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Waking up at the crack of 4:45 am isn’t tops on anyone’s list, but for those wishing to get some turns in before 9:00 am, it’s…

After a few weeks of limited skiing and more meetings than a skier should be subject to, I put the laptop down, stepped away from the…

Without fresh snow in the Wasatch in over a week, and no new storms in sight, opportunities can still open up in the Wasatch to those…

The Wasatch Front Range experiences the inevitable inversion at least once during every winter.  For some reason, it seems to show up mid-January right when we…

The last run of the day. The one that takes you back to the car, to the hotel or to the lodge. Your legs are typically…

We set out from the Mayan village of El Hato at 10 in the morning, with the equatorial Guatemalan sun already high in the sky. The…

Getting out in the backcountry this year has been a slow process. With over a month of sketchy snow conditions and four avalanche fatalities in Utah…

Since Alta’s opening on November 15, the storms were been hit-and-miss until December 2 when storm-after-storm began pounding the Wasatch Mountains. A quick look at the…

I’ve ridden in American Fork Canyon through October, but that’s pretty rare since the snow comes early and overnight temperatures stay cold. Yesterday, we hit the…

The Wasatch Crest Trail is the pinnacle of mountain bike trails in the Salt Lake City area. This high-altitude romp hovers around 10,000 feet and is…

The calendar says it’s spring here in Utah, but I’m not buying it. Actually, it’s been the typical up and down roller coaster weather that dominates…

Sometimes across the street might as well be on the other side of the country. People get settled into their routines and stick with what’s familiar.…

I haven’t been on a Dawn Patrol in over a month… having our third child has reduced my free time considerably. But, with the recent storms,…

This has been an epic winter by any measurement. Alta has received 638″ so far with another storm on the doorstep. Mid elevation stashes like Mt.…

The best early-season trails in Utah County can be found in Lambert Park in Alpine. The city maintains miles and miles of singletrack trails that meander…

The goal wasn’t to summit, just to find some creamy, week-old powder on the northeast ridge of Box Elder Peak. In the end we had our…

With a 120-inch mid-mountain base, 412-inch total snowfall to date and 7-inches of pow in the past 24 hours, Utah’s Solitude Resort was primed for the…

I had to learn the hard way the other day… fat skis require fat skins. Well, duh! Yeah… duh! It’s easy to say that now, but…

I live literally at the mouth of American Fork Canyon in Utah. AF Canyon (as the locals call it), is home to some of the sweetest…

I had skied Mineral Basin only once before and it was the winter it opened. I was treated to 1500 feet of sun-crusted bumps–not my ideal…