Outside June 2014

FRANCK BERTHUOT When setting up this shot of Kai Lenny (see “Water Walker,” page 26) at Jaws on Maui’s north shore last April, Berthuot knew he wanted a different perspective than the other photographers would get. “Most people shoot from the cliff in front of the wave,” says Berthuot, of Maui. “Instead, I ran as fast as I could out to the left side of the wave to be parallel to Kai. It was worth the extra work. This ended up being my favorite shot of the day.”THE TOOLS: Canon 1D Mark IV, 600mm f/4 lens, ISO 100, f/5.6, 1/1,250 second TAIT TRAUTMAN Trautman spent most of last summer in Squamish, British Columbia, filming with kayakers Fred Norquist and Evan Garcia, the latter seen here running 50/50 Falls on the…

Over the years, the nightmare adventure narrative has become a staple of Outside’s table of contents. A killer on the loose in Mount Rainier National Park. A sailor murdered by pirates. A series of dismembered feet washing ashore in the Pacific Northwest. It’s not as if we seek out the grisly and the dark—but awful and mysterious things happen in the wild all the time. What usually makes a dark or tragic story worth assigning is finding a writer with a unique perspective on the event. That’s the case this month with “Payback” (page 74), contributor Carl Hoffman’s harrowing examination of the attack on a guided trekking party in the wilds of Papua New Guinea that left three porters dead. When the incident made international headlines last fall, Hoffman had…

ON ANY GIVEN weekend this summer, up to 300 Denverites will push themselves to the brink running stairs, doing sit-ups, and cranking out burpees at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 15 miles west of the city. In San Francisco, two dozen yoga enthusiasts will hone their half moons and downward dogs in Golden Gate Park. In Santa Monica, California, at the city’s shoreline park, workouts will include everything from pilates to body-weight strength training. If you haven’t noticed, group workouts in public spaces have become one of the fastest-growing fitness trends in recent memory. Social-media-organized crews like the November Project in Boston, NYC Bridge Runners in New York, and It Burns Joe Fitness in Denver have become so popular that hundreds of people now lace up to join in on any given…

DESPITE STAND-UP paddling’s reputation as an easygoing pastime for soccer parents, its competitive realm is intense. Athletes compete in everything from grueling 32-mile openocean marathons, to full-contact races through breaking swells, to waveriding contests in far-flung locales. But for years, the sport has been missing a key ingredient: a young, breakout champion capable of appealing to armchair fans and core surfers alike. Enter 21-yearold Kai Lenny, a Maui native who has won nearly all of SUP’s marquee events and regularly drops in at big-wave breaks with surfing’s most recognizable faces. 6 WORLD TITLES THE 21-YEAR-OLD HAS WON RIDING GIANTS: As a precocious kid surfing Maui’s north shore, Lenny was mentored by icons like Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama, and Robby Naish, who taught him everything from basic windsurfing and SUP technique…

IN MORA COUNTY, New Mexico, a patchwork of prairie, foothills, and high peaks on the east flank of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, unemployment stands at 16 percent, county workers operate out of leaky temporary buildings, and the population density is so low—just two people per square mile—that the tiny community and its largest town, 300-person Wagon Mound, are still classified as frontier by state health officials. In short, Mora isn’t the kind of place that comes to mind for a national showdown on fracking. But in April 2013, county commissioners took center stage in the fight by passing the Community Water Rights and Local Self-Governance Ordinance, which declared it illegal for companies to extract hydrocarbons anywhere in the county, making Mora the first in the U.S. to ban oil…

Even before we evolved into Homo sapiens, our ancestors were cooking things with fire. And for the vast majority of the one million years since, we’ve been doing it the same way—throw a hunk of meat over a flame, wait, eat. We’ve piled charcoal into metal kettles. We’ve slaved over dirt pits to barbecue hogs. We’ve fashioned elaborate smokers to keep the flames far away from a rack of ribs. But until now, these things have largely remained separate, our evolution stalled. No longer. The hand-assembled Patio-Pro from Heph aestus combines all those functions—barbecue, grill, smoker—into one peerless stainlesssteel package. The features on the Hephaes tus (the name comes from the Greek god of metal and fire) are designed to maximize man’s control of his meal. The Patio-Pro has an…