Rafting and Hiking in Utah's Desert, Strangers Become Friends
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MOAB, Utah _ What am I getting into, I muttered, as a summer storm crashed across the desert with thunder so deafening, I had to plug my ears.    I was at the orientation for a river-rafting trip, a five-day journey down the wild and remote Colorado River in the southern Utah desert.
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By Paul Rolly, The Salt Lake Tribune  Sep. 11--Sometimes, it ain't easy being Greek in Utah.    Father Michael Kouremetis found that out recently at a Holladay City  Planning Commission meeting.
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By Meet Your Neighbor FRANCES FANNING For the Journal  If this year's monsoon season has had you thinking of the fragility of life in the high desert, meet a man who is taking action.
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For the chance to recount nervy tales of outdoor machismo, many backcountry enthusiasts will risk nearly everything. Blocking off dangerous areas won't deter them, nor will frightening signs.
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Currently the best in the Mountain West, No. 14 Utah gets another chance to show it's worthy of bigger things come bowl season.
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Aron Ralston, the climber who spent five days pinned beneath a boulder in a Utah canyon last year, reflects on his lifesaving self-amputation.
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By Backus, Perry  BONNER - Not long after talk first began about restoring the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot rivers, people started stepping forward with a variety of ideas for the future of the site.
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Two men became friends by transforming their lives to become catalysts of community cooperation.
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By Photos by Gary Whitney For the Deseret Morning News  When Gary and Susan Whitney went to China this fall, their brains were overwhelmed with images: Rising water in the Yangtze River Gorge. Pandas lazing about in trees. Temples. Pagodas. Soviet-style apartment buildings.
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For nine years, the question has echoed across the high desert of southeastern Utah, hard against the corner where four states meet.
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Freezing temperatures early Sunday may have nipped fields and gardens in the central and eastern parts of Utah, but it probably was not the killer frost some had feared.
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  Conservationists, bird watchers and hunters are concerned about an insidious plant that is spreading wildly through Utah's wetlands: phragmites.  Phragmites (pronounced frag-mighties) are a form of reed that can grow 10 feet tall in dense brakes.
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For forlorn travelers, volunteers at Travelers Aid stations around the country offer a friendly face and a helping hand.
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A group of French  peacekeepers rafting on a sunny October day through the  spectacular gorge of the Neretva river are among the last of  many tourists before the cold, rainy season.
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A growing number of people are taking âvirtuous vacationsâ where they spend time working for nonprofit groups.
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By Marek Warszawski, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jan. 31--The San Joaquin River Gorge is like the Rodney Dangerfield of Sierra Nevada river canyons.   It gets little or no respect.
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By GILLIAN FLACCUS  BALLARAT, Calif. - Whoever named Surprise Canyon got it right. Mere miles from bone-dry Death Valley, the canyon cradles two unexpected jewels: a gushing mountain stream and what's left of a once-bustling silver mining town.