Sep 5, 2018
Amazon and the Local Gear Store Conundrum
Where you shop matters just as much as what you buy.
Marc Peruzzi
Published
Aug 6, 2018
Reserving Campsites Is About to Get So Much Easier
Beginning in October, it's going to get a lot simpler to book campsites on federal lands. But with more than two-thirds of public campgrounds controlled by the states, the work has just begun.
Jul 30, 2018
The Official 2018 Outside Tour de France Awards
Despite the cloud of scandal, plus a few favorites crashing out early and none of the high-horsepower sprinters making it over the mountains, the 2018 Tour de France was the most hotly contested and...
Jul 24, 2018
Lance Armstrong Takes on the Tour de France
Pro cycling’s most infamous legend walks us through the twists and turns of the sport's biggest race with his daily podcast and exclusive updates on 'Outside'
Jul 9, 2018
The Troubling Rise of the Ghost Bike
It's a variation on the crosses that dot the West to mark fatal crash sites, except ghost bikes are nondenominational and carry a second message other than grief, a message intended for drivers: Stop...
Jun 25, 2018
19 Lessons I Learned from Extreme Sports Pros
Global experts on how outdoor athletes stumble, trip, twist, crash, snap, pop, tear, and occasionally croak in hard-to-reach places convened in Boulder this month, courtesy of the University of...
Jun 1, 2018
Climate Change I Have Known
I grew up on the water—or, more accurately, in the water. My Irish-Italian family didn't own a boat, but the North Atlantic was a few hundred yards down the street, and outside of Woody Woodpecker,...
May 15, 2018
The Unwritten Rules of Sportsmanship
How could it be that two unrelated Porta-Potty incidents raised such monumental questions about sportsmanship?
Apr 30, 2018
Behind the Scenes at Our 2018 Ski Test
Back in February, we ran more than 250 pairs of next winter's skis through their paces at Snowbird, Utah. We're talking a total of 1.5 million vertical feet over three days by 18 testers. Here,...
Apr 24, 2018
I Was the First! (And Probably the Only)
Since Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary topped out on Everest in 1953, every obvious first has been firsted. And as each first subsequently gets firsted again—albeit with an added qualifier like...
Apr 2, 2018
E-Bikes: Dorkmobiles or Saviors of the Universe?
Last month, the European Cycling Union, the governing body that oversees all European championships in all cycling disciplines, announced that it's adding racing categories for electric-assist road...
Mar 23, 2018
How to Fund Conservation in the Age of Moneyball
Like much of the Western world, I've been on a Churchill bender lately. Not because of the film, which was lackluster, but because of recent books like 'Churchill and Orwell' by Thomas Ricks.
Feb 25, 2018
Fashion, Keep Your Hands Off Our Gear
Fashion Week has wrapped up in New York. And we don't care, except that they keep sucking outdoor brands into their pop-culture vomitorium.
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