Will Ginsburg grew up in Salt Lake City, and spent two years as a staff writer for Wasatch before becoming Editor this summer. He will be starting his fourth year at the U this fall, majoring in Writing and Rhetoric Studies. Outside of academics, he is a member of the men’s Ultimate Frisbee team and a lover of the outdoors, with his main passions being snowboarding, skiing, and hiking.
Late July 2021.
“Be honest. What are the chances that we actually finish this thing?” I ask into the dark. It’s around our bedtime — 8:30 or 9 — and we’re both huddled tightly into our...
It’s around 9:15 in the evening on a Thursday, and I’m gearing up for a bike ride. I’m in my backyard with a couple of friends, ten blocks to the east of the 9th and 9th intersection that marks the...
With Salt Lake’s ski areas seeming to be on a collision course with an early closure, I figure there’s no time like the present to get excited for the spring. I’m feeling optimistic today, and feel...
At the time of this writing, it hasn’t snowed in weeks. Here in the second week of February, the temperature has hovered around 50, the sky has remained an unfazed blue, and the Air Quality Index (AQI)...
I still don’t know what drove 4-year-old me to make the decision I made. My dad skied, my mom too. My two brothers – one older and one twin – next to me on the hill in our childhood backyard shuffled...
“Level up your next day on snow with Fast Tracks, a daily add-on option that gives you exclusive access to dedicated express lift lanes. Available to use at six of our quad chairs, get more turns by...
I’ve been making the weekend trek up Little Cottonwood Canyon for as long as I can remember – my Sunday mornings filled with ice scrapers, cold hands, and a sea of red taillights. Quite literally,...
“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...
“Some people on the trails, the whole point is for them to get a cool photo to post.”
I can’t help but smile as Jeff Garmire echoes to me an image that I see all too often on the trails surrounding...
Five weeks into the semester and I already began to feel the twinge of a burnout. My reluctance to go to class grew stronger and my bedtime grew later, while my alarm’s time stayed the same — growing...
My alarm went off at 4:30 in the morning on a Sunday in July. Dawn had yet to break, and the usually busy street outside my house was all but dead. I crawled out of bed and into the running shorts and...
Summertime in Utah and the mountains are all closed. I spend my nights staring at the ceiling and dreaming of the snow, of days spent snowboarding and skiing every day I could. I see my snowboard leaning...
By the typical standards of the Utah ski season, this season was not a good one. Save for a couple strong stretches in the early parts of 2021, there wasn’t a ton to write home about. Snowpack stayed...
I want to preface this with the fact that I am not an expert, but I feel it is important to share my experiences and findings. As an outdoor adventure magazine, and I promise the outdoors will make their...
Grand Targhee, Wyoming — out of breath, I sunk into the powder that had been floating down since early that morning. I’d spent the past five hours slashing through untracked line after untracked line,...
It has been several months since the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, and I still find myself and all of my peers in the middle of a collective sigh of relief. The...
“The snow is sh*tty, but the skiing is amazing,” my friend remarks to me with a smile. We’re sitting around a table in a crowded ski lodge in Big Sky, Montana — masks firmly on — having just...
Okay, gear review time. For this one, I’m going with a tent. Specifically, the Marmot Limelight, also known as the premier rental tent at the University of Utah and beyond. As the iconic 3-person orange...
“Most people consider me a washed-up junior high track star turned trail runner,” University of Utah sophomore Ethan Hilding said as he fiddled with the zipper of the camping chair he is perched in....
The two travelers, clad in face masks and rubber gloves, sat on the front porch
of their Sugarhouse home, staring quizzically at me as I approached. They had reached out to
me, not I to them. They...
March 13, 2020. Spring break in Moab, Utah. I checked my phone early one morning, awaiting the University of Utah's decision on whether to suspend classes or shift to an online format. At this point, COVID-19...
