Back in February, we took a backcountry ski trip to the Puffer Lake Yurt in the Tushar Mountains. It was an awesome weekend as we experienced a mini corn-cycle in the middle of winter. Warm temperatures and frozen nights secured the snowpack and allowed for soft, sunny turns on big lines off City Creek Peak….
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Backcountry skiing at Snorkeling Elk Yurt
Water drops landed on my face and woke me up from a deep sleep filled with dreams of skiing in a rain storm. Confused, I wiped my face and sat up in my sleeping bag to make sure I was still inside the Snorkeling Elk Yurt, located in Utah’s Tushar Mountains. Earlier that night my…
Puffer Lake skiing in the Tushar Mountains
Skiing returned to the Tushar Mountains in Southern Utah when the defunct Elk Meadows ski resort was resurrected as Eagle Point a few years ago. But really, skiing never went away in the 10 years that Elk Meadows was an abandoned museum of unmoving lifts and unoccupied condos. Backcountry skiing has always been there, and…
Camping at Big Flat in the Tushar Mountains
Campsites at established campgrounds in Utah can be hard to come by as they tend to fill up fast, especially on the weekends. But luckily there is plenty of land in our state where you can find primitive camping in Utah’s mountains where most people never think to go. Big Flat in Fishlake National Forest…
Crusher in the Tushar brings “RoadDirt” bike racing to Utah
A new, one-of-a-kind bike race happens this July 16th in Utah, and it promises to be a “crusher.” The Crusher in the Tushar is the brainchild of professional cyclist, T. Burke Swindlehurst, who has been thinking for years about organizing a road/dirt mountain bike race around his hometown in Beaver. The Crusher in the Tushar…