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Here's a look back at our favorite stories from Outside's new outdoor lifestyle column
From bare-bones featherweights to long-haul beasts, there’s a bag out there for you.
Dave Powers hits the slopes at Snowbird Mountain Resort six days a week, averaging 130 days a year.
Veteran Marty Pigue lives and works on the side of Highway 62 in Southern California, picking up trash to protect the environment.
The Isimba Dam threatens the rapids and consequent rafting and tourism industry that local Ugandans depend on.
Lowe’s climbing partner, Conrad Anker, and his widow, Jenni-Lowe Anker, talk about a dramatic discovery that comes more than 16 years after he and climber David Bridges vanished in a Himalyan avalanche
Show us your favorite place to run! We've teamed up with Saucony to give away a $500 Saucony gift card to our favorite photo tagged with #SoultoSole before May 23. So, whether you run on the trails or in the city, post a photo of your favorite spot! Here are some of our favorite entries so far!
More versatile than pants, and a whole lot better looking
With rock rails, built-in LEDs, and 18-inch mud tires. Oh my.
IndefinitelyWild’s weekly roundup of new and interesting developments in the outdoors. This week: Grizzly Bears, lionfish, wolves, And Rhinos. Oh my.
We put together a bracket of our 64 favorite towns in the country. See how your pick stacked up.
Snowboarding ditches the bindings to find its surfy roots on capable, powerful, beautiful boards
No, you’re not actually an expert on good coffee. But you can become one. We asked food scientists how we can use our brains when we talk about our taste buds.
The two-time Olympian is once again auctioning off advertising space on a place very near to him: his own skin
"I think that if you know there's a problem, you have to do something about it."
"The thing that gives us so much joy and purpose in our lives can end it all in a second."
Venture to Verbier, Switzerland, and be spoiled by high-alpine singletrack.
Our new 'Play Now' series highlights an epic POV clip so you can get in on the action even when you're stuck behind a desk.
American cavers were first to descend the 1,200-foot deep Sotano De Las Golondrinas, better known as the Cave of Swallows, in 1966. It’s one of the world’s largest cave shafts in the world and one of Mexico’s 13 natural wonders.
Long hauls to the mountains can get boring. More often than not, any beautiful landscape outside the car window is blocked by a huge serving of McDonald’s fries plastered on the side of a semi-truck. Now, a new project in Spain is transforming these eyesores into something people will actually want to look at. For the Truck Art Project, some of Spain’s best contemporary artists are partnering with commercial shipping company Palibex to convert 100 out-of-service trucks into moving canvases. The project launched with 10 trucks this February, with plans to introduce more this year.
Everything you need to start riding this summer
Available in two easy-to-carry sizes for your next backpacking trip
A cadre of talented new hikers are ready for the trail and beyond.
Earlier this year, adventurer Patrick Sweeney teamed up with professional mountain biker Rebecca Rusch to attempt something that's only been done once in history: climb and descend Mount Kilimanjaro on mountain bikes.
"He fell in love with that kind of escaping from society and hiding in the desert and the dust."
"Geologically speaking, a human life is only ten seconds long."
Our Local Epic is a documentary feature about saving the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River from development.
In the documentary 'The Last Time I Heard True Silence' former Marine Noah Cass enters a 50-mile wilderness race having completed only one marathon prior.
Our mission was to climb up and bomb down Africa’s tallest mountain, unsupported. As far as we could determine, Rebecca Rusch and I would be the first people to do so since two British cousins, Nicholas and Richard Crane, earned the first ascent in 1985.
Belgian photographer Johan Lolos spent a full year in New Zealand, posting pictures of his adventures on his Instagram account, @lebackpacker, working for the Lake Wanaka tourism department, and establishing a life where he gets paid to post. Here are his top shots from his year in New Zealand.
Third-party sellers are restitching old Petzl harnesses that are no longer safe to use. And Petzl is still seeking answers to a lot of questions.
If you’re going to buy a VW bus, it should be this one
Surfers, hikers, skiers, and just about everyone else in the West will continue to feel the effects of the Pacific weather event this year
Your sleeping bag is arguably your most important piece of backcountry gear.
"No one else from your previous life—before you start doing this—really understands what it is you're doing."
Kitsbow blends style and function with their new King Ridge Windbreaker.
These guys made a mountain bike video in Cairngorms National Park in Scotland—in the dead of winter.
Or one Outside editor’s commitment to stop feeding you nonsense
Three days, sixty rides, and as much beer as you can (safely) drink
The 10 best spots in Mammoth Lakes to capture epic photographs
Nine bright, floral-patterned reasons to buy cotton this season
For diehard gear geeks, there’s no more exciting category right now than jackets.
A conversation with the journalist whose 2015 surfing memoir, 'Barbarian Days,' just won the Pulitzer Prize, about tapping his passion for a book project, and what his favorite breaks are
Instead of making Sherpas carry ropes and hardware over the dangerous Khumbu Icefall, helicopters are now doing it
With its high peaks and pristine forests, there are few places more beautiful for cycling than Rocky Mountain National Park
Cnoc na Mara, an iconic sea stack off the coast of County Donegal in Ireland, makes for great climbing
An all-woman team traversed the eastern Pamir mountains, following along Tajikistan's borders with Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, and China.
In our ongoing Weekly Escape series, we aim to transport you from your desk to an incredible place in 2 minutes or less.
The only thing we love more than our own dogs? Seeing all of our readers’ prized adventure companions. So all summer, we’ll be featuring a running gallery of our favorite pups. Use #OutsideDogs2016, we'll pick the best shots, and continue adding them to this collection. Here, a few hand-picked, photogenic creatures to get the ball rolling.
The award winning journalist and documentarian has spent the past several years immersed in combat overseas and its portrayal. Why is he stopping?
Told you you were in for some vehicular schadenfreude
With state funds dwindling, what to do with a thousand pounds of mammal on the roadway, blocking traffic and attracting scavengers like bears? Tow the carcass out and deliver it to the needy.
For all-around trail riding, nothing beats the 2016 Gear of the Year winner
By European standards, Ireland’s County Donegal, tucked into the country’s far northwest corner, may as well be Mars. But for adventure travelers, it’s a hidden frontier packed with wind-bitten landscapes to mountain-bike, rowdy coastline to surf, and 500-foot sea stacks to climb. That is, if you’re brave enough.
Spending the night outside just got brighter, cleaner, and easier.
The film examines some of the common myths surrounding the grizzly bear.
"The first time she went into the ocean it just seemed to fit her. I don't why. It's just her place."
"We Sherpa people have a great respect for the mountain. We call Everest 'Chomolungma'. She's the mother god of the earth."
These trails in New Zealand are straight out of the stuff dreams are made of.
Seriously, you won't find trails like this in North America.
The forgotten history of Brazil’s mosquito wars—the greatest public health victory you’ve never heard of
IndefinitelyWild’s weekly roundup of new and interesting developments in the outdoors. This week: ultralight tents and New Jersey on fire.
We tested the 2016 Toyota Tacoma around Santa Fe, New Mexico, pushing its off-road capabilities to the limit.
Take flight with paraglider Théo de Blic in the French Alps.
Watch to get an intimate glimpse into the lives of Kay Grayson and her bears.
Set to a John Muir quote, narrated by none other than mountain climber Lou Whittaker—outdoor films don't get better than this.
Love it or hate it, people are whipping around dirt courses on bikes with motors. Last weekend, the Sea Otter Classic, an annual event in Monterey, California, that celebrates the arrival of bike season, held the first-ever large-scale eMTB race.
What Mike Horn will eat when he walks to both poles
A $70,000 4WD SUV convertible? Yeah, it's weird and yeah, it's niche. But if you like to go far, far into the backcountry in comfort and with the top down, this is your rig.
Thanks to a high protein and fiber content, spent brewing grains make energy bars that will give you a serious (non-alcoholic) buzz
Adventure in sport is a microcosm of the ups and downs you experience in life—here's how to work through it together