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UTAH STORIES MAGAZINE

6 Utah Stories Contributors 12 This Halloween, Don’t Be Afraid To Be Scared Facing your fears is good for you!

16 Two Ghost Stories A Halloween double treat

18 The Rio Grande Depot Is (Probably) Not Haunted

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22 The Three Faces Of Utah Whiskey Meet some Utah owners and distillers

50 Utah Cideries It’s cider season

54 Girls On The Rise Utah’s high school mountain bike league

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BEHIND THE STORIES Danny B. Stewart

Danny grew up on a haunted racehorse farm in Vineyard, Utah, where he spent most of his youth chasing after the “water monsters” that lurked in the swamp that bordered his home. These haunted experiences helped to mold him into the creative he is today. He is a traditions bearer, historian, educator, entertainer, writer and storyteller who specializes in folklore, mythology and legend, with a special emphasis on everything that is “spooky” about Utah.

Danny is a former adjunct instructor of Humanities through the Arts at UVU, and is the creator of The Original Provo Utah Ghost Tour. He has collected more than one hundred and seventy original pieces of local folklore that will soon be preserved by Brigham Young University’s Library in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections.

Alegra Zuchowicz

Alegra Zuchowicz is the Accounts and Social Media Manager at Utah Stories. Although her job involves much more than writing stories, she has a traditional Journalism background. Attending California Polytechnic State University, she graduated in Journalism concentrating in Public Relations with a minor in Dance in 2022.

Her passion for Journalism began at sixteen years old. At Cal Poly, she wrote for Mustang News in the art section as well as writing for the Santa Barbara Independent. She also interned at the Santa Barbara Adventure Company where she helped with social media.

In her free time, Alegra loves to dance, go to pilates classes, and spend time with her boyfriend and their two cats, Jack and Zara. She is new to Utah and loves exploring our amazing mountains.

Her passion for Journalism stems from her belief that you can make a difference through words and telling stories, and she is excited to bring that passion into her writing at Utah Stories.

Laurel Dudley

Laurel Dudley is a freelance journalist and has written for Triathlete, Hawaii Business Magazine and Swimmer Magazine, among others.

She loves capturing people’s stories, especially those about athletes overcoming adversity.

Previously, Laurel spent 15 years in Hawaii, where she worked in medical device sales and met her husband. They moved to Ogden Valley in 2021, and although Laurel is happy to return to winter sports (which she did as a kid growing up in Vermont), running and off-road triathlons are still her favorite pursuits.

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THIS HALLOWEEN, DON’T BE AFRAID TO BE SCARED Facing Your Fears Is Good For You!

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n this Halloween issue, we delve into spirits — the distilled and fermented kind as well as the supernatural, oncealive, now-dead kind.

It’s almost Halloween, and Utah has more than its share of scares, such as our many world-class haunted attractions. Or maybe you prefer the real thing. It’s also the time of year when a new crop of horror movies get released.

Scaring yourself in one of these ways could actually be good for you!

People like to be scared. After all, a good scare can have many health benefits. Fear alerts us to danger by releasing doses of cortisol and adrenaline to the brain, enabling the ‘fight or flight’ response — a built-in survival

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instinct that can make us stronger and more capable of confronting a threat ... or running from it.

While no one wants to live in a constant state of fear, it is the most primal form of self-preservation. Fear keeps us from doing dangerous or stupid things like running across the freeway during rush hour, or standing too close to the edge of a cliff.

Taking risks is one of the greatest benefits of fear. Embarking on a new adventure, for example, can trigger an exhilarating dose of spine-tingling fear that provides a natural high and a sense of empowerment. Healthy fear produces dopamine, endorphins, oxytocin and serotonin, helping your brain work

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us forever fearful or cause us to take wrong actions.

Are you ready to be scared in a good way? Turn down the lights and pour a glass of your favorite spirits, such as one of Bianca Dumas’ picks for a delicious seasonal cider. Or imbibe in the distilled spirits that are conjured up by Utah’s three whiskey distillers in Heather L. King’s The Three Faces of Utah Whiskey.

Comfortable? Good. Now sit back and scare yourself with these ethereal, not-of-this-world spirits: Amanda Rock questions whether the famed Purple Lady that allegedly haunts the Rio Grande depot is real or just a ploy to lure visitors.

What do you think?

Folklorist Danny Stewart introduces us to a snowy ghost boy (or was he just a pile of snow?) and takes us on a stroll with the Grim Reaper as he escorts a woman to the afterlife. Now that’s some scary stuff!

Do you have a fear that keeps you from fully enjoying life? Let it go!

Watch that scary movie. Go to that haunted house. Hold a séance. Dress up as a knife-wielding maniac for Halloween. Go hiking! Fly to Hawaii! Live life on your terms!

Life’s too short to be lived in fear.

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more efficiently. In other words, fear can give you energy and incentive.

But fear can also be incapacitating.

People with severe phobias can be so afraid that they cease to function normally, leading them to a state of inert helplessness. Or, a phobia can be so debilitating that people may avoid activities they would otherwise enjoy. For example, a person with a fear of snakes (ophidiophobia) may want to go hiking, but they can’t get past the irrational fear that they might see a snake on the trail. Or they may be so afraid to fly (aerophobia) that they never take that dream vacation to Hawaii.

This type of fear can suck the joy out of living.

Human beings have an Hammer Spring, innate Bourbon Whiskey, one desire to of the many be afraid offerings from the distillery. as long as it’s in a situation where we are in control.

This explains the popularity of horror movies and Halloween haunted houses. We go to these places because we want to be scared, knowing deep down that nothing there can actually harm us. The killer is an actor, the chainsaw has plastic teeth, and we can leave whenever we want.

Fear is our friend because it prompts us to identify choices and options, analyze them and evaluate the best course of action. It can be the framework we need to climb out of the pit of our fears and take chances, thereby eliminating the ‘analysis of paralysis’ that can keep

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spent the last two years collecting folklore in the Cache Valley area, Logan mostly. I have collected thirty-five new sightings and tales of the folkloric and anomalous. Here are two of those stories for your October pleasure …

SNOWY GHOST BOY On March 5th 2023, a gentleman was

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walking home from Walmart on the south side of the street, when he heard footsteps behind him.

“There was heavy snow on the ground at the time and it was overcast, but it wasn’t snowing,” he explained. “I was walking home and I heard footsteps come up from behind me! I turned around, but nothing was there!”

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Snowy Ghost Boy And Death Pays A Visit

He continued walking and the footsteps followed. The weather began to change around him. The wind began to blow in what seemed like multiple directions and “weird snow devils began twirling about the street,” he recalled.

“I began hearing sounds like echoes of something crying around me!”

He started running as he was only a block away from his apartment. As he ran, he could hear the footsteps get louder as if growing in numbers. “It sounded like I was being chased by a group of people, or even some kind of large beast!”

When he made it to 200 East, he almost leapt across the road. When he finally arrived, he turned around to see that everything was normal. Dumbfounded, he quickly ducked into his apartment complex.

Over time, he brushed the event off as some kind of odd weather phenomena, however, a few nights later, around 8:30pm, he and his sweetheart were walking home along the same path.

They had already crossed 200 East and were in the driveway of his complex.

While walking, they passed a huge mound of snow piled up by plows. It was at least eleven feet high. He thought it was odd to see a little boy in blue kneeling and playing at the top of the pile so late at night. At first he thought it was a neighbor kid playing on the mound.

“I looked away and back again several times, and each time he continued to move and play. After I had passed the mound, I looked back and at the top of the mound there was a chunk of icy-snow that took the shape of a small boy! But I swear to you it was moving!

MOVING! I was only ten feet away from it and I know what I saw!”

Did the footsteps and the snow boy have anything in common? We may never know.

DEATH PAYS A VISIT I still get goosebumps when I think about this story. I had the pleasure of interviewing an absolutely delightful old woman who, although eager to share her story, wanted to remain anonymous. I was also asked to keep the name of her apartment complex a secret.

It was a Sunday night around 11pm, and the woman was entering her complex and going up the first flight of stairs. “I was walking up the stairs when I saw my friend Mary coming down. She was in her nightgown, which was very odd. I spoke to her, but she completely ignored me. She was being followed by a large man in a black jumpsuit, like the kind a mechanic would wear.”

She said he was carrying a torn black backpack in his arms. “He had black hair, but was awfully pale, but my goodness he looked friendly!” She felt nothing odd about him. In fact, she said he seemed to have an almost pleasant feeling around him. However, the closer he got to her, the more she could smell a horrible odor.

“He smelled like death!” she continued. “I don’t know if you’ve ever smelled death, but times that by ten and that’s how bad he smelled.”

They kept moving down the stairs and presumably out of the building.

The stench lingered all the way to the second floor, but disappeared completely once she passed Mary’s apartment. Mary and she lived on the same floor.

The next morning she found out that Mary had passed away that night. After she had finished talking, she paused for a moment, then leaned over the table, looked me dead in the eyes and said, “I saw Death escorting Mary out of this apartment and into the afterlife.”

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The rio grande depot

is (probably) not haunted Is The Purple Lady Real?

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don’t know what was more weird — being on a ghost tour while headed to my workplace, or being on a ghost tour with a bachelorette party and a tour guide named “The Preacher of Truth.” It was 2014 and I was researching ghost tours for an article.

It was dark as the van pulled up and we spilled out onto the sidewalk. The Rio Grande Depot looked ominous, lit up against the night. The Preacher of Truth loudly broadcasted the story of The Purple Lady who supposedly haunts the

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building.

We’ve all heard the story, but in case you haven’t — after fighting with her fiance, the Purple Lady threw her engagement ring on the train track. She changed her mind, dove for the ring, and was run over by a train. Now, she wanders the halls and the ladies’ room of the Rio Grande Depot in all her purple spookiness.

The bachelorette party was captivated and a little scared by the Preacher of Truth’s performance, but I wasn’t impressed. My day job was inside that

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Salt Lake’s Historic Rio Grande Depot has long been rumored to be haunted.

old building. If the Purple Lady were real, she would show herself to someone who would appreciate her — like me!

Built in 1910, The Rio Grande Depot is one of the most beautiful buildings in Salt Lake City. The impressive exterior of the Rio Grande Depot hints at the grandeur within. I loved everything about this historic building, from the tall ceilings and wide windows accented by sparkling chandeliers, to the huge furnaces that greeted you as you walked inside.

Every October, we are inundated with Salt Lake City ghost stories and The Purple Lady is always at the top of the list. What bothers me is that we never get to hear the full story. Someone’s spooky haunted building is another person’s boring work space. For every tale of haunting, there are thousands of non-hauntings!

I reached out to a few former and current co-workers, asking for their Rio Grande Depot ghost stories. Marjorie Moore claimed to not have had any ex-

periences with the supernatural, but then she said, “...we went through a phase where the second floor north end bathroom water faucet was randomly turned on in the mornings when I’d get to work, and the elevator randomly would be extremely cold.” This made me jealous because I’d never experienced either of those things when I worked there.

“I personally didn’t have any experiences with The Purple Lady, except the mannequin that was stuffed in the old phone booth by the Rio Grande Cafe staff,” admits Geoffrey Fattah, who worked in the building for four years. “Still, you couldn’t help but feel the energy of the building’s history. So many lives passed through that station. It’s bound to leave something behind.”

This next quote is from an archeologist, and I feel like archeologists can properly identify ghosts. “I worked in the Rio Grande Building for 22 years, including many early mornings and late nights with

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nobody else around,” said Kevin Jones.

“No purple ladies or other unexplained phenomena. Creaking and clanging pipes, train noises in the earlier years, homeless people moving around outside, but no ghosts. Some of the historians I worked with were rather creepy, but appeared to be among the living.”

In the name of journalism, I posted on Utah’s Haunted History Facebook group, asking for experiences at the Rio Grande Depot. I only got one reply: “I was a tour guide for the Salt Lake City ghost tours.

The tour opened at the train station with the story of the purple lady,” says Julie Barnson. “On my first tour, a bunch of my friends and neighbors came to support me. Hearing all about the lady, ghost hunting, and other things, after the tour, they went into the bathroom there at the depot, turned off the lights, and tried to scare each other. One friend, hearing about EVP and other ghost-hunting tricks, hit record on the voice recorder app on her cellphone. On the way home, she

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played back the conversation, and in the middle of all of my friends talking, you can hear a woman give an angry little scream. Nobody responded to it. Nobody heard it.”

It will be 2027 before we can get back into the building to experience (or not experience) paranormal activity. The 2020 earthquake caused severe damage to the Rio Grande Depot. The Utah Department of Cultural and Community Engagement was forced to relocate, but they’re planning to be back in the building in early 2027 after seismic upgrades and renovations are finished, says Katherine Potter, Deputy Director.

I didn’t ask her about ghosts because she is my boss.

One day I hope to see a ghost; I just don’t think it will be in the ladies’ restroom at the Rio Grande Depot. And besides, I heard The Purple Lady was a story made up by the historical society, so there’s not a ghost of a chance that she’s real. Probably.

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At present, Hammer Spring is perhaps best known for its Perky Cowgirl Coffee Liqueur and is the only Utah distillery to make vodka from potatoes. But it’s the Hammer Spring Bourbon that stands out thanks to its Utah connection.

The grain-to-glass bourbon is a fullbodied whiskey due to the corn, rye, and wheat mash bill. All the grains are milled, fermented, distilled, barreled, aged, and bottled in the distillery.

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The Pounds will look to build on the foundational reputation that the previous owners have built. “We’ll be leaning into our spirit of innovation and experimentation while trying to leverage local and regional ingredients,” Brent says. “One of our focuses will be a High Desert-style gin that Hammer Spring is known for with a more savory profile and sageheavy notes.”

Looking forward, Brent continues,

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distiller Ryan Stambaugh, formerly of Utah Brewers Cooperative (Wasatch and Squatters), and a team of whiskey enthusiasts to turn grain, molasses, yeast and water into delicious, handcrafted spirits including vodka, rye, 100% malted barley whisky, gold rum and bourbon.

Sugar House assistant distillers Ryan Ewing and Steve Moffat, in addition to Fowler and Stambaugh, point to the gold medal awardwinning American single malt whiskey as their favorite, thanks to the complexity of Utah’s barley (a combination of Pale, Vienna, and Honey malts) to entice sweet, honey and vanilla.

As the company continues to grow, they’ve expanded into canned cocktails to broaden their reach, while also making even smaller-batch offerings such as the Boilermaker Series and the experimental Barrel Master Series, which feature intriguing mashups of whiskey aged in barrels that have held a variety of items. They’ll release their first highvalue bottle offering in October.

“We have already begun to ramp up our whiskey production and are experimenting with different finishing options and mash bills.”

Along with a potential name change and rebranding, immediate work to increase the size of the tasting room and offering more educational experiences are in the works. “I’m most excited about adding several interactive demonstrations for visitors to get more hands-on with the distilling process and learn the science behind fermentation and distillation,” Brent says.

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MOAB Jedsadapan Thanapokin (right) came to Moab from Thailand to work at McDonald’s for a few months.

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im Thanapokin is from Thailand, and he’s spent part of this past summer working at McDonald’s in Moab on a J-1 student exchange visa; a visa designed for foreign students interested in living and working in the United States for a few months.

In a conversation in early September, Thanapokin lamented that he had only a month left in the US. “Time is running so fast!” he said. “I’m so sad.”

Jim is his American nickname — his real name is Jedsadapan, but he goes by

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Jim to make pronunciation easier on his coworkers. He came to the US hoping to improve his English — it’s very good — and experience American culture. He just finished school, and when he returns home he’ll start work for a company that produces feed for livestock. He’s enjoyed his time in the US so far.

“My favorite part is working with my friend,” Thanapokin said. He got close to another J-1 visa student from Colombia, who, he was sorry to say, had already returned home.

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“We have a lot of fun here,” he said well, as they had no choice but to extend of McDonald’s. “I like working here. It’s their visas until travel opened up again. making me grow up so fast.”

Thanapokin said he felt welcomed by the Asked to elaborate, he explained that he’s local McDonald’s staff. learned a lot about “how you handle it when “They’re so nice to me, so kind,” he said. people are mean to you or when they’re “When we have free time, they’re always kind to you.” Fast-paced service jobs can inviting me to go hiking,” or to join on visits generate many of both of those scenarios. to Grand Junction or Salt Lake City.

McDonald’s General Manager Jessica Cultural experiences are one of the Hannum said the restaurant hires eight to promises of the J-1 program. Applications 10 J-1 employees every year to help staff for J-1 visas are often handled by thirdthe Moab location during the busy season, party companies that charge a fee (paid by which lasts from spring through part of the the student) to recruit and vet applicants; fall. hiring companies in the US conduct further “During the summer, tourism booms interviews to select applicants. here,” she said, and there aren’t enough local McDonald’s uses a company called Spirit workers to maintain adequate staffing.

Cultural Exchange. Spirit’s webpage Sometimes McDonald’s will outlining the summer work bus employees from travel program tells its Grand Junction prospective applicants location, an hour and that they can expect a half away, to help three to four cover staffing gaps months of work, in Moab. a safe affordable Hannum housing option, said that the and “suggestions Moab restaurant on local cultural didn’t have activities to enjoy a need for J-1 during your visa employees program.” this spring, but Accident and throughout the medical insurance summer and early are provided during Colorado River fall they’ve had nine or the length of the visa, near Moab.

10 international exchange according to the website, and students on summer work there are phone lines and online visas from Turkey, Thailand, Ecuador, portals where participants can submit and Jamaica. The owner-operator of the complaints or report safety issues if needed. restaurant has a four-bedroom house where The site tells applicants to expect to work the students pay rent for shared rooms. an average of 30 hours a week, and to pay They work 40 hours a week and make the between $250 and $500 a month for shared standard starting wage at McDonald’s, which housing. is $16 to $18 an hour, depending on their According to the U.S. Bureau of days and hours of availability. Hannum said Educational and Cultural Affairs, 3,187 J-1 she really enjoys meeting these students visa students came to Utah for the summer from all over the world. work and travel program in 2022. (There “They learn English and we get to learn are other J-1 programs as well; this number some of their language,” she said. When the only counts the summer work travel pandemic shut down the globe in 2020, she category). However, they’re not always the got to know some J-1 visa workers especially answer for Moab’s workforce needs.

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Melinda Calderon is the general manager at Comfort Suites in Moab. She said that the hotel sometimes hires J-1 workers, but that the time and effort of training them isn’t always worth it.

“By the time they know what to do, they leave,” Calderon said. The US Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs reports that there are only 12 J-1 visa workers currently in Moab on summer work exchange programs.

There are other types of visas through which businesses can hire international temporary workers that have different criteria and can bring employees on for longer periods.

Calderon has a lot of experience in the hospitality industry. She used to work for a large hotel group in Alaska, and even traveled to Europe to interview and hire J-1 visa workers. She thinks it’s a good program for students.

“The program is good for them; it’s beneficial,” she said. The experience of living in another country broadens one’s perspective, and, she added, America provides a lot of opportunity. Calderon herself was born in the Philippines, and has appreciated the opportunities she’s had in the US herself.

“America has given everything to me,” she said.

Comfort Suites didn’t hire any J-1 visa workers this summer — they had enough staff, Calderon said — but last year they hired a J-1 student from Jamaica. She paid $300 a month to rent a room in a shared

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house provided by the hotel — a low figure in the Moab housing market — and hotel employees provided her transportation to and from work. The student also worked part-time at McDonald’s.

Calderon said most J-1 visa workers work multiple jobs to try to make as much money as they can while in the US, to pay for their placement fees, save up for any leisure travel after their work contracts, and to have some money left over to take home. Placement fees vary depending on the third-party company used, the length of stay, and type of program, but the fees can be hundreds to thousands of dollars.

Hannum said that most of McDonald’s J-1 visa workers also have more than one job — she also noted that most service workers in Moab, whether they’re exchange students or locals, have more than one job to make ends meet. In the tourism industry, the cost of living and wages for service jobs are in constant tension — the more desired a location becomes, the more expensive it is to be there, and the more workers in traditionally low-wage jobs are needed to serve the growing crowds. All of this comes at the same time that higher prices are making it hard for people to make a living in the service industry.

In the best-case scenarios, international temporary workers get a positive travel experience while helping service industries meet labor demands. It doesn’t always work out that way, but at least one J-1 visa student in Moab will come away with good memories from this past summer.

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Dark skies in northern utah A Valley, An Observatory, And A Love Of The Cosmos

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A painted barn in Huntsville, Utah, part of the Ogden Valley.

ocated a short drive from downtown Ogden lies the Ogden Valley, known for its sprawling Pineview Reservoir and as the gateway to three ski resorts.

In many ways, the valley still feels rural, with cows and horses grazing in open fields and wild turkeys roosting high in conifer trees. Now, in an effort to preserve the rural feel, key community partners are coming together to preserve the night skies in the valley.

For centuries, human fascination with the night sky has driven scientific inquiry and inspired art. But according to a recent NPR report, 99 percent of people in the US can’t see the Milky Way due to light pollution from metropolitan areas. As a result of this light pollution, communities across the globe are working to find ways to bring back the night sky in all its stellar glory.

In the Ogden Valley, the community recognizes the value of maintaining low

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light levels for both astronomical tourism and the local ambience. Even as the area grows, the community prioritizes preserving its dark sky, often through simple yet effective lighting design choices. Many street lamps in the valley are aimed downward to keep the light where it’s needed, not spreading out to the sky above.

Nature and the Night Sky North Fork Park, nestled in the corner of the Ogden Valley, stands as one of the best places to see the night sky in Northern Utah. Designated an International Dark Sky Park in 2015, it boasts scenic trails for hiking and Nordic skiing, but its most compelling feature comes out at night. In winter, visitors can partake in Moonlight Glide events, where skiing under the full moon becomes a communal experience. Hot chili and brownies, often shared among

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attendees, add a touch of local hospitality.

Jennifer Graham with Weber County Parks says designating North Fork Park as a dark sky park has been beneficial for residents.

“Weber County residents have always known that North Fork Park was a special place,” Graham said. “The long term benefits of being a Dark Sky Park will assure that the park continues to be the rustic refuge for so many along the Wasatch Front.”

Beyond the Park Ogden Valley’s commitment to preserving its dark skies extends beyond North Fork Park. Local businesses and residents recognize the value of maintaining low light levels for both astronomical tourism and the local ambience.

The Compass Rose Lodge in Huntsville boasts a one-of-a-kind Astronomic and Lunar Observatory, or HALO. The facility provides nightly tours featuring an 11-inch Celestron Edge11 HD telescope, offering clear and focused views of numerous astronomical objects.

Visitors and guests at Compass Rose Lodge can schedule a tour with the staff to view the cosmos like scientists do.

The Observatory’s 16-inch aperture telescope is designed with shaped mirrors that are similar to the Hubble

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Space Telescope, which offers an exceptional view of objects.The telescope is also perched on a Paramount mount, which provides a great degree of accuracy when tracking celestial objects.

Scott Taylor, who runs the observatory tours for the lodge, says the observatory is unique and helps people understand the importance of the night sky.

“This is one of two or three astronomical observatories connected to a hotel in North America,” Taylor says.

“The quality of images and what you see here is pretty jaw dropping.”

Dark Skies and the Economy Preserving dark skies has a positive effect on local tourism, extending visitor stays and increasing spending in the area. Day-trippers are often enticed to spend the night as well, taking advantage of local lodging and dining options.

For businesses like Compass Rose, having an added highlight to their lodge helps them stand out and makes for a great mini vacation.

“I missed having to serve in wars during my lifetime, so I’m lucky,” says owner Jeff Hyde. “But we didn’t miss the war that hit hotels the most; the COVID war. We’re lucky to have the observatory and the community around us that supports us anyway they can.”

PA R K C I T Y

The yellowstone effect Kevin Costner’s Epic Series Set The Stage For Other Productions

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or three consecutive years, Yellowstone poured $81 million into Utah’s economy and employed 231 people in and around their Summit County base at Utah Film Studios. Then, in 2021, they closed up shop and rode off into the sunset to film the final seasons exclusively in Montana.

Director Taylor Sheridan, along with Kevin Costner and crew, made waves in series television as Yellowstone became a massive hit. While film and television

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series are nothing new in Utah, it seems that this series reignited a hotbed of movie production in Utah.

Marshall Moore, Vice President of Operations at the new Utah Film Studios agrees. Moore took Utah Stories on a tour of their sprawling 45,000 square foot facilities to help us understand how and why tinseltown has fallen in love with Utah once again. Why did Paramount decide to film 75% of the first three seasons of Yellowstone in Utah?

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Cast of Yellowstone (Paramount Network).

First off, Sheridan, who Paramount hired, insisted on it. Sheridan gained acclaim writing the screenplay for Sicario (2015), then Hell or High Water (2016), which won him an Oscar. Sheridan then Directed Wind River (2017). Despite Wind River’s depiction of life in Wyoming, Wind River was filmed mostly in Utah at Utah Film Studios. Wind River’s success demonstrated to Paramount that audiences had an appetite for content showing rural and western life: the $11 million production earned more than $44 million at the box office.

Moore discussed why Sheridan loved filming in Utah so much. “He filmed Wind River here six months earlier.

And he talked about a limited series and that ended up being Yellowstone. He likes it because the crew is very capable, and we have top notch facilities. And the locations surrounding the studio

are suited for films like Yellowstone and Wind River.”

Marshall Moore, the Vice President of Operations was very pleased to have this kind of success brought to the studio. “That’s a three year booking. You don’t normally get that,” Moore said.

Moore explained that they filmed the ground floor of the Dutton Lodge, John Dutton’s study, Rainwater’s office, the bunkhouse, the tribal police office, and Kayce’s trailer, etc. Most of the interiors of the first three seasons were filmed in Utah.

Utah has a film incentive program which is a 20-25% post performance incentive that offers a cash rebate or fully refundable, non-transferable tax credit on qualified dollars left in the state. Utah Film Studios is an Institute Associate of the Sundance Film Festival, a Sponsor of the Motion Picture Association of Utah (MPAU), and a member of the Park City Chamber of Commerce.

Utah Film Studios is the largest film studio in Utah, and with the thriving film scene, the incentive program contributes to the studio being able to have their large space. The studio gives productions a permanent home and has been open since June of 2015.

Yellowstone is a hit television series and is a Neo-Western drama. The series stars Kevin Costner as the patriarch of the Dutton family in his efforts to preserve his ranch and lifestyle while ongoing forces from developers apply continuous pressure. The drama takes place at the intersection of the massive Yellowstone Ranch, Broken Rock Indian Reservation, Yellowstone National Park, and land developers. Utah has its own on-going dramas that are not unlike Yellowstone’s trials. Utah Stories wrote about how ranchers in Eden have had their water rights obliterated due to luxury condos and mansions upstream of their acreage. Writing this story was

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when we first heard of Yellowstone. money is there to do it,” Moore said.

Moore said that most Utahns weren’t Yellowstone was filmed at several Utah familiar with Yellowstone during the locations. first season of production.

“The first season I would tell people about Yellowstone filming in the studio, Yellowstone was filmed in many locaand they would say, ‘Is that some kind tions in Ogden, including the exterior of documentary?’” Moore reflected. of Schwartz & Meyer Bank and the Other Westerns are coming to Outlaw Saloon. Kevin Costner was Utah. The series Horizon, dialso spotted filming at Sterected by Kevin Costner, vens-Henager College at is perhaps the most the Ogden Campus in notable. “HoriWest Haven. zon’s the biggest Western to come here,” Moore said.

For the first three Another example seasons, ranch is the Western film house scenes and 1923, starring acother interiors tors Harrison Ford were filmed in the and Helen Mirren. soundstages at the Marshall Moore, Vice Things are changUtah Film Studios in President of Operations, Utah Film Studios. ing in the film industry.

Park City. Some rodeo It is no longer necessary scenes were filmed at the to set foot in Hollywood in Spanish Fork Fairgrounds, the order to make a movie. More films are venue that hosts the annual Utah Councoming to places like Utah, Arizona, or ty Fair in Spanish Fork. Dan Jenkins New Mexico. Whereas Arizona and New Lodge is the luxurious and modern Mexico have better rebates than Utah, Nicklaus Clubhouse at Promontory Utah’s iconic scenery keeps filmmakers Club in Park City. coming back for more.

“You don’t need to be in a specific Other locations included Coalville, geographical location anymore to do Henefer, Morgan, and Diamond Fork what you want to do, as long as the Canyon.

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Dave Jensen, owner of Wasatch Snake Removal.

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tah Stories copy editor Dave Jensen worked for three seasons on the set of Kevin Costner’s Yellowstone series in multiple locations, and he has some tales to tell!

Until recently, when a health condition made it too difficult, Jensen was the owner of Wasatch Snake Removal, LLC, — the

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only Utah-based company licensed by the Utah State Division of Wildlife Resources to relocate urban rattlesnakes statewide for the safety of snakes and people.

From 2014 until the fall of 2022, Jensen and his team of eight relocators worked on call, relocating “nuisance” rattlesnakes

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for Wasatch Front homeowners, business owners, police departments, The University of Utah, The Natural History Museum, and many other state and private entities.

“Protecting rattlesnakes and teaching people about them has always been a deeply important cause for me,” Jensen said, “because snakes are such vital members of healthy ecosystems. Most of our customers know this, and they call us because they don’t want anything bad to happen to the snake in their yard.”

One of the perks of being an urban snake relocator is that movie productions are required to have a snake wrangler on set, and for that reason, Wasatch Snake Removal is registered with the Utah Film Commission.

“It’s a liability issue,” Jensen explained.

“Most sets have a paramedic, a security officer, and a snake wrangler at their outdoor shooting locations. That way, they can’t be sued if someone gets injured, property gets stolen, or someone gets bitten by a snake. They can say they took all the proper precautions.”

In 2015, when Don Johnson was in Utah filming Blood and Oil for ABC, Jensen would drive to the sets in Summit and Wasatch Counties. His job was to be the first to enter a location and clear it of snakes for the safety of the actors and crew, and to be on the lookout for curious snakes that might crawl into the area during filming. California film crews do not want to see a snake. Any snake.

“Those were long days,” Jensen said.

Time is money, and a shoot will last anywhere from 10 to 16 hours. It’s hot, tiring, often boring work, but the food and money are good!”

One morning, the last van leaving the staging area for the set was carrying the stars of the show, with the exception of Don Johnson. Jensen caught a ride with them.

“Max Theriot is a really nice guy, and

very talkative,” Jensen recalled.

Jensen was present for many of Yellowstone’s iconic scenes. He watched Kevin Costner and other cast members rehearse their lines, but didn’t get a chance to meet him. Then, in the fall of 2020, after filming at various locations all summer, Jensen was called to a Yellowstone set just outside of Henefer.

“It was a chilly morning in October, and snake season was over. There was a skiff of snow on the ground. I tried to tell them they didn’t need me that day because snakes don’t come out in those conditions, but they insisted. They were filming a scene with live vultures on the side of a mountain road, and there must have been 200 people there. We were all wearing jackets, gloves and hats, and there I was, walking around with a snake stick and bucket. I felt like an idiot. A truck door opened and a man’s voice said, ‘Catch any snakes yet?’ It was Kevin Costner. ‘I think they all froze to death last night,’ I answered. He laughed and closed the door.”

Jensen and his team worked on several productions over the past nine years, including Sonic the Hedgehog ‘Blue Blur’, The Happy Worker (unreleased), an unnamed Disney production, Costner’s Horizon series, a foreign production, and as a personal snake wrangler for singer Kelsea Ballerini.

Ultimately, his goal was to have Wasatch Snake Removal listed in the credits of at least one major motion picture, but that didn’t happen. Most of the locally-filmed productions were for television only, and the really big ones often fly their own snake wranglers in from Los Angeles, even though it costs them more.

Jensen is proud of the work he and his team did. “We met a lot of nice people and had a lot of fun. Today, when I watch a show like Yellowstone, I know how much time and effort went into creating those scenes,” he said.

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SUGAR HOUSE Rendering of the new planned liquor store at the Sugar Town project.

Sugar town liquor New Shopper-Friendly DABS Store Still Years Away

By Cathy McKitrick

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UGAR HOUSE — Intense growth and development in this sought-after Salt Lake City community have rendered its longstanding liquor store on Ashton Avenue difficult to reach by car.

While the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services plans to build a shiny replacement store in a new high-density, mixed-use development

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on 21st South, that project will not materialize for at least 24 to 36 months.

In the meantime, customers like Andrew Noyes continue to frequent the quaint Ashton Avenue location Noyes said he prefers to get to the Ashton Avenue location on foot because “I live in Sugar House so it’s easy for me.”

According to the Sugar House Community Council website, the Sugar Town project will dramatically transform that block between 800 and 900 E on 21st South.

The new development will feature 319 residential units — including 53 rent-restricted studios, 39 micro apartments, 191 one-bedroom and 36 two-bedroom units.

The project allows for 393 parking stalls that will accommodate residents and still leave 87 slots available for public use.

The proposed DABS liquor store will occupy 12,500 square feet at ground level, but target dates for when the old Sugar House store will close and the new one can come online still remain in question.

In transition

In fact, Noyes said he doesn’t even consider using his car to run that errand.

“Not right now because it’s kind of impossible,” he grinned.

Noyes noted that he was unaware that a replacement store was in the works, but said the new site near 9th East and 21st South will be even closer to his home.

The Big Plan The Sugar Town project has cleared the necessary hurdles with Salt Lake City planners to proceed with its ambitious plans to transform the old Snelgrove property.

Tucked away on Ashton Avenue, the old liquor store sports opaque glass blocks instead of windows. And inside, rows of vintage wood shelves provide cubicles for boxed wines.

Adjacent to the store’s small parking lot, construction crews recently tackled various road and building projects, which snarled vehicle traffic in and out of the area.

Even so, DABS 2022 retail numbers indicated a surprising nine percent uptick at this location with $14,199,203 in sales — ranking it 10th among the state’s top-selling liquor stores.

Michelle Schmitt, DABS spokeswoman, said that there’s currently no date for the Ashton Avenue store to shut down.

“That will happen in concert with a new store opening, so it will be a replacement store,” Schmitt said. “We are hoping that [the new store] will open in 2025, but that’s as close as I can get at this point.”

Construction of the new liquor store

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UTDABC is modernizing its approach to liquor sales and mimicking the size and selection of successful liquor stores in other states. The Sandy Liquor Store is located at 9400 South and Highland Drive, and offers a wide selection of cold beer.

hinges on Sugar Town’s progress.

“We would certainly appreciate any construction or building project to move as efficiently and quickly as possible,” Schmitt said. “But right now we’re proceeding with the process as we can and are really looking forward to what the store will be to better service this area.”

A new liquor store in east Sandy provides a glimpse of what the Sugar House store will offer. Schmitt described it as very modern and shopper-friendly.

“It’s really trying to improve the shopper experience, both for average customers that go in looking for whatever products they want to take back to their home, but also for the businesses that use the stores to be able to get products that they resell at their restaurants or bars,” Schmitt said.

While the timeline for the big move from old to new remains in flux, Utah’s DABS looks forward to occupying its piece of Sugar Town.

“Sugar House is growing so rapidly,” Schmitt said. “We’re excited to be a part of that momentum in the community.”

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Timeline in flux Unfortunately, the Sugar Town development is temporarily stalled, according to Alex Stoddard, an architect with Midvale-based Architect Belgique who is working on the project.

“We’ve gone through the whole permitting process (with the city) and basically done all the steps other than pulling the building permit,” Stoddard said. “But it’s currently on hold for financial reasons. We’re trying to figure out the cost of the building and how to make it work.

Rising interest rates, in large part, caused the need to revisit the numbers and seek out new investors.

“The project isn’t dead,” Stoddard said, “but we don’t have a construction start date as of right now.”

The best he can project at this point is that construction could begin by spring 2024. But he cautioned that Sugar Town construction will not be quick.

“If the construction started today, I don’t know if the Liquor Store could be in by 2025,” Stoddard said. “It’s going to take probably more than two years to build.”

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esert Star Playhouse in Murray may not be on the radar of recent Utah transplants, like myself. However, I was delighted to get the assignment to visit and write about their current play, The Addams Family: Wednezday’s Haunted Mansion, written by Ben E. Millet and updated by Brooklynn and Matt Kohler.

We went on a Thursday night. The first thing we noticed were the hallways decked out in fun western decor, and we were greeted by a friendly staff member who made a joke about seeing the Addams Family on a Thursday. We shared a chuckle.

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We sat down wondering what to expect next. The theater was filled with older couples and families with children. The menu formatted as a newspaper appealed to my profession as a writer and featured mostly American cuisine. The prices were reasonable, and we were delighted to receive free popcorn.

My date decided to order the Outlaw Burger, a juicy ⅓ lb choice beef patty topped with bacon, cheddar cheese, tomato, lettuce and onion, with smoky BBQ sauce for $12.99. I craved something spicy, so the medium

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12-inch pizza with jalapenos and quickly gained a large cult following. pepperoni was perfect at $14.99. There The Desert Star has its own rendition were many fun cocktails to choose of The Addams Family, including from, such as a “Tipsy Root Beer Float” multiple Taylor Swift references, and or a “Fuzzy Navel” priced at eight the character “Wednezday” describing dollars and six dollars respectively.

Provo as a place where people go to The show was interactive from the die. In this version, Wednezday returns start. The piano player had us sing from school and falls in love with the “You Are My Sunshine.” Then the lights UPS man who keeps coming to her went completely out and the whole house to deliver packages. audience began booing. During the So, what is the twist of the story? entire show the audience would boo The real identity of the UPS man. He every time someone cackled or the is actually Ashley Measley IV, whose lights turned off. Each time one of the mother, Mrs. Measley, sent him to spy actors sang the phrase, ‘The Addams on the Addams Family. The Addams’ Family’, the audience would follow house is sitting on an oil reserve, so with two snaps. That made me acquiring the house would curious about the history considerably increase of the two snaps. The Mrs. Measly’s Addams Family fortune. I will has an interesting not reveal the historical ending. You backstory. The need to see it “two snaps” for yourself. are a direct No spoilers reference to The here!

Addams Family After the theme, first play had created for the ended, the 1964 TV show by actor who played A burger and fries is just one the menu items at Desert Star longtime Hollywood Groncho Adams Playhouse along with pizza, ice cream, salads, and more. composer Vic Mizzy. came out and The Addams Family shouted out people’s began as a single-panel anniversaries and birthdays. cartoon in The New Yorker, where Two couples in the audience were cartoonist Charles Addams earned the celebrating anniversaries. One couple “large” sum of eighty five dollars. has been married for 64 years and the Addams, who was born in 1912, other for 50 years. After that, all couples grew up in Westfield, New Jersey. were invited to stand and dance, which Considering the content of his everyone enjoyed. cartoons, one could assume that he Needless to say, as this was my first had a troubled childhood, but nothing experience at The Desert Star, I did not could be further from the truth. know what to expect, but I thoroughly The Addams Family didn’t become enjoyed the ridiculous jokes, dancing a TV Show until September 18, 1964, with a loved one, and of course, the when it aired on ABC. Based on its free popcorn. I recommend it as a great success, The Addams Family franchise family activity or a fun date night this continued to grow in popularity, and Halloween season.

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UTAH CIDERIES are on the rise The Time Is Ripe For Local Brews

By Bianca Dumas

Jennifer and Jeff Carleton, founders of Mountain West Cider, hold a Ruby Hard Cider and Cottonwood Dry Hopped CIder.

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uring colonial times, hard cider actually a spinoff of their wine business. was the country’s most common The Hive Winery and Spirits Company beverage. It was often made at home is a boutique winery and craft distillery, and was a way to preserve the year’s specializing in premium “non-grape” apple harvest. The decline in cider fruit wines, honey wines, hard apple production began with the Industrial ciders, brandies, and specialty spirits.

Revolution, as people left their farms Try the seasonal Autumn Stinger, to work in the cities. Then Prohibition infused with cinnamon and nutmeg. It’s came along, making cider illegal. lightly sweet and carbonated and only Most cider apple trees were felled and available at the winery. replaced with culinary apple trees.

When Prohibition was repealed, the cider orchards simply weren’t there anymore. Hard cider had remained a When Ann Torrence and Robert Marc common beverage in Europe, but its bought a piece of property along the widespread production didn’t return to Fremont River near Torrey, it came the US until the 1990s. with water rights. And the rule While Utah voted for with water rights in Utah is, prohibition in 1917, it use them or lose them. was also among the So, inspired by an states to vote for historic crop still the law’s repeal. standing within So it’s only fitting the bounds of that this great Capitol Reef state play a role National Park, in bringing back they decided to hard cider and plant a variety of the agriculture it cider apples. supports.

The original Here are the plan was to sell Hive Wineries selection of ciders. five cider producers the juice to home currently operating in brewers, but a cider Utah: maker in Colorado pushed them to take it further. He asked why they would let anyone else make cider with their delectable fruit?

Jay and Lori Yahne were engineers with The question got under their skin. “We a wine making hobby. When the 2008 realized he was right, and that’s when recession hit, the engineering firm we started shifting our plan,” Torrence they ran dropped from 15 employees says. to two. But like everyone else, they had Since the Wild Bunch was known to to keep paying the bills. In frustration, roam the Torrey area, they named their Lori made an offhand comment to her cidery after Etta Place, the girlfriend husband, Jay, which would sew a robust of the Sundance Kid. They now have little seed. “Maybe we should just make more than 80 cultivars as well as wine for a living,” she said. And so they peaches, cherries and cider pears. did.

The Grand Circle Semi-Dry and The cider they now produce is the Camp Fruitah are named for the

Etta Place Cider Torrey, Utah

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The Hive Winery and Spirits Layton, Utah

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Mountain West Cider Salt Lake City Jennifer and Jeff Carleton were on a business trip together in the U.K. They were enjoying the pub culture, but Jennifer was growing tired of drinking heavy beers in pub after pub. That’s when she noticed that alongside those English ales, each pub had dry ciders on offer. She fell in love with English cider and continued to pine for it when she came home to Utah.

The Carletons realized that Utah was ripe for a cider business.

They met with a winemaker who helped them create their first product — a dry Englishstyle cider like those they’d loved in the U.K. Eventually, the cidery brought on Marcio Buffalo, brewmaster and World Beer Cup medalist, to head up cider making operations.

The Ruby is a 6.8% refresher that’s available year-round. Or, for a change, try their dry-hopped Cottonwood cider with just a touch of bitterness.

Second Summit Cidery Millcreek Second Summit Cidery started with a pithy idea. Vicki Bott and her friend Julie Adamson wanted to create a hangout that offered more to do than just sitting around talking. They wanted to give people the chance to unplug

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mentally and technologically and play games together. As a result, they thought, conversation and laughter would flow naturally. They were further inspired by Bott’s son Joe, who had been working at a cidery in Minnesota.

Cider struck the team as the right beverage for their “active” social club, and Second Summit Cidery was born.

Today, Utah’s newest cidery offers four pickle ball courts, pingpong, corn hole, and other games.

The Ginger Sumac cider demands a sip between pickleball sets.

Scion Cider Bar Central 9th Neighborhood Owner Elisabeth Osmeloski, along with husband Matthew Ostrander, Different types of had been traveling Scion and experiencing Ciders. cider culture outside Utah.

“This started us on a path to create more of a cider culture here in Utah,” says Osmeloski. They started Scion Cider Bar and were able to import more than 250 ciders from other states and countries. In 2019, they partnered with Rio Connelly, the founder of Proper Brewing. True to that metaphor, Scion Cider Bar could be understood as a tree that has had a number of other cider cultivars grafted onto its branches, producing a colorful flowering and an eclectic harvest. They now produce their own ciders and sell products from all of the aforementioned cideries.

The Fuji-La is made from local Fuji apples, fermented off-dry with two different yeasts.

It’s cider season. Enjoy!

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Utah’s High School Mountain Bike League Boasts More Girls Than Any Other

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ourteen-year-old Clara Geddes pedaled her bike along a trail, frantically scanning the trees for pink ribbons.

She was three miles into a five-mile mountain bike race at Powder Mountain, called the Wildflower Trailfest, on a course she had never ridden, and she hoped she hadn’t missed a turn.

“Am I going the right way?” she yelled when she saw her friend’s dad, a lone spectator, standing near a bridge crossing.

“Yes!” he said. “Go, Clara!”

Clara realized she was leading the race and her adrenaline surged.

Although she had been working to improve her skills and speed over the past two years, she expected last year’s

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winner to catch up.

For Clara and her Ogden High School mountain bike team, the event was practice for the race season, which started in August and culminates with the state championship race in October.

Usually, the girls train and race alongside the boys. But on this day, boys weren’t allowed. The team calls the all-girl, once-a-month outings (ranging from bike rides to pool parties) GRiT, or girls riding together, which is part of a nationwide effort to increase the number of high school female mountain bikers.

Utah’s leading that charge. Not only does the state have the largest high school mountain bike league in the na-

PHOTO BY BRIAN NICHOLSON

By Laurel Dudley

Katie Nicholson, a freshman at Ogden High, races in Mantua, Utah in the third race of the high school cycling season.

tion, but it also has the league with the most girls. Last season, Utah registered 1,732 girls across 77 teams, according to the National Interscholastic Cycling Association. The next highest was Northern California’s league with 507.

But female participation numbers still aren’t high enough, according to Dallen Atack, director of the Utah High School Cycling League. He said the league’s goal, mirroring the national goal, is to increase the number of riders who are girls to 33%. This season, Utah’s female riders from 7th through 12th grade fell short of that, making up 26%.

That’s slightly up from last year, Atack said. He happily points to another metric: when looking at only 7th and 8th

grade riders who are part of the junior development team, girls make up 30%.

Still, growth as a percentage is hard to maintain because the number of boys keeps increasing every year, too.

“The league went from 300 to 7,300 in 12 years,” Atack said, making mountain biking Utah’s fastest growing high school sport.

“I feel like people automatically think it’s a boy’s sport,” said Katie Nicholson, 14, who rides on the Ogden High team.

“When I tell my friends about being on the team, they say, ‘That’s so hard.’” And to be fair, it is.

Katie recalled how last year she ate too close to her first practice and threw up. “I went back the next week and ended up having a lot of fun,” she said.

Although there are challenging parts to every ride, “after you do it, you feel a lot better about yourself.”

That confidence trickles out to other parts of life, which Kelly Crawford, Ogden High’s training coach and GRiT leader, knows from personal experience. She raced for three decades, including nine years as a professional category one racer, and won three national titles.

“Biking teaches you about life,” she said. “Things don’t always go right and you have to learn from that and move on.”

Crawford recalls years of training where she was the only woman on group rides. “All I did was ride with guys.” As a result, she trained like the guys, too. Now, as a coach, she advises female athletes to do otherwise, backed by recent research from exercise physiologist Dr. Stacy Sims, who trademarked the motto, women are not small men.

Crawford implores the girls to not miss their periods by undereating and to avoid diets. She encourages them to track their menstrual cycles because the

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natural fluctuations in hormones affect nutrition and hydration needs, as well as their bodies’ ability to respond to high-intensity training. If the girls balk at racing with their period, Crawford tells them not to worry. “The day you start your period, it’s like flipping a light switch,” she said. “You are strong. It’s the five to seven days before that are hard.”

The girls on the team say hearing this from a woman resonates. It points to another objective of GRiT, which is to increase the number of female coaches.

Right now, female coaches in Utah’s league make up 26%.

Amy Gompert, a teacher at Snowcrest Jr. High, became the head coach of Weber High’s junior development team last year. She learned to mountain bike with her kids. This season she oversees 53 riders, nine of whom are girls.

“We tell them right up front, hey, this is not always fun,” she said. Even though she starts beginners with short rides, pedaling uphill requires strength and determination, and a rider can’t simply stop halfway through because they’re tired. “It’s the first time a lot of these kids have had to push through something and work hard.”

Her daughter, Jane, who’s been riding for three years, had to learn to contend

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with pre-race jitters. Like other girls, she used to feel so anxious before races that she’d sometimes cry. Now at races, Jane calms her nerves by talking to the girls around her. Once she starts riding, Jane said the stress disappears. In the first two races of the season, Jane placed in the top three among the freshman girls.

For most of the girls, mountain biking is about team camaraderie and self-improvement. At the Wildflower Trailfest, Clara biked past another girl and they cheered each other on. “It just felt good because I knew she was supporting me even though I was passing her,” she said. “I feel like girls are so supportive.”

As Clara began descending the last mile of switchbacks, she took a deep breath, remembering the advice from her coaches to bend her arms and relax.

Mountain biking has helped her learn to be more patient. “I’m doing the best I can do,” she told herself while rounding a turn. She crossed the finish line in first place, securing a spot on the podium, which had never happened before.

“Dang!” she said when she looked at her time, happy to see it was under an hour.

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Freshman girls start their race at Snowbasin.

FA R M S Jana Bailey, owner and founder of Bears Ears Farms at the ribbon cutting ceremony with Tom Palmer of 4 Corners Elecric, Bryan Palmer of Advanced Plumbing, and Bruce Adams, San Juan County Commissioner.

Bears ears farms Connecting With The Earth And Community

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n a hot July day, a crowd of people stood on the tan-colored soil of southeastern Utah to celebrate the opening of a new farm with a unique crop. Bears Ears Farms, one of the first hemp farms in this corner of the world, was officially open for business. Even a few missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints showed up and greeted the group to see what the hype was all about.

“Our corner of the world here in Blanding, Utah, has the ideal growing conditions for hemp plants in such a beautiful area,” says Jana Bailey, owner of Bears Ears Farms.

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After five years of working through regulatory hurdles and getting the land ready for crops, Bailey said the opening was a major accomplishment for her and her family. She hopes that over time, the community they’ve created will grow, and the stigmatization of hemp and CBD use will start to decline in her area and in Utah overall.

Bears Ears Farms sits inside a special corner of the state. Southeastern Utah has wide expanses, towering buttes jutting into the sky, world-class dark skies, and an ancestral heritage that make it unlike any other place on planet earth.

The geological Bears Ears feature is

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a national monument after which the farm was named, and is said to house more than 100,000 Native American architectural and heritage sites, and lies just 33 miles from the farm’s location.

It is one of the most remote places in the contiguous 48 United States, and is largely accessible only via backcountry roads and trails.

Bailey says that she and her family honor the place where their farm is located, and that growing hemp seems to suit the people and the land. She’s the 4th generation to grow on this soil. She says her experience with organic wheat and alfalfa prepared her and her family to grow organically grown natural hemp plants, and that the land, which has been worked for over 100 years, has responded well. Because the region is becoming more water-scarce, growing a crop like hemp rather than alfalfa can drastically reduce agricultural water consumption.

“Growing organically is extremely important to Bears Ears Farms,” Bailey said. “Our goal is to help promote overall well-being with an organic full-spectrum hemp. It is processed without solvents so every single part of the plant is captured.”

When one looks at the plants that Bears Ears Farms grows, it’s hard to tell them apart from their THC-bearing sisters, but Bailey says the amount of the psychoactive in the plants is super low, as per regulations. According to the 2018 farm bill written by the federal government, Bears Ears Farms can produce hemp plants with THC at or below 0.3-percent.

“Testing has to be done 30 days prior to harvesting and submitted to the USDA,” Bailey explained.

What Bears Ears Farms is doing in this corner of the state is not only unique, but is in some ways a risk.

The cannabis industry is stigmatized

nationwide, especially in a rural part of a conservative state like Utah. Following the 2018 federal bill regulating hemp, Bailey said a lot of producers started to drop out of the industry.

“As far as I am aware, Utah had about five active hemp growers in 2023, down from over 319 that started in 2018,” she said.

Bailey says Bears Ears Farms is now the largest hemp producer in the state, growing more than 1,500 plants in the hoop tunnels on their property. This scaling of operations has provided a lucky economic bump for her family and those they work with on the farm.

“The Navajo and Ute Native Americans are very supportive of what we are doing and growing, and our work force has been as high as fifty-percent Native Americans,” Bailey said.

Bears Ears Farms is working for free to consult employees who may want to start their own growing business, so they don’t experience as many initial hurdles starting out.

“We have been fortunate here in Blanding to have very supportive communities surrounding us,” Bailey noted. “We strive to educate people due to preconceived ideas of hemp being ‘pot’, ‘marijuana’, and other negative connotations.”

One of the main barriers Bailey’s family encounters is a lack of communication between different people with different beliefs. That’s why she was so encouraged to see so many different people come to their grand opening, from local families with children to Native Americans, missionaries, and tourists.

“Once we are able to educate people on the beneficial uses of our products, we get very little pushback and a growing customer base,” Bailey said. “The more we grow, the more I fall in love with this amazing plant.”

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