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Wasatch Magazine

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Wheels in Wilderness: An Examination of The Wilderness Act

Gentry Hale
July 16, 2019

Many people choose to use ATVs to access backcountry areas and pristine landscapes with speed and ease. They allow anybody the ability to travel into rugged landscapes that cars can’t access.  Motor...

Photo by Kiffer Creveling

An Overview of What Your Favorite Ski Resorts Are Doing for the Environment

Gentry Hale
May 9, 2019

ALTA SKI RESORT Maura is the Sustainability Coordinator for Alta Ski Resort. Maura was a sort of guru in the Wasatch resorts, paving a sustainability road for other resorts, such as Solitude and Snowbird,...

Photo by Peter Creveling

Opportunities For An Unconventional Spring Break

Daniel Belding
May 8, 2019

Spring break for college students almost always gets a bad rap as a time for undergrads to wreak havoc on beach towns across the country. While there may be some truth to these accusations, many University...

Courtesy of Steph Davis

Six questions with Steph Davis

Nate Caines
May 8, 2019

Steph Davis is a professional rock climber, free-soloer, BASE-jumper and more. She's written the books Learning to Fly and High Infatuation. She answered six questions for Wasatch on risk and the outdoors. 1.)...

Photos courtesy of Caroline Himbert

U Student Goes for Her PhD in Through Hiking: Caroline Himbert Hikes Thousands of Miles and Raises Money for Cancer Research

Nick Halberg
May 7, 2019

On May 3rd, Caroline Himbert, a third year PhD student in Population Health Sciences at the University of Utah, boarded a plane for Tucson, Arizona. From there, she bussed three hours to Lordsburg, New...

A memorial to the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, at Rice Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah. Photos by Peter Creveling

Salt Lake City’s 2030 Olympic Bid

Devin Valiquett
May 6, 2019

Last December, Salt Lake City won the bid from the United States Olympic Committee to be the next host city for the Winter Olympics. Salt Lake was in the running with other great options like the Reno-Tahoe...

Mark Miller's antique ski and snowshoe collection in Park City, UT on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. (Photo by Kiffer Creveling)

From Silver to White Gold; How Skiing Came to be in the Wasatch

Kendall Zylstra
May 6, 2019

Skiing has held its place as the centerpiece of the Wasatch mountains for quite some time. Thousands of people come from all over the world to enjoy the slopes each winter, and their visitations...

Photo by Kiffer Creveling

National Parks History

Gentry Hale
April 20, 2019

There are currently 58 national parks established in our country, and Utah is the proud home to five of them. These parks are known as the “Mighty Five” and for good reason. They house some of the...

Photo by Peter Creveling

Wasatch Eats: High Performance Food “Back In the Good Ole’ Days”

Sierra Marty
April 20, 2019

In today's world, we are spoiled with vast opportunities and inventions that exist to make spending time in the outdoors a little more comfortable. One could argue that the biggest area outdoors performance...

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