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My First Mule Deer on the Utah Public Lands

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Five years after my first hunt in Utah, and countless days unsuccessfully hunting mule deer and elk on the public lands in Wasatch and Uinta Mountains, I’ve finally filled my mule deer tag! Before this season, I prided myself on exclusively being an archery hunter. I’d been brainwashed by all of the incredible archery hunters online, thinking that rifle hunting was somehow less pure and easier. Well, having now been successful on a white tail archery hunt last year back east and now a mule deer in Utah with my rifle, both were profound experiences, equally difficult, and not only …

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Telluride, Colorado // Mountain Biking the San Juans

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After 8 years, I finally made it to the last of the real mountain towns in the West, Telluride, Colorado. In my opinion, Telluride is the closest we can get to a European town in the Alps. Quite literally at the dead end of a box canyon, surrounded by walls of the San Juan mountains, piercing the sky. With snowfields and glaciers covering the summits. Sure, is the town comically unaffordable for anyone who actually wants to live there, yes, but it still does exist. And there are a handful of locals that still make this town as unique as …

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Race Report: Point 2 Point // Park City’s 75 Mile Mountain Bike Race with 10,000ft of Climbing

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One word to describe the Point 2 Point Race would be, unrelenting. 75 miles of trail, cutting through every single riding area that Park City has to offer, with 3 distinct climbing sections that total over 10K feet of vertical gain. The elevation profile of the course looks like a heart rate monitor, without any flat sections to recover. There are the small spikes when you’re in Round Valley, followed by massive spikes with the climbs up to Deer Valley, 9K at PCMR, and eventually up to Canyons. 400+ racers take on the course each year, with nearly 50 of the hopefuls …

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Bend, Oregon has Finally Lost its Mountain Town Charm

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Tonight, I feel like a billionaire. Or, I guess, what I would do with a Billion dollars since I don’t have any aspirations to go to Mars. In this modern day, there doesn’t seem like any other realistic explanation to explain the feeling of freedom when camping on our public lands in the West. Tonight, we’ve parked our van in the exact same spot as the past few years in the Deschutes National Forest, just 10 minutes outside of Bend, Oregon. And just like the previous years, I sit here, staring off in to the distance, through the ponderosa pine forest, spaced …

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First Real Dual Sport Ride, Off-Roading in Wasatch State Park

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By the 4th failed attempt at the same rocky, steep section of trail, I realized I was in way over my head. Up until this point, I had enough skill and cross-over mountain biking talent to get myself, and my Yamaha WR250r, in this position. But it was quickly apparent that I did not have enough talent to successfully climb this 50yd section, and definitely not enough skill to navigate back downhill the technical terrain that I had already climbed. Fortunate for me, I was not alone. My experienced riding buddy, Nate, was also with me on his, comparatively massive, …

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VIDEO || Exploring the AZORES on São Miguel Island // Hot Springs, Mountains, and Endless Coastline

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The Azores have been described as Europe’s version of Hawaii. After a week on the main Azores island of Sao Miguel, it’s not only hard to compare the Azores and Hawaii. The days were filled with hiking around the mountains, relaxing in hot spring pools, staring off at the endless viewpoints on the coastline, and eating some of the best seafood and drinking cheap beer. If only the water was crystal clear and warm could it really beat out Hawaii for the top spot.Whether it was a hike to a view point, down to a lake, or even to a …

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Sunrise to Sunset Park City Adventures on the Summer Solstice

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The summer solstice, the longest day of the year, the beginning of the summer season, but most importantly 15 hours and 5 minutes of daylight! For the first time in my life I finally accomplished a goal I had in the back of my head. That goal was to be outside, in the mountains, from sun-up to sun-down, utilizing every minute of daylight that I long for in those cold, dark winter months. This stemmed from a video I saw, many years ago, of someone surfing at sunrise on the Oregon coast, then followed by some biking, and eventually a …

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Lake Garda | Italy Trip: Stop #1

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After a transatlantic redeye flight into Venice airport, followed by a bus transfer to the nearest train station in Mestre, and onto a high-speed train pointed west across northern Italy. Eventually, Courtney and I finally reached the first stop on our Italy trip which was a little tourist lake town, called Peschiera del Garda, which sits directly on the southern edge of Italy’s largest lake, Lake Garda. Yes, even larger than Lake Como. After walking from the train stop, through the fort’s walls that now surround the small vacation town, we got to see the lake for the first time. …

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10th Cross Country Road Trip in 3 Years

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On our recent vacation, my wife and I met an Australian couple from Perth, who were on a six-month trip around the world. They told us how much they enjoyed their road trip in the states from Georgia to Missouri, then over to New York. We got chatting about how similar the size of our two countries were. But it was the remoteness of the Australian cities that blew my mind. Perth’s nearest neighbor is Adelaide, nearly 1,300 miles away, which is the distance from San Diego to Dallas. They told us how rare it was for Aussies to ever …

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The Winter Without Snow | Park City 2025-2026 Ski Season

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Just three years ago, Park City Mountain Resort, and most of the West for that matter, received a record amount of snowfall. On average, Park City Mountain & Canyons receive just under 300″ of total snowfall per year, but during the 2022-2023 season we received 612″ of snowfall. Yet, here we are, wrapping up the 2025-2026 ski season and Park City has only recorded 171″ or half the average. And the lack of snow was painfully evident throughout the winter. The mountains and hills normally blanketed in at least some amount of snow from November to April were nearly brown …

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