Offers articles on outdoor sports, wilderness life, adventure travel, and related subjects from the pages of Outside.

Short of near disaster or the sublime, what are our most memorable outdoor moments made of? The totally surprising, sometimes bizarre oddball moments that catch our psyches off guard and strike our funny bones to the core. Call it the wild side factor. The editors of Outside proudly present outstanding images gleaned from 300 issues of their back-page "Parting Shots" photo feature. It's their way of celebrating the pratfalls and singular coincidences of an outdoor life the comic circumstances of relatively tame mammals (us) spending more and more time closer and closer to large, wild animals....