Summer 2007 Table of Contents
features
84 Running Into Empty
Utah is home to one of the nation's most popular ultramarathons,
the Wasatch Front 100. Melissa Bond describes the odyssey of the long-distance runner.
92 Why I Moved West
Award-winning author Rick Bass became famous as a writer from Montana,
but his love of the West began in northern Utah's mountain country.
Photography by Scott Smith
106 Chasing Butch and Sundance
Christy Karras, author of the forthcoming Notorious Utah, tells the story of
southern Utah's Robbers Roost. Once an outlaw hangout, it is still a place to escape.
photo essay
98 Rock of Ages
Climbers tackle Utah's great walls of stone.
Photography by Nathan Smith and Nathaniel Young
fiction
114 Louie Madrid
In this debut short story from Park City's Joe Totten, a man returns
from war and finds a new beginning during a spring snowstorm.
122 Verse
The Wasatch Journal called for "sweltering" poems for our summer issue.
We present "One of Those Days" by Salt Lake City's Garrett Alberico and
"At the Swelter Shelter" by Logan's Maria Melendez.
departments
26 Out of Bounds Hermit Truths and the Body Electric
An illuminating night on the Green River
By Christopher Ketcham
32 Style & Structure A New Chapter
Silver Star embodies Park City's past
By Christy Karras • Photography by John McCarthy
44 Arts Art Under the Wrecking Ball
A doomed building becomes a canvas
By Shawn Rossiter
56 Film Escape from L.A.
Actors thrive in mountain hideaway
By Christy Karras • Photography by Stephen Trimble
64 Well-Being A Healing Wind
Nature empowers people with disabilities
By Robert Wassom
72 Speed Falling for Cool Ice on a Hot Day
Utah's Olympic Oval in the summer
By Melissa Fields
78 In the Elements A Road Well Traveled
Guardsman Pass navigates its future
By Michelle Baldwin
124 Moveable Type The Shyest Swashbuckler
The world of illustrator Brett Helquist
By Jenie Skoy • Illustrations by Brett Helquist
128 Rhythm Grassroots Bluegrass
Roz Newmark's fiddling life
By Heidi Hart • Photography by Skylar Nielsen
132 Green Utah Green in High Places
Salt Lake's massive rooftop garden
By Kathe Lison • Photography by James Rendek
136 Cuisine Alpine Ingenuity
Park City's Chez Betty
By Virginia Rainey • Photography by John McCarthy
142 Interview The Borgenichts of Utah
A peculiarly funny family
By Dorothee Kocks
