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Photographer Todd McLellan destroyed some of his favorite old gear so he could take pictures of it. We called him up to find out why.

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How do you capture the last sunny days of summer? With a family outing on the lake.

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The official trailer to 4bi9 Media’s upcoming ski film, All Damn Day, set to be released August 2013.

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The parents of two young ultrarunners share the highs and lows of running with young rippers

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We compare the best carriers for bringing your kids into the outdoors.

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Two literary lions deliver long-awaited epics about espionage and globalization

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One of the top ultrarunners in America is a pathologist and a mom to boot. She shares a few of her secrets for anyone trying to fit training into their schedule.

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We find more joy in our kids' pleasures than our own, especially when it’s joy about a surprise present from the big, wild world

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Traveling is one of summer’s biggest joys. But it’s possible to get too much of a good thing.

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The new trailer to Sweetgrass Productions' upcoming ski film, Valhalla, set to be released Sept. 13…

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Yes, you can tour France with kids without ever setting foot in the museum. And it’s cheaper (and a hell of a lot more fun for everyone) than you’d think.

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This six-inch-thick foam pad is half slip-and-slide, half water trampoline, and, for hassled parents, a blessing

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Facing summer’s last hurrah can be depressing, but there’s no reason you can’t carry a little bit of the warmer months through the winter.

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How a New York non-profit takes young non-swimmers from dry land to whitewater in just a few days

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Kick back and indulge in the season’s best beach books

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Just train for 10,000 hours, right? Not quite. In his new book, author David Epstein argues that top-shelf athletic performance may be a more complicated formula than we’ve recently come to believe.

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A clip from Lucy Walker’s staggering new film about Kevin Pierce and traumatic brain injury in adventure sports.

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Sometimes, it takes a little storm to show us how resilient we really are

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The family that learns to chillax correctly will be much safer on or near water. Here are some easy tips.

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Etiquette for the canine playground

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If you're looking for a dog who can keep up with you, start here

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Flying a kite may be child’s play. But done right it can be serious, no-holds-barred child’s play.

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Teaching your kids the basic physical skills they’ll need is child’s play, literally. Start improving their coordination, strength, balance, and more with these five games.

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Can you say “good genetics”? These six clans own their fields generation after generation.

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Maybe you're raising a family of kayakers and runners, but you should still teach your children to play tennis and mini-golf. Here's why.

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The founder of a SoCal startup is gearing up to give us equipment for car camping that’s right for the job and looks hot. Please, let it be so.

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Many American rivers are out of condition by the end of spring. Not this one.

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Inside the partnership of a nine-year-old bouldering prodigy and her passionate coach, from Sender Films.

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Jon Mooallem's examination of the ideal animal

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Ben Hewitt talks about his new book, Saved, and the challenges of learning to live the cashless dream

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Every year, Katie Arnold spends a month at her parents' cabin on an island in Ontario. Great for relaxation, but not so much for training.

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Last week, Mike Steere shared some tips to help parents survive their child's first year at sleepaway camp. This week, he attempts to pacify his own miserable camper, and finds out it isn't as easy as it looks.

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A writer searches for kid-friendly whitewater in Oregon

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The director of HBO's fracking documentary talks environment, contamination, and community

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On Western Spirit's guided mountain-biking tour of California, even the youngest kids can get a taste of the trail

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Even the most timid kids can get over their separation anxiety and have a great time at summer camp—as long as mom and dad don’t screw it up

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Why should kids have all the fun? At Vermont’s Tyler Place Family Camp, adults can paddle, take tennis lessons, and carve out their own slice of summer vacation alongside the children.

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The king of survival talks about his new NBC reality show Get Out Alive, mending fences with the Discovery Channel, and making regular people eat awful things. PLUS: Exclusive video clips from the new show.

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Since the birth of their first child, photographer Somira Sao and her husband have traversed the world’s oceans on a 40-foot racing sailboat, visiting six continents with their growing brood. Bet your preschool wasn’t like this.

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For the past five years, Charles Scott has taken his kids bike touring from Japan to the backroads of Iceland. Katie Arnold caught up with him before his latest trip across the American West to learn from the master.

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He's loud, he's proud, and—advisably or not—the Nuge always speaks his mind. We caught up with the 64-year-old rocker ahead of the return of his TV show, Spirit of the Wild, to talk about why he still spends his downtime hanging out in the woods.

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Over the past five years, nine new national monuments have joined the ranks of America’s protected lands. But Michael Brune, the man who heads up the Sierra Club, would like to see more. Elizabeth Hightower Allen joins him, his family, and a pack of rambunctious llamas on a tour of New Mexico’s highlands.

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A new book on the vanished age of airline hijacking captures an astonishing time. There was no airport security, and people brandishing weapons and bombs routinely commandeered aircraft around the world.

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With fire and drought ravaging New Mexico, Katie Arnold and family head up to southern Colorado on a multisport adventure

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GoPro Games champion Sage Donnelly has her eyes set on the World Freestyle Championships—and from pro paddlers twice her age to diabetes, nothing is going to stand in her way.

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From Mountainfilm in Telluride, director Roger Ross Williams returns with a different look at Uganda.

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From Mountainfilm in Telluride, a ragtag crew sails deep into a fjord in Greenland. The water channel, iced over for millenia, is open to exploration only because of global warming.

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From Mountainfilm in Telluride, welcome to the world of off-width crack climbing, a sub-genre that attracts a rare breed.

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From Mountainfilm in Telluride, Robert Stone’s newest film questions much of what we accept as fact about the negative side of nuclear as an alternative to fossil fuels.

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From Mountainfilm in Telluride, the story of pollination, an ongoing dance between flowers and the bees, bats, hummingbirds and butterflies that are essential to life on earth.

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Pandora’s Promise, a new film by Robert Stone, argues that our only chance of escaping climate-change doom is a global shift to atomic energy. David Biello has a few hard questions, including: What will we do with all that waste?

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After quitting their jobs and selling their house, Coloradoans Erica and Mark Lighthiser packed it up—kids, dog, possessions—and started pedaling north. How far will their journey take them?

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The iconic travel-writer addresses his new book and the claims that he is an "Afro-pessimist"

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From ferrying kids to preschool to hitting up the farmer’s market, Xtracycle’s beefy longtail can handle it all.

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New York Times columnist Bruce Feiler’s new book The Secrets of Happy Families has a novel strategy for overwhelmed parents in need of a break: give kids more control

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The Clif Kid Backyard Game of the Year contest encourages children to invent their own outdoor games rather than sitting in front of the TV. The top prize? A scholarship for ten grand.

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Life Lessons from the toughest, hardest, foulest-mouthed children’s author on earth. *Parental guidance suggested.

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You only get so much time with your kids before they’re grown up. After a family trip to the hot springs, Katie Arnold meditates on how best to spend it.

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W. Hodding Carter, Jack Hitt, and Anthony Doerr look back on their attempts to raise kids who love the outdoors.

A trailer from Kiss the Water, a fly-fishing oddyssey and one of our favorite films from the Tribeca Film Festival.

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Marmot Presents: DUK COUNTY, a documentary film that chronicles a bold medical mission to cure blindness in South Sudan. Produced by Jordan Campbell and Michael Herbener and due to premiere at Telluride Mountainfilm in May. (For more on South Sudan, check out Patrick Symmes’ feature story.)…

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David Oliver Relin made his name as coauthor of the disgraced bestseller Three Cups of Tea—then tragically committed suicide. Now, a major publisher hypes Relin’s posthumous history of the inspiring Himalayan Cataract Project. Should we buy it?

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The paragliding community is spitting mad about a video that purports to show a paramotor provocateur chasing and assaulting an owl for nearly seven minutes. But how do you identify the guy?

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What do rock-climbing heart transplant patients, Somali pirate hunters, and arctic cowboys have in common? All could be found on the big screen at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Of this year’s 217 films, these seven outdoor-focused picks were a cut above.

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After freeskier Shane McConkey died in a ski-BASE accident four years ago, a group of his friends created McConkey, a documentary of his adventures that is as thrilling as it is heartfelt. We spoke with two of the directors about the film.

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Anson Fogel, founder of Forge Motion Pictures and winner of more than 60 awards at outdoor film festivals, on how to get the most out of your action cam.

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If triple-digit temps are common where you live, making sure you choose the right dog for your climate is key to having a happy pooch.

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Can a new trailer bike help young kids learn the rules of the road? Katie Arnold and her family put it to the test.

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A brilliant adaptation of Kon-Tiki brings the legend of Thor Heyerdahl to the masses

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Before his arrest last Tuesday, survivalist Troy James Knapp, a.k.a. the Mountain Man of southern Utah, lived off the fat of the landowners, breaking into cabins and running circles around sheriffs and marshals with little but his physical fitness and backcountry savvy. As Knapp appears in Sanpete County court via video this morning, JON BILLMAN reports on the

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Sending your kids to camp may not be the best way to keep them active in the warm months

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Junger’s powerful new documentary about the life of war photographer Tim Hetherington shows us why dedicated journalists are needed now more than ever

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Ueli Steck dreamed of using a paraglider to enchain three of the Alps’ most famous mountains in a day. But first he had to learn to fly.

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One minute, you're checking a yardage marker for your buddy, and the next, you're being eaten by a golf course

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Katie Arnold's meditation on training for a 50-mile race

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It's natural to feel a little anxious before a trip into the backcountry with your kids, but follow these common sense guidelines and know everything will turn out fine

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Keeping the family happy doesn't have to mean sacrificing steep terrain and old-school cool

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