This article ranked among’s SKI’s most-read of 2023. You’ll want more than Google Maps if you’re coming from Salt Lake City to Alta in a storm–namely intel, patience, and a pee bottle. I was visiting Salt Lake City for a trade show when I heard that Little Cottonwood Canyon was expected to get 10 inches…
Connoisseurs of roller coasters know that rides feel wilder at night. In the dark, our brains stop receiving the visual cues that help us stay balanced, so movement feels destabilizing enough that most of us teeter like drunkards whenever we simply close our eyes. But wobbling through life felt like defeat to Brenda Mosby, who…
Pivot has long made it a priority to build lightweight bikes — and not just for cross-country racing models. Pivot’s Mach 5.5 Carbon weighs about 28 pounds (ultralight builds actually duck 27 pounds) while delivering 160 mm of front suspension and 140 mm in the rear. That’s an impressive squish-to-weight ratio. It earned the Mach…
After designing some 50 ski models for Line over his 22-year run as a sponsored athlete, Eric Pollard had an epiphany: The world didn’t need any more skis. “There are a lot of great options out there already,” he explains. Pollard himself helped launch many of them. As a collaborative designer for Line, he pioneered…
Swanky hotels in Moab are elevating the town’s backcountry vibe, but that’s not all that’s new in Utah’s top adventure hub. Surrounded by the Southwest’s most impressive red rock scenery, Moab has long been a crossroads for gritty climbers, bikers, paddlers and hikers who rank a simple shower among life’s luxuries. So it’s fitting that…
The first time I ate at Taco Party, in downtown Grand Junction, I felt obligated to choose one of the canvas-shaded outdoor tables lining the sidewalk. My shirt was salt-stained and smelly after my morning hike, and a gritty crust of sunscreen covered my flushed face. I had no business mingling among the deodorized couples…
Phasing out old infrastructure creates opportunities for Coloradans to envision futuristic ways of moving, managing and treating water In 1937, teams of men swung their pickaxes into the Colorado sod just north of Golden to build Ralston Dam and bury veins of pipe that would carry water south toward the fledgling city of Denver. That…