Christopher Solomon
Outside Magazine
Seattle, WA, United States
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How the Pandemic Has Changed Backcountry Safety
A study that appeared on November 16 on the CAIC website examining the documented avalanche accidents in Colorado last winter found something counterintuitive → Read More
Patagonia Just Announced a New CEO
The company announced today that Ryan Gellert will become CEO of Patagonia Works, the umbrella company for all its ventures, from clothing to smoked salmon to documentaries → Read More
Outdoor Meccas Are Not a Social Distancing Hack
As wilderness hubs shutter their gates to visitors, what's an outdoor lover to do during a pandemic? We're here to help. → Read More
Alone on the Mountain? It Could Be Fatal.
In the winter of 2016–17, four of the 12 people who died in avalanches in the United States were those traveling alone. → Read More
The Great Public Lands E-Bike Rush of 2019
In a controversial move, the secretary of the interior recently decreed that motorized bikes should be allowed anywhere that standard bikes are permitted. How this will work is still being sorted out, but the world of pedal-assist riding is about to really open up. → Read More
The big Alaskan land giveaway tucked into a sweeping conservation bill
An area half the size of Long Island could be given to private owners. → Read More
When Your Body Says No
You’re caught off guard one day when you spur your body on and your body balks. → Read More
Trump Wants to Speed Up Drilling in National Forests
Already in the midst of a massive push to extract more oil and gas from the nation's waters and wide-open spaces, the Trump administration has set its sights on a new goal: to ramp up drilling in national forests. → Read More
What an Award-Winning Travel Writer Keeps in His Pack
I've logged quite a few miles for this magazine and others. Whether I'm on the trail or the streets of the 11th arrondissement in Paris, several items make it into my bag time and again. → Read More
Another Severed Foot Was Found in the Pacific Northwest
Feet without their owners attached seem to be turning up all over the place. → Read More
Ryan Zinke's Interior Is a Mess
Can recent events be chalked up to the occasional confusion of bureaucracy? Or is something more worrisome afoot? → Read More
Zinke and Trump Are Ignoring the Public
Even as Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has said he wants to give states more decision-making power over federal lands, the Trump administration has taken numerous steps to limit public input → Read More
Secretary Zinke and the Great Public Lands Wholesale
For the entire year, the Trump administration will have offered for lease almost 4 million acres in the Lower 48 alone, according to estimates by environmentalists. → Read More
The GOP Has Turned Its Back on Conservation
Republicans from Ulysses S. Grant to George H.W. Bush have passed some of our most powerful environmental laws. Why did the party reverse course? → Read More
12 Outdoor Ed Courses—for Adults
Tips and tricks for outdoor adventuring from kayaking to wilderness survival and everything in-between. → Read More
Big Brother–Style Tech Is Helping Hikers Avoid Crowds
Researchers are training the tools of Big Data on social media in hopes that the information they gather can improve your future visits to public lands. → Read More
How to Save a Grizzly Bear from Hunters. Maybe.
As Wyoming prepares for the first grizzly hunt in the lower 48 in decades, at least two protesters won tags they say they won't use. Will their strategy work? → Read More
This Whippet Is One of the World's Great Athletes
Spitty will run down a dock and jump the length of a 1979 Lincoln Continental Mark V, and, still airborne after more than 22 feet, grab a chew toy that hangs suspended a few feet above the water, before he splashes into the drink. → Read More
Humans Are Turning Mammals More Nocturnal
A new study finds that humans need to give animals time as well as space → Read More
Op-Ed: Alaska’s Pebble Mine Somehow Just Got Worse
As a reporter, I’ve been taught to keep my opinions to myself. But I’ve also visited Alaska's McNeil River—the world's greatest brown-bear sanctuary—and to hold my tongue about its possible destruction would make me complicit in the death of something truly remarkable and wild. → Read More