View Larger Map One of the Salt Lake Valley’s least known canyons, Killyons Canyon, has been spared from the bulldozer of development and will forever be open space thanks to a $500,000 donation from someone who wants to remain anonymous. As we told you in an article last month, a deadline loomed for Utah Open Lands…
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Rock climbing The Watchtower in Ferguson Canyon
Ferguson Canyon is a small cleft just south of Big Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Range. Because of its proximity to its world-famous neighbors, Ferguson often gets overlooked by rock climbers. But once you enter its shady passages, you’ll find excellent climbing routes hidden away from the hot summer sun. One of those places is…
Outdoor Retailer 2010 Summer Market preview
August is an exciting month for downtown Salt Lake City as it’s the time of year when thousands of people from the outdoor industry converge for the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market at the Salt Palace Convention Center. Outdoor Retailer Summer Market is the largest outdoor recreation convention in the world where retailers, exhibitors and the…
Eat yellow snow to benefit Wasatch Backcountry Rescue avalanche dogs
It’s so hot in Utah right now that skiing isn’t even close to being conceivable. But colder weather is on the minds of skiers and snowboarders, and winter will be here before we know it. Ski Utah knows this future to be true, and will start celebrating the upcoming snowfall with a 100 day countdown to ski…
Obama Administration in Utah for America’s Great Outdoors listening session
The Obama Administration is coming to Utah and it’s your chance to tell them how you feel the U.S. Department of the Interior, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should handle the future of Utah’s outdoor lands. Government representatives will be on hand…
R-U-N? Park City Mini Trail Series Race review
I’m of the opinion that races should be completely judged on amenities. Sure there are other factors that play into putting on a great competitive event (the course itself, how well the course is marked, prizes and swag etc.) but really at the end of the day the thing that separates a race from just…
Killyons Canyon approaches open space deadline
Killyons Canyon is a little bit of forested heaven tucked away above Emigration Canyon near Salt Lake City. For years, various entities have joined forces to try and raise enough funds to purchase 268 acres of land in the canyon for open-space preservation, which means it would then become public land. Currently, parts of the…
Hiking Deseret Peak
So you want to bag a big peak, but the crowds in Big and Little Cottonwood are just too much. Or perhaps you want to get above 11,000′ but aren’t quite ready for the Class 3-4 scrambles that many Utah mountains require. What if I told you that there was a gorgeous summit just 50…
Mountain biking Flying Dog at Kimball Junction
Flying Dog seems to be the “Big Dog” of mountain bike trails these days. Among many biking groups, the singletrack getting all the attention at the moment is Flying Dog. The trail was cut a few years ago, so why is it just now basking in the limelight and getting all the attention? Maybe it’s…
Hidden Lake revealed in the Uinta Mountains
The dilemma: you want to backpack somewhere close to home in a beautiful mountain setting, and have the place to yourself. Sounds like just the kind of tall order that most hikers dream up every weekend. The answer: Hidden Lake in the western Uintas. This serene alpine lake delivers on all three of those demands…