Ogden Outdoor Adventure Show 271 - Trails, Tragedy & Toilets

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Todd to the Top, Wheeler Creek/Icebox Hike

WEEKLY HAPPY

The best poopers in all the land.

ON THE DOCKET

• May 5 - Ogden Trail Running Film Festival at Amer Sports
• May 6 - Ogden Trail Running Festival and Expo at Mt. Ogden Park 3-9pm
• May 7 - Park City Run Co. Group Run with Anna Frost
• May 11 - 2017 Ogden Trails Network Shindig at The Front 5:30pm-8:30pm
• May 13 - Fly With The Flock 5K & Pancake Breakfast at Ogden Nature Center 8am
• May 13 - Cystic Fibrosis Great Strides 5K at Eccles Dinosaur Park, 10am
• May 13 - Back of Beyond Downriver SUP Race on the Colorado River in Moab
• May 14 - Snowbasin Mother Day Brunch at Earl’s Lodge
• May 20 - Ogden Marathon
• June 2 - Ogden Film Festival Live Screening
• June 3 - Great Salt Lake Open Water Marathon Swim 
• June 4 - Ogden Rattlesnake Avoidance Training for Dogs - Ogden Animal Hospital
• June 8-11 - GoPro Mountain Games
• June 10 - Snowbasin Summer Opening Day
• June 11 - Snowbasin Blues Brews & BBQ Kick Off
• June 10-11 - Ogden Arts Festival
• June 10 - Paddle Pedal Paddle - Jordanelle State Park
• July 7 - Antelope by Moonlight Bike Ride - Antelope Island
• August 12 - Snowbasin Intermountain Cup X-Country MTB Race

IN THE NEWS

• UDOT plans $5 million overpass for wildlife at Parleys Summit
• No Avalanche Deaths in Utah for 1st time in 26 years
• Wife of Merrell founder swept down creek in Grand Canyon with step grandson
• Idaho woman says she crashed because she saw a sasquatch

WORTH WATCHING

As longtime professional climbers who eat, sleep and live the sport, Cedar Wright and Matt Segal are used to being competent, comfortable and at the top of their game. Then they get into paragliding, and what starts as a toe dip turns quickly into a consuming addiction, as well as a lesson in what it’s like to be bumbling, naïve, gung-ho beginners. Tree landings, sketchy moments and junkshow launches become part of the new normal. With only six months of flying under their belts, and professional flier Matt Henzi as a sensei, Wright and Segal embark on an audacious objective: to climb and fly off Orizaba, the third-highest peak in the America’s and the highest in Mexico. What ensues is disaster-style climbing, iffy weather, broken gear and a lesson in jumping into the deep end and being forced to swim. 

WORTH READING | Will Gadd’s Ueli Steck Facebook Eulogy

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TRIP REPORT | Wheeler Creek Hike (podcast only)

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Along Icebox Canyon

SKILLS | Commonsense of SUP Safety

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.” ― William Shakespeare

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As John Muir would say, “The Mountains are calling and we must go…”