Outlandish

Fuel Your Epic

Morgan Sjogren

• Publisher: VeloPress Books
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781948006125
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Travel

"Besides drooling over the gorgeous photos, it is guaranteed that you will salivate over the recipes that accompany each adventure and hopefully utilize Morgan's sustainable outdoor cooking tips."?American Trail Running Association Outlandish is a sun-soaked starter manual to fueling your own epic, equal parts fuel for the body and food for the soul. In this guide, the canyoneering wordsmith and adventurer Morgan Sjogren shows how outdoor adventure can become your lifestyle. Through her riveting personal stories, flavorful recipes, and the book's gotta-go-there photographs, Sjogren shares her advice and lessons learned from years exploring the desert Southwest while living out of her canary-yellow Jeep Wrangler. Outlandish is a gorgeous guide to a more adventurous life. In Outlandish, Sjogren shows how to sleep better in a car, build a cooking fire, overcome calamity, repurpose bacon grease, leave no trace, sun-dry tomatoes on your car hood, cook food on a hot engine block, and select practical gear for your tailgate kitchen. Equipped with little more than Outlandish, a backpacking stove, a cooler, and a few staple foods, you can seek out your own adventures fueled by Sjogren's inspiring outdoor lifestyle as well as her favorite burritos, dandelion salads, campfire blondies, and prickly pear margaritas. Sjogren offers up dozens of recipes that draw from the places she's been?Sedona, Bears Ears, Yosemite, Silverton, Utah?and help her tell intoxicating tales of exploration and mishap. There are taco recipes remembered from the highest mountain in Mexico and "50 Shades of Burritos" with flavors taken from around the Four Corners. This smart and meaningful guide comes straight from the Utah canyon country and deserts of Arizona to share lessons learned from a life lived in wilderness. Sjogren's exhilarating guide will stoke your desire for adventure while offering tools, tips, and tricks that can help you launch your epic.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface: You’re going to eat that? A running bum’s food philosophy
• Introduction: Runaway—sentenced to summer: Eastern Sierras to the Four Corners
• The Mobile Taco Stand
• Gone guidebooking: Bears Ears National Monument, Utah
• The Mobile Taco Stand
• Granite hugs: Yosemite National Park, California
• Smile country: Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Utah
• Welcome to the sport of burro racing: Creede, Colorado
• Silverton scavenger hunt: Silverton, Colorado
• The Tundrathon Triple: Silverton, Colorado
• Running naked in monsoon season: Bears Ears National Monument, Utah
• The Mobile Taco Stand
• Mars coyote: Lake Powell, Utah
• Sky skating: Eastern Sierras, California, and Silverton, Colorado
• Herschel the trail-blazing mountain mutt: Prescott, Arizona
• No exit route: Page, Arizona
• The Mobile Taco Stand
• Strange Sleep
• The highest taco stand in Mexico: Pico de Orizaba, Mexico
• The endless road trip: The West
• Burrito uprising: Yosemite National Park, California
• Why I signed up for a race I knew I couldn’t finish: Silverton, Colorado
• Becoming desert: Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Utah
• 50 Shades of Burritos
• Acknowledgments
• Credits
• About the Author