The backcountry is more popular than ever, but that doesn't make it safeOutside's long reads email newsletter features our strongest writing, most ambitious reporting, and award-winning storytelling about the outdoors..Colorado recorded last Friday and Saturday, which naturally made folks wonder if the COVID-inspired was already contributing to a prophesied uptick in avalanche deaths. It’s not. It’s good policy not to weigh in on the specifics of avalanche accidents like slope angle, decision making, and cause of death until local avalanche centers and coroners compile their...…The backcountry is more popular than ever, but that doesn't make it safeOutside's long reads email newsletter features our strongest writing, most ambitious reporting, and award-winning storytelling about the outdoors..Colorado recorded last Friday and Saturday, which naturally made folks wonder if the COVID-inspired was already contributing to a prophesied uptick in avalanche deaths. It’s not. It’s good policy not to weigh in on the specifics of avalanche accidents like slope angle, decision making, and cause of death until local avalanche centers and coroners compile their...WW…

This is the kind of natural disaster that happens every few hundred years, and it happened to usPhotography byText byI woke up on the morning of Monday, June 13 and saw that the spring runoff was in full force on the Yellowstone River, where I work as a fly fishing guide. It had been raining for nearly three weeks straight, so a higher water level was expected. I stopped by a river access point a couple of blocks from my house in Livingston, Montana, on my way to work. The 9th Street Island side channel is typically full during springtime, and the rest of the year it is reduced to a trickle...…This is the kind of natural disaster that happens every few hundred years, and it happened to usPhotography byText byI woke up on the morning of Monday, June 13 and saw that the spring runoff was in full force on the Yellowstone River, where I work as a fly fishing guide. It had been raining for nearly three weeks straight, so a higher water level was expected. I stopped by a river access point a couple of blocks from my house in Livingston, Montana, on my way to work. The 9th Street Island side channel is typically full during springtime, and the rest of the year it is reduced to a trickle...WW…

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