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No-boarding is a young sport that is like the traditional way of snowboarding but with a knobbed polymer traction pad and a heavy-duty bungee rope, which transform a snowboard into a no-board. Without highbacks to straps to hold feet in place, the pad prevents slipping, and a firm grip on the rope keeps the board in place and is like surfing -riders adapt to pitch and snow conditions by moving their feet and center of gravity.
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Powder Mountain is a sprawling resort near Ogden, in northern Utah, that offers five mountains and more than 7,000 acres of terrain. Only Mother Nature makes snow at Powder Mountain and a large variety of runs are groomed nightly so that every level of boarder and skier joins in the fun. 
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Lake Powell is an artificial pond, created in 1960s toward the controversial scheme to dam the Colorado River to fill the Grand Canyon with water. Today few could deny that this unnatural landscape is a breathtaking sight. Crystal-clear turquoise waters reflect the towering rich-red canyon walls that go up from the water, scatter among wondrous arches, magnificent spires, sandstone butters, as well as countless inlets and sandy beaches. Photo by: Wolfgang Staudt
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Green canyons, red cliffs, blue skies: Zion’s colors can stop in your tracks. Water enables greens rare amidst otherwise desert landscape. Visible or not, water forcefully shapes these stalwart walls. Trickling falls summon emerald growth in nooks and crannies. Sculpted evidence testifies to the carving of red slot canyons. Winter’s icy-blue snow-melt feeds anew the rushing, scouring river torrents of spring.  Almost 12,000 years ago Zion’s first peoples, who are now almost invisible, tracked mammoths, giant sloth, and camel across southern Utah. Due the climate change and overhunting these animals died out about 8,000 years ago. In 1860s, just after settlement by Mormon pioneers, John Wesley Powell visited Zion of the first scientific exploration of southern Utah.

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Hang gliding is an air sport in which a pilot flies a light and un-motorized foot-launchable aircraft called a hang glider. It allows you to own an aircraft that doesn’t require an expensive hangar or special pilot license. ?his is a very extreme experience. Hang gliding is one of the most exciting solutions for most people. You will have the unique sensation of flying, surrounded by beautiful mountains and beaches.
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The hot geothermal springs inside a large rock dome are the Utah’s version of tropical dive sites. The natural cavern is shaped like an hourglass and offers opportunity to scuba enthusiasts. The dive center is accessed only by tunnel, leading to the crater. The Homestead Crater is 18 m wide with a depth 20m deep. It’s a Utah’s largest hot tub where the water’s temperature is a balmy 35°C.
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About 10 miles south of the Great Salt Lake in the desert outside Grantsville, Utah, thousand of fish live in the murky saltwater at Bonneville Seabase, which is an independent experiment in marine biology. Seabase has an end-of-the-earth feeling, with no noise and little life and it’s open to snorkelers and scuba diver.
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