Playing Checkers

Editor’s Note: This is an unedited version of Maddy Butcher’s opinion piece that appeared in the Washington Post. Maddy Butcher writes: There was a whole lot of hootin’ and hollerin’ when, earlier this summer, the judge at the federal district court in Casper, Wyoming, ruled […]

Outdoor Retailer Mentionables

Unlike most every other week of the year, this one has been on the road: from southwestern Colorado to Denver and then west to Elko, Nevada. If the trek were a constellation, it’d be the Winter Triangle. Why go? At the Outdoor Retailer in Denver, […]

Bring back Wild West Journalism

You might think we journalists struggle more than other folks when accusations of “fake news” and “alternative facts” splash across our virtual desktops. That’s because the attack is not just on liberal news outlets but on media and the propagation of information in general. It’s […]

Open Letter to Bikers

The recent opinion piece in High Country News sparked a viral amount of dialogue on that magazine’s site and on other platforms that picked up the piece, like Adventure Journal. It begged a follow-up on improving understanding for all who use multi-use trails. Believe it […]

The Future of UtahOutsider

For those of you wondering what will happen to UtahOutsider now that I’ve high-tailed it to Colorado: fear not. UtahOutsider lives on! The site will remain live and the new ColoradoOutsider will debut in January, 2016. Suffice to say, I reserve the […]