A growing number of outfitters are offering options for adaptive athletes Recently, I got a letter from an Outside subscriber who said this: “I’d love to do any of the suggestions you raised for a bucket list, but I’m in…

The case for rethinking one of cycling’s oldest and most misused components Drop handlebars. Nearly as old as the safety bicycle itself, the humble drop bar (or what laypeople refer to as "those curly-type handlebars like they use in the…

> After over a century together, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the Boy Scouts of America are calling it quits, effective December 31, 2019. What does that mean for the country’s largest outdoors program? I spent…

For more than two decades, Jeff Caldwell has lured in hikers, couchsurfers, and other women (and they’re almost always women), enthralling them with his tales of adventure. Then he manufactures personal crises and exploits their sympathy to rip them off.…

> Some troubling statistics from the CDC: Instances of tick-borne diseases in humans have doubled over the past 13 years. From 2004 to 2016, nine new germs spread by tick bites were identified. About 385,000 Americans were diagnosed with diseases…

> Of the 6 million people who visit Grand Canyon, only 1 percent venture below the rim. A fraction of those cross the canyon in what’s called the rim-to-rim hike. An even smaller group turn back around and do it again,…

> Don’t be fooled by all the overzealous adventuring that goes on out here at our Santa Fe office. As much as we’d like to be able to snap our fingers and run an ultra, crush an all-day ride, or…

A new book delves into the science of mountain-ultra-trail running If you thought the qualifying procedure for the Boston Marathon was complicated, check out Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, the iconic mountain-ultra-trail race whose 2018 lottery opens next month. More than 17,000…

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The books, movies, music, and podcasts we couldn’t stop talking about in November It’s the time of year when a lot of us start spending more time in airplanes and cars to visit family. Let our monthly culture obsessions be…