The Mug That Also Cures Muscle Soreness
The Mobot Big Bertha is the ultimate après tool When looking for the right travel gear, utility is always key. It’s for that reason alone that the Mobot Big Bertha Bottle has tightened its grip around my dirtbag heart. A…
Black Diamond Launches Heated Chalk Bag
Click:MacyPan> Numb fingers at the crag? Black Diamond says no more! Dropping Sunday, the company introduces the Hot Forge heated chalk bag. And it can be yours for $60. Black Diamond has long leaned on its athletes to help develop…
The Story Behind the 52-Year-Old Woman’s K2 Summit
Masters Athlete The Story Behind the 52-Year-Old Woman’s K2 Summit A driven, patient, and injured Vanessa O’Brien becomes the oldest woman—and first American one—to summit the Savage Mountain Facebook Icon Twitter Icon sms email Aug 28, 2017 Aug 28, 2017…
Tricking Your Partner into Liking Outdoor Activities
> A romantic partnership is a beautiful merging of once separate passions and interests. Research shows that sharing experienceswith those you care about amplifies those activities. A study in Psychological Science found that individuals who did something positive together were…
Making #VanLife Work with a Family
Talking to the Longnecker family about life on the road When Jonathan and Ashley Longnecker sold their house two and a half years ago to move into a massive fifth-wheel RV with their four children, they had never been in…
Have 50 Years of Overcrowded Parks Taught Us Nothing?
> After World War II, Americans flush with cash and vacation time (then a new concept) started exploring national parks in droves.After 1945, the final year of the war, visitation skyrocketed. Yellowstone alone saw 189,000 people—more than double the year…
How Mike Foote Set an Obscure 24-Hour Skiing Record
> Residents of Whitefish, Montana, were curious about why the ski resort just north of town left the lights on all night. Night skiing ended March 3, and now it was Saturday, March 17—Saint Patrick’s Day. If they had pulled…
When to Have Kids When You Work in the Mountains?
> In January 2018, a helicopter lifted off the ground in British Columbia’s Purcell Mountains, leaving a knot of 11 skiers crouched in its wake. Shannon Werner stood up and led the group down the slope, tasked with finding the…
Oatmeal Is Still the World’s Best Performance Breakfast
Sure, it’s old fashioned. But it’s also nutritional rocket fuel, and athletes are making it taste great. Here’s how. In a world of green juice and chia seed pudding, this age-old dish is the original, and perhaps most powerful, superfood,…
Inside the Lab That's Quantifying Happiness
At the University of Vermont, mathematicians in the Computational Story Lab are reading your tweets and learning a lot about our collective well-being Facebook Icon Twitter Icon sms email In Mississippi, people tweet about cake and cookies an awful lot;…