The Wasatch Mountain Club is a recreational outdoor club for adults based in Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...

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Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

. It is a non-profit organization and has no restrictions on who may join. Some of its missions are:

• To promote the physical and spiritual well being through outdoor activities;
• to unite the energy, knowledge, and interests of students, explorers and lovers of the Utah wilderness;
• to encourage the preservation of nature.

The club was officially founded on the 13 May 1920 with the purpose of providing an education and activity group for those who enjoyed hiking, ski touring, river running and mountain climbing.