Outside Podcast

What a Healthy Relationship With Your Phone Looks Like, with Catherine Price

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We use our smartphones in service of our outdoor time all the time. We plan trips, track our runs, hikes, and bike rides. Use compass and mapping apps...

LIVE! Matt Lyons, Katie Burell, & Eland Stribling On Why The Outdoors Are A Joke (From Outside Days)

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the runup to the third annual Outside Days festival in Denver, Colorado, at the end of May, we’re revisiting a panel that podcast host PaddyO mod...

The Joys and Wonders of Never Leaving Your Campsite, with Rolland Tizuela

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Hot Take: We should camp for camping’s sake! If you’re anything like me, your camping is often (always?) in service of some greater objective, whe...

The Lifelong Benefits of Uprooting and Moving Across the Country, with Katie Arnold

08 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Every great character has a captivating origin story—the thing that explains not just the how but also the why of who they are. Santa Fe’s Katie A...

Anniversary Special!!! - Why Outdoorsy People Are The Funniest People, With Scott Losse

01 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are celebrating one year of PaddyO as host of the new interview format of your beloved Outside Podcast. We’ve got some big plans for this n...

Where Surfing Ends and Music Begins, with Third Eye Blind’s Stephan Jenkins

25 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the mid-90s, the cultural collision of music and sports was everywhere in pop culture. You saw it through the brand new X Games and MTV Sports, in ...

Awe, and the Scientific Proof that the Outdoors is Good For Your Brain, with Dr. Paul Piff

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

You’re on a hike and the faff of daily life won’t stop clanging around your head. Then, all of a sudden, the to-do list instantly evaporates when ...

Awe, and the Scientific Proof that the Outdoors is Good For Your Brain, with Dr. Paul Piff

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

You’re on a hike and the faff of daily life won’t stop clanging around your head. Then, all of a sudden, the to-do list instantly evaporates when ...

The Joy (and Agony) of Skiing, Surfing, and Climbing in the Dead of Night, with Chris Benchetler

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Outdoor folks love to push themselves to go farther, faster, higher, etc., and there’s a good reason for it: When you climb a big mountain or finish...

What a Chill Adventure Looks Like to the ‘Free Solo’ Guy, with Alex Honnold

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“Chill”, “mellow”, and “relaxed” are probably not words you think of when you hear about the latest climbing feat from Alex Honnold.  ”...

Life Lessons Learned Hanging Off a 2,600-Foot Cliff For 9 Days, with Sasha DiGiulian

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Big wall climbing is about as relatable as space travel to the average human. To whit: When Sasha DiGiulian and her partner Elliot Faber attempted the...

What You Can Learn From the Biggest Failure in Endurance Sports, with Epic Bill Bradley

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1980s and 90s, Bill Bradley was a video rental mogul. At his peak, he had stores all over Santa Rosa, California, was worth millions of dollars...

Connecting to Your Animal Self Through Fly Fishing, with April Vokey

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

April Vokey turned a gift for fishing into a career as a guide, a TV personality, a podcast host, and the founder of an online community and education...

Losing Your Leg and Finding Your Calling, with Paralympian Brenna Huckaby

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve ever felt like forces beyond your control have grabbed the wheel of your life’s metaphorical car and are driving like a lunatic, there a...

Raising Fearless Kids Who Won’t Give You a Heart Attack, with Jeremy Jones

28 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

There’s no guarantee that your kids will be into the same things you’re into, so Jeremy Jones knows he’s lucky to have two who froth as hard abo...

LIVE! Selema Masekela, Mike de la Rocha, Douglas Miles, and James Andrews on Love and Masculinity (Outside Festival)

21 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

These days, traditional definitions of masculinity are in tension with the need for a more expansive understanding of how to be a man in the world. Th...

Being Hunted by Lions While Totally Naked, with Reality TV Star Max Djenohan

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Survivalist Max Djenohan sees your ultralight backpacking rig and chuckles. An eight-time contestant and fan favorite on the peak reality TV show “N...

OLYMPICS PREVIEW: Thriving Under Pressure with Jessie Diggins

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Olympics is a ridiculous mixture of hit-you-straight-in-the-feels origin stories and Greek god-level athletic prowess. Even in the endless parade ...

OLYMPICS PREVIEW: Why Winning a Gold Medal Wasn’t What I Expected, with Nick Goepper

31 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The comeback is central to the mythology of sports, and when one plays out on the already mythic stage of the Olympics, athletes in relatively obscure...

HOLIDAY SPECIAL: The Magical Connection Between Skiing and Food, With Cody Townsend

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Adventuring outside is great for the beauty, the sense of awe, the fitness, but really…we’re all in it for the snacks. And no one chases down the ...

Pack Rafting, “Hell Biking”, and Other Alaskan Sufferfests, with Roman Dial

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Roman Dial is engaged in a five-decade exploration of Alaska by raft, mountain bike, and foot … but not trail. Over the course of locally legendary ...

What Scares the Woman Who Skis the World’s Hairiest Lines, with Christina Lustenberger

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Even those of us who seek freedom and adventure in the wilderness are hardwired to keep themselves safe. It’s why we, as a species, outlasted the do...

When the Outdoors is Bad For Your Mental Health, with Cory Richards

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When the mountains grab ahold of your heart, they have a way of directing your life, even becoming a keystone of your identity. But what happens when ...

Thanksgiving Special: The Wild, Weird, and Sketchy World of Truffle Hunting

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Something funky this way comes. All over the world, deep inside dark forests, hunters tip toe in secret for a wildly expensive delicacy: truffles. The...

What Rock Climbing Teaches Us About Balance in Real Life, with Kai Lightner

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve ever been bucked off your mogul line, stuffed a front bike tire, caught a toe on a rock, or collapsed the leg of a camp chair, you know th...

The Ancient Roots of Exploration, with Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever wondered why you feel a pull to go for that grueling trail run or long bike ride or demanding backcountry ski? We have an innate need fo...

Why You Might Consider Jumping Out of a Plane, with Alexey Galda

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

They say it’s not the fall that gets ya, it’s the landing. Fear of falling, or smacking one’s face onto the cold hard earth, is an innate human ...

Why Adventure is a Form of Art, With Ski Touring Legend John King

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1978, skier and kinetic artist John King, along with two pals, set out on a singular and epic adventure: a backcountry ski tour from Durango, Color...

What You Learn About People by Paddling From Ottawa to NYC, with Dan Rubinstein

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chitchatting is a natural part of any adventure you do with a pal—what else are you gonna do around a campfire or sitting on the tailgate at a trail...

The Most Insane Event in Mountain Biking is About to Happen, with the Pinkbike Podcast

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For most of us, mountain biking is a great way to get into the outdoors, get a workout, get an adrenaline rush, and hopefully avoid losing any skin or...

Outdoor Adventure and the Art of Self Reliance, with Nick Offerman

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ruggedness, dependability, and handiness define a lot of outdoor archetypes, from the ski patroller to the river guide to the park ranger. So why woul...

What the Ocean Teaches You About Perseverance, with Chad Nelsen

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Many outdoorsy folks will happily slog for hours toward outdoor fun, despite the fact that any number of adventure derailing smackdowns await us. Gear...

The Unexpected Benefits of Chopping Wood, with Nicole Coenen

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Wood chopping is objectively awful for all the obvious reasons: blisters, back aches, over-the-counter painkiller expenses. But that’s not what you ...

What You Learn Running Toward, Rather Than Away, From a Tornado, With Pecos Hank

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Spend time outdoors, and you’ll eventually spend time in brutal, even scary weather. Dangerous winds, flash flood-inducing rain, and vision-erasing ...

Running as Art, With Olympian and Filmmaker Alexi Pappas

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Extreme adaptability and versatility can be found throughout the animal kingdom, but may have found their peak expression in Alexi Pappas. As a runner...

Running Toward Love, with Lawlor Coe and Family

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After Lawlor Coe lost his brother Hunter to tragedy, he did everything he could to avoid his pain. Then he laced up his joggers and began to run. At f...

African Surfing and the Ocean as a Source of Joy, with Professor Kevin Dawson

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The blissed out, swell chasing surfer with a single-minded focus on the next great ride is a pervasive outdoorsy archetype that’s completely at odds...

What Life in the Grand Canyon Tells Us About Life Everywhere Else, With Cindell Dale

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We love our outdoor archetypes, the folk heroes who reject the trappings of the 9 to 5 life and solely focus on the trail, the powder turn, or the fro...

What’s Harder Than the Ironman World Championship, with Chelsea Sodaro

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We love our stories of human endurance, from Shackleton’s famed expedition to the 11-hour Wimbledon match to days-long ultramarathons. Hell, even th...

Recreating Hollywood’s Greatest, Dumbest Road Trip Of All Time, with Zack Courts and Ari Henning

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In celebration of summertime road trips, this week we’re revisiting an episode from our archives that is one of PaddyO’s favorites. In 2021, two m...

Getting Outside of the Hollywood Star Machine, with Tony Cavalero

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Famous Hollywood actors aren’t outdoorsy, right? They’re too busy being…well, famous to enjoy the outdoors and certainly too fancy to listen to ...

LIVE! To Alex Honnold, Fear Isn’t Real (From the Outside Festival)

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Honnold is the most accomplished and daring rock climber since the invention of the chalk bag. He grabbed global attention for his free solo asce...

How (Literal) Pants-Wetting Anxiety Can Clarify Life, with Sierra Schlag

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout professional skier Sierra Schlag’s childhood, her Japanese heritage and cultural practices made her the target of racist bullying. Then, ...

David Blaine and Diana Nyad on the Art of Endurance

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For decades, legendary magician David Blaine has completed record-breaking stunts that defy the impossible: He has held his breath for more than 17 mi...

Surfing The Waves Of The American Culture War, with David Litt

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2020, David Litt, former senior speech writer to President Obama, moved from Washington DC to the Jersey Shore, and felt the need for a jolt of lif...

How To Walk Through—And Away From—A Digital World, with Craig Mod

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Craig Mod may think in binary code, but he does so from the perspective of a visual artist. Mod is…well, a lot of things. He’s a writer, a photogr...

LIVE! Matt Lyons, Katie Burrell, and Eeland Stribling Don’t Take This Seriously (From the Outside Festival)

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Three comedians walk into a festival…no, this isn’t a joke set up. This is exactly what happened in Denver, Colorado, at the second Outside Festiv...

Father’s Day Special: Dad-Level Adventuring in the 70s, With PaddyO’s Dad

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If your father is like PaddyO’s dad, he probably likes to spin a yarn about his wild youth. Hearing about a father’s daring, scruffy, comedy-of-er...

How Music Responds to the Place Where You Make It, With Goth Babe

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Griff Wasburn, better known to the world as musical act Goth Babe, had a drive to create since he was a child. He grew up in Tennessee running wild in...

Climbing Everest is Easy Compared to Surviving an Abusive Parent, With Melissa Arnot Reid

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Melissa Arnot Reid’s mountaineering resume is a jaw dropping list of accomplishments; hundreds of summits of the world’s tallest, most dangerous p...

Bouncing Back From Heart Attacks, With Chef and Angler Ranga Perera

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In and around his home of Bozeman, Montana, Ranga Perera is highly sought after as a fly fishing pal and even more highly sought after as a personal c...

The Benefits (and Drawbacks) of Adult Beginner-ness, With Mirna Valerio

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone knows it’s important to try new things, but combating that internal voice, which begs us to stay within our comfort zone ain’t easy—eve...

Taking the Battle of the Sexes Outside, With Katie Burrell

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You probably know Katie Burrell from Instagram, where she’s built a sizeable following by skewering outdoor stereotypes and having World Cup race sk...

How to Hear the Minnesota Wilderness in a Guitar Chord, With Trampled By Turtles’ Dave Simonett

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Minnesota is not always top of mind when it comes to outdoor adventure, but it should be. Just ask lifelong “Land of 10,000 Lakes” local Dave Simo...

What Everyone Can Learn From Mount Everest, With Ben Ayers

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Ayers has devoted his life to the Himalaya. If that conjures images in your mind of stone-faced mountaineers risking life and limb in pursuit of g...

If You’re Going Fast, You’re Doing It Wrong, With Ellen Bradley

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We all do it, zip as fast as we can around our favorite trails and rides. Maybe it’s because we feel a pull to get to the next thing, want to rush t...

Snowboarding, Surfing, and How to Make Your Dad Cry with Selema Masekela

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Culture is a term that different outdoor communities like to discuss often, but what is culture exactly and how do we make sense of it—how do we def...

How a River Trip Can Unburden You of Undeserved Shame With Mikah Meyer

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mikah Meyer is a persistently-filled-with-joy endurance athlete and the first person to visit all 419 National Parks sites in one continuous three yea...

What Snowboarding Has to do With Parenthood, Loss, and Cancer With Kimmy Fasani

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mostly, professional athletes are…kind of boring. Not because they’re fundamentally uninteresting. Rather, they’re too polished and are trained ...

The Universal Hilariousness of Outdoorsy People With Scott Losse

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An interesting thing happened when Scott Losse started poking fun at snowboarders and mountain bikers in his Instagram posts: He went from being sort ...

Introducing the NEW Outside Podcast With Host PaddyO

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We have some fun, exciting news! Longtime Outside Podcast contributor, Paddy “PaddyO” O’Connell is taking over as host of the show. In every epi...

The Unexpectedly Joyful History of Black Surfing

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The first written accounts of surfing in Africa predate accounts of surfing in Hawaii by 100 years. In his new movie Wade in the Water, documentarian ...

The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens to your body when you get lost and confused on a mountain in the bitter cold of a winter night? In 2016 The Outside Podcast launched with...

Surviving at Sea on a Surfboard

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Bryce went surfing alone. Would he die alone, too? As he was riding waves, Bryce got blown out to sea. He had a wetsuit and a surfboard, and n...

How to Keep Your Chin Up When It Hurts

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When John Orth, a violin maker from Colorado, set out to break his own world record for the most pull-ups in 24 hours, he had no idea he was competing...

Who’s Got It Worse, Ass-Pens or J-Holes?

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Outside spends a lot of time ranking the best mountain towns in the country, but which one is the worst? Is Aspen’s conspicuous wealth worse than Ja...

Shaun White's Next Twist

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Shaun White has been the face of snowboarding for two decades. So what is he doing in retirement? A lot. He’s launching his own snowboard brand. He’...

Up A Tree Without A Paddle

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It was the trip of a lifetime. Several months paddling the Amazon, trying to eat without being eaten. It almost all went to plan. But when Bruce Frey...

A Bull Named Party Bus and the Rodeo Clown Showdown

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

JJ Harrison is the only person at a rodeo who is supposed to get hit by the bulls. As the clown, he’s responsible for everyone’s safety. The crow...

How We Survive

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The US military is responsible for the emission of more greenhouse gasses than any other single institution in the world. It is actively planning for ...

Alone and Broken in the Desert

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Claire Nelson was more than a mile off the trail when she fell 30 feet in Joshua Tree National Park. As she lay there with a broken pelvis, she realiz...

Navigating a Class V Marriage

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Katie Arnold and her husband Steve were invited to run the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, it was a lifelong dream come true. But then disaster ...

A Holiday in Hell

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Camping in 120 degree heat can be deadly. But can it also be beautiful? What started as a lark—a road trip in search of very, very hot weather—bec...

Butterflies on the Wall—Part 2

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The border wall had an all star cast of political operatives trying to get it built. The butterflies had Marianna Trevino Wright. With the spotlight o...

Butterflies on the Wall—Part 1

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How did a US congressional candidate and the director of the National Butterfly Center end up in a physical altercation on the US border with Mexico? ...

The Disappearance of the Monarch King—Part 2

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Was Homero’s death an accident? Or murder? And who would want Homero dead? Reporters Michael May and Zach Goldbaum head to Mexico to investigate the...

The Disappearance of the Monarch King—Part 1

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Monarchs are considered the king of the butterflies. In Michoacan, Mexico conservationist Homero Gomez Gonzalez was considered the king of the Monarch...

A Suspiciously Straightforward Treasure Hunt

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The world's most interesting video game designer just hid a treasure in the woods. What's he up to? Jason Rohrer has been pushing the limits of game d...

Ada Limon Wants Picnic Tables to Make You Feel Something

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Ada Limon, America’s first Latina poet laureate, was tasked with bringing poetry to people who otherwise might not be exposed to it, she knew j...

The Banks Growing Money on Trees

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A quarter of the money at the world’s largest banks goes directly to funding fossil fuel projects. But what if it didn’t? In this episode, reporte...

The Mystery of the Mis-Labeled Mollusk

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Emojis are silly. But sometimes something silly gets lodged in your brain and you can’t stop thinking about it. Recently, reporter Meg Duff noticed ...

The Story of Outside’s Funniest Story

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What’s stranger than a story about people stuffing ferrets down their pants? How about that story leading the writer to create one of the largest, m...

The Olympic Athletes Being Required to Take Drugs

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since the beginning of women’s sports, a question has loomed: who qualifies as female? Tested follows the unfolding story of elite female runners wh...

The Battle for Swimming’s Suits and Running's Soul

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When a technological breakthrough gives some athletes a major advantage, how should we think about the victories, the medals, the world records? Is ne...

How Fat Makes You Fast

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Some of the most hardcore athletes in the world are elite race walkers. Moving faster than most people can run, their sport pushes the limits of endur...

In Search of a Quiet Mind

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A few years ago, after suffering a mental health crisis during a mountaineering expedition, National Geographic photographer Cory Richards walked aw...

What You Can Learn from More than One Octopus

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After My Octopus Teacher won the Oscar for Best Documentary, the producers realized they had left an important voice out of their movie—indigenous...

Caroline Gleich's Biggest Adventure Yet

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Caroline Gleich is a renowned climber and skier, a climate activist, and now the Utah democratic party’s candidate for US Senate. But what would she...

A Pro Kayaker Walks into Some Hip-Hop Bars

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What does a professional kayaker do when he realizes he’s in the twilight of his career? He releases a rap album, of course. Producer Paddy O’Conn...

Hello Darkness. Let's Get Weird

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Three days in total blackout darkness doesn’t sound that hard, until you hear this story about someone who tried to do it. Following in the footstep...

The Craziest Lost Dog Story Ever

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If your family dog ran off on its first camping trip, how far would you go to get them back? Scott and Shelby Prue had to ask themselves this question...

A Totally Different Way to Look at the Northern Lights

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is the Aurora Borealis magic, science, or something in between? For photographer Hugo Sanchez, the Aurora is an obsession he discovered when he picked...

The 200-Mile Race to Tell the World about Everest

08 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When the British Empire finally put boots on top of the world on May 29, 1953, the news was entrusted to a young man named Ten Tsewang Sherpa, who ran...

The Runners Who Went So Hard They Were Never the Same

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Athletes train for years to overcome pain, exhaustion, and fatigue. But some people take it too far and are never the same again. In this episode from...

The Subtle Art of Catch and Release

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When PTSD changed the course of Chad Brown’s life, the subtle art of catch and release fly fishing changed it back. In this episode, the filmmaker, ...

Breaking Down Point Break

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Movies don’t get much better than surfer-heist popcorn flick Point Break (1991). Movies don’t really get much worse than surfer-heist popcorn flic...

Your Rain Jacket May Soon Be Illegal

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

'Forever Chemicals' keep mud out of your boots, and make rain jackets waterproof, but they’re about to be illegal. Back in 2013, footwear maker Keen...

Alaska is the Center of the Universe

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Where did eagles come from? Why are grizzly bears so mean? In this Audible Original excerpt, host James Dommek Jr—the great-grandson of a famous Iñ...

Wild Animals Taught Me to… Run!

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Singer-songwriter David Lindes found his way into running with help from the most unexpected teacher: a bull moose. Growing up in Guatemala David had ...

On the Front Lines of NYC’s ‘Kittenpocalypse’

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We think of New York as having a rat problem, but cats are doing just as much damage. They hunt staggering numbers of birds, they carry parasites that...