Old Spanish Trail Adventure

The BLM-Utah recently completed an incredibly successful and innovative social media project--the Old Spanish Trail Adventure--designed to engage and connect the next generation with Utah's amazing lands.

Members of the Old Spanish Trail Adventure near Moab, UT.

Members of the Old Spanish Trail Adventure talk with SUU Alumna Jen Evans.

Engaging more than a quarter of a million viewers LIVE online, we created and documented an adventure that boosted the BLM's online reach and connected meaningfully with an audience that is often overlooked--all for less than the cost of a round trip ticket from Salt Lake to D.C.

If you follow the BLM or BLM-Utah online, we encourage you to share the external version with your friends and family. Together, we can get people excited and out enjoying the incredible lands we manage!

"I am proud of the creativity and youthful spirit infuse in this project and look forward to seeing more products that reach out to those in search of adventure in America's great outdoors." - Juan Palma

SUU Geology trip through Labyrinth Canyon

During Spring Break, the Geology Club partnered with the Harry Reid Outdoor Engagement Center to take 12 students on an educational field trip to the San Rafael Swell area.
Every semester, two field trips are scheduled as a part of the class, Selected Field Trips, an upper division geology course.

Originally printed/posted by suunews.com

Observation Point, Dec 8, 2012

A Pacesetter trip on December 8, 2012 in Zion National Park. Last warm day before the cold front moved in for the winter.

The group left SUU at 9:30 am and was back by 6 p.m. and enjoyed every minute of the hike.

Grand Canyon Thanksgiving Break

Fourteen SUU students, a faculty member and a Cedar City resident rafted down the Colorado River during Thanksgiving Break.

The group started at Diamond Creek and floated down river to Pearce Ferry, roughly a 54-mile journey.
The SUU trip was one of the first to be on the river during the U.S. Department of Interior’s 2012 “high-flow” experiment.

Story originally posted at University Journal 

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Water Canyon Hike

During the Fall Break Helena Darger led a Pacesetter trip to Water Canyon, a little-known hike located just north of Hildale.

Participants met in the P.E. parking lot at 8 a.m. and took a van down to the trailhead for a day of hiking.

“It is a little-known hike that very few people at SUU have heard of, including some outdoor recreation majors,” Darger said. “Knowing this, I knew that I had to share this hike with anyone interested.”

BLACK ROCKS, October 13, 2012

October 13th rock climbing adventure in Snow Canyon State Park

Jen Evans, Daniel Noirot and Levi Pendleton led the trip for the Harry Reid Outdoor Engagement Center.

Helena Darger participated in the adventure despite never having been rock climbing before.

“It was a challenge, but I can’t wait for the next opportunity to do it again,” she said. “It was a great experience to test my trust in others.”

Yankee Doodle, Sept. 29, 2012

The Harry Reid Center for Outdoor Engagement led a canyoneering trip, through the Pacesetter club, for students on Saturday through Yankee Doodle canyon.
SUU students who signed up for the trip met at SUU Outdoors at 8 a.m. to meet with trip leaders and other fellow students.
The group that went on the adventure consisted of 10 participants, nine women and one man, and two leaders.

From Left to Right; Elizabeth "Lizard" Pattillo, Sydney Critchfield, Rebecca Sirrine, Lucile Renauld, Nicole Barnes, Hailey Coburns, Michelle Manaran, Alexa Kruckenberg, Luke Maynes and Brittney Zenz