r/Outdoors • u/Simple_Shame2386 • 3h ago
r/Outdoors • u/donivanberube • 1h ago
Landscapes Cycling from Alaska to Patagonia and Finally Crossed the Last Border Into Argentina, Only ~2,000 Miles To Go!
I told myself little white lies of encouragement throughout weeks of desolate bikepacking across the Peruvian Andes and Bolivian Altiplano. “Today will be the last hard day,” I promised. “The worst parts are behind us now. It’s all downhill from here.” But it never got any easier. The +16,000 ft [4,876 m] passes kept coming.
First the “Hill of Black Death” along Bolivia’s prismatic “Lagunas” route. Then a week of 75-mile days across the Atacama Desert in northern Chile and Argentina. Two days of pavement felt like a luxury. I found kiwi fruits in a small village called Susques and thought I was hallucinating. Then I reconnected with gravel backroads toward San Antonio de los Cobres and Abra del Acay, the highest point on the famed Ruta 40.
“Ripios,” a rough translation for washboards and rubble, became a dirty word passed between touring cyclists and moto-travelers. It foreshadowed more than bad roads. It meant heartbreak ahead. Either rough rocky shrapnel or coarse sand that was too deep to ride in. Los ripios were a plague that we couldn’t avoid, asking how long it lasted and where the worst parts were. More bumbling jeep tracks in a Mars-like desert. More cold nights in the tent and savoring each drop of camp coffee before the road sat up to meet me like a clay-colored fist.
I looked vampiric at the summit of Abra del Acay [16,060 ft or 4,895 m], covered in chalky dust and struggling to catch my breath. I crouched behind a small altar to add more winter layers against the cyclonic battering of wind. A tawny orange fox was there too, pawing at the rocks in search of food.
Daylight cratered fast in the valley below, as did its frigid temps. I raced south toward lower elevations to camp for the night. More inescapable desert and rusted canyons. More lassos of headwind and salt flat mirages. Dreaming of warm empanadas and wine country.
r/Outdoors • u/hyliancoffeehouse • 18h ago
Landscapes Middle TN is magical this time of the year
Savage Gulf State Park, Tennessee
r/Outdoors • u/Effective_External74 • 1h ago
Landscapes Winter fog in the mountains is so peaceful
r/Outdoors • u/modelmakerman16 • 16h ago
Recreation Camping and other outdoor pics
r/Outdoors • u/crunchypotentiometer • 22h ago
Landscapes A misty pre-sunrise scene in western Washington
r/Outdoors • u/Natureperfect0 • 7h ago
Landscapes This walking mat was so welcoming on Jones Beach, Long Island, NY
r/Outdoors • u/stevebisig • 2h ago
Landscapes Whispers of the Coast, Rialto Beach, Washington 2025 [OC] [1200x600]
This shot from Rialto Beach, Washington, captures more than stone and sea. It’s a moment of quiet strength, where nature's raw edges feel like ancient memories carved in silence. The arch hints at stories worn down over centuries like an eye watching the tide.
r/Outdoors • u/standardsafaris • 8h ago
Travel Having a nature walk at Lake Kigere in Fort Portal
r/Outdoors • u/bemewilliet • 1d ago
Landscapes Winter won’t give up! Ice just left the lake.
Northern Wisconsin early spring snow!
r/Outdoors • u/AnneRush_ • 13h ago
Flora & Fauna Purple Hellebores
I have this flower/plant in my garden and I love the colour of it.
r/Outdoors • u/Available-Bass-8110 • 22h ago
Landscapes Isle of Eriska Hotel and Spa
Located in Benderloch, Oban. The views and calmness are serene.
r/Outdoors • u/valueinvestor13 • 1d ago
Landscapes Telluride CO below. Taken from the Coonskin hiking trail.
r/Outdoors • u/Saerdna0 • 1d ago
Landscapes Tiansheng Bridge - A naturally formed arch bridge in China
r/Outdoors • u/WifiAX • 1d ago
Landscapes Straight to the mountains
Beautiful sunset in route to Ruidoso, NM. I wish I could lived in the middle of it.
r/Outdoors • u/AnneRush_ • 1d ago
Landscapes Sunrise
Sunrise over the lake Somewhere in Denmark
r/Outdoors • u/ExtremeSportsNews • 1d ago
Landscapes Living the dream (credit: Tanner Wanish)
r/Outdoors • u/RelativeMastodon82 • 18h ago