Utah Adventure Journal

  The Proliferation of Lift Accessed Mountain Biking In The Wasatch   Photos by Jay Dash   4,457,575. This figure represents the number of people who visited Utah during the 2015/2016 ski season to explore the varied terrain of our world-class resorts. Last season broke all previous attendance records and the state realized a 10% […]

  Mountain bikes are fun, they’re quiet, and they take their riders to amazing places. So why are they banned in wilderness? It’s a question of great concern to Ted Stroll, who, as head of the non-profit Sustainable Trails Coalition (STC), is working to change the Wilderness Act to allow mountain bikes in some of […]

Photos by Jay Dash A faint beam of light filters through the thick canopy and strikes a plume of dust as tiny fragments of earth diffuse through the air. A sole rider emerges from the forest and straightlines a rocky slope at top speed just before shutting it down and banking a hard left-hand berm […]

  Vast and rugged, the terrain of the Wasatch is prime territory for mountain biking.  The “greatest snow on Earth” melts into the streams and rivers every spring and unveils a plethora of riding opportunities for cyclists of every ilk.  Countless threads of single track weave through the landscape as if carefully pulled towards a […]

  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 […]

A heavily tattooed woman called my name. I hungrily made my way to the counter where she beckoned. Her arms were sleeves of ink, a colorful mosaic that complimented her purple hair. She slid my pizza to me, a giant pie called the “Stinky Deluxe.” This hot crust smothered in toppings clearly existed in reality, […]