Inhaltsverzeichnis für April 2017 in Outside

Charlie Munsey In January 2017, the largest winter storm in 22 years blanketed southern Washington. For kayakers Will Pruett, Russ Sturges, and Fred Norquist, that meant it was an ideal time to go paddling. They headed to the Little White Salmon River, a world-renowned Class V run that flows into the Columbia. Munsey, who lives ten miles away in White Salmon, followed the group, postholing 1,000 feet down to the river in waist-deep snow to position himself. He captured Pruett moments after he descended 30-foot Spirit Falls. “I just hoped one shot would come out that wasn’t blurry,” he says. THE TOOLS: Nikon D700, 28–80mm f/3.5–5.6 lens, ISO 100, f/22, 1/6 second Jason Hummel Hummel grew up 30 miles from Washington’s Mount Rainier and has spent decades exploring the state’s…

TWO OF OUR favorite things, together at last. A style of booze that didn’t even exist a few years ago is taking over bourbon bars across the country. Like many craft spirits, there’s more than one recipe for hopped whiskey. Nashville’s Corsair throws pounds of Galaxy hops into the still to give its Galaxy malt whiskey a tropical-fruit flavor. In California, Charbay’s R5 is distilled from 6,000 gallons of IPA. Even Glen - fiddich, the Scottish giant, is bottling a scotch aged in IPA casks. The pairing makes sense—whiskey is a distilled version of many of the grains used in beer. But hops don’t traditionally figure into it. Adding them, says whiskey historian and writer Chuck Cowdery, is a “pretty natural” evolution for experimental craft distillers hunting the next splashy…

NEVER MIND the surfing for the moment— just take in his physical presence. At 21, Kelly Slater looked as if he’d been cloned from a bead of Elvis Presley’s Jailhouse Rock sweat. Today, at 45, he can out-handsome Jason Statham. At 70, he will be three-quarters Paul Newman and (sun damage taking its bitter toll) one-quarter Iggy Pop. We’ll be looking at Slater a lot in 2017, as he says it will be his final year on surfing’s world championship tour. And as we look, we will ponder many Slater-related stats and metrics, ranging from the wondrous to the surreal, beginning with his 11 world titles spread across a 28-year run as a professional. Then there are his 55 World Tour wins, seven Pipeline Masters victories, and 19 Surfer Poll…

1. Diamondback Haanjo Trail Carbon $3,100 BEST FOR: Replacing your entire outdated fleet. THE TEST: Call the Haanjo the Goldilocks of adventure bikes— just the right balance between svelte roadie and rugged mountain machine. We’ve set PRs on 5,000-foot forest-road climbs and dropped friends aboard standard road models on paved mountain descents. The carbon-fiber frame and fork had everything we wanted for dirt: tons of turbulence- eating compliance courtesy of that kink in the top tube and flattened seat - stays, which combine to allow vertical flex; clearance for up to 2.1-inch tires (on 650B wheels); a huge main triangle for carrying supplies; and mounts for fenders, racks, and three bottle cages. The Shimano Ultegra group set, including flat-mount hydraulic disc brakes that are trimmer and contribute to rear-end stiffness…

a. Withings Steel HR $100 and up Want the classic appearance of a well-crafted watch with added activity tracking? Below the stylish arms of the Steel HR is a tiny screen that displays heart-rate and movement data. b. New Balance RunIQ $300 On the surface, this is a smartwatch for runners, featuring built-in GPS, heartrate monitoring, and all the advantages of Android Wear, including music storage. But really it’s designed for folks who love Strava: it’s the first smartwatch with the app built in, allowing you to track runs and check stats even when you’re not con nected to your phone. c. Suunto Spartan Sports Wrist HR $650 Suunto’s Spartan watches have long been among the most robust multisport racing and training tools out there— featuring modes for more than…

JULY 23, 2015 WAS THE EVE OF JOSEPH LLOYD KELLER’S 19TH BIRTHDAY. The Cleveland, Tennessee, native had been spending the summer between his freshman and sophomore years at Cleveland State Community College on a western road trip with buddies Collin Gwaltney and Christian Fetzner in Gwaltney’s old Subaru. The boys had seen Las Vegas, San Francisco, and the Grand Canyon before heading to Joe’s aunt and uncle’s dude ranch, the Rainbow Trout Ranch, in the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado. The ranch is in Conejos County, which is bigger than Rhode Island, with 8,000 residents and no stoplights. Sheep graze in the sunshine; potatoes and barley are grown here and trucked north to Denver. Three new marijuana dispensaries in the tiny town of Antonito lure New Mexicans across the…

David Haskell’s Bradford pear tree stands at the northwest corner of 86th Street and Broadway on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and when we meet there one afternoon in July, he mentions that he hasn’t spent quality time with the tree in nearly three months. The previous occasion he visited, he and his girlfriend, Katie Lehman, were traveling by car to Maine from Sewanee, Tennessee, where Haskell is a professor of biology and environmental studies at the University of the South. They parked on the street, made their way to this corner, and proceeded to loiter, since there’s nowhere to sit. It was late in the day. Trucks and buses barreled down Broadway. Sirens wailed. Pedestrians flowed past the tree, faces in their phones, while belowground the Seventh Avenue Express hammered…

THIS IS A GRIM spring for those concerned about our warming planet. Last year was the hottest in recorded history, eclipsing 2015, which in turn beat out 2014. In December, climate scientists collectively freaked out after recording temperatures in the Arctic 36 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. This latest sign of global heat rash came just weeks after the election of a U.S. president who has called climate change a hoax, who vows to put bankrupt coal giants back in business, and who recruited his secretary of state from ExxonMobil. So why hope? Because the solutions to climate change may be at hand. That’s what Paul Hawken argues in Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming ($22, Random House). A California entrepreneur and bestselling author, Hawken is…

Bike commuters are like cabbies: they travel in a pre-Waze, pre– Google Maps world. Most start out taking well-known thoroughfares— Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, Broadway in Manhattan, Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Soon traffic or curiosity sends them down smaller streets, feeling out how certain routes are better at certain times of the day. Eventually, reading the mood of the city becomes second nature. Consider Showers Pass’s Atlas jacket a tip of the cycling chapeau to these two-wheeled warriors. The pattern is a mashup of street maps from 11 great cycling cities, including Portland, Paris, and Washington, D.C. When headlights hit the waterproof fabric, the maps illuminate. Thanks to a brushed lining, the Atlas is comfortable next to the skin. Tech? There’s plenty, such as long core vents, adjustable cuffs…

I WAS watching the 1,500-meter Olympic final last summer at a bar, a few months before my 35th birthday, when I first wondered if a middle-distance runner lurked within. It was a strange thought. At six-footthree and 175 pounds, I have the look of a runner but not the legs. In my early thirties, some half-assed training led to an unimpressive 22:39 5K, a 1:49 half marathon, and an almost four-hour marathon. Usually, it was a girlfriend who’d goaded me into racing. Now, in my mid-thirties, I was managing bad back pain. Still, the mile in - trigued me. It sounded short, simple. Train - ing would take much less time than distance racing (or so I assumed). And everyone runs a marathon these days, right? I’d never run a…

IMAGINE this: You walk into your office to find sunlight pouring in the many windows, every workstation with a standing desk, a cafeteria serving farm-totable food, and a full-service gym that hosts daily spin classes and boot camps. Outside, a garden allows you to pick fresh mint for your afternoon cup of tea. It sounds like a parody from an episode of Silicon Valley, but thanks to an initiative set forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, utopian workspaces like this may soon be commonplace. Over a five-year period, beginning in 2011, the agency helped analyze more than 3,000 studies published in various academic journals, looking at the variables that most impact physical, mental, and social health. The result was Fitwel: a set of 63 strategies that companies…

PAGE outside 04.17 It’s a muggy Friday morning in the Ozarks. A leanly muscled man in cowboy boots, denim short-shorts, and a tank top that looks painted on is standing in the bed of a parked pickup, addressing a crowd of hundreds. “It’s hot, guys. It’s really hot,” he says, using a microphone plugged into a beefy PA system. “What do we need to be doing today?” “Hydrating!” the crowd answers. “Beer!” someone yells. Around him, there are nearly 300 rock climbers in costumed pairs: spandex starsand- stripes wrestling singlets here, Kissinspired makeup and wigs there. A sweaty, oddly matched duo stands nearby, one in a Big Bird outfit and the other in a plush shark costume. The man in the pickup starts calling out the name that each team…

RAMEN, A SOUP traditionally made of a rich broth, wheat noodles, a soft-boiled egg, and pork or chicken, ditched its cash-strapped-college-kid image around the time David Chang opened New York City’s Momofuku Noodle Bar in 2004. Now there are fancy noodle joints everywhere from San Diego to Des Moines, Iowa. But what few people know is that ramen’s mix of protein, carbs, and electrolytes makes it a near perfect recovery food. “Getting the right amount of carbs and protein can decrease muscle damage and free-radical buildup,” says New York City dietitian and strength coach Alissa Rumsey. “Eating a meal of ramen within an hour of a big adventure can help speed recovery for the next day.” Research from the University of California at Davis also suggests that the soup’s suite…

01 Sacred Valley, Peru There’s no better place to wake up than at the new Explora Lodge in Peru’s Sacred Valley. In the heart of the former Inca Empire, the 50- room hotel sits at 9,186 feet on the edge of corn and alfalfa fields nestled between the sharp, white-capped peaks of the Urubamba and Vilcabamba Mountains. The details here are so considered that it took ten years—and three different site moves, in order to avoid building over an ancient terrace system—to construct the property. Beyond quintessential luxury, Explora is known for access to adventure and its crew of local guides, who have roots going back in the region for centuries. Founder Pedro Ibañez, who is from Santiago, Chile, and his staff customdesigned 27-day trips in the Sacred Valley, from…