Cris Draper, the Trail Master
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah
Raised in Magna, Utah
Attended Cyprus High School
Joined the U.S. Marine Corps from 1978-81
Served in Okinawa, Japan, Camp Pendelton, and Camp Fort Hunter Leggett
Growing up in Utah, and having a very outdoor oriented family, I have been enjoying outdoor recreation since before I could walk. My father was an avid fisherman, hunter and rock hound. My mother also shared these interests and passed them on to my sister and myself. Family time usually found us escaping to a remote favorite camping spot and leaving the fast paced World behind. Learning and sharing these experiences at a young age distilled a life long love of the outdoors in me that has recently grown into commitment for me to do all I can to ensure the same opportunities are available for my children that I had available when I was growing up here in our great State.
I enjoy sharing my interests and love of the outdoors with my children and work to teach them to appreciate the great gifts we have in our backyards. We regularly spend family time ATV'ing, Snowmobiling, 4 X 4'ing, Camping or just about any outdoor activity you can name at one time of the year or the other. Being a single parent, I truly feel that the lessons the kids learn outdoors are invaluable in their growth and understanding of the Earth in which we live.
Cris and his Nova Scotia Black Bear
I have always found a special inner peace from the various activities I enjoy and countless hours I have spent in Mother Nature's embrace. This time spent in the outdoors, is when I find out "who" I am and what part I play in the World in which we live. This life long quest in the outdoors, has given me a vast knowledge of recreational experience to draw from in my current task in the workplace. In 1996, I put my outdoors experience to work (and the love to share these experiences) and decided to create a web site dedicated to the sport of hunting. The Hunting Trail fast grew into a very popular stop for web surfers to gather the information they where looking for. I developed a "web ring" scripting program and began providing a valuable service to the hunting community that allowed us to link our similar topic oriented web sites together into a on-line community. This free service was migrated into the fishing and outdoor recreation platforms and the Rec-Outdoors Marketing Group of web sites was born. I expanded to cover more of the recreational outdoor activities I had experience in and enjoyed participating in.
In 1999, the workload fast became more than I could handle on my own with over 10 million hits per month and I began looking for a likely partner to take these programs to the next level. The old AmazingOutdoors.com proved to be the final selected partner and a merger was finalized. With the merger, many opportunities to continue my passion in life have come full circle and I have diversified into almost all outdoor recreational activities from rock climbing to nature photography. In April of 2000, UtahOutdoors.com began producing a radio show dealing with outdoor recreation. We began the production of the UtahOutdoors.com Radio Show in late April and have taken this show to new heights! Our Saturday morning show is one of the highest rated shows airing in the time slot for our coverage area. With great outdoor information, weekly contests and FishBytes, (our weekly fishing report) and many more features, we are constantly working on bring our listeners the very best content available!
In 2006, we also launched the Amazing Outdoors Radio Network, a syndicated show which airs on our affiliate stations all across the West. The show has been received with great enthusiasm and is the fastest growing outdoors syndicated show in the market place.
Utah Outdoors Radio on KSL Newsradio 1160 AM and 102.7 FM had grown to be a force in the market with loyal listeners from all over the globe with the introduction of our PodCast in 2005. The show has won multiple awards from the Utah Broadcasters Association for the "Most Entertaining AM Talk Radio Show" in our market, winning over some long standing favorite competition! In November of 2008, I left the old crew at KSL to start on my own new pathway of adventures.
2009 brought new adventure and opportunities and Cris teamed up with the nationally televised TV Show, Huntin' with "The Judge" as part of the Posse' and March 4th launched the all new Trail Master Outdoors Radio which airs on Saturday mornings from 7 - 9 AM mountain time on KALL 700 Sports an ESPN Affiliate station.
Cris and his pending SCI New World Record Free Range Red Stag
New Zealand 2009
New Zealand 2009
I am an accomplished writer and have had many articles featured in:
Utah Outdoors Magazine
Southern Utah Outdoors
The Valley Journals, Sports and Recreation News
Hunt'n and Fish'n Biz
I have also produced and been featured on many outdoor sports and recreation TV segments which aired on “Good Morning Utah”, the local ABC affiliate station in Salt Lake City, Utah. The segments featured all forms of outdoor activity from rock climbing, fishing, rock hounding, ATV’s, and more! I have produced and voiced many clients radio and television spots.
I have given seminars on Hunting Mule Deer at the International Sportsmen's Expo in Salt Lake City, Utah. I hosted and MC's the Sporting Dogs Arena at the 2003 ISE Show here in Salt Lake and hosted the Hunting Theater in 2004, 2005, and 2006 worked with the Youth Archery Area. I was honored also in 2003, to be the Master of Ceremonies for the Salt Lake Chapter of the Mule Deer Foundations Banquet Dinner. In 2004 as Master of Ceremonies for the Utah SCI Banquet, and in 2006 to the Utah Chaper of the Ducks Unlimited Banquet.
I am a self taught and accomplished Web Master with a full range of both HTML and Programming Skills. I enjoy the interaction with people from around the World the web affords me and have many world-wide friendships.
Africa 2009
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2 comments:
I do think that the voices of a lot of the people who would be impacted by such a decision were not heard, while the voices of groups that have a track record of opposing thses kind of activities were given a loud voice.
Do you mean on the Antelope Island debate? Yes, the public wasn't even given a comment period, it was tacked onto the verbiage of a different bill to try and slide through. It is sad.
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