HIKING & CAMPING

Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is nestled on the state’s Lower Peninsula between the fresh waters of Lake Michigan and forest-capped bluffs. In 2021, the 71,000-acre park welcomed 1.7 million people. Increasing visitation across our country’s parks adds to the urgent need to protect and preserve these iconic places and resources for generations 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+ Sign up for Outside+ today. I feel for Lloyd Athearn, the executive director of the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative. When Athearn isn’t overseeing trail maintenance on the

Photo By Marti Phillips Today’s Photo of the Day is “Rhapsody in Blue” by Marti Phillips. Location: Death Valley National Park, California. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners

Home » Water » Insurance Kerfuffle Cancels Classic Colorado Class V Kayak Race Those looking forward to whitewater thrills from Colorado’s Gore Race will face disappointment this weekend — ’cause it just got canceled. Organizers canceled one of Colorado’s classic kayaking events today after losing their event insurance. Paddlers should have dropped into the Class

Congratulations to Christopher Baker for winning the recent Adventure Sports Photography Assignment with the image, “Sunset Kayaking.” See more of Baker’s photography at cscottphoto.smugmug.com.

Home » Motors » Check Out the Hat Rack of SUVs: 2022 Lexus LX600 F Sport Review The Lexus LX600 wears many hats, be it people carrier, off-roader, or luxury cruiser. The Toyota Land Cruiser lives on in the United States, albeit with a luxury bent, in the form of the 2022 Lexus LX600. Built

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When Jenny Bruso started hiking ten years ago, she couldn’t find a single rain jacket made for her plus-size body type. So, for the first three years after she started hiking, she resigned herself to getting soaked whenever she ventured out in wet weather. (She lived in the Pacific Northwest, so this was pretty much

You might think adaptive climbers face an entirely different set of challenges than their able-bodied counterparts. But according to one paraclimber, you’d be wrong on one big account. Austrian paraclimber Angelino Zeller knows what climbing success is all about. The two-time International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World Champion and multiple World Cup gold medalist

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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+ Sign up for Outside+ today. In backpacking parlance, a “luxury item” is anything you bring that you don’t need to—the gear that isn’t necessary to keep

In part 1 of this two-part Tip of the Week, the opening sentence stated, “We learn from our mistakes.” It holds true in part 2 in all the same ways. What differs are the types of scenics I highlight along with the techniques I incorporated to create each. In part 1, I provided examples of

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