This Is What Love Looks Like by Aiden Fay
In 2008 Tim DeChristopher, a University of Utah student, courageously raised his paddle as a bidder in a Salt Lake BLM auction. With no intention of paying, he bid for
Canyon Jog by Isa Maeder
Horseshoe Canyon is characterized by motion. The canyon walls themselves were carved and smoothed by erosion beginning five million years ago, but one sip of silty creek water or a
Perseverance On the Colorado Plateau by Jonathan Robinson
The Colorado Plateau, with its unforgiving terrain and dry, arid landscape, is not a place many people would think to inhabit. Despite this, many people have successfully called the Colorado
Three Things To Know Before Your Next 14 Day Backpacking Trip in Horseshoe Canyon by Paige Ptak
Scrambling down the dusty orange Navajo sandstone into the open body of Horseshoe Canyon for the first time will be intimidating, exhilarating and even a hint nerve-racking. If you have
Systems of Horseshoe Canyon by Chloe Brackenbury
Here we are, three days into our backpacking journey, and Horseshoe Canyon decides to welcome us with a spring blizzard! We crawled out of the cocoons of our sleeping bags
To Know A Canyon by Anika Cramblet
Can you know a canyon by their rim? Or must you be drawn in, sucked downstream by their river, immersed within the walls, another being among everyone else? The top
Wholeness is my Home by Ren Skolnick
We arrived in the middle of the arid pinyon-juniper woodlands with clean clothes, heavy backpacks, and an atmosphere of anticipatory excitement. Our small group of six students and two instructors
The Marks We Make by Alexandra Bierman
A flash of blonde hair disappears in front of me as Lauren squeezes her body into the hole. I step forward–it’s my turn. I squat down low, and slip my
Emerging from the Horseshoe by Siena Hester
As my watch alarm wakes me from my intermittent slumber, I slowly lift my head from my sleeping bag to confront the cold morning air. It is now early November,
Anna Favour: Horseshoe Canyon as a Canvas
“Our place is part of what we are. Yet even a “place” has a kind of fluidity; it passes through space and time… A place will have been grasslands, then