3. Cataract Canyon: In fact, every southern Utah trip.

4. Zion Narrows: Hiking from top to bottom with Ray and Carol along with my 67-year-old father and my three daughters. It had always been on Dad's bucket list and remains unforgettable for my daughters and me.

5. Fishing: Truthfully, Ray is cursed. He can often tell you where the fish are, but generally he can't catch them. Because of the amazing Utah scenery, fishing is always an adventure. There are exceptions. Fishing with Dave Freed in his secret fishing hole and in a Lake Powell striper boil, even Ray can catch a fish. In fact, he caught hundreds one night on the Green River, but he was with the Division of Wildlife and they had to shock them first while Ray netted them in the middle of the night. He does have one of the largest assortments of fishing gear I've seen and he knows more about fish (especially whirling ones) than anyone I know.

6. Chasing bear in the Book Cliffs: How crazy is snowmobiling, snowshoeing and finally climbing cliffs to find a mother bear sleeping in her den with two cubs? I'll always remember Bill Bates, with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, crawling backward through the cave when the not so sedated mother took a swipe at him. Holding that baby cub in my hand was one of the highlights of that year.

7. Motorcycling over the Donner Trail from Golden Spike to Wendover: Two incredible days of nothing but salt and desert where towns of thousands of Chinese railroad workers once lived and the Donner Party traveled. The trip ended with a tour of the prehistoric Danger Cave in the West Desert.

8. Yellowstone and Jackson Hole: There have been many great trips but none more important than in 1978 when Ray arranged for me and my photo mentor, two-time Pulitzer winner Horst Faas, to shoot photo essays for The Associated Press in Jackson and Yellowstone. Somehow I talked the pretty girl in my Art and Western Civilization class at the University of Utah to come with me and she later became my wife.