Utah Adventure Journal

    Wasatch Talk By Louis Arevalo   “Ski resort GM’s line up to back ‘One Wasatch” was the headline of the Salt Lake Tribune Wednesday March19, 2014. The article referred to it as an historical event. Ski Utah, the marketing group representing each of the state’s resorts, announced the ski areas of the central […]

By Roy Webb Photos Courtesy Special Collections Dept., J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah   The people of Grand Junction, Colorado, were used to seeing all kinds of things floating in the Colorado River through town; trees, parts of fences, a dead cow or horse.  So no one took much notice when a tanned […]

Story and Photos by Dennis Turville     Carmel Tunnel.  While my younger brothers were feeding/harassing chipmunks, I was staring downslope, trying to see inside the darkened convolutions of Pine Creek, utterly fascinated. I knew, right then, I was going into Pine Creek sometime.  Something very strange down there was calling my name.   And […]

  Standing Up to the Devil Story and Photos by Alex Stoy Looking in the rear view mirror I can’t see a thing.  Bikes, stand up paddle boards, canyoneering gear and coolers of food and beer block the view.  Turning to the side view mirrors, a solid, yellow line, center marks Route 24, pointing back […]

  Four Days of Higher Education in the Utah Desert Story and Photos by Dave Zook   Pits and Despair “Up ahead the trail cuts downhill and narrows and then you hit the sweetest exit move in the whole world of mountain biking.” Gregg Davis, our de facto leader with a photographic memory of the […]

By Stephanie Nitsch   The change of seasons has me gearing up for another summer of warm weather journeys in the most literal way. As I take inventory of what I can roll over from last year’s foray into roadie life, I find myself analyzing the philosophical importance of gear. Specifically concerning the higher-quality toys […]

By Jared Hargrave “Why We Should Have a Winter Vacation Instead of a Summer Vacation.” That was the title of a grade-school essay I wrote as a young lad growing up in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. Back then, when my peers were frothing at the mouth to escape locker-lined hallways and life controlled by morning and […]

By Andrew Gulliford It had been 105 degrees in the sun, but luckily I was in the shade when the rocks rolled and I tumbled downslope with my right foot firmly wedged between a large boulder and a 50 lb. stone. My body upside down, my hat off, my left arm bleeding, I was getting […]

By MacKenzie Ryan You scour the Southwest for less-talked-about ideas—Edward Abbey would have lost his mind if he knew how many people ran around the desert and wrote about it.  Cedar Mesa was like the Nebraska of the Anasazi to Mesa Verde’s Chicago. Nobody writes about Nebraska. Perfect. Cliff dwellings, canyons so stocked with cottonwoods […]

  The Utah Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is one of the state’s largest agencies, whose directive is to ensure Utah’s quality of life by managing and protecting the state’s natural resources. The Department was created in 1967 when at the time, 11 different agencies were overseeing Utah’s natural resources, often with overlapping responsibilities. The […]