Author: Patrick Fink
Ring of Fire 2023
A quick administrative note: I’ve migrated this site to a different host and there have been some changes to the theme and page...
White Rim in a Day
Over the last few years I became increasingly interested in the White Rim route as a day effort. This 4×4 road loop in Canyonlands...
Coming Back
It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted anything here. Life, work, training, COVID, and many other things have gotten in...
San Rafael Swell Night Out
We’re bad Utahns. We don’t follow the usual patterns of a Salt Lake adventure-bro. The adventure-bro is more migratory, in part...
Western Uintas Bikepacking
This past Spring, I joined the hipsters and bought a gravel bike, and it has led to no end of trouble. Obscure riding routes, kitschy and...
Monte Cristo Gully
There are a few classic lines that I want to tie up this Spring. But this Spring is different and there’s no such thing as plans any...
A few Spring lines
It seems almost frivolous to be writing about skiing when the COVID-19 epidemic is weighing so heavily on my mind, but I also think...
Powerhouse Couloir
Stairs Plant, Generator Couloir (left), Powerhouse Couloir (middle), and Substation (right). After a great morning of low-elevation couloir...
Little Cottonwood Secrets
Jbo is a reliable ski partner, provided that you can get your ski mission done before 11 am on any given day, when he needs to get back to...
East Face of Twin
Just a quick entry with some recent action. Took a visiting medical school friend Nick out for his first ever backcountry tour. It was a...