Meet Ryan Levinson, Outside’s 2011 Reader of the Year and JanSport’s newest contributor to Be Outdoors.
In 1996, when Ryan Levinson was 24 years old, the San Diego-based athlete was diagnosed with an incurable and progressive form of muscular dystrophy known as FSHD. Doctors told him strenuous exercise would worsen
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