Wes Siler is your guide to leading a more exciting life in the great outdoors. As Outside’s outdoor lifestyle columnist, he writes about the intersections of science, news, politics, gear, vehicles ...

On average, Americans spend 90% of their time indoors, with much of that time spent in commercial buildings such as offices, schools, hotels, and retail spaces. This extensive indoor presence ...

There are three main types of sleeping pad: air pads, self-inflating pads and closed-cell pads. Air pads, which are like packable, miniaturized versions of the full-sized inflatable beds you might buy ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

Talk to a farmer about building a farm shop, and you can pretty well tell what part of the country they’re from by how interested they are in insulation. Southern farmers are often indifferent to ...

If you’ve ever gone camping without a sleeping mat (scrimping on weight or just through forgetfulness), you’ll understand how invaluable that layer between your body and the ground is. A sleeping mat ...

Even engineers in the know who appreciate foam for its wide range of characteristics and capabilities are often unaware how versatile it can be and how best to use it. And if you don’t know much about ...