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  • Nature fierce and not so pretty

    Nature fierce and not so pretty

    Spend enough time around a bird feeder, and you’ll realize that nature is less like a poetic cartoon and more like a gritty crime novel by someone like Elmore Leonard.

    by Dennis Hinkamp, Sep 21, 2011
  • The adolescent West

    The adolescent West

    Logan, Utah, needs to get over its adolescent angst and decide what it wants to be when it grows up.

    by Dennis Hinkamp, Jun 30, 2011
  • Springtime is whine-time

    Springtime is whine-time

    Spring is the cruelest month in the Rocky Mountain West.

    by Dennis Hinkamp, May 12, 2010
  • Burning Man was better next year

    Burning Man was better next year

    Events generally go through a cycle of being original and innovative, then progress to bigger and better, tapering off at last into predictable.

    by Dennis Hinkamp, Oct 09, 2009

  • Wind power will blow your mind

    Dennis Hinkamp says that even though wind power – like everything else – is bound to have a downside, it’s the right way for us to go.

    by Dennis Hinkamp, Aug 13, 2007

  • One oil change ago

    Dennis Hinkamp celebrates a long-term relationship in his town

    by Dennis Hinkamp, Dec 25, 2006

  • Westerners sure love their mountain monikers

    The writer rides high over the region's monogrammed mountains.

    by Dennis Hinkamp, Nov 27, 2006

  • Is Brokeback Mountain about the West? Sort of

    The writer adds up the ironies and contradictions of the movie everyone keeps talking about — Brokeback Mountain

    by Dennis Hinkamp, Feb 06, 2006

  • 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

  • The unbearable triteness of skiing

    The writer, a non-skier, can’t get over the incredible triteness of skiing

    by Dennis Hinkamp, Jan 23, 2006

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