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Whether it's skiing or mountain biking or camping, these guidelines will make sure you and your child get to enjoy a lifetime of adventure together
Still don't know what to get dad? We've got you covered.
The BSA's latest policies are a step toward including other genders. Inclusiveness can't come soon enough.
If you exchange money for a dog, you’re doing it wrong
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This Spring, we've partnered with Portland, Oregon's Pickathon Music Fest to showcase some of the year's best new music. We're bringing you the Pickathon Old Growth Series, an ongoing series that showcases musical acts live from the Pickathon Stage in 2016. This week, we've got The Easy Leaves performing…
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.
Spend enough time in the backcountry and you're bound to have a scare, as our writer recently discovered. Here's how to teach kids what to do when that happens.
Marc Peruzzi—a small-business co-owner, the parent of a child with a congenital heart defect, and avid skier and mountain biker—on what Trumpcare could mean for outdoor athletes, and the healthcare travails his family has already faced
Better learn Lanie Szuch's name, because you're about to start hearing it—a lot
The iconic film festival has quite the spread this year, from a Nepalese man who gathers poisonous honey on high cliffs to a couple of pro climbers tandem-riding a scooter in an ode to 'Dumb and Dumber'
Each year millions of visitors flock to the Grand Canyon to witness its magnitude and sheer awe-inspiring size. However, there's a phenomenon that few people get to experience that's called "cloud inversion".
For professional slackliner Mickey Wilson, the next adventure is wherever he can park the RV.
'Every Other Day' is a film from The Noble Lab that shares the story of Rode Lewis who is a father and rancher in West Texas 180 miles outside of Ft. Stockton.
One company's plan to give adolescent girls bras to help prevent them from dropping out of the outdoor world
Plus, Outside staffers' favorite survival books of all time
We've partnered with Portland, Oregon's Pickathon Music Fest to showcase some of the year's best new music.
A new book profiles people who have devoted their lives to protecting the world’s at-risk animals
Ever since the 1950s, our books, movies, and songs have contained fewer and fewer references to flowers, birds, trees, and the outdoors. What does it all mean?
Can Baywatch the movie succeed in carrying the sad torch of the generation-defining nineties flesh fest?
A new meetup group is helping hordes of young urbanites get into nature
'The Way It Should Be - Where We Live' from Stone and Wood Brewing Co. features Dave Rastovich as he reflects on what makes this area so remarkable.
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.
The Department of the Interior is soliciting public input on the 27 monuments Trump ordered to review. Now’s your chance to speak up about what happens to them.
Mike Dalton and his now-fiancé Emily made a pact in their relationship; travel somewhere new every year. On this trip to Portland, Oregon Dalton had a surprise in store; an engagement ring.
This Spring, we've partnered with Portland, Oregon's Pickathon Music Fest to showcase some of the year's best new music. We're bringing you the Pickathon Old Growth Series, an ongoing series that showcases musical acts live from the Pickathon Stage in 2016. This week, we've got Golden Rules…
From festival favorites to hidden gems, these are at the top of our watch list
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.
Seven camps working to expand access to the places we love most
In its quest to make the audience care about leading man Percy Fawcett, the blockbuster gives us a duller, sanitized version of the real-life explorer
Trump has put 21 years’ worth of monuments under question. We can’t sit idly by as public spaces that celebrate diverse American experiences are put at risk.
From buff singletrack and high-alpine lakes to whitewater and scenic trail-running loops, Oregon’s most active beer town has something for everyone
Want to make the strongest memories? Don’t touch the camera.
A new book by two philosophy scholars imagines conversations with skeptics and deniers. Here are four lessons we learned from it.
There's a moment in a child's life when she's old enough to go on a real trip yet still young enough to want to hang out with her parents. These travel tactics and tools will help you seize that window.
Some of the greatest videography from the tenth-annual Carbondale event
The works that kept Alexi Pappas running, spurred Bill McKibben to fight for nature, and made Laird Hamilton… Laird Hamilton.
Just because they have lacrosse practice doesn't mean you have to sacrifice outdoor adventures
On Cinco de Mayo, a group of swimmers will set out from a beach in San Diego and swim south, landing in Tijuana, in defiance of President Trump’s restrictions and rhetoric on immigration
This week, we've got The Easy Leaves performing "The Wheels."
Seems like everyone has a cause these days. These women are actually making good on their promises.
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.
For the past ten years, 5Point Film Festival has inspired, taught, and united the outdoor community through adventure films, art, and musical performance.
The superstar DJ trained for months to be able to make the hike to Everest Base Camp for his live show
We sent our intrepid writer—a transplant from New York City—to look for love in America’s most outdoorsy town
Devyn Bisson, a 24-year-old internationally acclaimed filmmaker, traveled to Greece in 2015 to document the volunteers who save refugees' lives during the dangerous sea crossings. Her movie premieres this summer.
For more than a century, the Girl Scouts has been the most well-trod path for junior explorers to get into adventure. But what comes after the Thin Mints and craft badges is a troop for sisterhood, winter camping, and some serious archery.
What happens when a Black woman decides to solo-hike the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine during a summer of bitter political upheaval? Everything you can imagine, from scary moments of racism to new friendships to soaring epiphanies about the timeless value of America’s most storied trekking route.
Grab a car and a buddy, then check out 40 miles of mysterious, awesome outdoor art installations
From filmmaker Eric Becker, A Higher Crawling is a film starring two titans of climbing. Shelby and Reyka are the rising stars of the under-6-month-old age bracket.
Turns out runners and bikers both love Ed Sheeran, while CrossFitters can't decide whether they want to turn it up or get angry
Remember that place that campaigned for Americans to move there if Trump won? Well (sigh), it's beckoning. Welcome to idyllic Cape Breton, population 132,000 and shrinking.
This week, we've got Town Mountain performing "Coming Back to You."
How two digital editors are using the online encyclopedia to advocate for women in our world
New shows we're excited about, plus our editors' picks for road trips and long runs
Hold your nose: we need to play dirty if we want to protect our public lands
A new bill would open up wilderness areas to bikes—but the arguments in favor of it don't hold water
As her daughters get older, our correspondent wanted to pass along a few things that running has taught her
Social media can expose tens of thousands of people to places in an instant. That's a double-edged sword.
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.
Our favorite hidden-gem outdoor blogs and websites
Colorado will soon be home to a 35,000-strong book collection that's all about the culture and conservation of natural places
The Pulitzer Prize finalist spent two years visiting 12 sites around the world for an ambitious new book that reveals the surprising—and surprisingly fascinating—arboreal secrets hidden in the canopies of ordinary trees. Paul Kvinta meets with the real-life Lorax on New York's Upper West side and learns why white men never stand in the shade.
In one town's debate over how to honor its snowboarding roots, we can all learn something about what makes an artistic homage feel just right
How the National Winter Activity Center is raising the next generation of skiers
This week, we've got the Foghorn Stringband performing "Fall On My Knees."
Sometimes the greatest outdoors companion comes with four legs, a tail, and a whole lot of wet kisses
Leif Haugen is a lookout for the U.S. Forest Service in Northern Montana. He patrols his section of wilderness for any sight of lightning strikes or fires.
We know President Trump wants Los Angeles to host the 2024 Olympics. But could his policies get past a new set of anti-discrimination rules for host cities?
Teton County is known for its endless adventure—and for its tax-haven status and lack of affordable housing. We asked four residents earning between $30,000 and $200,000 how they make it work.
Paul Hawken presents a bold plan to beat back climate change based on solutions already within our grasp. Do any of them stand a chance?
Sound crazy? Not to Bekah and Derrick Quirin, who are embarking on a thru-hike with their one-year-old this March