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Outside readers are passionately committed to leading an active lifestyle. Outside not only motivates readers to uncover and define their own personal day-to-day adventures, but also provides them with the tools, products and information to fulfill them.

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Off the Back of a Truck • How a small outdoor footwear company found itself entangled in a widespread crime saga

Would You Like to Look at the Desert Menu? • AARON LOPEZ recently opened a restaurant that revolves around ingredients sourced from the Southwest’s harshest landscapes

How to Snooze Your Way to the Top • The latest sleep trackers have sophisticated new features—if we could only figureout the best way to use the data

Have Mountain Bikes Gotten Too Heavy? • With modern rigs weighed down by high-performance components, two Pinkbike editors square off about whether the industry has taken things too far

Day Dreaming • Essential items for after-work treks and 14-hour missions alike

Dear Gear

Street Smarts • Rack up the miles in comfort

The Giving Trees • Heritage-grown fruit is a delicious testament of time

Apricot Snack Bars

11 Awesome Autumn Adventures Around the Globe • Summer vacation gets all the hype, but there’s really no better travel time than fall: Thinner crowds mean more peace and quiet, daytime temps are just right for hiking and biking, trees glow with radiant hues, and evenings are crisp enough for a bonfire and a jacket. Rates are also often cheaper and lodging easier to book. This year, set your wandering sights on destinations that capture the best of the season in all its splendor.

If They Build It, Will You Come? • For nearly 100 years, the automobile has dictated urban and suburban living, even though most people prefer to live in walkable communities. Culdesac, a new real estate development firm in Tempe, Arizona, thinks there’s another way—and it wants to bring carless living to a neighborhood near you.

The Beautiful Ride of Kimmy Fasani • One of snowboarding’s most accomplished athletes was filming a documentary about family, career, and work-life balance when she received a devastating diagnosis: breast cancer. Butterfly in a Blizzard, which will debut in 2025,captures the difficult and inspirational truths that emerge when an unsinkable woman is confronted with a formidable challenge.

Building Resilience • AFTER FLEEING WAR IN UKRAINE, FAMILIES FIND HEALING IN THE MOUNTAINS

Death on Shishapangma • Two American women and two Sherpa guides perished while racing for a mountaineering record. The tragedy illuminates how the recent rush to conquer the world’s highest peaks is driving climbers onto dangerous terrain like never before.

These Pants Saved My Life • In the early 2000s, word drifted down from the Alaskan wilds about an annual ball that took place to celebrate the lifesaving powers of dependable, heavy-duty Carhartt clothing. To put some extra starch in Outside’s 25th anniversary issue, we sent NATASHA SINGER to gather tales of heroic trousers and death-defying coveralls.

The Subject Was Pants • We talk to Natasha Singer about the far-flung places she explored for Outside, the intrepid, industrious, occasionally nutty souls she met, and the clothes they wore

Parting Shot