Sommaire pour June 2018 de Outside

On June 1, the film Adrift will join the likes of Cast Away, The Perfect Storm, and Life of Pi in the Hollywood canon of movies about people stranded in the middle of the ocean. Its path to the big screen is nearly as long and fateful as sailor Tami Oldham Ashcraft’s epic ordeal. 1983: Tami Oldham Ashcraft and her fiancé, Richard Sharp, encounter a Category 4 hurricane while transporting a 44-foot yacht from Tahiti to San Diego. Spoiler alert: Sharp dies, and Ashcraft is left to sail the damaged boat for 41 days, eventually reaching Hawaii. 2002: Ashcraft publishes Red Sky in Mourning, a memoir about her odyssey. 2006: Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur sees the documentary Deep Water, about the first round-the-world solo yacht race, held in 1968. Kormákur,…

TOD COOPERMAN drives the same way he takes nutritional supplements: in a reasonable and prudent manner. It’s a Friday morning in February, and he’s bringing me to his research office, a suite in the hills of New Jersey, about an hour outside New York City, where he has enough vitamins, herbal concoctions, and powdered bone broth to satisfy a doomsday prepper. When we arrive, boxes of green tea are spilling out of overstuffed totes on the floor. The shelves are lined with bottles containing ginkgo, ashwagandha, and CBD. Cooperman grabs some apple cider vinegar pills. “People take it for weight loss,” he says. “But the concentration of acetic acid in this is so high, it should be labeled a poison.” Cooperman earned his medical degree before founding ConsumerLab, which has…

DURING THE 5,000 meters at the 2016 Rio Olympics, D’Agostino collided with another runner and took a nasty fall on the track. The image of her and New Zealand’s Nikki Hamblin helping each other to their feet became an inspiring viral news story about sportsmanship, but D’Agostino was left with a torn ACL and meniscus. After taking five months off and gradually resuming her full training load, she has her eye on this month’s USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Here’s how she powered through her recovery. “Pay attention to energy drains. Social media is a positive thing in a lot of ways, but during my injury it could really breed comparison and negativity.” “I take a day off every week, which is pretty unusual for pro runners. At first…

KATE BRANDT has always been an overachiever. Two-sport athlete. Voted most likely to succeed in high school. An Ivy League graduate. So it’s not surprising that at 33 she’s now charged with turning Google into the world leader in environmental practices. No big deal. Especially when you consider that her previous employer was Barack Obama. Early on a busy Monday morning in March, at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, Brandt is already bouncing from one meeting to the next. Most days she’s on her computer by 7 A.M. while riding the company’s shuttle to work. Today she’s plugging away at a new Google initiative to build cities based on the model of circular economy, a concept that aims to eliminate waste and pollution by emphasizing renewable materials and design.…

Research suggests that beet juice may improve performance and endurance, but skip the beetroot powder for now—it’s not known if it provides the same effects. Caffeine can help you exercise longer, and it’s reasonably safe up to 400 or 500 milligrams—about four cups of coffee. Creatine loading, or taking a high dose followed by smaller “maintenance” amounts, helps supply muscles with energy, but only for short periods of exertion. Think high-intensity interval training, not a long-distance swim. Correcting any deficiencies in iron can improve your workout, although there’s considerable debate and conflicting evidence surrounding what exactly qualifies as “deficient.” Most athletes already eat adequate amounts of high-quality protein, but supplemental protein appears safe in moderation. (That’s about 136 grams per day for someone weighing 150 pounds.)…

I SPEND SEVERAL WEEKS A YEAR chasing waves around the world. Traveling throws your body totally out of sync. It limits your access to healthy foods, sends you into different time zones that alter your hormonal balance, disrupts your sleep, and stiffens your muscles and joints. Rather than responding to that strain with high-intensity workouts that raise cortisol levels, I rely on a stretching and breath-work routine. It counters all the sitting and subsequent hip tightness, and also resets the sympathetic nervous system, which regulates the body’s response to stress. Begin with a breath pattern and then progress through the different stretches. Hold each position for 30 to 60 seconds and repeat the stretching sequence twice. Consider it a cheaper, healthier way to survive your journey than a drink at…

THIS IS A CLASSIC story of greed, nature, fear, change, large dogs, and violent golfing, but I didn’t know that when it began. Nor did I know that I’d get sucked into the thing myself. All I knew was John Harreld walking to the water’s edge on a summer morning in 2015 in Guerneville, California. For neighbors in Harreld’s quiet river community, 90 minutes northwest of San Francisco, the image of the then 43-year-old starting his day in the sand had become a regular, if provocative, sight. Several times a week, he’d plant himself in a folding chair overlooking a gentle bend in the mellow Russian River. Sometimes a buddy joined him; other times he sat alone. The job was simple: Enjoy the beach. Sip coffee. Maybe spot an otter…

Pushing Upstream In the March work issue, we ran a story by Krista Langlois about sexual harassment occurring in the outdoor industry, especially among rafting guides, and from our inboxes to our social-media feeds, the responses universally agreed with the story’s headline: it’s time to change the culture. Part of the solution has to be that the burden and risk of reporting abuse can’t fall entirely on women. All of the good, respectful guys out there need to be encouraged to step up and say something when they witness harassment. Susie Adams Oxford, Mississippi I was appalled to read about the prevalent sexual harassment experienced by female river guides. My family has taken several rafting trips, all of them—perhaps coincidentally—with female guides. In every case, my preteen daughter was in…

In 2003, Ilona Szwarc spent a year as a high school exchange student in the Texas Panhandle town of Canadian. For Szwarc, who was born and raised in Warsaw, Poland, going to the rodeo every week and visiting her girlfriends on their ranches was novel. “It made me think: What does it mean to be a girl here?” she says. After studying photography in New York City—focusing on how young women construct their identity as they mature—she decided to return to the Panhandle in 2012, where, for the first time, she noticed girls barrel racing, goat tying, and team roping in the junior rodeo. Szwarc, now 33, decided to spend 12 weeks following the cowgirls on the circuit, capturing them as they got ready in their trailers, competed in arenas,…

A. Saucony Peregrine 8 $120 With a moderately thick midsole and good energy return, the Peregrine 8 manages to be both agile and well cushioned. Technical trails? Mud? You’ve got six-millimeter lugs, a rock plate, and a sticky, full-rubber outsole. The shoe is wide, but the thick tongue, flat laces, and padded heel collar make casual runs a dream. 10 oz (men’s) / 9 oz (women’s); 4 mm drop B. Columbia Montrail Rogue FKT II $110 If Dr. Frankenstein created a shoe, this would be it. The Rogue FKT has the burly outsole of a mountain runner, the breathability and low weight of a speed shoe, and the squishy midsole and deep heel of a comfort cruiser. (Though the midsole does sacrifice precision on rocky ground.) Our biggest quibble? The…

HANNAH GRANT, a former chef for the Tinkoff cycling team, has made a career out of creating mouthwatering food for top-tier competitors. “It’s challenging to make performance meals that satisfy hungry, exhausted athletes,” Grant says. “It has to be delicious enough that you want to eat a lot, but also easy to digest.” Grant likes to serve a hefty dose of carbs, plus enough protein to trigger the body’s repair mode. “Think lower-fat versions of comfort foods with a little bit of sweet in there,” she says. Grant’s smoky-sweet egg crepe, inspired by a recipe in her forthcoming book Eat Race Win, hits the spot after a long training day and gets you ready for a repeat performance. STUFFED EGG CREPE Servings: 4 Prep and cooking time: 55 minutes INGREDIENTS…

My parents like to say they raised my older brother, Garrett, and me in the Church of Seventh Day Recreationalists. As a kid growing up in Oregon, I remember asking them if we could actually stay home one weekend instead of camping or hiking or canoeing. They relented, but that was the exception to the rule. Through that prism, you might say I was preordained to be with my family on that bridge, with that snake, on that warm April morning in Yosemite. Through another, you might say I was overdue. Our son, Bridger, was two weeks old when my wife, Turin, and I decided to take the road trip. We were lying with him on the swing in his room, beneath a giant tree frog Turin had painted on…

men’s A. ArborWear 2-Tone Tech T-shirt $30 Tree-climbing specialists designed this odor-neutralizing cotton-poly tee with neon sleeves for visibility and a dark front that looks clean longer. B. Stormy Kromer Waxed Cotton cap $45 Waxed cotton is the original water-resistant fabric, and this lid is perfect for shifty weather. C. Filson Single Tin chaps $110 Hunters love these for their reinforced hems, flat seams, and near indestructible linseed-oiled canvas. But they’ll work just as well for gardening, fence-building, or any rough conditions. D. Carhartt Shoreline jacket $120 So you’re working the back 40 and an afternoon squall is rolling in? This nylon shell is lined with a heat-dumping waterproof membrane to keep you dry while you sweat in the rain. E. Dickies Patch Palm Goat Driver gloves $18 You can’t…