When I first moved to Salt Lake City, I didn’t have a car. As a freshman at the U, I was perpetually thinking about how I was going to get into the mountains. I stressed over meeting people with cars...
This past March, I attended a two-day virtual symposium hosted by the Wallace Stegner Center here at the University of Utah. The symposium had a central focus on plastics in our lives and was aptly...
The sun began to set as I went out on the line. Steve Mammano was a couple hundred meters further up the canyon and getting ready for take-off. We were both to start at separate sides of the mountain,...
Hailing from Shoreview, Minnesota, Kyra Condie started climbing at age 11 and never looked back. “I think I started at a birthday party actually,” Condie said. “I just loved it right away.” She...
“Most people consider me a washed-up junior high track star turned trail runner,” University of Utah sophomore Ethan Hilding said as he fiddled with the zipper of the camping chair he is perched in....
The two travelers, clad in face masks and rubber gloves, sat on the front porch
of their Sugarhouse home, staring quizzically at me as I approached. They had reached out to
me, not I to them. They...
The concept of “microadventures” was popularized by the adventurer Alastair Humphreys to encourage the notion that adventure is possible for everyone, regardless of time, money, age or location. Microadventures...
One of my favorite longtime traditions is visiting the annual Downtown Farmers Market every weekend throughout the summer months. I start off the morning by picking up some pastries or a breakfast burrito...
Any person who lives or has visited Salt Lake City knows that there is an abundance of climbing tucked away in the mountains that tower over the city. It’s pretty obvious. A 20-minute drive from downtown...
