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Archive Park Places, Summer 1998 National Pastimes A visit to these parks is right up there with baseball, hot dogs, and the Fourth of July PARK PLACES…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, The Itinerant Toddler Rug-Rat Resorts Try checking in at most vacation resorts and you’re likely to get that “oh-no-here-comes-that-two-year-old” look from the weary desk clerk. For a more toddler-friendly experience, consider the following.
Outside magazine, February 1996 Water Sports: Wanted–Windsurfing Demigod, Sales Experience Preferred Bjorn Dunkerbeck is arguably the greatest boardsailor ever. Is that really enough? By Stephanie Pearson After winning boardsailing’s overall world title for eight consecutive years, Bjorn Dunkerbeck feels he’s entitled to…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 In Road Mode Don’t stay cooped up: seven day-by-day itineraries for an out-of-car experience By Bob and Lee Carol Giduz Our Favorite Places | Inside Skinny | Essential…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Sailing: Make That 74 Days By Todd Balf (with Derek Rielly) When the French catamaran Commodore Explorer won the Trophée Jules Verne in 1993 by tearing around the world in a record 79 days, six hours, and 15 minutes, tens of…
Destinations, May 1997 Looking for Lava in All the Right Places Hike like the Incas. Meet a friendly ex-headhunter or two. And see mountains vent steam. All within Ecuador’s Avenue of the Volcanoes. By Bob Payne In the past, Ecuador…
Outside magazine, April 2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Atlas of the World A…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Ten Great Front Country Campsites First pick your place Steven C. Foster State Park, Georgia Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas Gulf Islands National Seashore, Florida…
Bulletins Sailing: We Be Jammin’ By Hannah Holmes Although sailing trips usually aim to induce a euphoric torpor among adults, the windjammer Isaac H. Evans, out of Rockland, Maine, now offers three-day trips geared to the kinetics of kids. As the…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Mexico: Baja California If your idea of good H2O involves head-high surf and barracuda-infested reefs, you’ll find no better place to hang your hammock By Andrew Rice The tip of the Baja Peninsula is not…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Newfoundland Dogsledding in Gros Morne National Park Outfitter Price Accommodations Onward Tours 709-686-5333 www.onwardtours.com $800 camping, rustic lodging The Route: Mushing for five days on the glacier-carved high…
Outside magazine, April 1998 Paddling The River Primeval Access & Resources By Stephanie Gregory BACKCOUNTRY SPECIAL Unfrozen Caveman Camper The River That Time Ignored Paddling the River Primeval There…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Wilderness Areas: Bona Fide Beaches By Meg Lukens Day at the beach doesn’t always turn out to be…well…a day at the beach. Sometimes the fog rolls in just after you’ve slathered yourself with Number 15.
Outside magazine, June 1994 Inns & Lodges: Big Bay Point Lighthouse, Michigan By David Willey On a foggy night in 1902, Big Bay’s first lighthouse keeper, William Pryor, wandered into the woods and hanged himself from a tree. His journal hints that he…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Tips from the Field Interviews by Suzy Preston Nevada Wier You specialize in portraiture. How do you approach people in foreign countries to photograph them? Well, it’s pretty clear that I’m…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Inns & Lodges: Copper Canyon Riverside Lodge Chihuahua, Mexico By Matthew Joyce As you round the hairpin turns on the road that drops into Mexico’s Copper Canyon, it occurs to you that a parachute might come in handy.
Outside magazine, May 1995 Mountaineering: Isn’t That Sweet By Todd Balf In the increasingly combed-over world of mountaineering, an emerging tradition appears to be the “tandem” ascent. A few years ago, alpinists Jeff Lowe and Catherine Destivelle popularized the pursuit when they successfully climbed…
Outside magazine, June 1995 The Family Plan By Bob Howells Bring on the small fry: kids are kept happily busy at most of these resorts. At Lone Mountain Ranch, daily hikes, trail rides, animal tracking, pond fishing, campouts, and a weekly Kids’ Rodeo…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Warmest Shores: Mexico The Mainland Sunsets over the Pacific, one hundred shades of green, centuries-old civilizations, the relaxing rhythm of life, and the gentle humanity of people who honor civility, passion, and grace over…
CHOICE RIDE: SOUTHEAST The Railroad Trail From the baritone “Oh Lords” to the oyster po’boys of the Florida coast By Bucky McMahon For much of the 16 miles of the Tallahassee-St. Marks Historic Railroad State Trail,…
Outside magazine, March 1995 True Hawaii No luaus. No leis. Just a springtime ramble through the promised land. By Jonathan Runge Most people plan on getting their Hawaii fix in the dead of winter, which ironically is rainy season…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Guide to Summer: Location, Location, Direction For summer-rental perfection, WNW marks the spot By Lawrence Shames If you don’t already have a hand-held compass, get one. String it onto a lanyard, hang it around your neck, and wear…
Destinations, October 1996 Inns & Lodges: Casa del Mar Stinson Beach, California By Laura Hilgers A Mediterranean-style villa high on a hill, Casa del Mar is prime northern California real estate 20 miles north of San Francisco. Set in the shadow of…
Outside magazine, March 1996 Smart Traveler: Le Bon Rental How to save money the Euro way By Everett Potter If you’re planning to hike in the English Lake District or bike in Provence or Tuscany, renting a farmhouse, cottage,…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Canadian Doubles We’re not talking tennis. Six of the best lodges for reconnoitering Cannada’s outdoors. By Mike Steere If scrambling for insanely hard to come by reservations at Yellowstone’s Old Faithful Lodge and watching the geyser erupt…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Desert Solitary Five moonscapes where the flora is ancient, nights are starlit, and there is always a drought of people By Bob Howells Nothing lives easily in the desert, least of all you. But sparseness is also the…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Mileage Madness Judging by what I’ve been reading of late, we seem to…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 SUMMER WAVESIDE SITES East and west, beachfront campgrounds where the breakers roar you to sleep There’s nothing more peaceful than the sound of waves breaking against the beach, rhythmically transporting you…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Botswana Exploring the Okavango Delta on elephantback Outfitters Departures Price Accommodations The Africa Adventure Company 800-882-9453, 954-491-8877 25 $5,500 camping Esplanade Tours 800-426-5492 27 $5,500 camping Explore Inc. 888-596-6377, 505-820-2470 8…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Colorado Inn-to-Inn Paddle-rafting on the Arkansas Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Wilderness Aware 800-462-7238, 719-395-2112 On demand $800 rustic lodging The Route: A relatively posh but damp four-day inn-to-inn rafting trip from Buena…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Nova Scotia Biking the Cabot Trail Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Freewheeling Adventures 902-857-3600 5 $919 tourist hotels The Route: Pedaling for five days on the 184-mile paved loop around Cape Breton Island.
Outside magazine, July 1999 INNS AND LODGES The Refuge at Ocklawaha Ecocorrectness and gator tails in the heart of Florida Despite its surfeit of sunshine, bargain airfares, and cheap car rentals, central Florida has long been…
Outside Magazine, November 1994 Inns & Lodges: Rustler Lodge, Utah By Peter Shelton If you get lucky during your stay at Alta’s Rustler Lodge, the front desk will call your room before dawn to announce that you have been “interlodged.” This means that there’s…
Outside magazine, May 1996 Smart Traveler: A Roof with a View Staking out a rental cabin in the wilds of Alaska By Tom Kizzia A trip into the Alaska wilderness doesn’t have to mean flattening yourself in a storm-battered alpine tent or…
Outside magazine, June 1998 Chile, the Private Tour By Stephanie Gregory Lord of All He Surveys In Doug Tompkins’s words, 617,500-acre Pumalín Park is one of the last places left in the world where “the marvelous…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Frost -Free and Easy Seven sunny escapes in the Lower 48 Anza-Borrego Desert State Park | Grapevine Canyon Ranch | Big Bend National Park | Banning House |…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Hey, That’s My Coast By Peter Oliver CRUISE-O-MATIC | DETAILS, DETAILS | HEY, THAT’S MY COAST | ESSENTIAL GEAR What’s in…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Nordic Skiing–It Ain’t the Way to Grandma’s House Over the river and through the woods, six competition-grade networks to challenge even the hard core. By Mike Steere Burn up a few miles of a well-wrought trail, and you’ll…
Outside magazine, February 1996 The Fast Track to Dharma: 60 Degrees Straight Down, Mind the Boulders and Avalanches A postcard from La Grave, France–alpinism’s new lost horizon By Michael Paterniti The journey starts at a car rental agency in Grenoble.
Outside magazine, July 1994 Expeditions: The Not-Quite-As-Terrible Burgess Twins Reformed, sort of, the boys hit K2 with grit, desire, and beer By Clint Willis It’s not so we can have big drunks down at base camp,” insists British mountaineer Adrian Burgess. “The reason, apart…
A condensed history of Attu: First there was only sea and sky and wildlife. Next came Aleuts, and Russians, and Americans, and Japanese. And a horrifically bloody battle, and scientists, and birders. And, on rare occasion, tourists. And finally—very soon—there'll be only sea and sky and wildlife.
Outside Magazine, September 1999 LONG WEEKENDS Head Down Past Gainesville, Turn Back 50 Years Where the Suwannee hits the Gulf, a bygone Florida thrives in the wilderness Keys to the Key Cedar Key is a straight shot southwest…
 Hey, Take a Hike! A tenderfoot’s guide to making tracks: Tents and trails, packs and boots, gadgets and grub, and everything else your family will need CAR CAMPING | BACKPACKING…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Family Vacation Quiz Every clan has its own definition of vacation bliss. One group’s getaway to a pristine, leafy wilderness is another’s descent into a mosquito-plagued, showerless netherworld. Some families thrive on organized activities; others bolt at the first syllable…
Park Places, Summer 1998 Six Great Unsung Parks By Bob Howells PARK PLACES National Pastimes A visit to these parks is right up there with…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Backseat Bliss Home, Home on the Road People are plugging so many electronic gizmos into their cars, you have to wonder whether they should install a surge protector just to start the engine. Vehicles…
CHOICE RIDE: NORTHEAST The Jay Pass Loop In Vermont, paradise is just a climb away By Kate Carter Call it fate that Vermont’s Jay Pass loop begins and…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 At Play in the Spray Strap on the helmets, tighten the tevas, this ride’s gonna be wet By Mark Jannot Our Favorite Places | The Hysterical Parent |…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Surfing: Kelly Slater Reincarnate By Todd Balf (with Derek Rielly) In the April Bacchanal they call the Rip Curl Pro, aka the Association of Surfing Professionals season opener, American Kelly Slater aced the four- to six-foot waves at Bells Beach near Melbourne,…
Destinations, May 1997 Inns & Lodges: Sleeping Beauties Smoking out the overlooked fire-spotting towers By Lorien Warner In 1981, when the forest service first got the notion to convert some of its outmoded and decommissioned fire-spotting towers into ultra-primitive wilderness…
Outside magazine, June 2000 I really enjoyed reading the tree-climbing story, “They’re Not Just for Monkeys Anymore” (March), by Fred Haefele. I can remember spending many summer days in my childhood perching with friends up in the Douglas fir in my…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Powder to the People More bars! More lifts! More condos! More everything! By Ron C. Judd We’ve all been there: fighting driving wind, rain and snow. Funneling every ounce of energy into holding…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 The Magnificent Seven How to find your own space in America’s premier national parks by Ron C. Judd Our Favorite Parks Make Family Vacation Shots a Snap By Bob Krist…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 …or Your Own Little Icebox on the Prairie By Brian Alexander If a “luxury” igloo is too tame, you could try the real thing. Mountain Quest Adventure Company (800-269-8735) supplies tools, gear, and a guide for a two-mile snowshoe trek…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Pakistan Traversing the Karakoram Outfitter Price Accommodations Concordia Expeditions 719-395-9191, www.concordia expeditions.com $3,900 camping, tourist hotels KE Adventure Travel 800-497-9675, www.keadven ture.com $3,995 camping, tourist hotels The Route:…
 Outside magazine, April 1998 The River That Time Ignored Here among the bears and the glacial ice, our guide said, was the real world. Down the burly Stikine, learning not only how to survive, but how to thrive. By John…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Inns & Lodges: Adirondack Rock & River Guide Service, New York By Andrew Nemethy New York State’s Adirondack Park offers most everything a rock fan could want: hundreds of routes, still-virgin faces, and 46 peaks over 4,000 feet. The…
June 1992 Our National Parks: An Uncommon Guide By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Introduction Acadia National Park Denali National Park Everglades National Park Glacier National Park…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide The Beachfinder First pick your place Ko Nang Yuan; Ko Tao, Thailand Wineglass Bay; Freycinet Ntl Park, Tasmania Radha Nager Beach; Havelock Island, India…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Climbing: But Can You Get the “Times” Up There? Introducing Todd Skinner’s newest home away from home By Greg Child The only thing Todd Skinner seems to like more than talking about climbing is doing it. And clearly…
 Outside magazine, April 1996 A Good Hair Week in Mongolia After years of government oppression, the country that gave us Genghis Khan, the Attilla the Hun Show, and possibly the first Americans is rolling out the welcome mat. On an archaeological tress-hunt in the land…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Smart Traveler: The Canine Question A backcountry primer for a coyote-eat-dog world By Debra Shore In theory it sounds great: a summer camping trip for all, including the four-legged among you. But before you get too attached to…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Caribbean Calendar By Stephanie Gregory October 23-27: Meet “Q” of 007 fame at the world’s first and only James Bond Festival in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Also screen rare film footage, tour creator Ian Fleming’s Goldeneye estate, and sip…
CHOICE RIDE: MIDWEST The North County Trail Snooping out Michigan’s finest off-road secrets By Gretchen Reynolds Could tell you, but then, well, you know.” Yeah, yeah. “And if you tell anyone else, there’ll be some…
Destinations, April 1997 The Suburban Jungle In praise of the East Coast’s most unfiltered wilderness experience, the Adirondack High Peaks By Thurston Clarke It’s This or Bivouac High Peaks inns range from rustic to luxe The high peaks region,…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Strategic Packing: Weigh Your Options By Sara Corbett “When you don’t have time to plan, the easiest thing to do is to overpack,” says Bethel, Maine-based Outward Bound instructor Jim Dowd. “And a backbreaking load of life’s little unnecessities can…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Rum File By Jonathan Runge Rum is to the Caribbean as corn is to Iowa or chile is to New Mexico. More than 300 years before tourism became the region’s major industry, rum was big business. Even now, every…
The Trip Finder, January 1997 Central and South America By Kathy Martin O’Neil Argentina/Bolivia | Belize | Chile | Colombia/Costa Rica | Costa Rica…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Vive le Poutine, Eh? By Mike Steere There’s more pulling at canadian harmony than francophone Quebec’s never-ending struggle for autonomy. Mistake a British Columbian for an Ontarian, and a quick “sorry” will be in order. Ron James, Nova Scotia-born…
Bodywork, July 1998 Ready, Set, Summer Some essential advice to get you past the hot season’s pitfalls By Brenda DeKoker Goodman At last, that damn fine time of year when you can blow out the door in nothing…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 LIVING LIGHTLY IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS Seven discrete retreats in Guatemala and Belize where the adventures range from underground paddles to lost-city forays GUATEMALA…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 HOW THEY DO IT Tips from the pros Wu: Coral grouper in the Red Sea Macduff Everton is a Santa Barbara–based photo documentarian and…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 South Georgia Island Overland Arctic Trek Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Adventure Network International 011-44-1494-671-808 1 $8,800-$11,000 boat accommodations Quark Expeditions 800-356-5699 1 $8,800-$11,000 boat accommodations The Route: A 21-day journey by…
Adventure Found, January 1998 You Will Follow Him How to settle on the most critical component of your trip: the guide By David Noland It was early afternoon, and our group had almost summited…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Medicine: The Right Pill for the Pain By Dorothy Foltz-Gray With the introduction several months ago of Aleve, the first new over-the-counter pain reliever to appear since ibuprofen products made their debut in 1984, there seem to be as many…