The most dramatic thing I could think of when the desert came to mind used to be the large thunderstorms that occur in summer months. They blot out the sun and move like an angry nebulous jellyfish flashing...
Passion often lies on a spectrum. Whether it comes to working out, painting, cooking, photography, or just about anything else, how much you enjoy the passion and how much time you put into it varies widely....
This past June I spent over a week in Centennial Valley, Montana. Almost every morning my group and I got up with the sun and headed out to bird-watch. One morning we went to a campsite farther along the...
The familiar sound of the alarm woke him from a heavy sleep, exhausted from the many miles traveled yesterday. Though his joints were a bit stiff and it was only 5:30 am, he needed to get moving. Quickly,...
I had been working most weekends, hiking only when I could find time and otherwise living a torturous existence of indoor entrapment. Here is where my story starts: I had a couple days during fall break...
STANDING ON THE SILKEN SANDY BEACH, tiny crabs raced underfoot, dancing and shuffling in a frenzy as I looked up at a sky decorated with glistening stars. The clearest display of the Milky Way and constellations...
Hey, I'm Isaak, a fourth-year computer science student at the University of Utah. I first got into photography quite a few years ago, when I would borrow my mom's camera and go shoot whatever hike or...
Into the dark, brisk, High Uintas night we shot. Practically racing with our heavy packs teaming with sleep systems, Patagonia chili, and of course, multiple rolls of Kodak Ultramax. As we hiked along...