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  • Seven Ways to Enjoy Natural Darkness

    Suggestions from the National Park Service

    by National Park Service, Dec 05, 2007

  • The unbearable triteness of skiing

    Being a non-skier in a skiing-obsessed state like Utah is a lot like being a vegetarian in a slaughterhouse

    by Dennis Hinkamp, Feb 06, 2006

  • Two weeks in the West

    Cross-country skiers and snowmobilers clash over access to Logan Canyon, Utah; Mount Jefferson, Mont.; and (of course) Yellowstone; Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth steps down to be replaced by Gail Kimbell; West becomes player in national politics; bor

    by Jonathan Thompson, Feb 05, 2007
  • Conservation for the Adrenaline Crowd

    Conservation for the Adrenaline Crowd

    Environmentalists in the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado have struggled to get recreationists behind their causes.

    by Terray Sylvester, Sep 30, 2009

  • A look at the West, in the funhouse mirror

    Old Westerners and New Westerners are equally hypocritical when it comes to caricaturing each other and not looking at themselves

    by Jim Stiles, Mar 21, 2005
  • The ski industry, climate hawk?

    The ski industry, climate hawk?

    Aspen Skiing Company Sustainability VP Auden Schendler, and professional snowboarder Jeremy Jones on why ski corporations and pro athletes should step up to the climate crisis -- and how they can do it.

    by Cally Carswell, Jul 22, 2012

  • Piscatorial theology

    For Irle White’s father, fly-fishing was the one true religion

    by Irle White, Jun 11, 2007

  • Craig’s excellent adaptive adventures

    Craig Kennedy, who hasn’t let a wheelchair keep him from skiing, doesn’t believe physical disabilities should keep anybody out of the backcountry

    by Jennie Lay, May 29, 2006

  • Have golf's glory days gone by?

    Golf – the game that brought grass to the desert – appears to have hit a rough patch in the West

    by Tony Davis, Aug 21, 2006

  • For the love of a river

    In the anthology There’s This River, Christa Sadler gathers the stories of rambunctious river rafters on the Grand Canyon’s Colorado River

    by Renee Guillory, Aug 21, 2006
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