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Ultra freaks, take note: Gu’s new high-powered sugar slurp has about three times the citrates and amino acids of its regular gels and may help battle fatigue in extreme races. Taste? Salty and a touch bitter. gusports.com…
Clif’s first 100 percent organic bar contains two servings of fruit—and no more than five ingredients total. Our fave: Dark Chocolate & Walnut. www.clifbar.com…
Four-Pack If you already get your carbs and calories somewhere else, this lactose-free shake speeds recovery with 15 grams of protein but just 100 calories—130 less than regular Muscle Milk. cytosport.com…
The Hooah!’s claim to fame? It was developed by the U.S. military, which found that it improved stamina. The Chocolate Crisp is like eating a flavored Rice Krispie treat. www.hooahbar.com…
Unlike the regular stuff you get at the gas ‘n’ go, this Gatorade mix has 79 g of healthy sugars (no high-fructose corn syrup) and much more salt—350 milligrams. Buy it online or at a health-food store. gatorade.com/performance…
Sports nutritionists recommend a bar like this—with 20 grams of protein—before resistance training. Caution: The honey-based Peanut Butta Pro is a bit sweet for a mid-hike snack. www.honeystinger.com…
“Extreme” might be overkill, as these are just jelly beans (sugar plus corn syrup) with 50 mg of caffeine plus a little salt and vitamins. Pop them before workouts for a nice energy surge—100 calories, 25 g sugar. Midrun, we found them hard to chew. sportbeans.com…
Looking for sweeter fare? The caramel flavors taste like candy but still have 23 vitamins and minerals and five grams of fiber and protein. This bar has only 100 calories and 3.5 grams of fat. www.balance.com…
A new, refreshingly not-so-sweet endurance drink, Xood has no artificial anything. But each 16-oz packet does have 30 g of carbs (natural maltodextrin and fructose), 105 mg of sodium, and 2.5 g of whey protein. xoodhealth.com BummerThe concoction is too frothy to carry…
Mainline your nutrients with this 73 percent organic bar. Açaí, the Amazon’s superfruit, adds essential fatty acids, antioxidants, amino acids, vitamins, and minerals. Plus, altogether, the ingredients add up to a full serving of vegetables. theprobar.com…
Missed lunch? Don’t also miss your workout. These heavy-duty meal-replacement bars have 280 calories—38 g of carbs, 20 g of protein, and 6 g of fat—and taste pretty darn good. promaxnutrition.com BonusSome flavors have no high-fructose corn syrup.
OK, we have mixed feelings about Muscle Milk—it does, after all, contain lean lipids in an attempt to mimic that miraculous growth drink called breast milk—but it works! Best used as a post-strength-workout shake. Pack of four, cytosport.com…
These oat-and-chocolate-covered cookie-dough balls are savory and satisfying, with 11 g of protein and the same carb blend as regular PowerBars. But even with water, they’re a bit dry for midworkout fueling. powerbar.com…
It was 20 years ago this fall — November 17, 1990, to be precise — when Gary Erickson (pictured at left) started to bonk on the long bike ride up Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara County, Calif. He had six energy bars with him for the day, a stash…
Courtesy of Flickr Mmmm, SunChips. They're deliciously salty, relatively healthy, and until recently, packaged noisily. Frito-Lay discontinued their line of infamous 100% compostable bags in all except the original flavor, reports the New York Times. So what if every…
Beer is the Dom Perignon of the Amazon. The surest way to get everyone’s attention is to show up with an obscene amount. We had everyone’s attention.
I'm building an emergency kit into a small fanny pack for day hikes in Colorado. I don't have space for cookware so I was wondering if there's a titanium water bottle that could be used to boil water over a campfire if necessary. – Jerry Colorado Springs, CO
It's National Tequila Day this Saturday, July 24! Instead of spending a lot of dough bar-hopping, we suggest making your own drinks. Mixologist Mark Drew of Casa Herradura gives you his best tequila recipes for summer fun: Blood Orange and Ginger Collins: El Jimador…
Photos by Chris Werner In early June, beer lovers gathered at Orella Ranch on California’s Gaviota Coast for a two-day workshop on building a home brewery and making beer. Orella Ranch, a family ranch in operation since 1866, is also home to…
Vitamin D may turn out to be a wonder nutrient for your health and performance. If you're not getting enough—and you probably aren't—you need to start.
It’s not quite summer yet, but you can pretend it is. Just set up a dinner with the help of Randy Wayne White‘s recipe for Yucatan shrimp–the same one that’s used in the kitchen of the ϳԹ…
Tired of the rules banning BYO alcohol to certain sporting events and even the airport? Fret no more. You can go get yourself the Brandy Smuggler Walking Cane Flask at HomeWetBar.com. It's a classy cane that hides up to 10 oz. of…
We've been waiting for this.The New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust has successfully recovered the whiskey left behind by Shackleton's 1908-1909 expedition to the continent, according to the Daily Mail. We anticipated the find in a…
After tracking down one of Italy's most eccentric vintners, our team of amateurs has a single afternoon to master one of wine-making's highest art forms.
Need ideas for what to cook out on a hiking trail? There are eight simple meals you can make yourself in the great outdoors with minimal time and effort, according to Backpacker.com. There's the basic mac 'n' cheese dish, with tuna thrown in. And if you…
By Stephen Regenold Caffeine. Taurine. Glucuronolactone. These are the energizing–and sometimes controversial–ingredients that have fueled untold millions of outdoors and action-sports types since 1996 when a previously unknown blue-and-silver can appeared on shelves in the U.S. market. Red Bull Energy Drink is…
Today, October 16th, is World Food Day. It is a day designated for increasing awareness, understanding and year-round action to alleviate hunger. A report released on Wednesday by the United Nations says that the global economic crises has left over 1 billion people malnourished. According to…
According to Backpacker, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company has donated a portion of this month's proceeds from their Pale Ale and Summerfest Lager to the Western Rivers Conservatory, an Oregon based non-profit. The Company donated a grand…
I recently took up drinking tea. I was wondering how sustainable drinks like coffee and tea are? How far do they travel before reaching my table? Kevin Portland, Oregon
Mace Fleeger shows you how to turn a match into a rocket with just a bit of tin foil.
A better way to get to know your favorite wilderness this harvest season: Pick, haul, fish, and forage your way from breakfast to dinner
Sixty seconds. That’s how long it takes you to roll over and go back to sleepor, with the push of a button on the Jura-Capresso Impressa J5, brew up a perfect cup of espresso to get you into your gear closet and out the door. Before you’ve even registered what…
From showroom cookers to backyard fire pits, choice cuts of beef to slaw-covered brats, perfect margaritas to domestic sixers, it’s summer. Time to move the kitchen outside.
In which we take back the drinking trip from the wine snob. Here's how to mix world-class adventure and tasting, from Kentucky to Japan.
Down Boy: Q&A with Steven Rinella Though author Steven Rinella wrote the book on weird food (The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine), traveling to Vietnam to sample cooked dog for the October 2007 feature story “Down Boy” totally freaked him out. Rinella talks…
Gas grills may get the prime floor space at Home Depot, but for backyard gourmands, nothing beats the warm glow of charcoal
Napa's knack for producing world-class vintages has spilled across the Left Coast. Raise a toast to five getaways that mix bucolic adventure by day with fine wine by night.
As fall hikes give way to the first powder days of winter, there's a beer for every occasion
One man, one idiotic quest: to find El Mirador, a mysterious beachfront bar in a very remote and very dangerous part of Colombia. Who knew there would be complications?
The Caribbean is home to as many rum distilleries as islands. Hop on board for a taste tour—and leave the Coke behind.
Feasting will doubtless bookend the feats of athleticism on the ice and snow at these Winter Olympics. Find out here what it takes to get through Piedmontese culinary boot camp.
In the early nineties, you couldn’t turn around without spilling a microbrew on some goateed guy’s flannel. Replace that six-pack with a bottle of brandy made from organic pears and you have the latest trend in happy-hour chic: craft distilling. Looking for ways to spice up your holiday liquor cabinet?…
IF YOU THOUGHT PAUL GIAMATTI’S CHARACTER in Sideways was obsessed, consider the growing cult of American oenophiles for whom only ultranatural “biodynamic” wine will do. Biodynamic Wine Vintners producing this exalted juice concoct compost by burying cow dung packed in cow horns in the fall, unearthing them in…
Our one-month plan (and some inspiring recipes) will help you elevate your fitness goals
Welcome to Nha Trang, where Vietnam's sophisticated new era and ageless culture meet on a gorgeous beach
Over here in Scandinavia—where I recently moved to edit ϳԹ Sweden—the dark winters can get you down. Enter aquavit: From the Latin aqua vitae, or “water of life,” this missing link between vodka and gin is the favored spirit of Thor’s ski-hard descendants. A tasty, caraway-flavored libation, it’s chilled and…
Discover the wild, sandy stretch between Sydney and Melbourne, the next idyllic beach paradise Down Under
Lately, more and more indie beers—with their mad hops and big barley—are sporting names cribbed from the lexicon of the stoked. But are the brewers of these imbibables just appropriating the cachet of adventure sports to sell a few six-packs? Or do they live and love the wild life? We…
Blame it on the Naked Chef—suddenly everyone wants to know how to roll the perfect lumpia. Here are four resorts where you don't have to forgo active pursuits just to don your toque.
We’re not talking fries and fat, with fresh nowhere in sight. We’re talking about smart nutrition to help you charge up, trim down, and get the most out of mealtime. We picked the brains of top athletes for their favorite full-flavored quick-and-easy recipes. Prep time is less than ten minutes;…
Though we admire the ease of energy-replenishing snacks like Gu and PowerBars, man can’t live on them alone. So we asked top athletes, from marathoners to pole-vaulters, to cough up their best recipes—after all, if the fuel in their tanks isn’t effective, they’re out of work. They offered a variety…
Ready to take up the challenge of reviving the bloody old days of classic haute cuisine? Steven Rinella bites.
For many, camp cooking is a messy, disheartening, ultimately bland affair. But it doesn’t have to be. Take, for instance, the following gastronomical field trip, led by three of the nation’s finest chefs, maestros of the kitchen who—surprise!—are also no strangers to the demands of wielding a skillet in the…
After being forced to stomach snake-blood cocktails and rooster-head soup, one afflicted traveler discovers that revenge is a dish best served by Norwegians