Utah Adventure Journal

In your usual non-road-trip existence, you don’t often find yourself saying (or thinking), “You know, I think I’m gonna go take a dump at the Flagstaff library.” Most of us may go our entire lives without uttering such a sentence. But on the road, this is a thing. So is going #2 at the Moab […]

Did I pass the turnoff? I glanced at the back of a receipt, marked up with directions to an inconspicuous trailhead, hand-drawn by a guy at the bike shop. Rumors of burgeoning singletrack in Small Town, Washington lured me to make an unplanned detour in the midst of a longer road trip. With no prior […]

  We describe home as a permanent place of residency, identifiable by an address and a couch and a water heater and a collection of cheesy souvenir shot glasses, all gathering dust on top of a foundation that’s been cemented into the ground — as if to prove that your home and all its possessions […]

I’m really good at procrastinating. I was supposed to have this column submitted last night so the magazine can go to the printer today. I was also supposed to leave for the first leg of a summer-long journey yesterday. Neither happened of course, and, as a result, both writing and packing will end in a […]

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 […]

  As assumed by the title of this column, a lot of my time in life is spend traveling the road, gallivanting on an outdoor junket to ride a bike, lap the lifts or earn my turns in some part of the Continental West.   The lifestyle sounds glamorous, and, admittedly, it kind of is. […]

I couldn’t tell you the exact moment it happened – whether it built up over time or subtly crept in with an afternoon thunderstorm. But the lure of the Wasatch was nowhere to be found.   I had spent back-to-back seasons retracing my steps on miles of well-worn singletrack and skintracks, thinking it’d appear at […]

The start of any journey comes long before the physical departure. It begins with a ritual of planning, packing and organizing, making sure that you have the right supplies for the right environment. Then, compression straps are cinched, gear is sorted by activity and Tetris skills are mastered as you arrange each item to fit […]

I take pleasure in discomfort. It’s a masochistic game that drives me to grind the chain ring a little further, glide the skin track a little longer or scramble the trail a little steeper. More often than not, this works in favor of many outdoorswoman or man on the pursuit of fresh air or first […]

One of the most important things an athlete can do with their workout routine is implementing cross training activity. Cross training is important for several reasons; primarily avoiding injuries, but cross training can also improve your overall performance. It’s been proven that a diverse, balanced workout makes the difference between an enjoyable activity and a […]