbers Alliance (SLCA) […]
From the Top Down- Backpacking the Zion Narrows
The scene before me looks like news footage of a crowded New York City sidewalk. A stream of people, hundreds, maybe thousands deep, approach. These people trickled in a few at a time at first; a giggling, young couple here, a group of shirtless college boys there. But as we near the end of our […]
A Game Changer- Pack Rafting Through Canyon Country
Day ten of our desert jaunt, and I felt somewhat exhausted. I slowly sipped my coffee while I packed to go boating. It wasn’t making much sense at the time. We had spent the previous nine days hiking, canyoneering, and ruin-hunting all over the deserts of Utah and Arizona. Now, we were boating? I […]
I Am Becoming the Desert
 “Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.†– Edward Abbey Autumn rains and cold temps descended upon Park City early November. As the trees prepared for hibernation, we prepared for escape. The daily mundane of schedules, lists, […]
The Hogback
The Hogsback…there’s no other stretch of highway remotely like it. Eleven and a half miles of the craziest road you’ve ever seen; a rocky spine with a drop of over a thousand feet on both sides and vertigo views of the sandstone cliffs and canyons of Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Your senses short-circuit […]
