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Nalgene bottle: A durable, wide-mouthed vessel originally designed to hold chemicals.
Pour-Over Coffee: A method of brewing coffee by passing near boiling water through grounds held in a paper filter.
Lifetime Warranty: A company’s promise to repair or replace an item that breaks.
Odor Control: The relentless attempt by apparel makers to tame human stink.
Surfboard Fin: A structural element, usually made of wood or fiberglass, attached to the bottom of a surfboard to aid maneuverability.
Wetsuit: An insulating garment that allows individuals to spend more time in cold water.
Mountain House: Maker of 33 varieties of tasty freeze-dried meals packaged in polyester, aluminum, and nylon pouches.
Two towns bonded over their Best Towns rivalry
Gatorade: A sports drink formulated in 1965 for the University of Florida Gators football team and currently produced by PepsiCo.
Leatherman: A multitool invented by Tim Leatherman after wishing he had a pair of pliers while working on a rust-bucket Fiat with a pocket knife during a 1975 European road trip.
Backcountry.com: Online retailer of a wide range of outdoor gear.
Kite: A lightweight aircraft—often erroneously considered a toy—propelled by the wind and controlled by a user on the ground via a line or set of lines.
“I got annihilated,” says Porcella
Researchers show health, visibility effects
Safety assessment finds little damage
From Teton Gravity Research
Active opposition, budget doubts compel city to withdraw
Citing avalanche risk, summit climbers turn back
Some our favorite images from this year's Tour de France stages in the French Alps.
Bipartisan bill to reauthorize LWCF
Demonstration for better road safety
Including race leader Froome
During Ueli Steck's 82 Summits project
Because getting barreled unkindled is too easy
Cites “fortitude” and “courageous spirit”
Film on Jim Harris’ spinal injury recovery
TV host is an avid fly-fisherman
Brandon Semenuk sequence coincides with iTunes release
Yuri Milner funding biggest SETI project ever
First Indian Ocean races in Continental Championships
To prevent and eliminate doping
Chart-topping year continues in summer months
The three-time world champion escaped injury
With crash-filled stages, an American competing for the podium, and an astonishingly dominant performance by Chris Froome of Team Sky on Tuesday, it’s been an exciting start to the 2015 Tour de France. These images do the action justice.
True-story adventure thriller stars DiCaprio, Hardy
Public drinking an issue after speed record
Shannon Rowbury sets American record
Gives travelers easier access to Alps
After surviving Everest avalanche
Returned to a route Anker failed to complete in 1988
Will complete two stages for a leukemia charity
Circumnavigation delayed until 2016
‘Ashes to Agassiz,’ coming August 25
For charity fundraising
With petroleum as his paint, English photographer Simon Norfolk took to Africa’s second highest peak, Mount Kenya, to outline the mountains’ vanishing Lewis Glacier.
A visual appreciation
Jed Mildon of Nitro Circus sticks it
Lobbyists seek to overturn ban
Number of climbers on summit to be reduced
Montana runner Mike Foote finished second
In California, Texas, and Nevada
Strong showing despite decline from 2014
Burning near Mount Adams
Suffered altitude sickness at base camp
According to new data from fitness apps
Bad weather turns Stage 5 dangerous