Utah
“Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you -- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.”
Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
Why did I move to Utah? It's simple...road biking, mountain biking, trail running, hiking, downhill skiing, cross-country skiing, slot canyons, summits, national parks, and...
Road biking on the Alpine Loop
Slot canyons in Escalante
Hiking with my wife in Arches National Park
My wife in the fiery furnace within Arches National Park
Hiking in my favorite canyon outside Arches (Don't ask, I won't tell you the name)
Hiking in my favorite canyon outside Arches (Don't ask, I won't tell you the name)
Mountain biking on the trails behind my house
The Spiral Jetty
Hiking in the Uintas
Hiking in the Uintas on the way to King's Peak
Descending King's Peak
On the summit of King's Peak, Utah's highest point
XC Skiing at Sundance
Downhill skiing at Deer Valley
Mountain biking the Whole Enchilada (greatest MTB trail in the world!)
Overlooking Delicate Arch with the La Sal mountains in the background
Road biking past the East Canyon Reservoir
Mountain biking the Whole Enchilada (greatest MTB trail in the world!)