The Hayduke Trail: A Guide to the Backcountry Hiking Trail on the Colorado Plateau, Joe Mitchell and Mike Coronella, 288 pages, paperback $19.95. University of Utah Press, 2005. If you have to ask, ...

Edward Abbey, who spent his formative years working in the parks of southern Utah, used to suggest that every time you see one of those national forest signs that say “Land of Many Uses,” you change ...

working in the parks of southern Utah, used to suggest that every time you see one of those national forest signs that say “Land of Many Uses,” you change the last word to “Abuses.” A Vietnam vet ...

Family status: Mother, Susan Mateer; father, Gary Long (both Fort Collins residents); brother, Neil Long (graduated from Rocky Mountain High School 2007). Occupation: Curatorial Assistant at the ...

A pair of veteran outdoorsmen have founded a new, long-distance hiking trail across the Southwest canyonlands and released a guidebook this month to help people navigate it. Named after a character in ...

“WE KNEW IT WASN’T a very politically correct name to put on a desert trail,” says Moab, Utah, resident Mike Coronella. “It’s not that we advocate vandalism, but some people truly do have passion for ...

Never, ever underestimate nature. That was the lesson for a hiker exploring the Hayduke Trail in Arches National Park who had a dramatic and unexpected encounter with quicksand. They shared the wild ...