WEEKEND WARRIOR: PARK CITY

WEEKEND WARRIOR: PARK CITY

PEAK EXPERIENCE Park City’s star quality shines brightly in winter Every winter, visitors flock to Park City from around the world, vying to experience the top-ranked ski resorts and Sundance Film Festival. But we in Utah have it good: Most of us can enjoy the...
MADE WITH SOUL

MADE WITH SOUL

Unique bamboo Soul Poles bring the green to the slopes For 10 years, Bryon Friedman skied on the U.S. Ski Team, eventually working his way onto the World Cup circuit, and competing at the Olympic level. For longer than that, he skied the Wasatch backcountry and the...
HOLDING AN EDGE

HOLDING AN EDGE

Years of ski racing inspired the owner of 7even to build his own high-performing skis Fresh-sawn wood, ski wax, a little bit of machine oil. Scent is the first sense activated when entering the tidy 7even Skis shop just off Main Street in South Salt Lake, tipping me...
KEEP IT SIMPLE

KEEP IT SIMPLE

How to survive the winter doldrums one mantra at a time It’s winter. Daylight hours diminish, temperatures drop and comfort food temptations abound. Couple that with the potential for winter colds and flu, and you may feel a malaise coming on. The idea of exercising...
OPINION: RELICS AT RISK

OPINION: RELICS AT RISK

National Monument reductions are a slap in the face to scientists and First Americans   On Sept. 18, 1996, I stood less than 50 feet from President Clinton as he signed the proclamation creating Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which, at the time, was 1.7...