“Out and Back: Finding My Way and My Livelihood Outdoors”: Reading & Signing with Vaughn Hadenfeldt

Join us on Thursday, June 18 at 7pm for a special reading and book signing with Vaughn Hadenfeldt, founding member of Bears Ears Partnership (formerly Friends of Cedar Mesa) and renowned guide and adventurer. 

Vaughn’s new book Out and Back: Finding My Way and My Livelihood Outdoors was published this spring, collecting stories from decades of outdoor exploration and adventure. This event offers a special opportunity to connect with Vaughn, who has held a deep connection to the Bears Ears region for decades, sharing that passion through his advocacy as part of this organization, and with his company Far Out Expeditions.

About Vaughn

For over forty years, Vaughn has guided visitors from Secretaries of the Interior, Tribal dignitaries, and tourists from around the world to share the beauty and cultural history of Bears Ears. He recently retired his company, Far Out Expeditions®, but not his desire to protect and preserve the southeastern Utah desert and surrounding territory. Vaughn studied archaeology at Colorado State University and brought that understanding to the many Utah archaeological projects he’s been part of over the years. His involvement in the Wetherill Grand Gulch Research Project and as Field Director for the Earthwatch/BLM Basketmaker Rock Art Documentation Project inspired years of exploring the story of the people that once inhabited this place and the many historic expeditions that traced that history. After selling the Colorado mountaineering store they established and moving his family to Bluff, Utah, Vaughn has made a lifetime of walking the backcountry into a life that supported them and into a life he loves.

His book is available from Amazon, local bookstores to come.

This event is free and open to the public at the Bears Ears Education Center, 567 W Main St, Bluff, UT 84512.