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We answer your cohabitation and codependency questions this week

A nostalgia-filled trip into the Grand Canyon

Location, location, location! This one-bedroom is close to nothing.

Trying to figure out how to show both of your dogs—with different energy levels—exactly how much you love them? We have answers to this dilemma and more in this week's lightning round.

For when you don’t have tens of thousands dollars just laying around

As artist Chuck Close said, “Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work”

And also, when to stop being a baby and learn to enjoy yourself

*Epic, as in a very long day—not we’re-gonna-die

What's the point in owning something if you're not going to make the most of it?

How to embrace the season (and your partner)

Learning to look on the bright side

A meditation on dating people who have different skills than you do

Don't try to justify what we do in the outdoors. Just enjoy it.

We need safe spaces from our addictive, IQ-lowering technology

There’s more to the season than holidays and snowsports

Because the gesture is more important than the price tag

Plus, why first dates are scary (even for falconers), and how to overcome your nerves

Who cares how you funded your nice van or thru-hike? What matters is that you're spending time outside.

We know you’ve been lacking this year—here’s how to change that

No one wants to have the conversation—but no one can avoid it, either

The trick to making it look easy is a heck of a lot of hard work

Wouldn’t you like to get away? To a place where you can be pampered and just relax? Of course you wouldn’t.

For this Tough Love, by popular request, we're doing something a little different: a semi-noncapitalist gift guide

Because sometimes during the holidays you'd rather be skiing, even if you don't want to say it out loud

And don't let anyone make you believe differently

If you have great people in your life, tell them now rather than later

Everybody has a few one-liners that always crop up in their head when they’re out hiking, skiing, climbing, and/or having a good time or bad time outside.

Hate craft beer? Dogs? Urinary tract infections? We have answers to some of the most pressing outdoors issues.

Because it’s good to stay safe and happy out there

Meet Gregory Crichlow, the man fixing bikes for underserved communities in Denver

It's no more dangerous than being a woman anywhere else in society. In fact, it may be safer.

Did you hear that? What was that? Some possibilities:

Advice for taking a really, really long hike with your significant other

Sometimes people are looking for more than a good belay

In the end, what it comes down to is this: Choosing to have wonder in your life, or not

Outside's love guide answers your most pressing questions about dating, breakups, and everything in between. Today, we discuss how to make sure everyone has fun—from stoner to straightlaced, slow to speedy, risk-averse to reckless.

And the very important lessons we can learn from them

The most ground-breaking invention ever

Outside's love guide answers your most pressing questions about dating, breakups, and everything in between. Today, we discuss an argument on peeing, canoe custody after a breakup, and getting outside when depressed.

Or anyone who's run farther than is reasonably fun

The key to a successful adventure can be as simple as showing up

Outside's love guide answers your most pressing questions about dating, breakups, and everything in between. Today, we discuss dating as an outdoorsy high schooler and dealing with sensitive men.

The definitive guide to being the definitive expert in any situation

He's not just the greatest climber on the planet—he may be the greatest person, period

Outside's love guide answers your most pressing questions about dating, break-ups, and everything in between. Today, we discuss significant others who are scared of insects and intimacy.

Outside's love guide answers your most pressing questions about dating, break-ups, and everything in between. Today, we discuss dating Instagram influencers and what to do when your significant other plans a great trip—but doesn't want you to come along.

Outside's love guide is here and answering your most pressing questions about dating, breakups, and everything in between. Today, we discuss dating as a climber and how to handle breakups when there's a dog in the mix.

Outside's love guide is here and answering your most pressing questions about dating, breakups, and everything in between. Today, we discuss the power of vulnerability.

Outside's love guide is here—and answering your most pressing questions about dating, breakups, and everything in between. Today we discuss the marital pains of canned sardines, camp-friendly alternatives to engagement rings, and dating in a van.

Outside's love guide is here—and answering your most pressing questions about dating, breakups, and everything in between. Today, we discuss being unable to hang on a running date and when it's okay to snot-rocket in front of your beloved.

We sent our intrepid writer—a transplant from New York City—to look for love in America’s most outdoorsy town

Outside's love guide is here—and answering your most pressing questions about dating, break-ups, and everything in between. Today, we look at a gear-obsessed boyfriend, staying safe as a queer person while camping, and cheesy outdoor proposals.

Couples who ski together stay together, right? But even if neither of you will ever click into a pair of bindings, you can learn from these eight dating tips.

Ever wonder where terms like "gnarly" and "steazy" come from? So did we.

Our writer went searching for love on skis and rejected just two snowboarders in the process

Our hard-earned lessons (clean up the van before a first date) and the advice we still stand by (sex in a portaledge—great idea!)

Climber turned photographer Sagar Gondalia has carved out his own warm, fuzzy niche in the world of paid portraiture

Valentine's Day is coming, so we put together a list of gifts that will help you truly enjoy spending the night outside

We witnessed sad sharks, baby bison in danger, and more puffins than any one person deserves to see in a day—and we've determined which streams you should watch.

From meetings facilitated by Conrad Anker to moving into the van together

There’s no easy way to say goodbye to a friend, especially when they’ve supported you through your darkest times. Denali is the story of photographer Ben Moon and his beloved dog, Denali. A collaboration between director Ben Knight, producer Ben Moon and…

Most of us shower daily to stay clean. But from a scientific standpoint, our modern hygiene habits are overrated.

New research suggests your pet really loves you, just not necessarily in the way you think.

So you’ve promised your significant other you’ll do something romantic this weekend. Trouble is, you still haven’t planned anything. But don’t worry: there’s a way to turn a regular walk in the woods into an amorous getaway. Just grab your favorite daypack, fill it with these five items, and pay…

Grappling with social cues in a foreign country

Recent nuclear power plant leaks haven't been as extreme as, say, Chernobyl, but they're still scary. So when should you keep calm and when should you run for the hills?

No kidding around here. This goat has eight legs.

Humans have noted the phenomenon of avian migration for several thousand years and produced some misguided explanations for a bird's return home come spring—Aristotle hypothesized that redstarts mysteriously transmogrified into robins for the winter, then back again—but only in the past decades have we begun to grasp just how birds manage such a feat.