User:Cris Draper

[]  Cris r. Draper, the Trail Master  Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1961 Raised in Magna, Utah Attended Cyprus High School Joined the U.S. Marine Corps from 1978-81 Served in Okinawa, Japan, Camp Pendleton, CA

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 lifelong 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.

Being a single parent, 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. I truly feel that the lessons the kids learn outdoors are invaluable in their growth and understanding of the Earth in which we live. 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 were 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. 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, Utah Outdoors Magazine, 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 was one of the highest rated shows airing in the time slot for our coverage area. In which we also have received several Utah Broadcasting Association Awards for the “Most Entertaining Show”. With great outdoor information, weekly contests and FishBytes, (our weekly fishing report) and many more features, we dedicated to stay constantly working on bring our listeners the very best content available!

I am a Member of the Posse’ on the Nationally Televised “Huntin with ‘The Judge’” TV Show and Member of the Mossy Oak Pro Staff Team. I am active in participating and being involved with the Utah State Parks, Utah Division of Wildlife, and many other Agencies on conservation and activism on issue to protect the public’s right to the outdoor recreational opportunities here in Utah and around the World.

I am an accomplished writer and have had many articles featured in:

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Utah Outdoors Magazine Southern Utah Outdoors The Valley Journals, Sports and Recreation News =====

I have been the Master of Ceremonies for several local groups’ annual fund raising events. I have also worked with the International Sportsmen's Expo as the Sporting Dogs Arena and Hunting Theater Host on several occasions.

I have also produced and been featured on many outdoor 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, Gold Prospecting, ATV’s, and more!

I am an avid photographer and spend much of my time in the West Desert of Utah photographing the Wild Mustangs. I invite you to visit my Facebook page Photo Area for some of the examples of my photography. www.facebook.com/thetrailmaster

I look forward to hearing back from you!

Cris Draper, the Trail Master President Trail Master Outdoors, INC Outdoors Media, Gear, Web Design and more! A Veteran Owned Company 7833 West Dalesend Drive Magna, UT 84044 801 381-1706 801 833-3820 www.TrailMasterOutdoors.com http://www.facebook.com/trailmasteroutdoorsinc www.CamoMyRide.com http://www.facebook.com/camomyride http://www.TMOutdoors.com http://www.facebook.com/TheTrailMaster http://www.UtahOutdoors.com