A Guide to the Crusher in the Tushars
2016 Update: The course is unchanged from years past. The information below is still (mostly) accurate. Crush on! Now Updated for 2013! Additions since the 2012 race are noted below. Hopefully they will help you become even better prepared for race day 2013. The 2012 (and 2013) Crusher in the Tushars In 2011 I became entirely obsessed […]
The SkiLink Ruse
The movers and shakers pushing the SkiLink gondola are creative and shameless. Canyons (Talisker) has spent an enormous amount of energy, and focused most of its promotional efforts, on the mythical idea that the SkiLink gondola will “inject $51 million into the local economy”, add “$3 million in tax revenue”, and create “more than 500 […]
The Legacy of John Muir
April 21 is John Muir Day. If you are willing and able, I suggest that you “…break clear away…and climb a mountain…. Wash your spirit clean.” Also of note is that e-book editions of many of John Muir’s writings are available for free at Amazon.com and the iTunes book store. “There is no repose like […]
Bella Coola and The Chilcotin
British Columbia isn’t like the rest of Canada. British Columbia is its own world. A world varied, beautiful, and vast. It is enormous and thick. The forests—rainy on the coast, coniferous in the interior—are dense and wild. Bears, grizzly and black, roam freely. Mountain lion, elk, deer, mountain goat, and bighorn are plentiful. The inner channel between the mainland and Vancouver […]
A Trip Through Wyoming
We were hungry. We had been driving all day. My dad was tired. I was bleary-eyed. My infant daughter, cranky. My siblings, irritable. The motor-home, once spacious, now felt cramped. Outside prairie stretched endless in every direction. The sun was sinking low into the west, its soft summer light painted the grasslands in brilliant gold and […]
Rivers
“For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside of the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.” ~Henry van Dyke. I have never been a river man. Although I have ran a portion of the Snake in a canoe (which at 13, was terrifying and exhilarating) and floated parts of the Green in a rubber raft, rivers […]
Hugh Nibley, Mormon Conservationist
“If God were to despise all things beneath him, as we do, where would that leave us?” ~Hugh W. Nibley Hugh Nibley, most widely known for his scholarly work in the field of ancient scripture, was an outspoken voice of reason on all manner of things concerning Mormon social habit and culture. He famously opened (in prayer) a Commencement at BYU […]
Why Write?
Why write? I write because doing so helps me make sense of the world. Writing forces me to reflect, think, and most importantly, to vet my own thoughts and impulses. I write to keep a record. To share. To read. The exercise itself, not unlike that of pedaling, is therapeutic—if vexing and challenging at times. But I think, perhaps correctly, that […]
