May 29th, 2020 | Colin Slade In this desert musing, Colin Slade ventures into the sublime and takes a deep dive into the worldly (and, perhaps, even otherworldly) experience of a night in the wilderness.
May 26th, 2020 | Allie Dyer Bluemel There’s a quote from a conversation I had with my dad about five years ago that sticks with me: “All I ask is that you don’t end up an old, broke dirtbag.” To a lot of you--if you didn’t grow up in the sun-soaked western U.S.--that probably sounds like a harsh statement. I promise you, it’s not.
May 18th, 2020 | Nikki Erickson Creator and Founder of BloodRootJewls, Nikki Erickson, explains the inspiration behind her one-of-a-kind pieces of wearable art.
May 15th, 2020 | Jacque Garcia Caitlin Cannon is a truth-telling, sass-bringing, inequality-fighting, full-time musician and part-time hair salon owner based in Durango, Colorado. Her breakout solo album, wittily titled “Trashcannon,” will breathe life into your quarantine on May 15.
Love in the time of Covid-19Week of May 11th 2020 | A Dust Collaboration We asked: What has #quarantine done to your sex life? And you responded. Read the personal stories from lost love to sexy past-times here.
The Off -Season May 8th, 2020 | Levy Casey The excitement of changing scenery contrasted with a sense of near-constant nostalgia plagues the transient life of a seasonal river guide. In a brief but gripping glimpse of his own experience, Levy Casey captures the ethos of this lifestyle in the best way he knows how: through rivers.
In Plein Sight with Erika Lee
May 6th 2020 | Emma Renly With a stroke of a brush, Erika Lee begins to paint the desert landscape in front of her. The blank page is quickly transformed into hues of red, yellow and orange in shapes outlining towering red rocks. Intricate linework with black and white ink finalizes the piece, creating a flow of geometric patterns that captivate the viewer almost hypnotically.
Hanging with Treenet Willy May 1st 2020 | Coya Pair Durango has a propensity to attract a demographic passionate about the outdoors, art, culture and community, and Will Reynolds is no exception. Better known as Treenet Willy, he has found a way to interconnect nature and community through his own art medium: treenets.
April 29th 2020 | Ecko Aleck As the leader of an indigenous cultural organization in a popular tourist destination, Ecko (Kawaya7) Aleck shares her perspective of the pandemic as it concerns her life and the lives of those around her in Vancouver, BC - traditional territories of the Pentlatch, Snaw-naw-as and Snuneymuxw First Nations.
April 27th 2020 | R.E. Burillo Tourist towns in the Four Corners area sustain themselves based on their visitors- something that is prohibited and downright dangerous at the moment. To help keep them busy while they’re away, an SLC collaborator chimes in with what to do instead of visiting Moab during the pandemic.
April 22nd 2020 | Madeline Friend Flagstaff has been hit by COVID-19 like the other tourist towns of the Four Corners region. Instead of wishing for a return to the way things were, however, one river guide issues a call to action to the guide industry, asking us to break the mold of inequality and worker oppression and to create a new, better way moving forward.
April 24th 2020 | Natasha Buffo Fleeing corporate America: how one woman’s trip to Moab gave her a new shot at life.
April 20st 2020 | Jacque Garcia + Various Voices The Rio wasn’t a great bar. It wasn’t hip, or clean, and it had no windows or natural light at all. But that didn’t matter because it was so much more than a bar...
April 17th 2020 Alaska Select Seafood, a Moab-based Business, is on track to stock home fridges with pristine protein whithin the boundaries of the quarantine regulations.
April 6th 2020 | Max Owens What is it, exactly, that captures the adventure mindset of those that call the Four Corners region their home? For some, it’s creativity in the variety of means of exploration. For others, it’s the suffer factor. For Steve “Doom” Fassbinder, it’s a little of both, and he intends to share it with you.
April 9th 2020 | Mary Lane Poe “I'm lying at the edge of a cobbled wall of sandstone. It’s soaked and vibrant from the storm the night before and dotted with puffs of moss....”
Week of March 30th | Collaboration of 5 Authors A series of five stories from (mostly) small rural towns that provide firsthand accounts of what life is like on their end right now: Moab, Albuquerque, Taos, Tempe and Telluride.
A Step to the West March 28th 2020 | Julianne Mahoney Sometimes, a job is a job. For Julianne Mahoney, the passion from the climbing community fueled a different sort of work. This is a story about how Dirt Chalk Bags came to be.
Pottery for a Cause March 23rd 2020 Moab Artist Aaron Rotchadl raises money for local non-profits among the COVID-19 chaos.
A Secret March 16th 2020
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