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Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+. Outdoor apparel brand Patagonia has pledged to support employees who plan to protest today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to...

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+. Mount Everest’s Base Camp, in Nepal, may have a new location in the coming years. Last week, officials with Nepal’s...

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+. It was the night before the NCAA regional cross-country championships, and the team I coach was about to face off against...

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+. National parks broke dozens of attendance records last year, making this summer a challenging time to visit any of the sites...

Many people are surprised to learn Nevada holds some pretty wild superlatives: the state is home to some of the oldest living organisms on Earth, is more mountainous than any other state in the Lower 48, lays claim to the darkest skies in the contiguous U.S., and is second only to Alaska in the percentage of public land it harbors. Safe to say, the Silver State is so much more than casinos, tranquil desertscapes, and the famous Lake Tahoe. (Although these are worthy attractions too!) For the full Nevada experience, check out some of these lesser known treasures that make for a surprisingly unique vacation.

Whether you’re looking for your next camping meal, a dish to impress guests, or a grill-able side to round out dinner, we’ve got you covered with these five recipes to make while out in the open air. 1. Dutch-Oven Sausage, Peppers, and Onions. Serves 4. Ingredients. 3 tablespoons...

After kicking off an enormous slide on a familiar backcountry run in Colorado, our writer was forced to reconsider his relationship with skiing. Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+.

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+. Dear Sundog: I was backpacking some 12 miles from pavement when I came upon a pair of hikers blasting music from...

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+. The 2022 World Athletics Championships, the world championships of track and field, will be held on U.S. soil for the first...

Hiking isn’t just a hobby—it’s a lifestyle. Maggie Slepian tackles the hiking life—and all of the joys, problems, arguments, and weird quirks that go along with it—in her column. I have attempted exactly one lottery-based backpacking permit in my entire life. It was for the...

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+. On June 12, Yellowstone National Park and nearby communities in southwest Montana experienced historic flooding, wiping out key infrastructure and forcing...

In the FX’s new series The Old Man, starring Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow, and Amy Brenneman, Bridges’s character—a CIA defector living off the grid—has to leave home fast when an assassin shows up. He grabs his bug-out bag and splits, eluding danger, and that got us thinking: Shouldn’t we all be that prepared? You don’t have to be in hiding to make self-sufficiency a priority. If you need convincing, just consider the recent rise in wildfires, hurricanes, and catastrophic floods.

In the FX’s new series The Old Man, starring Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow, and Amy Brenneman, Bridges’s character—a CIA defector living off the grid—has to leave home fast when an assassin shows up. He grabs his bug-out bag and splits, eluding danger, and that got us thinking: Shouldn’t we all be that prepared? You don’t have to be in hiding to make self-sufficiency a priority. If you need convincing, just consider the recent rise in wildfires, hurricanes, and catastrophic floods.

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+. Mainstream film and TV productions rarely get bikes right. Probably the last American movie to lend cycling any verisimilitude was Breaking...

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+. I remember long runs most. My absolute favorite workout was a 14-miler with the middle ten fast. The kind of run...

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+. If you want to buy a trail mountain-bike helmet these days, you’re in luck. Half-shell helmets—the most common style for mountain...

In celebration of Father’s Day, here are some of our favorite memories of biking, hiking, and getting lost with dad. I had just turned eight years old, which meant I finally got to go on the annual Barronian backpacking trip with my dad, uncle, and cool older brothers and cousin. I’d wanted to join them for several years but was: (1) a brat and (2) too small. After promising that I wouldn’t complain, I packed my little clothes in a JanSport backpack. Then we set off for a lake in the Cascades. We got to camp, I had to pee, and my dad realized I’d yet to learn the backcountry squat. He poorly mimicked the action, told me to pull my sweats all the way to my ankles, and sent me on my way. I dropped trou, did a tiny squat directly over them, and peed squarely into my sweats. After hearing my yells for help, Dad extricated me from my mess and strung up some paracord to hang the pants dry. Once I was comfortably zipped into a pair of dry jeans, I thought my embarrassment was behind me. That ended when a few friendly deer wandered into camp and started treating the sweats like a salt lick. Some advice to the outdoor parents: ask mom to teach your daughters backcountry bathroom technique. —Abigail Barronian, senior editor.

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+. Earlier this year, I wrote about a Swiss study that suggested (with apologies to Yogi Berra) that cycling up a mountain...

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+. Do you ever look at the news, or just the weather outside your own window, and fear the future is going...

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+. For urban travelers, second-city tourism means skipping a country’s most iconic city to enjoy a destination that’s still impressive yet less...