UDOT’s plans for transit in Little Cottonwood Canyon will affect climbing along with traffic.
If you’ve driven in Little Cottonwood Canyon in the past few years, the problems it faces are hard to...
What’s so addicting to me about outdoor recreation is the sense of fulfillment. For many individuals, the outdoors is a solace to find feelings of success, completion, and growth. The combination of...
Lauren Echo is a 22-year-old self-taught illustrator and accidental business owner. Hailing from Reno, Nevada, Echo creates digital art using colors encountered in her adventures outside. Echo’s designs...
The fall colors have been amazing along the Wasatch this year. For this photo series, I decided I wanted to capture the beauty of the changing seasons. Over the course of a few weeks, I went to the mountains...
“All dams are Ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.” In 12 words, author Edward Abbey provides an elegant summary of his view on Glen Canyon, the site of one of the most controversial reservoirs...
You are on Belay
This article is intended for new climbers and boulder rats. Here, I will introduce you to a conversation that has been going on in the climbing community for generations. To bolt or not...
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...
“What is public health?” This question was posed to me during my very first semester at the University of Utah by a charismatic guest speaker, bouncing on the balls of his feet at the podium of a pit...
Noise. It’s a word that we all know and usually brings unwanted connotations. Although our understanding of what noise is or might be can vary, there is normally a general consensus that it includes...
