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...
If you could think back to your childhood room, what would you remember? Apart from the sneakers that smell like a dead animal, and the sock stuck under the corner of your bed for eternity. Can you recall...
The Wasatch and Salt Lake City are quite unique landscapes. City streets and tall buildings push right up to the edge of mountains. Trees, rivers, and creeks run between concrete mazes, and ski slopes...
10,000-foot peaks are not easy to summit by any stretch of the imagination. In high altitudes, with the sun beating down on your neck, climbing two miles in vertical elevation is not a casual, relaxing...
“I travel in wild country a great deal, often alone, and my friends find this to be fatally eccentric, although they use the more polite term ‘stupid.’ They feel sorry for me because I miss the fun...
“Better Is Out There.” -REI
“Never Stop Exploring.” -The North Face
Just some of the famous slogans from big outdoor companies that any nature enthusiast is sure to know. If you love the...
Utah's Bee Diversity
The state of Utah is home to 4 different biomes: alpine, wetland, forest, and desert. Each distinct biome supports a host of unique animals and over 3,000 different native plants,...
Thursday, November 24th
I felt nervous, nauseous, and in too deep. I still had half a mile till the summit, and my progress had dwindled to an embarrassingly low speed. There was no more solid ground,...
Air goes in and out, blood goes round and round, and if any of that changes, it’s an emergency. This is the introduction to several abbreviated first-aid lectures I’ve heard. What follows is something...
