Inhaltsverzeichnis für March 2016 in Outside

1. FIND YOUR STRIDE In this case, it's not where the rubber meets the road, it's how. The unique way your foot strikes the ground is an important factor to consider when choosing shoes. Not sure what foot type you have (flat or high arches) or what kind of foot striker you are (heel or forefoot)? Consult the experts at your local running store. If you're a heel striker, or just prefer a lot of love underfoot, try New Balance's new Fresh Foam 1080 Its plush cushioning makes it the ideal shoe for long runs or mellow recovery days. If speed is your thing, the Fresh Foam Zante v2 would be the one for you. The fastest member of the Fresh Foam family, it was specifically designed from data collected…

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1965: The sport’s first death was Walter Mussner, who fell just before the finish line in Cervinia, Italy, and later died. 1974: Swiss skier Jean-Marc Beguelin kept his head tucked too long and was killed after veering off course in Cervinia. 1992: During an Olympic exhibition in France, Nicolas Bochatay of Switzerland died after hitting a snowgrooming vehicle. 2005: Italian Marco Salvaggio hit a small rock while approaching the starting line and suffered fatal head trauma. 2007: In Les Arcs, British racer Caitlin Tovar lost control near the start, slid off the track, and fell 3,000 feet to his death.…

FEW PEOPLE know more about biodiversity than Edward O. Wilson. The 86-yearold Harvard biologist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner helped popularize the term in a groundbreaking 1988 report of the same name. So when he argues in his new book, Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life ($26, Liveright), that species loss is a critical threat and that we need to turn fully half the planet’s land surface into biodiversity reserves, it’s more than an idle thought experiment. “To let things continue at the present rate, we could easily be down to half the species left on earth,” Wilson told me from his home in Lexington, Massachusetts. “We could lose millions just in the next few decades.” Like many scientists, Wilson believes that the planet is currently experiencing a “sixth extinction,”…

Perch Over the Pacific At the Inn at Newport Ranch, the ranch part is meant literally: the new luxury property is part of a 2,000-acre working cattle operation, one that just happens to abut 50-foot cliffs plunging into the Pacific near Mendocino. Since this is cowboy country, start the day off with a hearty western omelet, then run, mountain-bike, or ride horseback on 30 miles of trails built from a network of old logging roads. Return for an evening soak in the rooftop hot tub as the sun dips into the ocean, then enjoy the ranch’s homegrown vegetables and local Dungeness crab for dinner. There’s an inn with three guest rooms, but you should splurge on the entire Sea Drum House, with four bedrooms and a private deck overlooking the…

FARMERS IN PARTS of central India have slept in the open on elevated platforms for decades, to guard their crops from sloth bears, chital stags, and the occasional Bengal tiger. At the new Jamtara Wilderness Camp, founder Amit Sankhala turned that tradition on its head, with an outdoor four-poster bed that can be reserved by guests on clear nights to welcome nocturnal wildlife encounters. The camp’s focus on wildlife tourism has provided surrounding landowners with the incentive to protect rather than scare off the native animals. Sankhala has conservation in his genes—he’s the grandson of Kailash Sankhala, the famed naturalist who helped establish the first tiger reserves in India—and he set his three-acre camp just outside 183,000-acre Pench National Park’s less traveled northern boundary. That means your chances of seeing…

I changed my mind about the benefits of a car that can drive itself while I was speeding the new honda Pilot (page 43) west across Wyoming on the interstate at dusk. The cruise control was set to 85 mph, and I needed to swap out my sunglasses for regular glasses. I pushed the Lane Keeping Assist button on the steering wheel, reached into my pack on the passenger-side floor, exchanged glasses, and sat back up. Meanwhile, honda’s arsenal of sensors kept the vehicle in its lane on a sweeping curve, and adaptive cruise slowed the car down to 80 mph to match the speed of a pickup ahead. The entire process took six seconds, but that’s all it required to sell me on the technology’s future.…

OVER THE PAST couple of years, American Ninja Warrior has gone from a cable-tv cult favorite to a full-blown phenomenon. there are now more than 30 ninja warrior fitness centers in the u.s.—up from five in 2013—and many crossfit and climbing gyms are adding Ninja Warrior–style obstacles. “this could quickly reach the level of crossfit,” says chris wilczew ski, a six-time competitor and the owner of movement lab, a ninja warrior gym in haines port, new Jersey. “people are realizing that it’s a really fun way to work out.” Indeed, the novel physical demands that have enabled climbers to excel on the Ninja Warrior course—last year, isaac caldiero of boulder, colorado, became the fastest person to complete all four stages—are central to its allure. but, says wilczewski, “you can’t be…

Do: Maintain alignment of your head, middle back, and sacrum (lower back). Train your body with oneminute wall sits before a workout: take a seat on the floor, extend your legs straight out, and press your head, spine, and sacrum against the wall. Don’t: Let your eyes pull you forward. The body follows the eyes, so it’s important that they remain straight ahead, not pointed down at a screen. Do: Make sure your ribs are neither tilted up nor compressed down. Adopting a wall-sit position should ensure this, too. Don’t: Puff out your chest and squeeze your shoulder blades together: “That’s the worst thing you can do,” says Hatcher. “You’re creating a muscle imbalance.” Do: Keep your sit bones pointed straight down into your chair. Extending your hands down to…

Going hard Working out to exhaustion may sound like a recipe for sinking into your pillow, but pushing past your limits actually spurs a number of physiological processes that can disrupt sleep (and diminish muscle recovery). Track your exercise carefully and look for correlations with rough nights. And pay attention to when you train—if afterwork sessions keep you up, try switching to dawn patrol. Core Body temperature Your temperature shifts with your circadian rhythm, falling when your body wants to sleep and rising when it wants to wake up. Take your temp regularly. Notice a drop of a couple degrees around 10 P.M.? Give up Jimmy Fallon. Don’t be surprised if you start rising earlier— and recording an elevated temperature when you do. Diet Minor sensitivities— particularly to inflammatories like…

Silverpeak apothecary is the only cannabis shop in aspen, and probably all of Colorado—perhaps the world—where a 74-yearold, four-foot-eleven, bespectacled Jewish grandmother greets you at the door. “i’ll show you around,” ellen Haas cooed last September as i entered the shop on east Cooper avenue, hidden below street level, near a rolex retailer, a ralph lauren boutique, and a lululemon store. a retired fashion designer, Haas first ventured into Silverpeak to seek relief for her rheumatoid arthritis. “i educate people now,” she told me, clutching my arm with surprising strength. i looked around the 1,500-square-foot space, where expensive lighting fixtures warmly illuminated a range of marijuana products set out on recessed shelves. With its white brick walls and two-tone wood finishings, Silverpeak has been compared to an apple Store and…

The american West is our handsome conundrum—too beautiful to use, too useful to be left alone, as a Colorado journalist once put it. In the past, the landscape seemed so enormous that conflicting dreams could find room in its whistling emptiness. Now there’s not much left that we haven’t touched, and we argue about how to manage what remains—a quarrel over whose dreams should come first. Nowhere is the argument louder than in the creased country of eastern Utah, a place you know even if you’ve never been there: stone arch and sunburnt canyon, perfect desert sky. The area is home to marquee national parks like Arches and Canyonlands, but much more of it exists as sprawls of federal land that, taken together, are larger than many eastern states. Some…

Mark Sisson, one of the biggest names in fitness, has preached for years that a neo-paleo combination of protein and fats is the ultimate per formance diet. Lately, he’s been telling his followers that they can even relax on the dietary guidelines a bit—while getting outside to pla y more. Can it really be this simple? T. J. MURPHY bought in for a year and achieved shockingly positive results. Ask a group of marathoners why they run, and then count how many of them say, halfseriously, “So I can eat as much as I want.” The wish list usually includes carbheavy foods like pasta, fruit, mac and cheese, pancakes, and cap’n crunch. For decades now, the value of carbs for improving performance and preventing bonks has been drummed into the…

1. “Disappearing on our bikes didn’t just give us more freedom. It gave us the opportunity to fuck up.” 2. “ ‘You didn’t really push him off, did you?’ Karen asked. She still had the pistol against his head, and had switched hands.” 3. “She continued to toss handfuls of ashes saying ‘goodbye mother.’ How could her mother become ashes? She reminded herself of the ways of the earth.” A. David Kushner, Alligator Candy: A Memoir ($26, Simon and Schuster) B. Jim Harrison, The Ancient Minstrel ($25, Grove Press) C. Rick Bass, For a Little While ($28; Little, Brown) Answers: 1. A; 2. C; 3. B…

1. The local delicacy is the soft shell crab sandwich, and the best one is at I Got Your Crabs, in Kitty Hawk. Be sure to pick up a souvenir T-shirt for your most obnoxious friend. igotyour crabs.com 2. The outer Banks Brewing station in Kill Devil Hills is the country’s first windpowered brewery. Get the Lemongrass Wheat Ale and grab some cans to go. obbrewing.com 3. Get your Wright Brothers on by launching a hang glider from the tallest sand dune on the East Coast at Jockey’s ridge state park. Call Kitty Hawk Kites for a lesson (from $99; kittyhawk.com). 4. Alligator river national Wildlife refuge is home to two apex predators. Paddle the marshy inlets by day and you’ll see gators; at night you’ll hear red wolves howl.…

Autopilot features will save lives eventually, but at present they’re hit or miss. One car I tested, with emergency-braking assistance, wrongly detected a steep on-ramp as a wall, stopping so abruptly that I nearly ended up with someone’s bumper in the back -seat. Others failed to work in rain or snow. Toyota, which debuted pedestrian detection in its vehicles this year, says the idea is to assist motorists, not do the driving for them. The problem: once vehicles start pitching in, our attention tends to drift, and we blithely believe we no longer need to make split-second decisions. Furthermore, picture grinding to a 4x4-access-only swimming hole. now imagine that experience scrubbed of drama, of asking yourself: Will we make it? That’s the automated future, where driving is akin to an…

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ELITE TRAINER and exercise expert scott Johnston has been delivering a lot of bad news lately. All too often, he has to break it to clients that high- intensity interval training (hiit)—short, super- intense workouts widely promoted to time-crunched athletes— isn’t a shortcut to aerobic fitness. “it’s been a popular myth that you can substitute intensity for duration,” says the co-author of the 2014 groundbreaking book Training for the New Alpinism. “that’s a huge mistake for most endurance athletes—it will make you go backward.” It’s a hard habit to break, says Johnston, because those HIIT workouts feel so good, releasing happy chemicals and buckets of sweat. And while you might improve your pace in sprint efforts, Johnston cites studies showing that interval training can actually reduce aerobic function and that…

Inbox Walk Do a chunk of e-mailing during a stroll with a smartphone voice assistant like Google Now (Android), Siri (iOS), or Cortana (Windows). Hijack Workspace Relocating to that sofa in the lobby or bench in the atrium for noncomputer tasks will force you to sit in a new position. Stealth Workout Rows train back muscles that aid alignment. Attach a resistance band to the wall behind your desk. Pull either side back until your elbows hit 45 degrees, hold a few seconds, and repeat. Do three sets of ten.…

The island of Mikomoto is a barren, windswept, wave-battered chunk of basalt infested with sharks and scoured by current, and looks as if it erupted from the fever dream of a malarial sea captain. Six miles offshore of Japan’s quiet port town of Minami-Izu, its waters are so treacherous that the 25-acre uninhabited island was chosen in 1870 as the site of one of the country’s first stone lighthouses, a 75-foot tower wrapped with black stripes. For Mark Healey, these are all the ingredients of a good time. “This should be fun,” he says as the Otomaru, our 40-foot chartered fishing boat, pulls into a rocky cove. Clad head to toe in a three-millimeter camouflage wetsuit with fins to match, he looks like he just swam out of a Special…

Built to Last Ranking products by life span, as experienced by Outside editors. 1 year North Face Trail Shoes 5 years Rab Shell 12 years Patagonia Water Shorts 43 years Stormy Kromer Hat IN MY THIRD YEAR as a whitewater guide in Oregon, I made an assumption that would haunt me for the rest of the season: that the waterproof jacket I had relied on for the past two years would continue to keep me dry. Those four soggy months revealed to me a singular problem. Though manufacturers have tried to root out animal cruelty and wasteful packaging, they’ve ignored how quickly many shirts, jackets, and other performance apparel wear out. Thankfully, that’s starting to change. “There is a lively debate right now around how to design for longevity,” says…

Take the Plunge Skip the bottled H2O and treat even the sketchiest tap water with the Grayl Ultralight system, which lets you scrub a pint with an easy Frenchpress-like motion. Equipped with Grayl’s travel filter, it handles bacteria, protozoa, and viruses, and is good for 300 uses. $60; thegrayl.com —CHRIS COHEN BY THE NUMBERS The Airline Industry IT’S A GREAT TIME TO FLY. (SERIOUSLY!) LOW OIL PRICES MEAN LOWER FARES. $15.7 BILLION ESTIMATED U.S CARRIER PROFITS IN 201 5. 8% DROP IN AIR -FARE BETWEEN OCTOBER 2014 AND OCTOBER 2015, ACCORDING TO AN E XPEDIA STUDY. two MONTHS PRIOR TO DEPARTURE YOU SHOULD BUY DOMESTIC TICKETS T O SCORE THE BE ST PRICE, ACCORDING TO THE SAME STUDY. The Amazing Multifunctional Dream Coat The BauBax travel jacket is Kickstarter’s most…

Two years ago, Detroit touted a new generation of fuel-efficient yet robust V-6 engines as viable alternatives to the iconic, gas-guzzling V-8. The reason? Boosting fuel economy ahead of the government’s mandate that manufacturers’ fleets average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. This year marks the next step as automakers roll out brawny four-cylinder engines in pickups, SUVs, and vans. Take Ford: it joined the V-6 movement with a version of its F-150 with a 2.7-liter six-cylinder turbo that pumped out only 12 pound-feet less torque than its massive five-liter V-8 and delivered four more miles per gallon. now the company has gone even further, dropping a tiny 2.3-liter four-cylinder turbo in its 2016 explorer SUV. That’s smaller than the engine in a 1,400-pounds-lighter Fiat 500X. With that kind of…

TESLA MOTORS MODEL X The Good: A 250-mile range, autonomous driving, and zero-to-60 acceleration that bests Corvette’s. The Bad: Falconwing rear doors make it all but impossible to haul boats, bikes, and skis on a roof rack. The Ugly: The price tag. entrylevel models start at $80,000, though that didn’t stop tens of thousands of buyers from preordering. VOLKSWAGEN GOLF SPORTWAGEN ALLTRACK The Good: The 4Motion AWD system switches to front-wheel drive on mellow surfaces (for improved fuel efficiency) and sends power to rear wheels on crud. The Bad: Recent emissions flubs have us wondering whether a truly clean (and peppy) diesel option will be in the offing. The Money: Smart, understated styling typical of a Volkswagen. MINI COOPER CLUBMAN The Good: A wider, longer chassis means more room for…

Towel Hangs Why: Improves grip strength. How: Swing a towel over a bar or beam and hang until failure. Do three or four times, resting as little as possible (no more than 30 seconds) between reps. Bicycle Kicks Why: Builds a rock-solid core. How: Lying on your back, with your head and legs off the ground and your hands near your head (but not behind your head or neck), touch one elbow to the opposite knee, then do the same thing on the other side. Repeat rapidly until failure. Rest for about a minute and repeat. Step-Ups Why: Develops single-leg blastoff power. How: Place your forefoot on a kneeor thigh-high box, keeping your other foot on the ground. Explode up off the box and then reverse the…