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FEBRUARY 2013
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DAVID PAGE
ROAD TRIP
LAND SPEEDER
In 1934, a young artist named Evere Ruess le
the town of Escalante, Utah, and walked into the
desert, never to be seen again. In the years that
followed, he would become a kind of folk legend,
as much for the mystery of his disappearance as
for being a romantic symbol of the landscape that
swallowed himwhole.
My plan—somewhat to the chagrin of my wife
and children—is to follow in his footsteps and
make an off-pavement traverse of Utah’s
With style, aplomb
and a lot less fuel, the
2013
Porsche Cayenne
Diesel takes on the red
dirt of canyon country
BY DAVID PAGE
UTAH
