CHRISTIAN ERIC PROBASCO
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BIOGRAPHY
Christian Eric Probasco is the managing editor of the Sanpete Messenger.
Probasco has written for New West Network, Off-Road Adventure, Utah’s Sports Guide, Salt
Lake's City Weekly, American Survival Magazine, Route 66 Magazine, the Canyon Country
Zephyr and Mountain Gazette Magazine.
He is the author of the book Highway 12, published by Utah State University, about Utah’s
only All-American Road.
He has worked as the public relations writer for the Sanpete Travel and Heritage Council and
Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area.
Probasco was born in Twentynine Palms, Calif. and raised in Valparaiso, Indiana. He moved
to Salt Lake City in 1986. He studied English Literature, journalism, political science and
philosophy at the University of Utah. He has lived in Flagstaff, Ariz., Mesa, Ariz., Las Vegas, Nev.
and Henderson, Nev. He and his wife and son now reside in Mt. Pleasant, Utah.
He does most of his exploring in the Heep, a notoriously unreliable CJ-5. In his spare time,
when he is not fixing the Heep, he paints buffalo skulls and photographs boxcars.
Christian Eric Probasco is the managing editor of the Sanpete Messenger.
Probasco has written for New West Network, Off-Road Adventure, Utah’s Sports Guide, Salt
Lake's City Weekly, American Survival Magazine, Route 66 Magazine, the Canyon Country
Zephyr and Mountain Gazette Magazine.
He is the author of the book Highway 12, published by Utah State University, about Utah’s
only All-American Road.
He has worked as the public relations writer for the Sanpete Travel and Heritage Council and
Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area.
Probasco was born in Twentynine Palms, Calif. and raised in Valparaiso, Indiana. He moved
to Salt Lake City in 1986. He studied English Literature, journalism, political science and
philosophy at the University of Utah. He has lived in Flagstaff, Ariz., Mesa, Ariz., Las Vegas, Nev.
and Henderson, Nev. He and his wife and son now reside in Mt. Pleasant, Utah.
He does most of his exploring in the Heep, a notoriously unreliable CJ-5. In his spare time,
when he is not fixing the Heep, he paints buffalo skulls and photographs boxcars.
HEEPWATCH
STATS: '81 CJ-5, 151
engine, 3.31 gears,
Dana 300 transfer,
Dana 44 axle. Appr.
300k miles.
CONDITION: The
Heep is on its 4th
engine, 4th rear axle,
2nd transmission.
CURRENT WORK:
Designing a plywood
half-cab.
STATS: '81 CJ-5, 151
engine, 3.31 gears,
Dana 300 transfer,
Dana 44 axle. Appr.
300k miles.
CONDITION: The
Heep is on its 4th
engine, 4th rear axle,
2nd transmission.
CURRENT WORK:
Designing a plywood
half-cab.