Innehållsförteckning för June 2017 från Outside

EARLIER THIS year, an ice storm moving across the Midwest caused power outages in thousands of homes, a 20-car pileup in Wichita, Kansas, and six deaths. It was one of the nastiest weather events of the season, but it was notable for another reason: it was the first to be tracked by NOAA’s new geostationary weather satellite. Launched last November, the GOES-16 is among a new fleet of NOAA spacecraft that will dramatically improve the weather data available to scientists and meteorologists. This means everything from more accurate forecasts for powder chasers’ weather apps to robust images of hurricanes rolling toward the eastern seaboard. “For forecasters, these satellites are the most critical tools we have,” says Joe Pica, director of NOAA National Weather Service’s office of obser vations. “The GOES-16…

“Left turns only—right turns need not apply.” The sentiment is so often seen on pro-runner bios that it’s become cliché. Yet it’s true: distance athletes hammering 400-meter loops spend half their time hanging a Louie. It took an outside-thebox newcomer to integrate this basic truth into the design of a track shoe. The result is Hoka One One’s Speed Evo R. With swooping, asymmetrical sprint plates extending to the outside of the right heel and the inside of the left, runners have something to brace against while riding the bend. Even the pair’s eight spikes are specially positioned for pushing or railhugging power. Credit Hoka’s athletes for spending the past two years providing feedback while training for a trip to Rio. If at first glance the Speed seems like a…

TIRE SIZES ARE starting to resemble algebra equations: 26 x 4.8, 27.5 x 2.6, 27.5+ x 3.25, 29 x 2.4, 29+ x 3.0. But the numbers all add up the same—wider equals better. From a little extra girth on “normal” tires to the monstertruck treads of fat bikes, bigger tires are becoming the norm for their superior grip and comfort. “By increasing tire size, you increase the amount of rubber contacting the ground,” says Chris Cocalis, owner of Pivot Cycles. “That extra traction gives you confidence.” But there are drawbacks to a bigger tire, in the form of increased weight and rolling resistance. Finding a happy medium spawned the plussize trend; threeinch tires on 27.5inch rims are an optimal compromise between heft and grip. That search for an ideal tractiontoweight…

Spithill has been a fixture in the America’s Cup since 1999, when at age 19 he was the youngest helmsmen ever to compete in the event. He went on to win it in 2010, becoming the youngest to do so, and won again in 2013. This summer in Bermuda, the Australian- born sailor will lead Oracle Team USA’s bid to retain the oldest trophy in international sports. (They’ll face the winner of the qualifying races, which begin May 26.) The 37-year-old’s secret to staying on top? Stepping away from the boat. He’s an avid boxer and paddleboarder, and he occasionally flies planes with the Blue Angels and the Red Bull Flying Bulls. “Cross-training with other sports helps me use muscles that might not get exercised as much on the boat,…

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ITINERARY 1 PADDLE THE ADIRONDACKS New York Adirondack Park is the largest publicly protected area in the contiguous U.S. Its 330,000 acres are predominantly wet and home to more than 3,000 lakes and ponds and 30,000 miles of rivers. With St. Regis Canoe Outfitters, you can knock out a pristine section of the park northwest of St. Regis Canoe Area on its threeday Floodwood Pond Loop. Along the way, you’ll have your choice of fishing holes, including the sandy bottom at Clear Pond. Pick a new campsite each night, and spend a day on Long Mountain— accessible only by boat—for views of the forest from the summit. Two-day guided trips from $299, with canoe rentals from $210; canoeoutfitters.com ITINERARY 2 FIND PHILLY’S WILD SIDE Philadelphia From a burgeoning trail system…

1. KAYAK Ontario’s Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area, the 84-mile shoreline of Pukaskwa National Park, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, or Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Unless you’re an ex pert, sign up with an established kayaking company, like Naturally Superior Adventures (naturallysuperior.com) near Wawa, Ontario, or Living Adventure (living adventure.com) in Bayfield, Wisconsin. 2. FERRY OR FLY TO ISLE ROYALE, an 893-square-mile national park that’s 99 percent wilderness and the least visited in the lower 48. Hike 165 miles of trails, kayak the 400-plus-island archipelago, and camp along the trail. 3. CATCH FISH . Reel in salmon, steelhead, and lake trout on a Baha cruiser fishing boat that leaves out of Taconite Harbor on Min - nesota’s north shore with Tofte Charters (toftecharters.com). 4. EAT FISH. Smokehouses, delis, and…

It all starts with the Catch. This is the origin story—when Beau Kittredge separates himself from the pack and becomes just Beau in ultimate circles. Watch the video at normal speed and you almost miss it. But slow it down and you can see the moment unfold. A player in a yellow jersey throws the disc half the length of the field—some 35 yards. One of his teammates is chasing it down, running at full speed, stride for stride with a defender in a black shirt and white baseball cap. They close in on the disc as it arcs and floats down. Then, suddenly, another player in yellow appears—Kittredge. He’s taller than the others and moving faster, but he’s out of position, the defender blocking his path. He has no…

LAST FEBRUARY, on an unseasonably warm evening in Washington, D.C., 30 city d wellers gathered indoors at a bar in the Adams Morgan neighborhood to talk about going outside. A woman in her twenties arrived looking like she’d jogged over in her work clothes, and another lamented that she hadn’t been able to reserve space for the event, called Mappy Hour, outdoors. Mappy Hour—a portmanteau of maps and happy hour—got its start three years ago in New York City. The idea, says 26-year-old cofounder Alex Tilsley, is to “trade beta on adventures, facilitate relation ships,” and generally make it easier for city-bound people to do what they love: get out doors. The premise is that sometimes accom plishing those things means hanging out in a neighborhood pub, drinking beer, and…

FOR MANY wingsuiters, merely flying through the air isn’t enough anymore. Despite the danger— there were at least 35 wingsuit fatalities in 2016—the stunts have gotten increasingly outlandish, from Jamie Flynn veering past the arm of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro to the late Uli Emanuele hurtling through a literal ring of fire. But 42-year-old Fraser Corsan sees little value in manufactured stunts. The Brit simply loves to fly. “You can coast above the clouds, next to them, through the holes in them,” he says. Which is why, over the course of two jumps he’ll perform this spring, he wants to glide faster, longer, farther, and from higher than anyone has before. Here’s how. Corsan wants to set the speed record on a jump over Davis,…

Alex Honnold Has a Soft Spot for Pulling on Plastic “I started climbing at 11, when my parents brought me to Granite Arch, near our home in Sacramento. I’d never heard of rock climbing before. My dad would take me there—we’d bring our lunches and make an adventure out of it. I wore headphones with a Walkman on the wall, listening to Megadeth and Creed. When I climb indoors these days, I get the most out of the ratty old gyms. The resin holds from the mid-nineties, mini finger buckets, Nicros, Metolius. It takes you back. I hear Creed at the gym now and I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, I’m 14 again.’ Climbing in a gym isn’t as adventurous as climbing a mountain, but you have to take it for…

IN THE OPENING minutes of the 2006 AFC championship game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Pittsburgh Steelers, Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer hurled a 66-yard pass to wide receiver Chris Henry. As Palmer released the ball, 299-pound Steelers tackle Kimo von Oelhoffen corralled Palmer’s left leg with his right arm, leaving the star quarterback writhing on the ground. The instant replay revealed a nausea-stirring inward collapse of the knee, which tore Palmer’s ACL. In the off-season, Dustin Grooms, an intern trainer with the Bengals, watched as the team frantically tried to rehab Palmer’s shredded ligaments and cartilage. Grooms was baffled by their approach, which included ice, elevation, soft- tissue treatment, and strength work. They had millions of dollars at their disposal, yet the techniques they were using, says Grooms, “weren’t…

AT THIS point, it’s old news: thriving on a meatless diet can be done. Ultra- endurance athletes like Scott Jurek and Sage Canaday have forsaken animal protein with tremendous results. The No Meat Athlete Cookbook wants to help the rest of us do the same. “Our aim is to create simple, filling meals to fuel workouts and life,” says vegan health coach Stepfanie Romine, who cowrote the book with ultramarathoner Matt Frazier. “It’s a combination of Matt’s favorites and recipes I cook with my husband, who often bikes 200 miles a week and needs 3,500 calories a day.” Hitting numbers like that without calorie-dense meat is one of the challenges they hoped to address. The result is an uncomplicated guide to fueling a team of cyclists or a family of…

“HERE’S THAT tricky spot,” Scott Speedman shouts back at me as we trot down an abrupt section of granite trail carved into the San Gabriel Mountains above Los Angeles. “That’s just down and death right there.” Speedman, a boyish 41 with close-cropped hair and blue eyes, is in the middle of filming the second season of Animal Kingdom, which sounds like a Discovery vehicle for late-night bong rips but is in fact a grimy TNT surf drama shot in Oceanside, California. “Every time somebody asks me about it, they ask me if I’m the host,” he jokes. “I get all offended. I’m like, ‘No! It’s a metaphor for a crime family! Do I look like a host for the Discovery Channel?’ ” Speedman, whose insanely athletic Scottish parents found love…

I’m in the back office when I hear Jake’s screams echo across the factory floor. We have no idea what’s happening, only that there’s no 911 to call— not out here. I’ve got my everyday carry tucked into my holster—a Glock nine-millimeter semiautomatic pistol, with a bullet in the chamber and seven in the magazine. I slip extra ammo into my back pocket and yank my 12-gauge out of a bag. This isn’t your grandpa’s duck gun, either: it’s a matte black Mossberg 500 Tactical Persuader, a tough piece of metal that meets military standards. The chk-chk of the pump action is calibrated to tell all the goblins to buzz off. I’m the last person you’d expect to see packing heat, but after the crash things have gotten freaky out…

The Convergence If I’ve learned anything during my tenure at Outside, it’s to never be surprised by the twisted sufferfests created to shake up competitive racing. In 1978, a year after this magazine was founded, the first Ironman triathlon was held in Hawaii. At the time, completing a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, and 26.2- mile run seemed to mark the outer limits of human endurance. Now it’s more or less routine. The multisport movement went on to birth hundreds of iterations in the decades that followed—including events that doubled and even tripled the Ironman distance. The exploding popularity of ultrarunning, meanwhile, has rendered the marathon, once the pinnacle of the sport, a tune-up event. More recently, we chronicled the rise of a second endurance-sport trend: obstacle racing. Its arrival…

Stephanie Gilmore learned to surf on a boogie board near her hometown of Murwillumbah, Australia, when she was ten. Nine years later, in 2007, she won the world title during her first year on the World Championship Tour. The 29-year-old now has six titles (and is currently on the hunt for number seven), has already been inducted into the Surfers’ Hall of Fame, is on the advisory board of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and shreds the guitar. It’s no wonder she goes by Happy Gilmore. We asked Kelly Slater, the only person we could find who has won more titles, to explain just what makes her so good. KELLY SLATER: I first saw Steph surf on the Gold Coast of Australia when she was still a teenager. Her style…

PIPELINE IS FIRING the day I get my soft-top, a hot pink nine-foot log. Imagine the stares I get as I paddle out. I’m not expecting much, but the next thing I know I’m locked into a big one, getting spit out of a barrel. I can’t stop laughing, thinking, Holy shit, these boards are the real deal! They allow you to approach each wave differently. Since soft-tops are less threatening to hardcore surfers, the competitive vibes vanish. You don’t worry about cracking your head or shins like you do with a fiberglass board. And because they paddle so well, you can catch anything. Big closeouts. Tiny rollers. Eight-second screamers. You’re always finding different lines, and you ride every wave until your fins hit the sand.…

Outdoor Research Gauge shirt $59 This ultralight hotweather shirt is made of Polartec Delta, a new wicking fabric that strikes a balance between clammy cotton and fast-drying polyester. A combination of hydrophobic and -philic yarns knit into a honeycomb structure moves moisture to the outside of the fabric, where it’s air-chilled and then— important— held close enough to cool the skin. Buff UV headband $15 There are more than a dozen ways to wear the versatile, protective Buff UV and keep the sun off your noggin or the sweat from your eyes. And because it blocks 95 percent of UV rays, it helps keep you from frying, too. Deuter Zugspitze 24 pack $119 The Zugspitze is an updated version of Deuter’s 1984 classic—one of the first to sport the company’s…

Acumobility’s Brad Cox begins the rewiring process by assessing where the restriction is. In the case of a torn ACL, this could mean foam-rolling quads with full body weight. From that rather uncomfortable position, a patient flexes and extends the leg for two minutes with the surrounding muscles tensed. Sounds easy, but this is where you enter the pain cave. After two minutes, pay attention to any differences in how it feels to move and any range of motion you may have recovered. Dustin Grooms and his colleagues have produced good results by compounding movement therapies, such as multiplanar lunges, with the use of strobe glasses like those sold by MeyeND ($325). The intermittent visuals can decrease feedback to the nervous system, forcing the brain to “upregulate” the joint’s remaining…

ITINERARY 1 EXPLORE NEW TERROIR Oregon Napa shmapa. Forty years after transplants from California began settling into Oregon’s lush Willamette Valley, the region is widely recognized for producing some of the world’s best pinot noirs. There are more than 500 wineries between Mount Hood and Willamette National Forests and the coast south of Portland. Start at the southern end, at King Estate Vineyards, and splurge on dinner at King Estate’s farm-totable restaurant. Then drive north to Sokol Blosser, a B Corp– certified winery, for a hike through the 120- acre estate and lunch ($75; sokol blosser.com). Finish by kayaking six miles down the Willamette River and riding back up the Trolley Trail with the Bike Concierge on its new half-day trip (from $75; thebike concierge.com). ITINERARY 2 CAMP LIKE A…