POSTED // May 14,2013 - I’m working my way between trashcan-size balls of sagebrush. They’re just starting to leaf out. The smell is divine.

POSTED // Apr 16,2013 - On a recent Sunday afternoon between spring rainstorms, parking for the Bonneville Shoreline trailhead overflowed onto the street.

POSTED // Apr 2,2013 - On a late-March weekend, I took my skis up Millcreek Canyon for a nice, mellow backcountry run in the new snow.

POSTED // Mar 19,2013 - Deep in the winter, in February, I took a trip to the mountains. It was time to make an exit from the city.

POSTED // Mar 5,2013 - At first glance, everything is wrong with this picture: The sky is dark gray with wind-blown snow, I am standing in the middle of a lake on ice that was slushy at best the day before ...

POSTED // Feb 12,2013 - Crumpled in front of me in the snow lay my 7-year-old sister, a pile of pink & purple snowsuit. My father leaned over her, trying to soothe her anguish and suffering.

POSTED // Jan 22,2013 - From the saddle below the radio towers, the snow muffled—nearly muted—the sounds of the city. The breeze carried the neutral scent of a below-freezing day.

POSTED // Jan 8,2013 - There are many good ways to begin the new year—resolutions included—but one of the most powerful is to take on a new adventure that stretches and pushes your boundaries of courage and daring.

POSTED // Dec 24,2012 - When Park City gets crowded, it gets very, very crowded—like between Christmas and New Year’s, just after the lifts close. Driving out of a resort parking lot is a slow, annoying crawl ...

POSTED // Dec 11,2012 - There are three kinds of older terrain-park riders: the experienced, who can still trick things up and get air; the once-experienced, who haven’t ventured onto a rail in years and figure it’s in their past; and never-evers ...