Ben is originally from New Mexico. He is a junior double majoring in environmental science and geography. He lives for skiing, but also likes to cook, climb, backpack and paint with watercolor and oils. He recently got into photography and his current goal in life is to learn the ways of the mountaineer so he can challenge himself in finding new gnarly things to ski, or hang out somewhere like a goat.
Utah’s west desert, dry, dusty, and barren. Sporadic small mountain ranges separated by playa that make up the expanse of western Utah, Nevada and California, the basin and range province is...
First the rain comes down. Lightly at first, and then as the sky opens up, a full deluge. The sandy earth, reaching a point of saturation that it can no longer contain, starts to sweat out excess water....
I had been working most weekends, hiking only when I could find time and otherwise living a torturous existence of indoor entrapment. Here is where my story starts: I had a couple days during fall break...
Skiing a big face in July in Utah feels like it should be a contradiction. But, after a record year of snowfall, such a thing appeared to be a very real possibility. This is a story of my attempt to do...
