
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune)
Maddie Schulz, 7 shoots an arrow at the S.A.F.E. Archery booth at the “Rendezvous” Mountain Culture Festival at the Gateway, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) as participants celebrate winter as they check out the booths at the “Rendezvous” Mountain Culture Festival at the Gateway, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Protectour Winters hosts a panel discussion on climate change at the “Rendezvous” Mountain Culture Festival at the Gateway, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune)
Ben Smith puts together a splitboard, which converts two skis in to a snowboard for the back country, at the Weston booth, at the “Rendezvous” Mountain Culture Festival at the Gateway, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune)
Ben Smith puts together a splitboard, which converts two skis in to a snowboard for the back country, at the Weston booth, at the “Rendezvous” Mountain Culture Festival at the Gateway, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019.
Outdoor enthusiasts gathered at The Gateway on Saturday for the Rendezvous Mountain Culture Festival. The fall Rendezvous focused on snow sports, and featured a vendor village with the latest winter sports equipment and apparel, as well as panel discussions, film premieres, food trucks, a free raffle of winter products and a Utah Avalanche Center snow safety presentation.
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Rick has been a staff photographer at The Tribune since 1984. Previous to The Tribune, he was photo editor at the Daily Universe Newspaper at BYU and worked at The Sun Advocate in Price, Utah.