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Navigating the Mountains in Our Minds: An Interview with John Padilla

Miranda Galbraith, Staff Writer
March 20, 2023

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit with the incredibly talented John Padilla: skier, graduate student, and filmmaker. John Padilla recently produced The Mountain in My Mind, a film that aims to break...

Deeper and Darker

Deeper and Darker

John Horton, Staff Writer
September 15, 2022

With satellite imagery of most of the Earth’s surface and some mapping of the ocean floor, very few places on this planet are truly unknown. Now, with the James Webb telescope showing us distant clusters...

Top 5(ish) Salt Lake City Day Hikes

Top 5(ish) Salt Lake City Day Hikes

Will Ginsburg, Staff Writer
June 23, 2022

With Salt Lake’s ski areas seeming to be on a collision course with an early closure, I figure there’s no time like the present to get excited for the spring. I’m feeling optimistic today, and feel...

Utah's Native Pharmacy

Utah’s Native Pharmacy

Lauren Shields and Leah Button
June 16, 2022

The natural world holds within it the wonders of healing. Each blade of grass, riverside cattail, or desert brush possess medicinal properties that our ancestors, or early humans, once relied entirely...

Surviving the Smog

Surviving the Smog

Will Ginsburg, Staff Writer
March 30, 2022

At the time of this writing, it hasn’t snowed in weeks. Here in the second week of February, the temperature has hovered around 50, the sky has remained an unfazed blue, and the Air Quality Index (AQI)...

A Local’s Take on Snowbird’s New Fast Tracks Service

A Local’s Take on Snowbird’s New Fast Tracks Service

Will Ginsburg, Staff Writer
March 7, 2022

“Level up your next day on snow with Fast Tracks, a daily add-on option that gives you exclusive access to dedicated express lift lanes. Available to use at six of our quad chairs, get more turns by...

Proposed LCC Transportation Solutions and Their Effect on Climbing

Proposed LCC Transportation Solutions and Their Effect on Climbing

Jacob Freeman, Guest Contributor
February 21, 2022

UDOT’s plans for transit in Little Cottonwood Canyon will affect climbing along with traffic. If you’ve driven in Little Cottonwood Canyon in the past few years, the problems it faces are hard to...

Photo Series — Abby Blackett

Photo Series — Abby Blackett

Abby Blackett, Staff Photographer
January 13, 2022

The fall colors have been amazing along the Wasatch this year. For this photo series, I decided I wanted to capture the beauty of the changing seasons. Over the course of a few weeks, I went to the mountains...

Racing the Sun: A Mt Timpanogos Photo Series

Racing the Sun: A Mt Timpanogos Photo Series

Derek Kober, Staff Photographer
December 9, 2021

Being a well-known and classic hike, summiting the top of Mount Timpanogos is not a hike to get away from others. Nor is it a trail to watch the sunset peacefully by yourself. Waking up at the trailhead...

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