A letter from a local
Nobody’s watching. That’s the gift.
City Creek's trail system leaves from the west bench five minutes off Main Street — after-work laps with the whole Portneuf Valley below. Pebble Creek hangs 2,200 feet of honest fall-line skiing on Bonneville Peak twenty-five minutes out, and on a powder Tuesday it's you and the ski patrol.
Ross Park's basalt cliffs put sport climbing inside the city, the Portneuf riffles for trout south of town, and the gravel roads through the Bannock Range go all day without a car in sight.
University town, rail town, unfussy and cheap. Pocatello is what outdoor towns looked like before anyone started charging admission.
— Hank