Sometimes my legs don’t work right. My brain sends signals it shouldn’t, or it doesn’t send them at all. Always my body feels like I live above a movie theater where the vibrating subwoofer never ceases.
Native Americans once prized winter squash so much that they buried gourds beside their dead to make sure they had enough fuel for the afterlife. Who can blame them? Packed with a wealth of nutrients, squash has remained a healthy staple of fall and winter diets.
Traveling on a budget can be the best way to experience a country. Many will agree, however, that the scariest part of traveling on a shoestring is not knowing what you’re getting yourself into and not anticipating the curve balls that might be thrown your way.
It’s time to take your game to the next level. For that, look to your diet. If you’re not getting the right kinds of food before, during, and after a race or hard workout, your body may be stuck in second gear—just when you need it full on.
It’s been almost three years since I’ve seen him, three years since our bitter, soap-opera breakup and the total silence that followed, six months since he shocked me with an e-mail saying he wanted to reconnect.
Unlike most riders, 27-year-old Rachel Steinmetz tried sandboarding before snowboarding. Trekking along the Oregon coast, Rachel quickly caught on to the excitement and won the women’s championship at the 2007 Xwest Huck Fest in Florence, Oregon.
Fall can be the very best season for trail running. The air is cool, the trails are empty, and the trees can be a million different colors all at once—all factors that can contribute to long, peaceful runs with photo ops galore.
Diagnosed at 18 months with asthma, Amy Van Dyken was encouraged by her doctor to take up swimming when she was six years old. This twist of fate led her to not just swim competitively but to six Olympic gold medals.
For Sarah Heath Palin, Alaska’s wildly popular first female governor, being in the outdoors is not about rafting the toughest rapid or climbing the steepest pitch. It’s simply a way of life.
Pam Houston explains what writing and the outdoors have to do with each other.
There are a good number of important firsts in the annals of outdoor sports: In 1975 Japan’s Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest. In 2006 Kit DesLauriers became the first woman to ski from the seven summits, the highest peak on each continent (Tabei was the first to climb all seven).
As counter-intuitive as it may seem, the survival of certain threatened species might just hinge on ecotourism.
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