Indice dei contenuti per August 2017 in Outside

TO MAKE A single 12-ounce can of beer takes about 60 ounces of fresh water, a five-to-one ratio. It adds up, especially when you consider that the U.S. produces more than six billion gallons of beer each year. Despite the West’s exceptionally wet winter, the nation’s supply of potable water isn’t getting any bigger, or safer. So brewers across the country are thinking about how that water is used and what exactly constitutes fresh. Last March, Stone Brewing, in Escondido, California, introduced Full Circle Pale Ale, made from recycled sewer water. Gross? In theory. But a senior brewer claims that it’s one of the best pale ales Stone has ever made. Others are taking steps with less of an ick factor. One goal at New Belgium’s recently opened facility in…

adventure tools, tested & reviewed No style has been rocked for so long and at such vertical and experiential extremes as leather- s ide-shield glacier glasses, pioneered and perfected by the French alpine shades maker Julbo. Company founder and namesake Jules Beaud (say it: “zhool bo”) made his first specs in 1888, for those who risked life and eyesight scouring for crystals in the sear ingly bright heights of the Alps above Chamonix, France. Those gem hunters later became guides and mountaineers, like the immortal Lionel Terray. He wore an earlier version of Julbo’s Vermont Classic seen here on the first successful ascent and descent of an 8,000-meter peak (Annapurna, 1950) and the first ski descent of Mont Blanc in 1952. The Vermont Classic sports snazzy, look-at-me mirroring, with a…

IT’S NO SECRET: the more efficiently you move, the better you perform. But as trainers and athletes have embraced mobility work, warm-up routines have ballooned to 40 minutes or more. Who has time for that? Plus, too much flexibility can actually hurt performance. “Range of motion without control isn’t any better than being unflexible,” says Doug Kechijian, co- owner of Resilient Performance Physical Therapy in New York City. Think of your muscles as rubber bands. When they’re too tight, they can’t function properly. But if they’re overstretched, they’re not strong enough to hold weight or enable spring-like movement. To hit the sweet spot, Kechijian gave us three moves to perform before you begin your workout. And they won’t take more than six minutes. We promise. A. Lat Pullover Why: Your…

AMONG THE LIVING Over the past year and a half of producing the Science of Survival series for the Outside Podcast, we’ve spoken to dozens of people who endured life-threatening ordeals. By combining their stories with analysis from experts, we’ve attempted to make sense of what they went through and understand how they were able to come out the other side alive. Our biggest takeaway: the most powerful and mysterious part of any survival tale begins after the bleeding stops and the fire is out. While some survivors wage endless battles with imagined dangers, others are reborn with enhanced strength and purpose. We’ve only begun to comprehend the forces that shape near-death experiences, but just hearing incredible stories like the ones we’ve gathered here can better prepare us to withstand…

READ THE ROOM “Has anyone been paying too much attention to you?” asks Crockett. A sign that someone may be sizing you up: they’re nervous. “People up to no good are often scared themselves.” MAKE A NEW FRIEND “There are often other solo travelers you can link up with before heading outside,” says Crockett. “You’re much less likely to be seen as a potential victim if you’re with someone else.” BACKTRACK If someone is tailing you, make an immediate U-turn to safety. “Look at your watch or pretend you forgot something,” says Crockett. “Any excuse to get back inside.” USE A DUMMY Handing over a sacrificial second wallet will make criminals think they’re getting something. “Mine has small bills of local currency and expired credit cards with the signature scratched…

ON MAIN STREET IN PRINEVILLE, OREGON, ACROSS FROM A SADDLERY THAT HAS SEEN BETTER DAYS, SITS A 75-YEAR-OLD BAR CALLED THE HORSESHOE SALOON. THE CLIENTELE here is a mix of ranchers, out-of-work lumberjacks, libertarian hippies, and one-armed electricians. People like to dress up at the Horseshoe. At a recent white-trash-themed costume party, a bartender wore a T-shirt that read HE BROKE MY BUT WE STILL BE COUSINS. A sign over the bar advertises a 30-day ban for those caught fighting. It’s not decorative. One Prineville resident advised me to avoid the Horseshoe unless I want to witness or participate in a fight. Another said, “You might be able to have a beer and get out of there in one piece.” He had served in both Operation Desert Storm and the…

Altered States When we launched the Science of Survival podcast a year and a half ago, our aim was to bring to life Outside’s most captivating survival stories in an audio format, interviewing experts and examining the latest research to help explain some of the strange phenomena behind near-death experiences. It was a natural first step into the podcast medium, given how central these stories have been to Outside for the past 40 years. This is not because we’re fixated on the macabre or wish to make the wilderness appear more dangerous than it really is. Rather, we’ve come to understand that survival stories are the most compelling way to demonstrate human perseverance. Often, staying alive comes down to a decision, one requiring superhuman acts that seem implausible in the…

IMAGINE A WOMAN on a bike in the rain, tearing up pancake-flat roads in a country without mountains. Dreaming of the Alps, she hammers into her only substitute: a nasty Dutch headwind. It’s cold and wet and bleak and gray, but this is her happy place. Because this is Marianne Vos. In Vos’s native Netherlands, everyone is born to ride a bike. Vos was also born to stand on a podium. After earning her first rainbow stripes at 18—the prize for winning the Cyclocross World Championships—she systematically conquered nearly every major women’s race in the world. In 2012, at just 25, she was already hailed as the greatest female cyclist of all time and was named International Cyclist of the Year, edging out Sir Bradley Wiggins, that year’s Tour de…

Baja to the Future Distance: 226 miles Days: Five Playlist: Calexico, Y La Bamba, Whitney The only reason to get off the road after dusk in this part of Baja is the presence of wandering cows. From Los Cabos International Airport, head 43 miles north to Los Barilles, a beach village on the Sea of Cortez, where kite- and windsurfing are powered by El Norte winds from November to March. Suss out the scene at Playa del Sol, a colorful beachfront hotel (from $100; vanwormerresorts .com) adjacent to Vela Baja, a onestop shop for guides and gear rental (velawindsurf.com). On the 65-mile drive to La Paz, stop in El Triunfo (population 321) for a mango smoothie on the palm-shaded outdoor patio of Café El Triunfo. In La Paz, settle in…

Free-Range Apps MOBILE TRIP ASSISTANTS THAT DON’T COST YOU A DIME Recreation.gov: Find and book campsites (iOS) The Outbound Collective: Discover outdoor adventures wherever you stop (iOS) Gasbuddy: Locate cheap gas stations (Android and iOS) Parkmobile: Spot open parking spaces and pay by phone (Android and iOS) Road Trippers: Map out your route in detail (Android and iOS)…

AS I UNPLUGGED the cord from my Tesla SUV on a sunny afternoon in May, I struck up a conversation about electric cars with a gentleman in his sixties who was charging a Porsche hybrid next to me. We were parked at one of the most picturesque vehiclecharging stations in America, under thousand-foot-high red sandstone cliffs at a lot inside Utah’s Zion National Park. “We’re taking a dirtbag road trip in the least dirtbag car of all time,” my girlfriend remarked. It kind of made me feel like a new brand of western pioneer. “You won’t get much charge for that here,” he said, nodding at my car. The station delivered a meager 16 miles of battery life per hour— fine for a gas hybrid but not for us. I…

BEFORE YOU MEDITATE, you must surrender your iPhone. At least that’s what a couple of serene young women tell me when I walk into Unplug Meditation, an airy Los Angeles studio with inspirational slogans on the walls. (Keep Going! Live the Life You Love!) I’m here for a 45-minute class called Inner Peace, which promises to teach me the basics of deep mindfulness, making me calmer, more productive, more focused, and more joyful. After passing through the gift shop, which peddles crystals, aromatherapy eye pillows, and Bad Spirit Remover candles, I settle into a black faux-leather floor seat. Violet lights beam down on a couple of dozen people, from spandexed millennials to graying businessmen. It’s like a yoga studio without the yoga. “Thoughts can make us sick or they can…

VERMONT SMOKE AND CURE PROTEIN PER SERVING: 8 GRAMS A bump in sodium before (or even during) a run or ride is never a bad idea to replenish the salt you lose through sweat. Why not bacon? $2 for one serving KRAVE PROTEIN PER SERVING: 10 GRAMS Jerky made from beef—in this case, sprinkled with peppercorns and pink Himalayan salt—is loaded with iron, which is critical for oxygen transport and metabolic function. $6 for 2.5 servings SHURKY JURKY PROTEIN PER SERVING: 13 GRAMS Shurky’s bison jerky contains nearly a quarter of your daily vitamin C (an antioxidant), 10 percent of vitamin B6 (which helps convert food into energy) and 10 percent of phosphorus (which can improve aerobic capacity). $15 for two servings THE NEW PRIMAL PROTEIN PER SERVING: 6 GRAMS…

AS SOON AS Cory Richards realized that he had survived the avalanche, he turned his camera on. It was February 2, 2011, and Richards had just summited 26,360-foot Gasherbrum II— the 13th-tallest peak in the world—with two of mountaineering’s titans, Simone Moro of Italy and Denis Urubko of Kazakhstan. The trio had endured vicious weather and minus-50-degree temperatures to become the first climbers to conquer one of Pakistan’s 8,000-meter peaks in winter, a goal that had thwarted at least 16 teams before them. On the way down, however, an enormous white wall of snow and ice ripped free from neighboring Gasherbrum V. Richards watched in terror as the torrent of debris screamed toward them, hitting with such fury that it hurled all three over a gaping crevasse. When it was…