Jake Esayian was blown away by the outdoor recreation opportunities just minutes from the University of Utah when he moved to Salt Lake City from San Diego for his undergrad.
But he kept running into a problem.
“You get this different level of almost competitiveness, that’s innate to men,” he said on a morning hike on the trails above Salt Lake City. “There’s always that aspect of, I don’t want to be the guy slowing everybody down, right? I don’t want to be the guy who’s falling, who’s crashing, who’s breaking stuff and, you know, kind of ruining it for the group.”…