About

The Descent Project is a family guide to lift-served mountains in the Western US — skiing in the winter, bike parks in the summer. Resort deep dives, trip logistics, season planning, and the junior ski-racing world, written for families who ride rather than for the brochure crowd.

Everything here is guide material grounded in research and, where we say so explicitly, our own time on the hill. When a post is first-person, we were actually there. When it isn't, it's researched and attributed — no invented trip reports, no stats without a season attached.

Meet the Family

I'm Doug Mayeux. We're based in Park City, Utah, and the mountain calendar runs our year — my son Phalen (16) is a junior ski racer, my daughter Satya (14) rides with us winter and summer, and the off-season fills up with lift-served mountain biking.

The Descent Project is part of Wayfind Adventures, a small network of independent travel and mystery sites I run with my family. Each one covers its own territory:

• SprinterFam — my wife Bridget's site, covering van life with kids and National Parks from the family-travel side.
• Ancient Origins Project — the sites featured on Ancient Aliens, approached with a curious-skeptic eye.
• Dossier Project — Josh Gates' Expedition Unknown and Expedition X locations, written in a field-journal voice.
• The Cryptid Project — sighting locations from Finding Bigfoot and Expedition Bigfoot, mapped and examined.

Corrections, resort suggestions, or something we got wrong? doug@wayfindadventures.com.