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Put a number on your mountain skills
Chattanooga, TN, won Outside's Best Towns contest in 2015. It's the only city to ever win the contest twice, so we decided to check it out for ourselves.
Chattanooga is known for it's incredible network of mountain biking trails, which no doubt helped the city win Outside's Best Towns Contest in 2015. It's also home to one of the country's top titanium bicycle manufacturers, Lynskey Performance Designs. …
Chattanooga is a climber's paradise. Residents have easy access to tons of different crags, and one of the coolest climbing gyms we've ever seen. …
Chattanoogans consider the Tenessee River their personal playground, and it's easy to understand why. Home the first inland paddle board shop, one of the largest SUP races in the country and multiple clifflines for deep water soloing, it's easy to understand why Chattanooga is a water town. …
When the founders of Litespeed decided to get back into the bike business in 2006, they chose to stay in the city they'd always called home. Now in their eighth year, Lynskey Performance Designs continues to create some of the coolest titanium bicycles you can buy. …
Our first impressions of the all-new 2016 Toyota Tacoma
Thanks to freezing temps, stringent rules, and nasty winds, the Antarctica Marathon, held every March on the world's largest ice sheet, is every bit as brutal as it sounds
A quick way to faster recovery and fewer injuries
Google's virtual climbing projects are getting most of the press, but Mammut beat them to the punch—by nearly a year
If your upper-body strength leaves much to be desired, here's a bit of advice.
Award-winning weed meets high-quality destination
From survival strategies to kindling tricks to impress your friends, we’ll cover it all so you can make sure you’re warm and well s’mores-ed
The track star’s name is everywhere these days, but what’s the big deal?
The company's response was fast. And honest.
Electronic shifting comes to mountain bikes. Hallelujah?
Episode 5: Pro kayaker Steve Fisher has always dreamed of running the Merced River in Yosemite National Park. For a long time the descent was illegal, but not anymore. …
The Wild is a short film featuring surf prodigy Noah Beschen, and is the 2015 REDirect Surf Film Festival Grand Prize Winner. The festival is a filmmaking competition to see who can create the most unique and original surf shot of the…
Frostbike is a mountain biking film with a bit of a twist. The crew from Morrocco Media spent two days at Glenshee Ski Centre in Scotland with Lewis Summers to see if it was possible to make a mountainbiking film on snow. The anwser,…
Photojournalist Max Whittaker takes you right to the fire line.
There's nothing quite like hitting the road with everything you need. Anywhere could be home for the night. It’s a liberating feeling. We asked our Instagram followers to share their favorite towable escapes and best shots from the road. Here's what they shared.
A semi-scientific guide to sussing out the cheats
Pedaling to work is a lot more fun with the right setup
Take the appropriate precautions so you can concentrate on your ride, not the pain coming from your inner thighs
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The best backpacks and organizers for your GoPro-centric life
Have a blast while keeping your bike tire side down
A primer from overall winner of the Canadian Death Race, Alissa St. Laurent
We give the big outdoor brands a lot of love at OR—and for good reason. This year, however, we also wanted to highlight the little guys.
As children, if not as adults, we all dreamed of having a tree house. Well, it’s never too late to fulfill that dream. If you don’t know where to start, you can find inspiration in these two coffee table books from publishers Dom and Taschen. These beautiful and simple designs are sure to get you making sketches of your own.
Sick of carrying a heavy cooler into rugged or hard-to-reach spots? Igloo has you covered.
Don’t have a big yard? No problem. Here are some tips and essentials for our party-minded urban dwellers.
Equipping yourself to be a one-person A/V Club should be a point of pride
Dispatches from the longest footrace in the world
Lowepro just made the new go-to adventure photo pack that features four-season protection and enough storage for a pro camera setup
The driving's so much easier when your Point B is a pint
A resourceful, cozy escape overlooking Puget Sound
Margaritas are great, but these new recipes will knock your socks off
This may be the coolest set of bike tools we've ever seen
As people in Durango watched the Animas River turn a neon shade of orange last week, a pair of rafters took to the water to deliver a message
Millionaire Forrest Fenn launched a thousand trips when he filled a chest with gold, rubies, and diamonds, and hid it somewhere north of Santa Fe. If one man is going to find it, by god, it’s an ex-cop from Seattle named Darrell Seyler.
The jack-of-all-trades swaps the pigskin for an ice axe (and the tent for a real bed)
It's your final chance of the day to recover from training and to prep muscles for tomorrow's adventure. Follow the lead of these eight athletes.
With grown-up leadership and slick production values, the World Surf League is betting that it can attract a mainstream audience online
Spill is three times worse than originally thought
A lush hideout just a few miles from the city
An inside look at Katie Ledecky’s rise to greatness that will leave even non-swimmers awestruck
In 2010, a renowned art dealer from New Mexico named Forrest Fenn reportedly hid a treasure worth more than a million dollars somewhere in the mountains north of Santa Fe. He then published a book called The Thrill of the Chase that contains clues regarding the treasure's…
Patagonia 8K, from Martin Heck at Timestorm Films, explores the beautiful and rough landscapes of Southern Chile and Argentina. The crew aimed to deliver the most realistic experience possible, and shot roughly 100,000 frames in 8K resolution on a medium format camera to create…
“Blue zones” where entire communities live longer, better lives aren't just for grownups. Here’s how you can craft them in your own neighborhood.
The coolest outdoor toys don't always cost a fortune
If the Rocky Mountains aren’t close enough, there are plenty of other treasures you can search for
Filmmaker Matt Duddles shot this timelapse of star trails and the Milky Way over Mercey Hot Springs in California, in May of 2015. It's only two hours from the Bay Area, where light pollution would make this kind of timelapse photography impossible.
There's nothing like greeting the sun with a fly rod in hand. Filmmaker Corey Robinson captured one such morning spent with his father in the Adirondacks in this short film, Five Minutes' Peace. …
Our favorite titanic throw downs from the last half century
It’s tough to beat the ranch dog’s daily grind: They run around all day, swim in water troughs, and, of course, keep the crazy cows in line. Anyone who's lived with one cannot live without.
