Recently, I had a great conversation with Lillie Keener about Jack Holley, the Goat Man of Moab. Lillie lived in Moab in the 50s-60s and had many great stories. She also gave me some wonderful photos that I’m going to feature in The Zephyr’s August/September cover story…
If any of you have memories of Jack, or photos you’d like to share, please contact me at: cczephyr@gmail.com, and I will post them in the cover story…or tell your stories here…
Thanks, Jim Stiles
(this photo is by Herb Ringer, June 1950)
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Excerpt:
A San Diego woman who painted and drew on treasured natural rock formations at national parks across the West and shared her work on social media pleaded guilty Monday to defacing government property.
Casey Nocket, 23, pleaded guilty in a federal court in Fresno, California to seven misdemeanors for the autumn 2014 painting spree at seven national parks including Yosemite in California and Zion in Utah.
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THE BIKE BORG KEEPS COMING…
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED
So, you’re out for a nice quiet run or bike ride when your solitude is broken by a pack of fellow enthusiasts, often sporting identical kits and chatting away like they are at a high school reunion rather than out for a lung-burning event.
Off they go in the distance, leaving you to wonder, “Should I follow? Am I missing out on something? Do I need a pack?”
Every outdoor enthusiast will have that scenario or something similar happen at some point or another, prompting the question of whether he or she should join a club.
But outside of matching outfits or sponsor attire, what are the advantages of joining a club? There are other benefits, many say, which is why clubs are so proliferate in outdoor-enthusiastic states such as Utah.
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Excerpt:
Park rangers at Yellowstone National Park busted a Chinese tourist last week for leaving the safety of the designated boardwalk at the park’s Mammoth Hot Springs.
The man admitted to collecting water from the hot springs and told rangers he did not read the safety information given to visitors at the park entrance.
He was fined $1,000.
Just days before, a 23-year-old Oregon man died after also walking off a designated walkway at Morris Geyser Basin and falling into the 200-degree hot spring. He was more than 225 yards off the boardwalk when he fell in.
These and a handful of other accidents at the park have park rangers grappling with what to do about Yellowstone’s most problematic species this season.
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EXCERPT: Fed up with tight National Park regulations—no BASE-jumping, no slacklining, no fun!—adventurers are getting cozy with a surprising new advocate: the Bureau of Land Management. Nowhere are the agency’s lenient recreation policies on better display than Moab, Utah…
This is present-day Moab: former uranium boomtown and current Superfund cleanup site, gateway to two national parks, 1.8 million acres of BLM land, countless miles of singletrack and off-road trails, trad climbing, BASE jumping, slacklining, skydiving, and whitewater rafting, home to 5,100 year-round residents, and annual vacation hot spot for more than two million. I’d come to immerse myself in what I’d been told was either America’s most insanely inclusive adventure destination or else a putrid distillation of everything vulgar about public-land use in America—fleets of idling RV generators, swarms of dune buggies, open-air shooting ranges, expensive hunting expeditions, 40-plus BLM campgrounds (usually full), legions of mountain bikers, dirtbag climbers, and #vanlife wanderers seeking the enlightenment that Edward Abbey promised in his 1968 classic Desert Solitaire.
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