Adventure
A six-legged team
The day the stay-at-home policies were announced in Boulder, Michael Stone was at Whole Foods. He had his new 2-year-old yellow lab, Geo, with...
Curb your turns
You know things have gotten serious when Eric Henderson tells you not to ski.
And he’s not alone.
The former backcountry and heli-ski guide — more...
Death Hollow, Utah
On March 26, bestselling indie-author Scott Stillman’s second book, Nature’s Silent Message — a collection of introspective essays about his mostly-solo backpacking adventures across...
Stayin’ alive
My thighs burn hotter than red coals, muscle fibers straining, screaming. I have to release. I fall. Face-first like a tripped kid on the...
Quicksand and barbaric yawps
On a ridge overlooking the Escalante River, nine people — seven teenagers, two adults — huddled together screaming, “I am human!” into the open...
Overtrained and underprepared
It was during the drive to Moab that Robert Marrow realized he might be making a huge mistake.
Relatively new to trail running, Robert had...
Outhouse deliverance
Lauren McCarthy and Patricia Melero were a mile deep in the backcountry of the White River National Forest when it began to snow. It...
‘Hey! That’s a nice Melly!’
I was 26 when I received my Melly from my
coworker, Connor, an eclectic van-dweller. I’d recently moved to Utah to work
as a field guide...
A ‘Pretty Strong’ step
A few years ago, Julie Ellison stood at the base of a climb in Indian Creek. While waiting for the route to open, she’d gotten...
Chasing dreams
The race was about to start, and all Laura Knoblach could think about was the fact that the swim she was about to embark...
My 100-game season
My baseball loyalty was irrevocably formed in 1961 at the tender and impressionable age of six when the Washington Senators relocated to Minneapolis and...
Out from below
Have you ever wondered what would happen to you if you woke up at the bottom of a remote, 2,000-foot-deep canyon with a smashed...
