HIKING & CAMPING

Photo By Kelly Bracken Today’s Photo of the Day is “Wrestling Ground Squirrels” by Kelly Bracken. Location: San Pedro, California. “While waiting for a completely different shot, I noticed the ground squirrels starting to hassle each other,” explains Bracken. “After a few attempts, they broke into a full-on wrestling match!” Want to get your images

Home » Motors » SUVs on Fire : Ford, Lincoln Recall Nearly 200K Vehicles Ford Motor Company will recall the 2015-2017 Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs due to fire risk. Ford and Lincoln full-size SUVs became the subject of a Ford Motor Company recall in the wake of reports describing fires. According to documents

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+ Sign up for Outside+ today. Hikers can universally agree: One of the best things about hitting the trail is the snacks. Talking about food gets us

“Ultralight” and “durable” are rarely synonymous. If anything, most ultralight hiking gear is known for its impermanence. It could be pinholes in your inflatable sleeping pad, a tear in your 7-denier nylon sleeping bag, or gashes in your nearly transparent tent fly. Anyone who has made a concerted effort to drop their baseweight has likely

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+ Sign up for Outside+ today. In his documentary series “The National Parks,” filmmaker Ken Burns extolled the populist nature of what he refers to as “America’s

I can’t recall a more anxious sunset. Color seeped out of the skylight in the branches above my campsite, and with it, hope for escape. Each advancing second brought the walls of the forest closer, while the trailhead seemed to creep farther away. Soon it would be too dark to move. And there were bears out

Since I picked up my first camera about 15 years ago, I’ve loved wildlife photography. While you can capture beautiful wildlife images with a wide range of lenses, nothing beats a telephoto lens for getting close-up shots of your subject. With a long lens, you can photograph wildlife from a safe distance without disturbing them.

Home » Biking » Pivot Shuttle LT: The First E-Bike I Actually Wanted The Pivot Shuttle LT hits the ground running with a motor mounted low in the downtube to drop the center of gravity, long-travel suspension, and massive disc brakes. Pivot became an early e-MTB adopter in the U.S., and now it introduces a

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+ Sign up for Outside+ today. This hybrid, running vest-style daypack has been my companion on scrambles, jogs, and casual rambles this summer. The lightweight, stripped-down bag

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+ Sign up for Outside+ today. Most of the time, my vanity works against me. This is a story about one time that it didn’t.  A couple

Congratulations to Joe Campbell for winning the recent Telephoto Landscapes Assignment with the image, “Death Valley Sunrise.” See more of Campbell’s photography at www.jcproductions.photography. View the winning image and a selection of submissions below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment here and enter your best shots!

While it may fill a very specialized niche, the Stone Glacier Terminus 7000 backpack stands out from the crowd for more than its sheer size. The Stone Glacier Terminus 7000 is an immense backpack. With a capacity of 7,000 cubic inches, it’s almost exactly twice the size of our top-rated backpack for hiking. It’s also

Are you planning a trip to Olympic National Park and looking for the ultimate bucket list experience? Look no further than the Mount Storm King Trail in Olympic National Park. This hike is challenging, scenic, and perfectly encapsulates the beauty of the Olympics. That’s why it’s often rated as one of the best hikes in

Do you dream about hitting the trail for a long—really long—hike? In Ask a Thru-Hiker, record-setting long-distance hiker Liz “Snorkel” Thomas answers your burning questions about how to do it. Dear Snorkel, My thru-hike this summer changed my life. The bad news: Now I have to go back to work, and all I can think about