Turn your weekend jog up a notch with a trail run
This week's adventure is an essay from contributor Lyndsey Boekenkamp. If you have a story you’d like to share, email mappyhour@outdoorfest.com.
Being a trail runner,...
Bike to Coney Island
We were going a little stir crazy a few weeks ago so we convinced a friend to grab his bike and join us on...
Bullseye: Archery is the perfect indoor outdoorsy adventure
Well, it’s finally happened: the temperature in New York has caught up with the season. So now that it’s so cold you can’t even...
Keep your head up and other surf tips we learned last weekend
We were back in the water last weekend giving surfing another try. This was our surf third lesson and we finally felt like we had...
Bundle up at the summit: Hike in Storm King State Park
Our mind melded with a few friends over the weekend and we all woke up craving a hike. So we bundled up and headed...
Tune up your bike, tune up your soul
The spring temperatures mean it’s time to tune up that bike you left chained to the light post all winter. We got a head...
Spring ski: Hit the slopes through April. Here’s how.
Back in November, we scheduled a bunch of snow-sports for our winter editorial calendar. This was the year we were going to try cross...
This video about urban climbing will inspire you to go to the gym
https://youtu.be/bYnOLvm1WgE
We find it's hard to not talk about climbing as much as we'd like to (we don't want to be just a newsletter about...
Snow day: Another chance to enjoy the best winter activities in the city
We didn't check the weather last night before we went to bed so we were pretty surprised this morning when we woke up to what looked...
A dummy’s guide to ski resorts
Sometimes it seems like everybody's family but ours took an annual ski trip, which means that most of our friends grew up going to...
Spring hike checklist: Trails near New York City
We were discussing some of our favorite hikes near the city at Outdoorfest's Mappy Hour last night which stirred the project manager in us to...
