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Wasatch Magazine

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Transmission: The Hidden Voice of the Ancients

Transmission: The Hidden Voice of the Ancients

Dalton Rees
March 13, 2018

An interpersonal connection with nature and the surrounding world has remained fundamental to the human experience for time immemorial. Through sight, sound, and touch, we perceive and interact with this...

Courtesy of Tanner Maxwell

Wasatch Winter Mountaineers

Dalton Rees
February 13, 2018

Through each season, the peaks of the Wasatch transform with the elements to take on a radically different façade, and during the period of snowfall and cold, this range is an entirely different...

Satire: Extreme Sledding at ShredFest

Satire: Extreme Sledding at ShredFest

Dalton Rees
December 5, 2017

The previous decade has served witness to a plethora of new and unusual pastimes emerging from the hearts of a listless population and the internet. With most recreational mediums having already been exhausted,...

Skiing up at Snowbird Mountain Resort with Polly Creveling on Monday, December 26, 2016. Photo by Kiffer Creveling.

Snowbird Makes Most of One-Star Review

Dalton Rees
November 21, 2017

In recent years, the digital review economy has legitimized itself in the consumer world and now acts as a pivotal influence in how companies evaluate and conduct themselves in the public eye. Everyone...

Opening Minds to the Oquirrh Mountains

Opening Minds to the Oquirrh Mountains

Dalton Rees
August 23, 2017

Veiled in mystery by the legalities and the eminence of the adjacent Wasatch mountains, the Oquirrh Range serves as the 10,000 feet dividing line between the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys. Equipped solely...

Trump Train Puts National Monuments on Trial

Trump Train Puts National Monuments on Trial

Dalton Rees
August 7, 2017

Another step in his fervent scramble to dissolve all measures undertaken to preserve the environment within the past three decades, President Donald Trump’s April 26 executive order prompted Interior...

Peakbagger’s Double Traverse: Mount Raymond and Gobbler's Knob

Peakbagger’s Double Traverse: Mount Raymond and Gobbler’s Knob

Dalton Rees
August 2, 2017

Resting along the jagged divide bordering the Millcreek and Big Cottonwood canyons, Mount Raymond and Gobbler's Knob are two idiosyncratic peaks connected by a single mile-long ridge, both surmountable...

Quick Escape to the Foothills: The Triple-Tower Loop

Quick Escape to the Foothills: The Triple-Tower Loop

Dalton Rees
April 24, 2017

In the midst of these final weeks of the semester, you may crave a bit of decompression in the beautiful wilderness surrounding us. You probably lack an entire day you can expend on a long excursion, so...

Hiking When the Snow Melts

Hiking When the Snow Melts

Dalton Rees
April 13, 2017

As any grizzled Utah native will tell you, “if you don’t like the weather, wait five-minutes.” This hackneyed anecdote never rings truer than during spring. While each surprise snowstorm means an...

San Diego,CA.,October 26, 2007--Northern California fire crews set fire backburn to stop the Poomacha fire from advancing westward. Currently the fires in Southern California have burned more than 355,000 acres.
FEMA photo/Andrea BooherSan Diego,CA.,October 26, 2007--Northern California fire crews set fire backburn to stop the Poomacha fire from advancing westward. Currently the fires in Southern California have burned more than 355,000 acres.
FEMA photo/Andrea Booher

Up in Flames: Crews Prep for Wildfire Season

Dalton Rees
April 11, 2017

When April showers subside and May foliage is dried out by incessant sunlight, Utah firefighters brace themselves for another season of near-constant summer wildfires along the Wasatch Front and beyond....

Hold onto Your Handlebars- Here Come the Chargers

Hold onto Your Handlebars- Here Come the Chargers

Dalton Rees
March 23, 2017

Hailing from Corner Canyon High School in Draper, UT, the Chargers constitute the largest high school mountain biking team in the country. With 138 active riders in 2016 alone, this fine-tuned trail-carving...

Good to Go, Meals for the Trail

Good to Go, Meals for the Trail

Dalton Rees
March 7, 2017

Spring break is quickly approaching, and so is the season of gradual snowmelt, wildflowers, and terrestrial rebirth. Whether you intend to flock to more temperate wilderness or strap on a pair of snowshoes...

Guide to Discount Ski Tickets

Guide to Discount Ski Tickets

Dalton Rees
March 2, 2017

Living along the Wasatch during the winter season can feel particularly incapacitating.The typically accessible trails are covered in a thick snowpack, requiring high levels of technicality, resources,...

The Perils of Filmmaking in the West Desert

The Perils of Filmmaking in the West Desert

Dalton Rees
February 7, 2017

After weeks of painstaking exploration, bartering, sabotage, and espionage, I managed to secure an interview with the avant-garde filmmakers known only as Visage. Rumor had it that the illusive crew was...

A New Moab: From Cozy to Commercial

A New Moab: From Cozy to Commercial

Dalton Rees
January 14, 2017

Twenty-seven-year Moab Local John Williams says “I don’t think there’s any going back to how it used to be.” His tired eyes are fixed on a placid, mid-December Main Street, “Moab is on the rise...

How to: Hike With Your Pup in the Wasatch

How to: Hike With Your Pup in the Wasatch

Dalton Rees
November 30, 2016

If you enjoy immersing yourself in nature, odds are your dog does too. With four points of contact to the rocky soil and an instinctual connection to all things outside, your dog is a much more effective...

World Renowned Cross-country Skier Trampled at Local Ski Swap SATIRE

World Renowned Cross-country Skier Trampled at Local Ski Swap SATIRE

Dalton Rees
November 28, 2016

It is with a heavy heart and tear-fogged goggles that I recount this weekend’s tragic circumstances. At a local ski-swap event last Saturday evening, professional cross-country skier and Italian national...

Skiing up at Snowbird and doing the Baldy Chutes

Praying for Powder

Dalton Rees
November 14, 2016

So far this year, the typically inclement month of November has been destitute and dry, leaving Utah skiers with unusually barren mountains obscured by haze and a lingering question: where — or when...

Haunted Wasatch: Spooky Thrills for the Fearless Outdoor Adventurist

Haunted Wasatch: Spooky Thrills for the Fearless Outdoor Adventurist

Dalton Rees
October 26, 2016

Sepulchral winds and the discarded leaves of dying trees mark the gloomy insurgence of fall, beckoning intrepid fright-seekers towards eerie locations of urban legends. While the essences of revenants...

Hidden Beauty in the Concrete Jungle: Salt Lake’s Jordan River Parkway

Hidden Beauty in the Concrete Jungle: Salt Lake’s Jordan River Parkway

Dalton Rees
October 5, 2016

Concealed from the public eye by manifold columns of industrial developments, lies a preserved slice of the Salt Lake Valley wasteland: strange, beautiful and ripe for exploration. I stumbled upon this...

Photo by Dalton Rees

Solitude in Fields of Stone

Dalton Rees
October 3, 2016

Veiled in obscurity and far off the beaten path, the City of Rocks National Reserve — named by emigrants of centuries past “the Silent City” — is a peerless backcountry landscape of towering granite...

Peakbagging

Peakbagging

Dalton Rees
September 16, 2016

Devil’s Castle At a glance: Jet black limestone in an imposing jagged configuration, Devil’s Castle is an outdoor execution unsuitable for the faint of heart. This ascent is located within Little...

Frisbe Golf Course

Opinion— Running Dry: Frivolous Water Usage and Uncertainty on the Wasatch Front

Dalton Rees
August 17, 2016

Walking along the winding avenues and seemingly endless parallels of Salt Lake City during the summer months is cathartic, and even blissful for the appreciative observer. Sprawling gardens and lawns come...

Crest Utah's (Little) Matterhorn

Crest Utah’s (Little) Matterhorn

Dalton Rees
August 12, 2016

The Pfeifferhorn, colloquially dubbed “Little Matterhorn,” is an isolated triangular goliath nestled within the Lone Peaks Wilderness Area. At 11,331 feet, this peak secures its position in...

Crest Utah's (Little) Matterhorn

Crest Utah’s (Little) Matterhorn

Dalton Rees
August 12, 2016

The Pfeifferhorn, colloquially dubbed “Little Matterhorn,” is an isolated triangular goliath nestled within the Lone Peaks Wilderness Area. At 11,331 feet, this peak secures its position in...

This should be the headliner image, I think it is very neat. Photo credit: Dalton Rees

Cottonwood Climbing Trail

Dalton Rees
July 29, 2016
With climbing expanding along the Wasatch, plans are set to connect climbs and improve the area.
A Non-Fisherman’s Excursion to Flaming Gorge in Pictures

A Non-Fisherman’s Excursion to Flaming Gorge in Pictures

Dalton Rees
June 21, 2016

Spanning the border of northeastern Utah and southern Wyoming, the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area encompasses over 200,000 acres of forested terrain and water. Outdoorsmen familiar with the Gorge...

Mount Olympus: An Early-Season Ascent for the Herculean Hiker

Mount Olympus: An Early-Season Ascent for the Herculean Hiker

Dalton Rees
June 7, 2016

Along Salt Lake City’s Wasatch Front, summer’s emergent heat waves are melting the slick snowpack coating the region’s formidable peaks and traverses. Mountaineers rejoice; the time has come! Keep...

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