UtahOutsider Interviews TEDx Organizer, Part II

Part II: New Features and Ways to Engage Read Part I Read Part III In this three-part series, we talk with Anna Decker, organizer of the TEDx program at the Leonardo (and additional simulcast sites) September 20. Decker, 31, is a University of Utah graduate […]

UtahOutsider Interviews TEDx Organizer, Part III

In this three-part series, we talk with Anna Decker, organizer of the TEDx program at the Leonardo (and additional simulcast sites) September 20. Read Part I Read Part II Decker, 31, is a University of Utah graduate student with experience in event planning. She wanted […]

UtahOutsider Interviews TEDx Organizer, Part III

Water, water, nowhere

As summer winds down, I’m giving thanks to a spectacular season; one that gave me a crash course in riding and hiking essentials here in Utah. Watch video. Sure, there’s the need for carrying a cell phone, a good knife, and for wearing sunscreen. But […]

Water, water, nowhere

Camping part two, Maine versus Utah

Things you can count on in the Maine wilderness: Insects (black flies, deer flies, mosquitos, ticks, etc.) Wet (humidity, fog, rain, snow, ponds, lakes, ocean, rivers, streams) Trees (lots and lots of them) Because of the trees, you tend to focus on things close to […]

Return to Camping, Part One

Called by Utah’s great outdoors, inspired by family, and prodded by the notion that Life is Short, I rededicated myself to camping this summer. The return comes with a thankful nod to generations fore and aft: To my folks for a childhood steeped in exploring, […]

Inside the Salt Palace, looking out

If it bothered any of the 30,000 people buying, selling, and otherwise attending the gigantic Outdoor Retailer Summer Market earlier this month, they weren’t saying. “It” being the following incongruity: We were in a convention center (the Salt Palace), manically focused on how best to […]

Inside the Salt Palace, looking out

UtahOutsider’s kind of Surveillance

The poor word ‘surveillance,’ like ‘sequester’ and ‘social,’ has been forever ruined by white boxes at every intersection and black, inverted domes in every store and office. Nowadays, folks don’t consider the Original Surveillance, a heartening act I see performed: – by the deer looking […]