The hardest thing about driving through southern Utah’s Indian Creek is keeping your eyes on the road. All those splitters…the Simpsons clouds…the Six Shooters on the horizon…that’s why you should let someone else drive. *More or less. Probably more. Don’t be literal.
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It was nearly 60 years ago when Katie Lee first floated into the red-rock labyrinth of Glen Canyon. But her memory of that place, which was long ago drowned by the creation of Glen Canyon Dam, hasn’t faded a bit. Lee sharply recalls a desert eden of soaring Wingate walls, ancient ruins, maidenhair fern, canyon [...]
There are two cliffs in the world where you can strap yourself to a BASE jumping expert and responsibly huck yourself off something. I am standing at the edge of one of them. I’m standing on a diving board of sandstone sticking out of the top of Parriott Mesa, above Castle Valley, Utah, wondering if [...]
Somebody made a road trip. The kids from Evosia Studios hit the Grand Canyon North Rim, Arches, the Sierra and the I think the Whites, on a nice winter travelogue, shooting tons of Mother Nature flashing her skirts for the camera. Time lapses as a meme are long played out, but still — taking five [...]
Raft guide Georgie White’s last raft trip down the Grand Canyon was in 1991, right before her 80th birthday. She wore a full body leopard print leotard and drank Coors for dinner. Her first trip down the Grand looked a little different. In June of 1945 she and a friend, Harry Aleson, decided to swim [...]
Know what “spring fever” is? At AJ, we don’t get it too often, because when we start to feel it, we bail to the desert for a while, our way of cutting and pasting a bit of summer right in the middle of winter. Cheating? Maybe a little. But there’s more to it than sunshine [...]
Just last week, under desert snowclouds, photographer Ace Kvale, filmmaker Sinuhe Xavier, and writer Craig Childs took a little excursion into the Greater Canyonlands area. They are amongst my dearest friends, and words can’t begin to describe the respect I have for their work or the way they live their lives. While they were sleeping [...]
For more than 50 years, residents of Gap, Arizona, a western sliver of the Navajo Nation, have watched tourist traffic zoom by on Highway 89, headed for the Grand Canyon, Lake Powell, and southern Utah’s national parks. Except for a single gas station and a few ramshackle jewelry stands, there’s little here to attract vacationers’ [...]
After getting a six-year reprieve from the National Park Service, jet ski riders at Lake Powell will have to make sure their personal watercraft meet 2006 emission standards established by the EPA back in 2006. The Park Service delayed implementation of the regulation for ten years to minimize impacts to personal watercraft owners and provide [...]
Ed Abbey is navigating a convertible down a dirt road in Utah, talking about his rangering days, when he says, in inimitable Abbey form, “But I loved it. I love it all. The miserable road, the dust, the wind, the flash floods and the quicksand, the hoodoo rocks and the hoodoo arches, the ravens, the [...]
At three on a Friday afternoon, Armando Rios and Ashley Ross are distributing fliers for tonight’s art show. Rios sports an ironic Burt Reynolds mustache and purple button-down. Ross, in her tight black leggings and long dark bangs, looks like she stepped out of a coffee shop in the Mission. But this isn’t San Francisco. [...]
Wallpapers don’t get much fresher: This was shot last Friday morning on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon at Toroweap Point. Download away: 1280 x 800 1440 x 900 1680 x 1050 1920×1200 Photo by Steve Casimiro
In an interview eight years before he died at age 95, Harvey Butchart was asked why he spent so much time exploring the Grand Canyon, logging more than 12,000 hiking miles on- and off-trail over 42 years. “I used to give a real glib answer,” Butchart said. “I said there were two reasons for me [...]
When was your last multi-day bike ride? Photographer Daniel Wakefield Pasley and friends loaded up some Pugsleys and took a bicycle tour in the middle of one of the most sublime nowheres in the United States — the corrugated, bad-place-to-lose-a-cow canyon country of southern Utah. And not just any old part of southern Utah, but [...]
The Daily Bike, May 24, 2013
Boy Scouts to Allow Gay Members
The Daily Bike: Mountain Bike Enduro World Series Kicks Off
Overlandia: Driving a 1936 Rolls Royce Across India
15 Seconds: Driving Indian Creek, Utah
The Man Who Skied Down Everest Climbs it at 80
National Avalanche Legend Doug Abromeit Passes Away
Smokey Is Fighting Fracking and the Feds Don’t Like It
Prickly, Beloved Mountain Gazette Print Version Shut Down
Historical Badass: Alpinist Alex Lowe
Volunteer Fired at Saguaro National Park for Reporting Graffiti
Sierra Club Joins Lawsuit Against Mountain Bike Park
Driver Busted After Bragging on Twitter About Hitting Cyclist
The Daily Bike: Les Granges du Galibier, Giro d’Italia 2013
