Category: Bikepacking
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Deseret Industria
Deseret Industria is a deep dive into the conversation on land use in Utah. A 1,500 mile bicycle trip around Utah helped me see Utah’s nooks and crannies at a digestible speed. The end result is a series of 35mm Silver Gelatin prints and a short film about the trip. The territory of Deseret is […]
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Pedal to Pow
An endless snake of brake lights inches forward along Wasatch Boulevard any winter morning. The inhabitants of each automobile daydreaming of first tracks down Great Scott or setting the booter up Superior. This sect of Utah’s population also contains many passionate people fighting to protect what is left of a waning snowpack. Kind of […]
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Touring the Utah Desert on $800 Bikes
The distant Caineville Mesa inched closer with each pedal, textured grey ridges marching down the horizon like elephants in migration. My companion Ian and I had set out for a week of experiencing Utah’s public land on our bikes, and we were topping the first small climb of day 1. Ian and I had both spent […]
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Bike-to-Ski: Deseret Peak
A few hops, a skip, and 50 miles west of Salt Lake lies the alpine island known as Deseret Peak. Surrounded by 360 degrees of salt flats, military bases, and hazardous waste disposal facilities, this wild land holds an ecosystem unique to only itself. If you look closely enough from Interstate 80, 2 tall snowy […]
Douglas Tolman 