Bend is a great town, I lived there for about 5yrs or so. There is pretty much everthing to do there, lots of outdoors stuff, hiking,fishing,rockclimbing,etc. Thr people are really cool, not to many ego's like in SLC, andrent is fairly cheap. Plus Bachelor is only 20mins and COCC has classes that you can get credits for for just going and riding. So my advise is leave utah, because I've been there and OR is way better!