Table of contents for June 2015 in Outside

TAIT TRAUTMAN Last November, Trautman and professional kayaker Gerd Serrasolses traveled 600 miles from Santiago to Entre Lagos, Chile, to paddle the Golgol River, which was swollen with record floodwater. “It rained as much as two inches a day during last winter’s storms,” says the Driggs, Idaho, photographer. Two weeks into the trip, Trautman shot this photo of Serrasolses running a 20-foot waterfall in a heavily bouldered section of the river, normally impassable were it not for the endless days of heavy rain. “I was pretty sure Gerd was one of the first people ever to paddle it,” Trautman says. THE TOOLS: Canon 5D Mark III, 70–200mm f/2.8 lens, ISO 640, f/6.3, 1/8,000 second NICK KELLEY Last December, Kelley, an associate editor at Out side Online, spent a week with…

Mount Elbert and Mount Massive The two tallest peaks in Colorado stand southwest of Leadville. The most traveled routes are fairly moderate as fourteeners go, making them popular day hikes. Elbert’s Northeast Ridge route climbs 4,700 feet in nine miles through forest, meadows, and talus to a broad, rounded summit. Mount Massive’s East Slopes route climbs 4,500 feet in eight miles along a well-traveled trail. Arkansas River For anglers, the 102 continuous goldmedal miles of the Arkansas begin eight miles downstream of Leadville at the confluence of the Lake Fork. Walk and wade for rainbows and browns. Colorado Fly Fishing Guides leads trips on the Arkansas and several lakes, and has exclusive permission to fish private waters on the Lake Fork (from $135; alpineskiandsport.com). The whitewater ranges from rollicking Class…

Outside 1 BORN TO RUN BY CHRISTOPHER MCDOUGALL (2009) It launched the barefoot-running craze and the maximalist backlash that followed. (When was the last time a work of literary nonfiction sparked not one but two multimillion-dollar gear booms?) But it started with an injury-prone author hoping to change his life. The genius of McDougall’s breakthrough book, set in Mexico’s rugged Copper Canyon, is not his much debated defense of minimalist running shoes; it’s his ability to make readers experience the rush of sprinting alongside the Tarahumara Indians and their fearless advocate—the American expatriate ultrarunner known as Caballo Blanco—through beautiful and treacherous terrain. 2. RED BULL STRATOS (2012) After years of planning and one canceled attempt, Red Bull put Austrian dare -devil Felix Baumgartner in a cap sule and sent him…

OUTSIDE STYLE CAMILO ROJAS NOT LONG AGO, THE WYNWOOD ART DISTRICT, WHERE MANY OF THESE PHOTOS WERE SHOT, WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A COLLECTION OF RUN-DOWN WAREHOUSES. BUT IN 2009, DEVELOPER TONY GOLDMAN RECRUITED 30 ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO PAINT GRAFFITI-INSPIRED MURALS ON EVERY WALL. CAFES LIKE ZAK THE BAKER AND PANTHER COFFEE SOON FOLLOWED, ALONG WITH STUDIOS AND BIKE SHOPS. “MIAMI IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING, AND ALWAYS IN VERY ARTISTIC WAYS,” SAYS ROJAS, 33, WHO WORKS AS A GRAPHIC DESIGNER AND PADDLEBOARDS, PLAYS SOCCER, AND FREE-DIVES IN HIS SPARE TIME. CASEY LEVENS IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, MIAMI’S ACTIVE COMMUNITY HAS GONE FROM THE FRINGES TO THE FOREFRONT. EACH NEIGHBORHOOD NOW HAS ITS OWN RUNNING CLUB, MOUNTAIN-BIKE PARKS HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED, AND 4,000 RIDERS PARTICIPATE IN CRITICAL MASS…

Something Fishy We’re living in a time when Americans are more discerning and informed about the fuel they put into their bodies than at any other point in history. That’s had a transformative effect on the food industry. It’s no accident that the decade-long proliferation of Whole Foods and package labeling— cage-free, no antibiotics, total calories, organic, local—has coincided with the recent struggles of McDonald’s and Coca-Cola and the nationwide availability of organic milk at Walmart. Today’s consumer wants to know what he or she is eating: how it was raised or grown, what it was injected or sprayed with, and how it got to the shelves. If you’re in the food business and you can’t provide that information, or you’re selling a product that makes answering those questions uncomfortable,…

1966 Onitsuka Tiger Mexico 66 The first Onitsuka to have the tiger stripe was worn by the Japanese team at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. $85; onitsukatiger.com 1978 New Balance 70s Running 410 A throwback to the era when New Balance went from mom-and-pop shop to global footwear power. $64; newbalance.com 1978 Nike Roshe LD 1000 The brand’s original long-distance runner, in all-original colors— though not, sadly, with the original waffle sole. $90; nike.com 1982 Karhu Albatross The Finnish bear catches your attention; the subtle twotone keeps it. $80; karhu.com 1990 Reebok Ventilator The shoemaker aired out the clammy trainer of the day with firstever ventilation panels. $75; reebok.com 1994 Saucony G9 Control Premium Nothing screams the nineties like suede—and pink. $120; saucony.com…

LAST WINTER, Cam McRae was mountainbiking around a blind corner in North Vancouver, British Columbia, when he hit a log lying directly across the path. The 49-yearold flew off his bike and landed on his back. While he was shaken, he wasn’t surprised— it was one of many obstacles McRae has encountered that he believes were deliberately placed in order to harm mountain bikers. In December, two area riders set up wildlife cameras and caught Tineke Kraal, a 64-year-old hiker, placing similar traps. She was arrested in January. Kraal isn’t the only hiker to be accused of trying to injure mountain bikers. In May 2013, a 57-year-old psychiatrist named Jackson Tyler Dempsey was sentenced to 30 days in jail and two years of probation for stringing shoulder-level nylon rope across…

HEALTH, FITNESS & NUTRITION BODYWORK SPECIAL: PERFORMANCE NUTRITION Part I: Breakfast (March) Part II: Lunch Part III: Dinner (September) THE MEAL Pork Tacos THE CHEF: TRIATHLETE BEN HOFFMAN Hoffman finished second at the 2014 Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, the best result for an American in half a decade. To get to the podium, his fuel strategy focused on convenience. “I train in Tucson, Arizona, and tacos are everywhere,” he says. They’re also easy to cook. “When you’re training six to eight hours a day, you don’t want to put a ton of effort into making food,” he says of his pork and pinto bean tacos. “I can throw the meat in the Crock-Pot and then put these together quickly for the next few days.” WHY IT WORKS: Beans…

SHREDDERS OF a certain age will recall a time, before the ramps needed staircases and the trick names started to sound like mathematical proofs, when skateboarding was all about style. These were the Z-Boys days. The Jay Adams days. The sun was out, the waves were flat, and the farther back you could lean with your feet piled up at the nose and your hands pitched behind your back was the pinnacle of cool. That’s the era a cruiser board like the GoldCoast Jetty aims to resurrect. Seven slabs of Canadian rock maple pressed with deep concave ensure a ton of board feel underfoot, while the punk-point nose and bold graphics invoke backyard pool sessions fueled by Black Sabbath and the Stooges. At 27 inches long, the Jetty is unlikely…

SIXTY SECONDS into her run through the football-field-size course of NBC’s hit TV competition American Ninja Warrior, Meagan Martin encountered an obstacle called the Jumping Spider. Martin, a professional climber who lives in Boulder, Colorado, was the first woman to finish a qualifying course, and no woman had ever completed the Jumping Spider, which requires racers to spring up into a corridor between two suspended walls and make their way to a platform on the other side using outward pressure from their arms and legs to keep themselves aloft. She paused before hitting the trampoline and heard someone in the audience shout, “You could be first!” Then she bared down, jumped, and stuck the landing. The crowd roared. Martin isn’t the only climber to break through boundaries on the show,…

ESCAPE FROM: NEW YORK CITY Hit an Uncrowded Beach Skip the four-hour traffic jams in the Hamptons in favor of the North Fork’s vineyards, farmers’ markets, and peaceful villages, like Orient. Orient Beach State Park is the perfect jumping-off spot to swim, fish, or SUP. Eagle’s Neck Paddling Company rents kayaks and offers sunset and full-moon tours (rentals from $35; eaglesneck.com). Stop by Orient Country Store to pick up egg and cheese sandwiches for breakfast and a slice of brown-butter spice cake for later. Base out of the five-bedroom Orient Inn, where the owner can set up bike rentals and suggest routes that pass the region’s best wineries (from $245; orientinn-ny.com). Climb On Some of the East Coast’s greatest rock climbing is less than two hours north of Manhattan, in…

ON THE MORNING OF MAY 26, 2014, two Alaskan state biologists were in a Cessna floatplane, counting fish from the window as a pilot took them down the Alaska Peninsula, a huge, curved harpoon of land that juts toward Russia from the southeast. Just then they were in an area fronting Kamishak Bay, on the coast north of Katmai national Park. ¶ seen from above, the peninsula’s landscape looks like a runny soufflé, a cracked and wrinkled pillow of mossy tundra perforated with hundreds of inkblot lakes. In the distance, the biologists could see glaciers twisting off the flanks of Mount Douglas, the 7,021-foot volcano that stands sentry over one of Alaska’s diciest water passages: the maritime pinball machine known as the shelikof strait. no roads lead in or out…

WHEN RORY BOSIO , a 29-year-old pediatric intensivecare nurse from Truckee, California, lined up at the start of Chamonix's ultra-Trail du mont-Blanc in august 2013, she didn't expect to win. She had finished fourth in the women’s division the year before, on a snow- shortened 62-mile course. She had never won a major race, and to the small but tough field of women starting in 2013—like Catalonians Núria Picas and Emma roca, top finishers in the Skyrunner World Series and the Marathon des Sables, respectively—Bosio was all but unknown. No ultramarathon is easy, but among the growing inventory of 100-milers, the UTMB is particularly fierce. A 104-mile loop that circumnavigates the 15,771-foot Mont Blanc massif, passing through France, Italy, and Switzerland, the route requires ten climbs that total some 31,500…

BEST FOR: GOING FAST Skechers GoRun 4 $100 A flexible minimalist with a thin slate of foam protection, the GoRun 4 is a radically light (7.8 ounces) trainer catering to efficient, soft-landing midfoot strikers. The foam isn’t especially responsive on push-off, but the shoe is still animated enough to move quickly on speed days. The extremely roomy forefoot makes it a great pick for wider feet. One odd design quirk: the sock liner is narrower than the midsole, so your forefoot feels like it’s hanging over the sides, but it’s hardly noticeable after a few miles. 7.8 oz; 4 mm drop; skechers.com BEST FOR: LOGGING MILES Nike Flyknit Lunar 3 $150 No question—the updated Flyknit Lunar is the best shoe of the year, especially for putting in long days. Dropping…