Ryan is a senior studying computer science and minoring in math. This is his second year as a photographer for Wasatch. Growing up in Boise, Idaho he has been hiking and skiing all his life. He started to bring his camera along anytime he was outside where he developed a love for photography through the outdoors. To him, being outside is a way to forget distractions and to focus only on the moment.
The White Clouds are a small, newly protected wilderness area near Stanley, Idaho that has stayed wild due to few entry points, few actual trails and even fewer accurate trail distances. It's also falling...
Fueled by leftovers and hopes of good snow, my friend Ryan Dobi — sometimes his brother, Andrew Dobi — and I would drive for hours to some obscure mountain pass. I thought the extra burden of seven...