Outside Magazineflipped into Adventure Travel4 hours agoThis Year's Wildfire Season Didn't Devastate Our Parks. Next Year, We Might Not Be As Lucky.verified_publisherOutside Magazine - Emily PenningtonThis week, Yellowstone officially reduced its fire danger from “high” to “moderate” and Rocky Mountain began to close park roads due to snow. It’s safe to say that this year’s fire season is coming to a close. What began with the driest January and February in California’s recorded history and …
Outside Magazineflipped into Outdoor Culture7 hours agoThe I-Am-a-Baseball-Fan Fitness Plan™verified_publisherOutside Magazine - Danielle SepulveresIf someone mapped my brain, 80 percent of it would glow a steady blue and orange, with the synapses simmering down during the off-season, then firing on all cylinders from spring training through to the playoffs and World Series. My team—the New York Metropolitans—do that to me every year. They’re …
Outside Magazineflipped into Outdoor Culture8 hours agoHow Not to Trap a Raccoon, a Nick Offerman Confessionverified_publisherOutside Magazine - Nick OffermanA dead possum. Damn my eyes. I had gone through all of that rigmarole and trial and error with my cage trap, doing my damnedest to humanely relocate a bothersome raccoon, and this is what I get. Although I bear no particular love for possums—they are among the creepiest mammals around—my heart was …
Outside Magazineflipped into Outdoor Culture9 hours agoDavid Quammen’s ‘Breathless’ Is A Riveting Account of the Race to Understand SARS-CoV-2verified_publisherOutside Magazine - Elizabeth Hightower AllenEditor’s note: Outside will be hosting a live Q&A with David Quammen on Thursday, October 13, at 6 P.M. Mountain Time. Join us on Zoom by registering here. In March 2020, I was busy devouring The End of October, a novel by Lawrence Wright about a deadly new virus that shuts down the globe as …
Outside Magazineflipped into Outdoor Adventure21 hours agoI Was Lost for Nine Days in the Backcountry. Here’s How I Survived.verified_publisherOutside Magazine - Andrew Devers as told to Emma VeidtI couldn’t help but appreciate the beauty of the spot where I would probably die. The cuts on my knee were getting infected, and I didn’t have the energy to move, but I didn’t want to leave, anyway: Salmonberry bushes surrounded the plush, mossy rock where I lay, so I ate from a buffet of berries …
Outside Magazineflipped into Outdoor Adventure23 hours agoLong Live the Dirtbag Rock Climberverified_publisherOutside Magazine - Delaney Millerdirt·bag | \ ˈdərt-ˌbag Slang: a dirty, unkempt, or contemptible person, via Merriam Webster The origins of the word dirtbag are obvious. Literally, it comes from a 19th-century reference to bags of dirt. Modern connotations may evoke a range of emotions, from the pride of the all-in mega …
