Sensing the outdoors through research: multisensory, multimedia, multimodal and multiliteracy possibilities

(Multi)sensorial experiences of being(in) the outdoors motivate/inspire humans to desire such spaces, to extract experiences, and to (re)produce environments that will sustain such experiences. Yet outdoor studies research pays little attention to sensorial experiences, especially in more than one ‘dimension’/mode, but contemporary epistemologies offer new possibilities. I discuss creative multimodal and mobile technologies with sensory-based methods. They afford new possibilities to attend to complexity, the embodied, corporeal and sensual experiences associated with the outdoors, and new/alternative understandings of outdoor experiences and pedagogies. Illustrated through outdoor research encounters I explore the application, affordances and limitations of such ‘multi’ methodologies.