The Best Ski Bum Job: Adaptive Raft Guide for the National Ability Center in Moab, Utah Brought to you by the National Ability Center What is the best ski bum summer job? Raft guiding. Raft guiding is one of the most rewarding jobs you can work during the summer season, especially for Utah’s National Ability Center (NAC). At NAC, you work with a variety of clients with varying disabilities. You get to help your clients say “I […] Featured Article Dominic Gawel | February 14, 2022 0 Comments
Moab, UT Report: Post-Ski Trip Desert Climbing Brought to you by 10 Barrel Brewing Report from Tuesday, May 4-Wednesday, May 5, 2021 We skied. We climbed. We conquered. But really we just hung out and had a good time in the desert. After an intense ski down one of North America’s 50 classic ski descents in the La Sal Mountains near Moab, Utah on Monday, it was time […] Climbing Martin Kuprianowicz | May 7, 2021 0 Comments
Trip Report: 12,482′ Mount Tukuhnikivatz, UT | The Savage ‘North Face’ Brought to you by 10 Barrel Brewing Report from Monday, May 3, 2021 We were frozen—petrified with fear. Near the end of the bootpack up to the ridge, it suddenly got extremely steep and icy. It was only 20 feet to the ridge. But 20 feet feels a hell of a lot further on a 60-degree top section of a slope. […] Trip Report Martin Kuprianowicz | May 7, 2021 1 Comment
Racist Graffiti Scrawled Across 2,000-Year-Old Petroglyphs in Moab, UT A Moab tour guide was shocked to see racist graffiti scrawled across ancient Native American petroglyphs in Utah on one of the most popular rock art panels in the area. The words “white power” and graphic images were discovered Monday on “The Birthing Scene,” a panel on a slab covered on four sides with Native American art from the Anasazi period […] SnowBrains | April 28, 2021 4 Comments
Hiker Lost his Footing and Fell 200-Feet to His Death at Dead Horse Point State Park Near Moab, UT A Texas man has died following an incident at Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah Sunday. The man, 54-year-old Charles Campassi from Houston, Texas, was visiting the park with family. Around noon, the group was hiking the area near the West Rim Trail when Campassi lost his footing and fell off of the cliff. The group is believed to have […] SnowBrains | July 28, 2020 0 Comments
Utah’s Navajo Land Has a Higher Rate of COVID-19 Infection Than New York City The curve of Utah’s overall coronavirus cases appears to be flattening, but don’t let that fool you — there’s a crisis in the south of the state. Because it’s officially on sovereign territory of the Navajo Nation on the southern border of San Juan County in Utah, cases on Native American reservations often don’t get included in the State Health […] SnowBrains | May 22, 2020 0 Comments
Mono County, CA: Short-Term Rentals Restricted Under ‘Stay-At-Home-Order,’ More Places Following Suit The governor of California recently put the state on lockdown, issuing a ‘stay-at-home-order,’ in an attempt to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As a result, the Mono County Public Health Officer has issued an order limiting the use of all short-term rentals to specific purposes consistent with the governor’s order. RELATED: California Governor Orders State’s 40-Million Residents to ‘Stay at […] SnowBrains | March 26, 2020 0 Comments
Miles of Utah Mountain Biking Trails Saved from Oil and Gas Companies The sale of several parcels of land near Moab, UT that included up to two-thirds of the popular Slickrock mountain biking trail has been reversed by the BLM, sparing the pristine area from oil and gas companies who were looking to drill there. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the Bureau of Land Management decided against selling the land to oil […] Cycle Martin Kuprianowicz | February 24, 2020 0 Comments
Featured Article
Climbing
Trip Report
Cycle