Limited by the elements, mountain bikers must wait until the landscape frees the familiar trails from the asperity of winter’s grasp to ride once again. Once the ice and slush melt away and the glorious...
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,...
Mount Superior is a well known peak in Little Cottonwood canyon that tops out just above
11,000 feet in elevation, and towers above the canyon road with a vertical gain of 3,000 feet.
Superior is mostly...
Skiing really is much older than most think. There are ancient drawings of humans skiing great distances to follow and hunt herds of reindeer and elk using fur coated skis (modern day skins). In more recent...
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.
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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...
What is the “inherent risk” of the outdoors that warrants it being stamped on all the gear I buy? Even after all these centuries of outdoor exploration we can’t seem to shake the feeling that death...
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...
As mid-winter, bluebird powder days fade into spring conditions full of heavy snow and warm weather, many skiers and snowboarders are stuck reminiscing the months past. However, the transition from winter...
