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ArchiveOutside magazine, September 1995 Rowing: It’s a French Thing By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) As frenchman Jean Luckes shoved off from Cape Cod last June for a two- to three-month, 3,000-mile solo voyage across the North Atlantic, he was asked the inevitable question:…
Outside magazine, May 1996 Oh, Canada It’s not easy following in the footsteps of Ben Johnson, but Canadian Donovan Bailey–the reigning 100-meter world champion who at press time had won six of the seven indoor events he’d entered in 1996–is doing just that. Last February…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 The Last Best Peninsula The Costa Rica of legend still exists. But you have to crash through breakers and fight off pigs to find it. By Bob Payne At dawn, after pushing to the…
Traveler’s Almanac, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Bargains The Circle Game Around the world for less By Everett Potter Columbus had the right idea. If you’re traveling to Asia or the Pacific, instead of making a U-turn, just keep going.
Waterworlds, Family Vacations 1998 Canoeing Polish up those J-strokes and cross-draws — we’re journeying to the heartland By Larry Rice WATERWORLDS Rafting How…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Part One: The Coolest Terrain An Alpine Quiz How to find that perfect mountain The West It’s still wild out there The Rockies Snow like it ought to be…
Dispatches, May 1998 FILM If We Told You, It Wouldn’t Be a Secret, Would It? A rather silly journey in search of a very special place By Bill Vaughn Few things are as delicious as a secret, and nothing…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Ash Mountain, Three Rivers, CA 93271 209-565-3341 Established 1890 864,383 Acres The Big Picture: Upward mobility defines these twin parks at…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Mexican Galapagos: Cheek to Jaws By Bill Belleville For shark divers, the remote pinnacles and islands of the Revilla Gigedo off Baja California are both punishment and reward. The punishment is the 260-mile boat trip southwest from Cabo San Lucas…
Outside magazine, January 1994 Access & Resources: The Schlepp to Sipadan By Amy Goldwasser Maybe it’ll happen on the long trip to Kota Kinabalu, when you realize you’ve lost two days to time zones. Or maybe it’ll happen as you squirm into your…
Outside magazine, May 1996 No You Fool, It’s Red Wine with Spam Startling governmental conclusion of the month: Our fighting men and women hate their food. A recently released 400-plus-page tome by the federal Institute of Medicine, which spent $100,000 on the study, reported that…
Outside magazine, July 1995 San Luis Obispo, California A town where you can have a real job, a real life, and still get to move in with the scenery. Several reasons to split the city and head for the Big Outdoors. By…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Duffels and Packs The best in no-sweat cramming By Bob Howells Traveling is as much about carrying things as seeing sights. Whatever you’re toting there’s sure to be a better way. Good construction is a given with these…
Adventure Travel Special, January 1997 Professor Cahill’s Travel 101 From the Plato of the peripatetic, 20 indispensable dos and don’ts By Tim Cahill Dr. Cahill, loose in Irian Jaya I’ve been writing about travel…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Update: Fall of the Quartzite Eight By Wendy Marston “I did it to save lives. If we’re guilty of anything, we’re guilty of weighing human life as being worth more than that rock.” So said William Stoner, a river guide…
Destinations, April 1997 Smart Traveler: Meet Me in Malaysia or Harare or… The best deals in around-the-world airfares By Everett Potter The next time some kid clutching a battered Lonely Planet guide brags about his cheap consolidator tickets to Hong…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Turks and Caicos By Jeff Wallach Technically part of the Bahamas chain some 30 miles to the northwest, the Turks and Caicos are 30 dry, scrubby islands and keys scored by salt flats and arranged in the…
The Trip Finder, January 1997 North America By Kathy Martin O’Neil Alaska | Alberta | British Columbia | Colorado | Labrador |…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Beach Volleyball: Americans Take the Worlds By Todd Balf At last February’s Women’s Beach Volleyball World Championships in La Serena, Chile, Americans Karolyn Kirby and Liz Masakayan dropped the first set to their Brazilian rivals 12-9, never having held…
Outside magazine, June 1996 More Maple Leafs Than You Can Shake a Hockey Stick At By Cory Johnson Mention the word Canada, and ice hockey and off-kilter accents come to mind. What you may not realize is that Canada, as the second largest…
Outside magazine, December 1997 Travel: Footloose and Cholesterol-Free In the midst of its epic ride, a chat with history’s nuttiest cycling tandem John Galvin If you find yourself driving a lonely country road, only to spy a monocled, seven-foot legume…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 CAMERA EXPEDITIONS Focus on Myanmar This mystical Buddhist country (formerly called Burma) of gold-covered temples, streets lined with colorful markets, and a countryside marked by hill-tribe…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Micronesia Cruising Palau and Yap Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Zegrahm Expeditions 800-628-8747 2 $5,980-$8,980 boat accommodations, tourist hotels The Route: Exploring by yacht two rarely visited islands, where you’ll snorkel some of…
Adventure Found, January 1998 Uh-Oh ù Here Comes the Easy Part When traveling, danger lurks at the most innocuous moments By Bucky McMahon The first law of safety for scuba divers, counterintuitive but verified…
Destinations, June 1997 What Do You Mean, No Knobbies? The park can’t sate every adventure appetite. But you needn’t go far. By Parke Puterbaugh B U L L E T I N S…
Outside magazine, September 1996 The Descent, Step By Step By John Alderman and Katie Arnold The Summit 1:12 p.m.: Under blue skies and bright sunshine, Krakauer summits with Harris and Boukreev, snaps a few photos on the 29,028 foot pinnacle, and…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Best Tree Skiing Ski Homewood, California For really memorable tree skiing, it helps to get in touch with your inner pooch. “You have to act like a bloodhound to find the perfect mix of snow, trees, and slope,”…
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Outside magazine, March 1997 Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers Paradise Leased Borrowing a million-dollar boat. Cruise the Caribbean. Grin. A beginner’s guide to sailboat charters. By Dan Dickison Long Weekend: Far from the Madonna Crowd…
Shwoosh! Bike Camps By Michael Kessler t h e f u n f i l e: Outback Boredom Busters Organize A Treasure Hunt Let older kids…
 Outside magazine, September 1997 The Twilight Expedition It’s a bitter time to be a serious explorer. After all, Magellan circled the world centuries ago. Stanley hacked a path deep into the Congo back in the 1800s. And Tenzing and Hillary knocked off…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Outside’s Slope Finder We’re all looking for the ski area that has everything, and most of the resorts listed here could easily qualify under all the following categories. But when we took an informal poll, this was the consensus that emerged:…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Fishing! No…Sailing! No…Biking! At a multisport resort, deciding how to play is the hardest thing you’ll do all day I t may be the best of all worlds: a camplike array of things to do,…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 THE SNOW FINDER SKI AREA: Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, Colorado Information: 888-272-7246; Reservations: same THE DRAW: A-Basin is a purist’s dream come…
There, in the forgotten corner of the subcontinent, nosed up between contentious Myanmar and hoar-rimed Tibet, lay the brocaded splendor of Arunachal Pradesh. A void in the national map, but not in the individual imagination.
Give us deep pleasure or give us death! A summer road trip with purpose.
Islands We Love Slip on the flip-flops, pack up the frisbee: It’s not really summer till the ferry pulls away and you leave the mainland behind MADELINE ISLAND | APOSTLE ISLANDS, WISCONSIN During the 20-minute ferry ride from Bayfield, on…
Are We There Yet? Getting There in Style By Lisa Twyman Bessone From the 1950s right up through the 1980s, the quintessential family car was the venerable, if un-hip, station wagon. Fast-forward to 1997. Station wagons, like the Suburu Outback, now…
Open Roads, Summer 1998 Baby, You Can Rate My Car By Lisa Twyman Bessone OPEN ROADS Oh, the Places You’ll Go Day-by-day itineraries for four…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Brat Packing One, Two, Three Four … Hike! Ten Great Family Backpacking Trails Chattooga River/Bartram Trail Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, Georgia Made famous by Deliverance, that 1970s canoe-combat film, the Chattooga National…
Outside magazine, February 1996 The Outside Trip-Finder: North America By Kathy Martin New ALASKA: Mountain Biking around Denali The Route: A six- or 14-day knobby-tire tour on dirt and gravel roads through…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Esprit de Shore The beach is serene, relaxing…a total snore. Says who? Here are six beaches that will knock your snorkel off By Parke Puterbaugh Our Favorite Places | Staying…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Yemen Touring the Frankincense Route Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Geographic Expeditions 800-777-8183, 415-922-0448 2 $5,590-$6,260, includes airfare from U.S. tourist hotels The Route: A 17-day, 1,000-mile Land Cruiser tour that includes visits to the city…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Dude-Free Ranches By Sara Corbett All ‘Round Ranch, Jensen, Utah. This 400-square-mile spread in the northeastern corner of Utah will put you on a horse and keep you there for four- to six-day pack trips through aspen-covered backcountry. Capacity:…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 Inns & Lodges: Home Hill Country Inn Plainfield, New Hampshire By Anne Goodwin Sides A young couple from Squaw Valley–Stephan Duroure, a French ski instructor, and Victoria Gordon, an American nouvelle chef–recently bought the…
Traveler’s Almanac, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Lonely, Lonely Planet SPM/SDF ISO GTFS* *great trips for singles Okay, so a lot of us go to bed alone every night (well, most nights). Why, then, is it so hard to travel solo? Trust…
Bulletins Wave Riding: Surfin’ Camp U.S.A. By Andrew Rice Summer Calendar Days of Swine and Roses May 31-June 1 Madison, Nebraska Folks go hog-wild at this two-day salute to swine when they step up…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Era of Green Rule South Africa goes eco By Mike Steere With self-styled Stanleys rushing to South Africa, new and evermore exquisite accommodations are popping up to keep pace. Forest Lodge is this season’s latest opus in…
Outside magazine, April 1998 Getaways: Where Your Tent Can Pitch The Roanoke River dubuts ten floating campsites By Fran Severn The night music ensemble on northeastern North Carolina’s Roanoke River is a rowdy mix of hooting owls, waltzing herons,…
Destinations, May 1998 Continuing Education Ten more first-rate classrooms-with-a-view. By Cristina Opdahl Climbing Exum Mountain Guides and Mountaineering School, Wyoming. The granddaddy of climbing camps. Founder Glen Exum was the first to ascend Exum Ridge on the Grand…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Olympic National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore 600 E. Park Ave., Port Angeles, WA 98362 206-452-4501 Established 1938 922,653 Acres The Big Picture: Its soggy reputation and inauspicious location…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Middle East: The Peace Dividend By Todd Balf A year or two ago, adventure travel in the Middle East was virtually nonexistent, but the ongoing peace process has changed all that. Wilderness Travel’s 21-day hike through Israel’s hills of Galilee…
Outside magazine, January 1994 Into the Wild Biru Yonder On the Sipadan side of the world, diving is more soaring than descending By Randy Wayne White Sipadan Island, Sabah, Malaysia A side benefit of exotic travel is that you…
Destinations, May 1997 Smart Traveler: We’re Learning to Fly. And It Shows. How to save yourself from the world’s worst airlines By Everett Potter B u l l e t i n s Dune Buzzers…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Bodyboarding: Just One of the Girls By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) After Brazil’s Mariana Nogueira darted around Hawaii’s famed Banzai Pipeline to win the World Championships of Women’s Bodyboarding last February, most of her rivals and…
Outside magazine, October 1995 The Florida Keys By Jeff Klinkenberg The Florida Keys, the 100-mile string of bridge-connected islands that curve southwest into the Gulf of Mexico, can put you to sleep or make you want to rumba. On one level,…
Outside magazine, February 1996 Wildlife: Who’s Afraid of the Mexican Wolf? As the long-lost lobo eyes its return, some cagey southwesterners bare teeth By Keith Easthouse Jim Winder has never seen a Mexican wolf in the wild, but for as long…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Surfing: Beach Blanket Bango Is assault and battery the next big thing on the waves? By Ken McAlpine Lacerated liver, broken ribs, broken pelvis, contusions all over his body, three bite marks, and internal bleeding,” says Geoff Allard,…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Guide to Summer: The Seamless Escape Butter up the boss and grab your pack–it’s never too late to split for the weekend By Elizabeth Royte Jack (not his real name) is between jobs. This has allowed him to…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Virgin Islands By Matthew Joyce Conditions in the Virgin Islands make even novice sailors seem like seasoned old salts: Plentiful sheltered moorings preclude long overnight sails, clusters of small islands make for calm seas, the trade winds…
The Trip Finder, January 1997 Asia and the Pacific By Kathy Martin O’Neil New Australia | China | Fiji | New India | Indonesia…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Multisport: Born to Suffer By Todd Balf John Stamstad’s taste in cycling events is simple: the longer and more weather-whipped, the better. The Iditasport, a 235-kilometer marathon pitting cyclists against cross-country skiers in Alaskan blizzards each February, qualifies on…
Outside magazine, July 1998 Where Have All the Wise Men Gone? Certainly not into the Sahara, not to race 142 miles in seven days, not to broil beneath a 120-degree sky, not to seek glory in the Marathon des Sables, the world’s most…
Outside magazine, December 1996 Hide, and Go Seek NecroSearch’s charter: Head into the woods, use nature skills, find murder victims By Mike Grudowski In the somber days after she vanished, no one had reason to suspect it would take so long…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 FALL ASIA ABOVE THE FRAY Where noise means impudent monkeys, your bivy’s a bungalow, and trail snacks drip with oyster sauce. Dynamic-moving up the Phra Nang cliffs, Thailand GUNUNG RINJANI VOLCANO LOMBOK,…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 United States Mountain-Biking the Continental Divide Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Adventure Cycling 800-755-2453, 406-721-1776 1 $2,800 camping, rustic lodging The Route: An epic 75-day, 2,500-mile self-supported border-to-border dirt ride from Canada to…
Sin in the Wild Outdoors, June 1997 Covetousness How much is that bivy sack in the window? And can I get it in all three sizes By Bill McKibben At a recent mammoth outdoor-equipment show, I stopped by a seminar…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Exploration: Gentlemen, Start Your Regulators In perhaps the most contentious race ever held beneath the earth’s surface, two teams rush to claim the world’s largest underwater cave system By Dave Plank On Saturday, June 15, the moment that…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Skiing With Bruce Babbitt By Paul Kvinta Occupation: Head Tree-Hugger Favorite Place to Downhill: “When I’m traveling out West, I usually try to route my trip through Salt Lake City because the slopes are so accessible to the…