Mattie is a first-year student studying English and Writing and Rhetoric. Growing up in a small town in central Utah, she was raised exploring the Wasatch Mountain Range and vast west desert. She loves rock climbing, hiking, camping, and just wandering in the outdoors. She adores film photography and brings her camera with her nearly everywhere she goes; her favorite photo subjects are her friends and family doing what they love in the outdoors. Most days, you can find Mattie reading a good book or messing around on one of her instruments like the guitar, mandolin, or banjo.
When the subject of volcanoes is brought up, most people conjure up images of red-hot lava spurting out of mountain tops and ash clouding the air. Places like Indonesia and Hawaii come to mind for their...
Way out in Utah’s West Desert, nestled among the seemingly endless expanse of sage brush and dirt, lies a hidden treasure. This diamond in the rough, known as Ibex, is a behemoth figurehead of outdoor...
Meadow Hot Springs: A Robbed Local Treasure
In central Utah right off the Pahvant Mountain Range, a cluster of hot springs is nestled into a vast desert landscape. These naturally occurring springs located...
