Erin Berger was a senior editor at Outside.
Meet the Volunteers Behind Our Favorite Fat Bears
Every year, explore.org calls on its A-team to capture the rotund glory of Katmai National Park’s brown bears.
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It’s Fat Bear Week, Motherf*ckers
Summer is now a distant memory and we feel a certain giddiness in the air that can only mean one thing: Fat Bear Week is nigh
Pattie Gonia Is Shaking Up the Adventure World
Pattie Gonia, whose name is a play on you know which brand, is the drag-queen alter ego of 27-year-old photographer Wyn Wiley
This Beautiful Art Makes Climate Change Feel Visceral
Miami will be the first to go when the rising tides don’t recede. One artist is using murals to make that fact hit home.
How to Be a Beginner (and Get Over Your Ego)
Everyone sits somewhere on the active spectrum and has their own reasons for being there, with personal preferences and socioeconomic and health-related considerations all wrapped up in it. It takes...
Beyoncé Films at Havasu Falls. The Internet Reacts.
The famous waterfalls appear in about ten seconds' worth of her new music video. Can you guess what happened next?
Your Ideal Therapist Might Not Be Human
One of our editors spent a month working through her feelings with Woebot, a therapy chat bot. Here's how it went.
Dogs Are Bad at Sharing Beds
Dogs are cute—on their own beds.
The Documentaries We're Most Excited About This Winter
Prepare for lots of screaming (most of it from Adam Ondra).
Everything Ever Said About Alex Honnold's Hands
A passionate, sometimes uncomfortable ode to the meatiest paws in the world (other people's words, not ours).
There Is Technically One Fattest Bear. We Love 'Em All.
A former champion and constant runner-up face off on the final day of Fat Bear Week 2018, but we love every single one of the chubby bears.
The Glory of Otis, Fattest of the Fat Bears
For one week every fall, Alaska's Katmai National Park celebrates the survival skills and ample rolls of the happiest bears in the world. But there's more to their reigning champion than meets the...
Lauren Groff's 'Florida' Dives into the Swamp
The author's latest book features stories that are just as mired in the contradictions of the human experience as they are in the humidity of the Sunshine State.
Sexual Harassment in the Outdoors: Our Stories
Six women talk about their experiences with harassment in the outdoors
Like the Appalachian Trail, But with More Stoplights
Urban through-hiking entails piecing together 50 miles or more of footpaths through places never designed for trekking. Few do it better than Liz “Snorkel” Thomas.
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