Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2019 i Outside

Intense Sniper Trail Pro Build $5,599 BEST FOR: Long rides. It used to be that if you wanted a bike fast and light enough to race, you had to sacrifice trail ability and handling. But this carbon 29er with 120 millimeters of front and rear travel epitomizes a new breed of “down-country” models that blend the snappiness of a cross-country rig with the confidence of a downhiller. The bottom bracket is lower and the head angle slacker (a surprising 66.5 degrees), yielding the planted feel of a bike with much longer travel. The addition of 780-millimeter riser handlebars, a dropper seatpost, and meaty but still quick 2.35-inch Maxxis Forekaster tires add to the go-anywhere feel, yet the Sniper Trail tips the scale at a feathery 24.6 pounds. (And the 100-millimeter…

THE FAUX-MEAT industry is officially booming. After growing 23 percent last year, according to the Good Food Institute, retail sales are expected to approach $1 billion by the end of 2019. (That’s not including the burgeoning world of lab-grown meat, where companies have amassed millions in funding even without any products available to consumers.) This is all welcome news for athletes who avoid meat and anyone seeking additional sources of nonanimal protein. “The next generation of plant-based meats are designed for meat eaters,” says Caroline Bushnell, the Good Food Institute’s associate director of corporate engagement. “These businesses are reimagining what meat can be and are delivering in a big way on the single most important factor in food choice: taste.” Whether you’re a longtime vegan or a curious carnivore, these…

I ASK A LOT of my body. On a big day of surfing, I’m up before 5 A.M. and can be in the water for six hours—and that might be after a week or two of high activity. The extreme conditions demand an excessive amount of output, and if I’m coming into that with already-depleted reserves, I’ll emerge from the water totally spent. Recovery days are critical to my training, and that holds true for any athlete. Here’s how to determine if you need a break and how to make the most of the time off. Listen to Your Body Though I try to take a rest day once a week, I let my workload and how I’m feeling dictate my routine. I know I need downtime when I don’t…

One version is this: we barreled out of the hills overlooking eastern Cannes, on the French Riviera, passing our opponents like they were a pod of salted snails. Or there’s this: I clopped downhill like a deranged Clydesdale while my partner, Alan Schmidt, tethered to me by a seven-foot bungee cord stretched to a tensile-testing 30 feet, backpedaled like a tortured two-legged crab. The following account is based on the latter scenario. “I told you I can’t run downhill anymore. Slow down!” Alan yelled. “Only way I can keep moving forward,” I shot back. “Come on! The ocean’s right there. We’ll be swimming in a couple of minutes. Let’s go! Let’s go!” “Fuck you! I didn’t do this to you when you were dragging behind me on the uphills.” But,…

Sit Up Straight! In her recent online opinion piece “Stop Reclining Your Seat on Airplanes,” editorial assistant Abbey Gingras tackled one of travel’s hot-button issues. “All you’re doing is encroaching upon the person behind you,” she wrote. “You didn’t think to check before you reclined onto their warm Diet Coke, did you?” Readers chimed in on social media to second her argument and call us out. I recline because I have extensive past injuries that make it very uncomfortable for me to sit for long periods. That three-degree incline makes a huge difference. Carmen Hobson Whitefish, Montana I don’t recline. It is called courtesy. Phil Hemenway Facebook This is laughably ridiculous. I hope you don’t get upset knowing I read my Outside in the reclining position while flying. @kiphtaylor Twitter…

IF YOU WANT TO CHILL WITH FAR-FLUNG EXPLORERS: The Ice at the End of the World, by Jon Gertner (June 11; $28, Random House) This captivating book tells the story of Greenland’s 1,500-mile-long ice sheet through a succession of 19th- and 20th-century explorers who first aimed to cross the forbidding expanse and then sought to understand it. Early calculations of the sheet’s size and movement allowed scientists to infer by the 1930s that the melting of Greenland’s ice would be catastrophic for the world. Gertner goes on to chronicle how ice-core and satellite discoveries have confirmed that changes to Greenland’s ice sheet “were no longer in the realm of geological time. The ice was being transformed in human time, too.” —LUKE WHELAN IF YOU SEEK RADICAL REINVENTION: Hungry, by Jeff…

Lake Superior Circumnavigation Miles: 1,300 // Activities: Kayaking, wreck diving, mountain biking Bring a bike, because there’s plenty of riding in hubs like Ontario’s Sleeping Giant Provincial Park and Copper Harbor, Michigan, as you circle the greatest of the Great Lakes. Begin your trip in Duluth, Minnesota, on the lake’s far southwestern corner, where hundreds of miles of flowy, technical, purpose-built singletrack parallels the 26-mile-long city and offers views of Superior. On the lake’s northwestern shore, Ontario’s Pukaskwa National Park receives fewer than 15,000 visitors annually, and even fewer attempt its challenging 37-mile Coastal Hiking Trail. Experienced divers can explore hundreds of shipwrecks preserved by Superior’s famously frigid water, including the Bermuda, a 150-foot schooner that sank in 1870 near Michigan’s Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Finish your epic seven-to-ten-day circuit…

BURN WE MUST. One hundred–plus years of wildland fire suppression and an ever hotter planet make this an ineluctable truth in the American West. From the shrublands to the subalpine forests, fire—an integral part of any healthy landscape—is now acting as an adaptation catalyst that’s rapidly reshaping entire ecosystems. That adaptation is essential. Thanks to climate change, we are seeing record high temperatures and record low moisture levels in vegetation. Add the increasingly popular dream of owning a home in the woods (the fastest-growing land-use type in the country is the so-called wildland-urban interface), plus infrastructure risk factors like balky power lines, and we’re looking at a dire future of frequent catastrophic megafires from New Mexico north to Alberta and west to the Pacific. Some of us can remember the…

Dynafit Feline Up Pro $170 Built for athletes who thrive on charging full speed up the ascent, this firm runner favors speed over cushioning. The shoe’s biggest highlight is an outsole made of Vibram Lite Base, which has a sandwiched layer of hardy fabric to make it 40 percent thinner and 25 percent lighter than traditional Vibram soles yet just as durable. Despite its vertical orientation, the Feline Up Pro performs quite well on descents and flats, too. 8.1 oz; 4 mm drop Hoka One One Challenger ATR 5 $130 For all-around versatility, it’s hard to beat the smooth-riding Challenger ATR 5. The four-millimeter lugs are placed farther apart in the forefoot for better grip on wet and loose surfaces and closer together in the heel for smoother landings. The…

ACTION AND ADVENTURE GoPro Mountain Games Vail, Colorado; June 6–9 Watch professional athletes compete in freestyle kayaking, slacklining, mountain biking, and the only U.S. stop on the Climbing World Cup series. Better yet, sign yourself up to test yourself with any of the GoPro Mountain Games’ 30-plus events. Other highlights: big-air dog-jumping contests, three nights of free concerts including headliner Citizen Cope, and kid-friendly events like a push-bike race and a fly-fishing contest. Free for spectators International Climbers’ Festival Lander, Wyoming; July 10–14 Climbers of all abilities descend on Lander for this homegrown festival that’s been taking place since 1994. Demo gear, take climbing clinics, and test yourself with the Limestone Rodeo redpoint competition by day, then watch climbing films and guest speakers by night. Local hotels offer discounts for…

ROY TUSCANY was 24 when, in 2006, he overshot a jump at Mammoth Mountain in California and broke his T12 vertebra. The freestyle coach and aspiring professional skier was paralyzed from the waist down. Suddenly, the sport he’d built his life around was no longer an option. The injury rattled Tuscany’s sense of self and threw his athletic future into question, but it also offered him a chance to see his hometown community near Lake Tahoe rally on his behalf. His ski team at Sugar Bowl raised $85,000 from about 500 people to help pay for his surgery, adaptive equipment, and therapy. After two years, he was able to ski again, with outriggers stabilizing him instead of ski poles, but the experience left him feeling empty. His friends contributed generously…

THE NEW MOON IS INVISIBLE, AND THE NIGHT IS BLACK. My sister, Jen, is paddling in the stern. Her shivering wobbles the bow where I’m sitting. Canoeing in 45-degree weather at midnight dressed in T-shirts and underwear is not our normal behavior while camping in northern Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in September. But an enormous black bear is on its hind legs, ten feet away, aggressively swiping at the food pack dangling from a low tree branch at our campsite. By the sound of its grunts, it’s hungry. In our panic, we failed to forage for layers. Jen scooped up her sleeping bag and white Labrador, Sunny, I grabbed my knife and headlamp, and we tripped over ourselves to get to the water’s edge, where we launched the…