Sandstone Seduction

Sandstone Seduction by Katie Lee Reprinted from Sandstone Seduction: Rivers and Lovers, Canyons and Friends (2004) On this new October day, in the year of our River Gods, 1959, I have walked up a deep, shaded canyon through water, wet sand, and golden redbud leaves. ...

The Road Kills

The Road Kills by Deborah Threedy I rounded the curve and hit the brakes.  Below me, where the road cut down through sandstone ledges to cross the river, two or three cars were stopped in my lane.  Several large, brown bags were strewn about the highway.  Beyond them,...

Ward Roylance: The Power of Perserverance

Ward Roylance: The Power of Perserverance by Barry Scholl Ward Roylance straddled two eras in Utah-particularly southern Utah-tourism. One foot was firmly planted in the traditional post-World-War-II era, when everything in America-including road-building, adventure...

The Road to Mexican Hat

The Road to Mexian Hat by Francois Camoin Draw a line east-west across Utah along the latitude of Moab, or maybe a few miles north, so you can include Arches, which Ed Abbey called his favorite place on earth.  Another line north-south through Hanksville, which will...

The House Remembers

The House Remembers by Steve Lutz The first thing you learn when attempting to understand an old house you are fixing up, is that age is relative, relative to the framing, the plumbing, the electrical system, relative to the times and people who lived there. Things...

You Can’t Get Sick Now, Gloria

You Can’t Get Sick Now, Gloria by Sue Hartman Somewhere along North Blue Flats on the recently washed-out road to Cathedral Valley, Ward Roylance gestured at the standing water in the gully.  We bounced over rocks spread by the flash flood.   “This...