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Research demonstrates numerous physical and mental benefits to heading out your door.

Unfortunately, one in three Americans simply don't have outside spaces close to where

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From outside magazine, this is the outside podcast.

What are these people doing? They sit in traffic for hours, they stand in lift lines so long,

you can see them from space, they pay $200 for four hours of this activity, what the heck

are they doing, and what could possibly be so appealing about this sport that people

would go to such lengths to do it?

I think people think we're crazy.

I think we might be crazy.

Meet my friend Gloria, a skier, a journalist, and buy her own admission, possibly a crazy person.

My name is Gloria Liu, and I am a contributing editor at Outside.

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