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If you thought the drought was bad for water supplies, just add wildfires Amy Joi O'Donoghue © Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News Dead and fallen trees are pictured near Soapstone Basin in Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest on Saturday, July 10, 2021. Utah’s Dollar Ridge Fire in 2018 was an ominous knock at the door for water supply managers trying to keep water flowing to a million residents. That fire led them to invest in a $28 million upgrade to the Duchesne Valley Treatment Plant after debris and sediment washed into Starvation Reservoir. “We were able to treat the q...

Already have an account? Photo: "Longs Peak from Chasm Lake ~ Rocky Mountain National Park" by Dusty J is licensed under CC BY 2.0 From epic summit scrambles to bucket-list hikes to local gems, there’s a whole world of adventures out there for you to have—and we’re here to help you do it. Outside+ members get access to the full text of all of Backpacker’s curated hike reports—including the five on this list—including directions, campsite and permit information, interactive maps, and more. They also get access to our complete archive, from epic trail stories to skills tutorials to...

Talk about a cool down in Utah. Well, for now at least.\n

A remote area in the Bear River Range Credit Josh Boling ‘Remote’ is not a characteristic I would assign to the city center, a major metropolis like where I grew up. But I also remember summers spent high in the crown of our old magnolia tree, where my 8 year old self may have begged to differ. There, I found wildness—forgot about time and place and the civilization that occupied them.  What does ‘remote’ mean? Take a moment, if you will, and conjure a memory—to the most remote place you’ve ever been. Where are you? Why did that particular place come to mind? Was it the distanc...

Why all that snow we’re shoveling may not rescue Utah from a bad water year Brian Maffly © Leah Hogsten (Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jordan Clayton, supervisor with Utah Snow Survey for the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) shown with his dog Gus, at the Daniels Strawberry Snotel or snow telemetry network site, Feb. 3, 2021. The tall tower is equipped with wind, temperature, snow depth and solar radiation sensors. The brown tower, left, is a precipitation gage. All the sensors send information to the equipment shelter, right, where the data is upload...