Join us in celebrating the climbing and backcountry community with the Utah Avalanche Center and Salt Lake Climbers Alliance at Mountain West Cider.
We’ll be gathering to connect, share stories, and dive into an important conversation about risk—when to push it, and when to pull back. Come for the cider, stay for the community, and hear from a couple of special guest speakers.
📅 When: Thursday, November 20, 2025
🕕 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM
📍 Where: Mountain West Cider 425 N 400 W, Salt Lake City
* Note: This is a 21+ venue
🎟️ Tickets: $25
Your ticket includes: 1 drink and 1 entry into an opportunity drawing
Please join us in welcoming Vitaliy Musiyenko for a 20-minute slideshow presentation on bold objectives, personal evolution, and a life shaped by the vertical. Plus The Executive Directors of both the Salt Lake Climbers Alliance and the Utah Avalanche Center will kick things off with updates on current work, upcoming initiatives, and what’s ahead for our shared mountain community.
Guest Speaker: Vitaliy Musiyenko
Vitaliy Musiyenko never learned to ride a bike—so he went to the mountains instead. Since beginning his climbing journey in 2010, he’s completed more technical first ascents in California’s High Sierra than anyone else, climbed every peak on Fitz Roy’s skyline, soloed the biggest ridge traverse in the Northern Hemisphere, and made the first free solo of Yosemite’s 1,700-foot Widow’s Tears—the longest ice climb in the Lower 48. He also lost over 100 pounds and ran a 100-mile race in 21 hours, all while working full-time as an ER nurse.
Vitaliy is the author of the three-volume High Sierra Climbing: Technical Rock and Ice, and his writing and photography have appeared in leading climbing publications and the American Alpine Journal.
About the UAC: The Utah Avalanche Center (UAC) exists to keep people on top of The Greatest Snow On Earth® by providing avalanche forecasting, education, and awareness throughout the state of Utah. The UAC was officially established in 1980 in collaboration with the US Forest Service (USFS). The nonprofit UAC is responsible for the majority of avalanche awareness and education in Utah, as well as funding and strategic management of the partnership with the USFS.