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Then what to my wondering eyes should appear, but an odd little atoll and great birds with no fear. A slightly unusual holiday in the far Pacific.
Outside magazine, October 1994 Fall Color: The Sans-Granny-Gear Foliage Tour Off-season pedaling on Vermont’s Champlain Islands By Catherine Fredman The mention of an October bike tour in Vermont conjures up a pair of contradictory images: that of a transcendent, Edenesque experience in the midst…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Shwoosh! To put some joie into your trail riding, just let the children take the lead by Jeff Spurrier All You Need is Dirt Bike Camps By Michael…
Camp Outs, Family Vacations 1998 Happy Trails From an all-day jaunt to a weeklong trek, seven kid-tested routes to the wilderness CAMP OUTS Happy Trails…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 On the Road with Huggies and a Binkie Some might call it lunacy to drag toddlers on “vacation.” But we say, boldly go where no sane parent has gone before. By Hampton Sides…
Outside magazine, Family Vacation Guide Alaska, One Humongous Zoo Where moose are on the loose, birds fly underwater, and otters pop up out of nowhere ALASKA…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Wilderness Made Easy Ten campsites you can get to in mere hours, but feel light-years away from the workaday world By Larry Rice It’s early on a Friday afternoon, and claustrophobia has set in: You have to flee…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Let’s Do Launch For the time-crunched athlete, the midday break is long enough to order up a good workout By Mark Jannot The problem with summer: It’s out there, and we’re in here. Five days a week, we…
Outside magazine, Family Vacation Guide A Wheelie Good Time From coastal byways to high-altitude singletrack, four planned-to-the-mile family bike trips BIKING Gear to Go…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Conquering the Other Mount Shasta By Andrew Rice Mount Shasta’s influence over northernmost California is more than just vertical. Almost everything you need–food, places to stay, equipment rental–is clustered in or around the tiny city of Mount Shasta, at the…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Dollar by Dollar Vacation fantasies may be fueled by travel magazines and brochures, but vacation reality is driven by your bank account. By Everett Potter Whether you’re dreaming of a palm-lined Caribbean beach or a…
Outside magazine, December 1995 The Hyperactive’s Caribbean Don’t even think of sitting on the beach all week–nine resorts where boredom is not an option By Bob Howells With apologies to sloth, a week in the Caribbean dedicated to beach-lounging and rum-sipping can…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Adeventure Classics: Rafting Wild Enough for You? It’s not easy to run the Selway. Be one of the happy few who do. By Christina Opdahl GEAR | TRAVEL…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Egypt Sailing the Nile Outfitters Price Accommodations Adventure Center 800-227-8747, www.adventure -center.com $515-$560 camping, tourist hotels, boat accommodations Himalayan Travel 800-225-2380, www.gorp.com/ himtravel.htm $655 camping, tourist hotels, boat accommodations…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Antarctica Ski Mountaineering in Queen Maud Land Outfitter Price Accommodations Adventure Network International 011-44-1494-671-808, www.adventure-network.com $25,000 camping Cascade Alpine Guides & Adventures 800-981-0381, www.cascade-alpine.com $30,000 camping Geographic Expeditions 800-777-8183, www.geoex.com…
News for Adventurous Travelers, February 1997 Inns & Lodges: Spider Lake Lodge Hayward, Wisconsin By Gretchen Reynolds Far northern Wisconsin is a land of deep forests, heavy snows, impressive facial hair, and taxidermy as a design motif. But above all, it’s…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Glacier National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore West Glacier, MT 59936 406-888-5441 Established 1910 1,013,598 Acres The Big Picture: Human beings have always played second fiddle in Glacier. It’s…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Mountain Biking: Fat Tires on the Divide A 3,000-mile border-to-border trail makes its Montana debut By Bob Howells You can’t yet ride a mountain bike the length of the Continental Divide, but if you have such a hankering,…
 Winter Travel Guide 1996 La Ruta Tropical A mountain-to-jungle-to-reef meander through Mexico and pints south A vacation south of the border doesn’t have to mean a mega-resort crammed with sedentary chaise-loungers. In Mexico, there are Pacific beach towns and mountain hideaways that you…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Rowing: There Must Be Some Mistake By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and John Alderman) It was a melancholy day for the ascotted, cognac-sipping cultural elite along the banks of the Thames last June as Yankee boats tore up the mile-plus course…
Outside magazine, June 1995 What Happened Out Here? A death in the wilderness raises disturbing questions about boot camps for troubled teens By Christopher Smith When a Utah judge raps his gavel on May 22 to begin a preliminary criminal hearing into…
Outside magazine, August 1999 ERADICATION The Cat Is His Hat One man’s crusade to kill feral felines. And get rich in the process. The Passing of the Jumar While scaling the legendary 5.14a route…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 From Here To Antipodes On the other side of the world are other worldly sights-Tasmanian Devils, spirit houses, and the greates reef of them all AUSTRALIA High summer kicks off here in December. But when the Christmas picnic…
CHOICE RIDE: ROCKIES The Snodgrass Mountain Trail Colorado’s best climb is spectacular. Just beware the columbines. By Rob Story Many of the most famous Colorado biking towns are…
Destinations, April 1997 Foreign Travel: See the South Pacific. Bunk with a Chicken. A new hut-to-hut system makes for memorable island overnights By Tony Perrottet B u l l e t i n s Creature…
Outside magazine, September 1995 Mountain Biking: The Trials of Stamina Man By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) As endurance specialist John Stamstad pedaled the first of 61 laps around a quaint dirt-and-pebble carriage-road loop in Maine’s Acadia National Park last May, he began to…
News for Adventurous Travelers, December 1996 Inns & Lodges: Chipeta Sun Lodge Ridgway, Colorado By Robert C. Wurmstedt Late-afternoon sunlight fades quickly from the ghost towns along the deep Uncompahgre Gorge, in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains. Follow Colorado 550 along the…
Outside magazine, May 1995 Scouting Reports: Fern Canyon, California Though acclaimed outdoor photographer Robert Mackinlay has lived in northern California for most of his life, his job has taken him to enough of the world’s remote places that he knows a unique spot when he finds…
Outside magazine, June 1996 O Canada.Com By Katie Arnold Travelers planning a foray into the great white North can now access more than 75 official Canada sites on the World Wide Web. Four of our favorites: Before You Go. For general information,…
News from the Field, December 1996 Recreation: Come to New Zealand, Lose Your Lunch Introducing the utterly questionable sport of zorbing By Bill Donahue First you’re shoved into a ten-foot-high clear plastic ball. Next you roll to the edge of a…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 FALL STEALTH SAFARIS When it comes to critter spotting, the quiet approach is the way to go On Foot As the low, rumbling growl reverberated from…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Mushing: Locals–Who Needs ‘Em? By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) As the first non-Alaskan to win the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Doug Swingley didn’t go out of his way to empathize with the grieving hometowners…
Outside magazine, February 1994 Desert Hikes: Sweet Nothingness By Mike Steere Parsimony, the natural theme of the continent’s driest and hottest places, is its own kind of wealth, and those willing to brave the low deserts of the American Southwest come into inheritances…
Outside magazine, May 1995 Travel: Beam Me Up, Venture Capitalists Stargazing idea men and their way-out-there schemes for twenty-first century adventurers By Steve O’Keefe Admit it: every time you see clips of Alan Shepard bashing golf balls on the Moon back in…
Outside magazine, August 1991 Into The Big Empty On a roll to nowhere in California and Nevada By Phil Garlington The roads that take you there are shoulderless, straight as yardsticks, black as tar, and skunk-striped. They’re narrow and seemingly endless, these…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Best Place to Learn How to Ski Buttermilk at Aspen, Colorado A hop, skip, and off-the-lip jump from Aspen Mountain, Buttermilk draws about 1,000 first-timers each season, including, as you might imagine, various people from the greater Beverly…
Destinations, June 1998 Across the Strait and Narrow By Patty Sullivan The last frontier has always drawn its fair share of adventurers and explorers, both reasonable and insane. But no other spot in Alaska has held quite the mythic allure of the…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Smart Traveler: Flying the Mother Load How to get big gear on board By Mike Steere Taking along your own equipment can turn a mere vacation into a honeymoon: oneness in paradise with an expensive thing you love. But love,…
Outside magazine, March 1996 Skates That Cruise the Learning Curve Quick, high-performance rides to take you from early T-stops to in-line confidence By Andrew Tilin Skates that keep up with you–that should be your watchword at the local in-line shop. That’s because…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 LET’S SKI A DEAL: DOING THE BOBFEST On January 20, 2000, the overcaffeinated, underfed independent moviemaking world will descend on Park City, Utah, for the start…
 Outside Magazine, January 1999 Powder Burn Whatever the suspects behind the worst act of eco-terrorism in U.S. history hoped to accomplish by torching Vail, their agenda likely didn’t include helping the company that owns the resort and…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide No Seaweed Body Wraps Here It’s not the foofy frills that matter — it’s the mountain By Peter Shelton Fuggeddaboudit. some mountains got the goods, and some sidestep their insufficiencies with theme parks…
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Outside magazine, October 1994 Inns & Lodges: The Bungalow, Montana By Hunter Cynthia On 80 acres beneath a vast, reef-shaped sandstone mountain, The Bungalow bed-and-breakfast appears to be a miniature, two-story version of Yellowstone National Park’s Old Faithful Inn. Which is really no surprise, since it…
Wet as You Wanna Be Inflatable Journeys The Hysterical Parent Falling out of the raft Never go out on the water without a personal flotation device (PFD), helmet, and sports sandals or tennis shoes. Your guide will school you…
Waterworlds, Family Vacations 1998 Sea Kayaking To follow the straight and narrow, just secure your spray skirt and grab a paddle By Jonathan Hanson WATERWORLDS…
On the Road with Huggies and a Binkie, Summer 1998 Tips from the Trenches By Anne Goodwin Sides ON THE ROAD Tips from the Trenches…
Outside magazine, Family Vacation Guide The Value File For a high action-to-dollar ratio, try these six weeklong family trips from $640 to $1,358 Any parent who has priced a package to Disney World knows that kid-oriented…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Wilderness Education: The School Bell Tolls… Five ways to get the backcountry skills you need By Dana Sullivan Thus far your treks up marked trails, where other campers are within shouting distance, have gone off as smoothly as…
Outside magazine, July 1996 It’s the Environment, Stupid Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, national nanny, and Green Party candidate for president, wants to be your commander-in-chief By Miles Harvey Of all the comebacks by 1970s icons in recent years–from John Travolta to Tom…
Outside magazine, Family Vacation Guide Where in the World? From trekking in the Andes to sea kayaking in Samoa, 21 family odysseys ODYSSEYS Outside’s Family…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Inns & Lodges: Tall Ship Malabar Floating Bed & Breakfast Travers City, Michigan By Kathy Martin In Great Lakes maritime lore, passage on a Lake Michigan steamer or yacht demanded a healthy tolerance for mischance–the lake chalked up…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Scuba Diving THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, ECUADOR On Darwin, the northernmost of the Galßpagos’s 13 major islands, every precarious niche of its black, volcanic cliffs has been colonized by blue-footed boobies. The air above is so thick with…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Summer EURO SURF ‘N’ TURF You could traverse Europe by motorcoach and Eurail, but the sightseeing’s better by board, bike, and boots SURFING IN THE BAY OF BISCAY, FRANCE Old world, new…
Outside magazine, Family Vacation Guide Don’t Spare the Bubbly When it comes to rafting, take all the wet you can get RAFTING Seven Rivers…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Malawi Horseback Riding in Nyika National Park Outfitters Price Accommodations Equitour 800-545-0019, www.riding tours.com $2,000 camping, rustic lodging Africa Adventure Company 800-882-9453, www.africa- adventure.com $2,025 camping, rustic lodging…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Oman Exploring the Empty Quarter Outfitter Price Accommodations Adventure Center 800-227-8747, www.adventure- center.com $1,670-$1,720 camping Geographic Expeditions 800-777-8183, www.geoex. com $2,750 camping, tourist hotels The Route: An eight-…
News for Adventurous Travelers, February 1997 Where the Lone Star Meets the Sea Warm sands, empty dunes, randy cranes, and fishing cowboys–this is the undiscovered South Coast of Texas By Paul Kvinta The next time you paddle your kayak through the…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Denali National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Box 9, Denali Park, AK 99755 907-683-2294 Established 1917 6,000,000 Acres The Big Picture: The guidebooks say that Denali is Athapaskan for…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Climbing: Freeing Trango, Again By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) In explaining the difference between his climb of Pakistan’s Trango Tower this month and other ascents that have been made, Todd Skinner doesn’t mince words. “I don’t…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Where the Wild Guides Are By Hannah Holmes If you romped around the great outdoors for a living, where would you go when you had to take a vacation? We squeezed some winter travel tips from four professional guides: Outward…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Warmest Shores: Caribbean and Atlantic Isles The Florida Keys The Bahamas Turks and Caicos Cayman Islands Jamaica Puerto Rico…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Cuisine: Hit-and-Run of the Day By Sara Corbett “You can pan-fry it, grill it, or put it in chili,” reports Elizabeth Hatch of West Danville, Vermont. “And it makes the best lasagne you ever ate.” At the Elks Lodge in…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Cayman Islands By Tom Morrisey, Jean Pierce For bubble-blowing novice divers, the multithousand-foot vertical walls and fish-crowded reefs of Grand Cayman might seem like a little piece of scuba heaven, but many cognoscenti now view the 76-square-mile…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Snowbound Bliss Aerobic days, fireside nights at seven remote backcountry lodges Rock Creek Lodge | Mount Assiniboine Lodge | Lake O’Hara Lodge | The Lodge at Potosi Hot Springs…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Smart Traveler: The City-Hopper’s Workout Guide Where to sweat in Chicago, New York, Washington, and Los Angeles By Dana Sullivan Unless you routinely pack fitness equipment that will keep you busy inside a hotel room, your on-the-road workouts…
 Outside magazine, April 1997 Life Among the Swells By William Finnegan The professional surfing circuit ends each year at the Pipeline Masters. Here the would-be, the has-been, and the already-are hero boys of the sport come to be swallowed up–and possibly…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Day One: Innovation Within Reason Seattle legend-in-the-making Monique Barbeau looks to expand the boundaries of trailworthy cuisine One of the reigning queens of the current Northwestern culinary scene is Monique Barbeau, head chef of Seattle’s acclaimed Fullers restaurant. “I…
Camping Special, April 1997 Heigh-Ho, It’s Off to the Woods We Go And who better to lead us than the man who literally wrote the book on camping By Elizabeth Royte T H…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Backpacking: Vital Experience By Glenn Randall Natural Balance’s Vital Experience backpack takes an ambitious stab at one of the thorniest problems in pack design: how to carry a multiday load without feeling like you’ve got the freedom of movement…