Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Sierra Designs Pyro 15 sleeping bag.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Brooks Trailblade running shoe.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Channel Islands Black Flag Whip surfboard.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Sea to Summit Traverse XTII sleeping bag.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Yurbuds Ironman Performance Raising Earphones.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including The North Face Gold Kazoo.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Suunto M5 watch.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Highgear Axio HR watch.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Coghlan's Heavy Duty Camp Grill.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Montbell Burner Sheet.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Therm-a-Rest BaseCamp Mattress.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Brunton Solaris 4 USB solar charger.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Motorola Brute i680 cell phone.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the SuperTooth Disco Speakers.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Timex Ironman Race Trainer Pro Kit watch.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Tech4o Discover watch.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Garmin Forerunner 410 watch.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Victorinox WT Hardside Trolley 20 rolling luggage.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Osprey Shuttle 32 rolling luggage.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the REI Grand Tour 85M backpack.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Thule TCRU-2 60 Liter Upright rolling luggage.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Apple iPad 2 tablet.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Optic Nerve Dolby sunglasses.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Maui Jim Backyards sunglasses.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Native Apres sunglasses.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Oakley Batwolf sunglasses.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Kaenon Hard Kore sunglasses.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Revo Guide sunglasses.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Bollé Vortex sunglasses.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the MTM Special Ops Silverair Stryk watch.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Rudy Project Steelium Full Metal watch.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the St. Morits Momentum Atlas Limited Edition watch.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Casio Ediface EFA-132 watch.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Fossil Big Tic Orange Silicone Negative Display watch.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Victorinox Swiss Army Dive Master 500 Mechanical watch.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Canon EOS 60D camera.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Olympus E-5 camera.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Pentax WG-1 camera.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Panasonic DMC-LX5 camera.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Leupold BX-3 Mojave 10x42 binoculars.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Carson 3D Series 8x42 binoculars.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Pentax DCF BC 9x32 binoculars.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Nikon D7000 camera.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the New Balance Minimus Trail running shoe.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Leica V-LUX-2 camera.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Smith Scientist sunglasses.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Smith Optics Tenet Sunglasses.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Julbo Zulu Sunglasses.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Rudy Project USA Gozen Sunglasses.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Nikon EDG 8x32 binoculars.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Hobie Elite Race standup paddleboard.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Delta Catfish kayak.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Elie Strait 140 XE kayak.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Necky Vector 13 kayak.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Wave Sport Project X kayak.

Outside reviews the best gear in the 2011 Summer Buyers Guide, including the Freedom Hawk 12 UL kayak.

Courtesy of Rodale His middle name, Makalani, is Hawaiian for “skilled at writing,” so it's no surprise that Cincinnati Bengals' defensive captain Dhani Jones has a book out this month. In The Sportsman, he chronicles the…

Courtesy of Rodale His middle name, Makalani, is Hawaiian for “skilled at writing,” so it's no surprise that Cincinnati Bengals' defensive captain Dhani Jones has a book out this month. In The Sportsman, he chronicles the…

Outside magazine is accepting applications for an Editorial Fellowship. The fellowship is a six-month, paid position in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Duties include fact-checking, reporting, research, proofreading, and assorted support chores for the editorial department.  Fellows occasionally have the opportunity to write short pieces for the magazine and website, and…

Last month, our SAR team responded to lost hikers in Warren Creek, a steep, thickly-wooded, snow-covered canyon that terminates in a cliff. In the past, Warren Creek rescues were all-nighters, sometimes spilling into the next day. But for this mission, smart phones helped us rapidly find the lost. We…

Courtesy of Flickr Five days before the 2010 Olympic snowboard trials, 23-year-old Kevin Pearce cracked his head on a halfpipe and sunk into a coma. He woke up six days later with memory…

By Stephen Regenold Take some fashion cues from a sticky-sole river shoe, sprinkle a dose of design direction as per the current barefoot/minimalist footwear zeitgeist, and add heavy some field-test feedback from a Jesus Christ lookalike and ultra-runner wonder named Anton Krupicka,…

Mountainfilm is at once the most refreshing and exhausting event of the year. For four days 2,000 guests do everything they can to watch all 73 films, listen to the 18 panel discussions, and shake the hand of each of the 29 authors at the book signings. Between events everybody…

Over the last few weeks we've updated our blog with some of the gnarliest whitewater videos on the web. It's time to switch up the paddling footage, just a bit. Here's a highlight from a freestyle canoeing festival, straight out of the…