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Home » Water » GoPro Mountain Games Recap: From Kayaks to Splash Dogs, the Games Have It All To call the GoPro Mountain Games frenetic may be an understatement. The 20th anniversary of the all-things-outdoors festival in Vail this past weekend offered an array of sports, activities, and music that stretched for 6 days. Each

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 darkness, fog, or dense vegetation, traditional line-of-sight routefinding won’t work. “Low visibility is the worst-case navigation scenario,” says Stephen Hinch,

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As my photography evolved, so did the desire to capture more than a basic image of a given songbird, raptor, shorebird, wader, etc. While I still happily press the shutter when I see a great head or full body image through the viewfinder, my ultimate goal when I head into the field to make photos

Home » Footwear » Trail Races With No Laces: Naked Launches Slip-On Running Shoe The T/r trail racing shoe features a laceless design, a knit cuff that functions as a built-in gaiter, and more. Nothing sucks more than stopping in the middle of a race to fix some errant laces. The solution? Go laceless. That’s

Like oil-burning lanterns and flannel-lined sleeping bags, the external frame backpack was an iconic piece of backpacking gear that most of us were happy to leave behind. After all, a traditional external frame pack weighs north of five pounds and has a tall, wide profile that feels ungainly in tight quarters. As camping and hiking

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A long exposure reveals the waterfall-like motion within a pahoehoe flow of Fagradalsfjall of Fagradalsfjall. The floor is lava, literally. That’s pretty much my story as a photographer of volcanos. Last year alone, I documented four active volcanoes, multiple times, throughout various locations across the globe. Photographing volcanos is an absolutely exhilarating, nerve-wrecking, humbling and

Home » News » Add This ‘Smartfin’ to Your Surfboard to Collect Data, Protect Oceans Get the ‘raddest ride’ and help gather critical ocean data by way of your board’s fin? This company says you can. Gathering ocean data in coastal environments can be difficult. Why? For most of the same reasons that surfing is

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This story comes from What You Missed, Outside’s daily digest of breaking news and topical perspectives from across the outdoor world. You can also get this news delivered to your email inbox six days a week by signing up for the What You Missed newsletter. On Thursday, the National Park Service officially changed the name of a 10,551-foot

Las Vegas is known for its casinos, nightlife, and luxury hotels. But did you know there are 19 incredible national parks near Las Vegas? Within an eight-hour drive of Sin City, you’ll find narrow slot canyons, mystical hoodoos, bucket-list-worthy geologic landmarks, and skyscraping mountains.  From Las Vegas, you can drive to national parks and national

Washington State is home to some of the best natural landscapes in the United States. From skyscraping mountain ranges to mystical rainforests to arid desert terrains, there’s no shortage of incredible things to see. The Evergreen State has plenty of beautiful state parks and three national parks often ranked as the best of America’s 63