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ArchiveIt takes twin litanies to sketch the life of Sir Wilfred Thesiger. Of firsts: first Westerner to live as an equal among the Bedouin of Arabia's Empty Quarter, first to set eyes on the quicksands of Umm al Samim, first to survive a trek among Ethiopia's Danakil. And lasts, the most pressing being the most poignant: last of the true adventurers.
Outside magazine, October 1993 Trail Riding: Choctaw Country on the Hoof By Sharon Martin Few states make a bigger hoopla over their equestrian heritage than Oklahoma, and few places can justify it like the state’s southeastern corner, which rises from the plains into gentle hardwood- and…
 Family Vacations, Summer 1997 The LowDown Chart Whitewater Rafting | Mountain Biking | Kayaking | Backpacking/Hiking | Boardsailing | Snorkeling | Rock Climbing…
 Outside magazine, 1999 Family Vacation Guide Unsung Heroes Ten top-ranking parks you might not have heard of — but then, no one else has either TODDLERS…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Deetjen’s Inn Big Sur, California By Andrew Rice Before california 1, aka the coastal highway, opened in 1937, Helmuth “Grampa” and Helen “Grandma” Deetjen built a small home in Castro Canyon using lumber salvaged from Monterey’s Cannery Row.
Outside magazine, July 1994 Marathon: Ahhhhhhhhhh! By Todd Balf (with Derek Rielly) “We were screaming,” said American Bob Kempainen in the aftermath of April’s Boston Marathon, where perfect weather conditions helped 11 runners crack the vaunted 2:10 mark–the most in marathon history. Especially screaming was defending…
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…
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…
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…
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, 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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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, July 1999 TRAVEL Safari Verité Africa’s Bushmen offer tourists a taste of the real thing VITAL STATISTICS To visit Namibia’s Ju’Hoansi Bushmen, contact Okavango Tours and Safaris…
Outside magazine, November 1993 Maybe It’s Time for Ski School Got a problem subject? Bumps? Powder? Steeps? You name it, there’s a place that can help. By Peter Shelton A teenage kid who joined my class one afternoon in Telluride said he wanted to…
Outside magazine, February 1996 The Outside Trip-Finder: Europe By Kathy Martin AUSTRIA: Mountaineering and Climbing in the Zillertal Alps The Route: A ten-day expedition into southern Austria’s rugged Zillertal range, including lessons in ice climbing…
Outside magazine, September 1997 Gunning for the Grails From the snow-shrouded Karakorams to our own backyard, eight of the glory seekers’ loftiest goals By Bill Donahue The golden age of exploration, of romantic and leech-filled forays into terra incognita, may…
The World Beat Update the passports and booster shots: Australia, Belize, Peru, Nepal, Zimbabwe, here we come. . . BELIZE I peered over the edge of the boat at the sharks that surrounded…
 The Road Less Minivan-ed When it comes to four-wheeling it, don’t go with the flow. Take to the byways on these three departures from the ordinary. VALLEY OF FIRE | BIGHORN…
Outside Magazine, November 1994 Expeditions: Norman’s Conquest, Part Deux By John Galvin This time last year, Norman Vaughan, the huggable 88-year-old polar explorer, was on his way to Antarctica on an expedition to dogsled several hundred miles and then climb Mount Vaughan, the 10,302-foot…
Outside 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:…
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…
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…
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…
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, 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…
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…
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…
The Trip Finder, January 1997 North America By Kathy Martin O’Neil Alaska | Alberta | British Columbia | Colorado | Labrador |…
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’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…
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…
Destinations, September 1998 Dingle All the Way To tireless hikers, Ireland throws open a 112-mile arm By Kiki Yablon Tourism is a relatively new game — and athletic tourism an even newer one — on Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula. Although B&Bs have…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Ice Skating: Trash-Talkin’ Canucks By Todd Balf From Les Arcs, France, to Montreal, Canada, mild winter weather in December and January disrupted almost anything requiring the cold white stuff. The biennial world championships of alpine skiing, scheduled for Sierra Nevada,…
 Outside magazine, February 1997 South of the Border, Upside-Down Mexico Way In remote Zapatista country, the good people of Chiapas are engaged in a once-a-year chance to upend the world. Men become women. Night becomes day. And a pilgrim in a rental…
Outside magazine, January 1993 A Little Good, Clean Fun In Baja …but I liked it anywayBy Tim Cahill Martine Springer was tall and tan, fit as a broadcast aerobics instructor, and she was waist-deep in the resort pool, demonstrating how to get back into a sea kayak once you’ve…
Bulletins Boating: Home, Home on the Lake By Debra Shore You take your kids out of one house and plunk them down in another that just happens to be mobile. What could be simpler? The best part about houseboating is that even…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Back to Summer Camp en Famille Learn to rock climb, track critters in the wild, paddle a kayak — seven family adventure outposts where school becomes play By Lisa Twyman Bessone Island Institute Orcas…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Inns & Lodges: Doe Bay Village Resort, Washington By Kit Cody Back when the waters off Orcas Island were still teeming with the namesake whales, Lummi Indians from the surrounding archipelago held potlatches in a protected cove on the island’s…
Traveler’s Almanac, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Traveler’s Almanac Twelve All-New Sporting Adventures Bargains: The Circle Game Around the world for less Last-Minute Travel: Good News for Procrastinators On the Fly:…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 When the world seems a little FLAT, you need Vertical Strategies Whatever your style — milking the steeps, laid-back cruising, schussing en famille, or single-board carving — repeat after us: location, location, location. Extreme Hills The Snow-Finder…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Adeventure Classics: Diving Yeah, Yeah, I’ll Get to the Damn Hole Because there’s a lot more to Belize than one undersea wonder By Katie Arnold GEAR | TRAVEL…
News for Adventurous Travelers, February 1997 Long weekends: The Manchester Falcon On the prowl with Vermont’s birds of prey By Rebecca Gray The allure of Manchester, Vermont, has traditionally been its snow, its scenery, and its New England serenity. Visitors arrive…
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…
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…
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…
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, 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…
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…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Best Mogul Run “The BMT,” Steamboat Springs, Colorado Why would one of the top women’s mogul skiers in the U.S. train at Steamboat? “Duh,” says Ann Battelle, fifth-place finisher on the World Cup circuit last year, of Nelson’s…
Destinations, June 1997 Inns & Lodges: Jake’s Village Treasure Beach, Jamaica By John Robson Despite its reputation as a celebrity magnet, Jake’s Village, on the south coast of Jamaica, sports no line of limos, no velvet ropes, and no VIP…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Bring on Atlanta Canada’s Alison Sydor opened the 1996 mountain-biking season true to last year’s form. She won her second-straight Cactus Cup stage race in March outside Scottsdale, Arizona, thus quickly answering the question of how she was coping with life…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 | WINTER SKI 2002—NOW Salt Lake City–area resorts are pumped for the Games. But for non-Olympians, this is the uncrowded time to go Park City, by…
There's still California gold in the mellow space between Napa and the Sierra
Outside magazine, June 1999 DETOURS Going Skiabout It’s August. It’s Australia. It’s nordic nirvana. Imagine midwinter Vermont, without the maple trees. Limitless rolling terrain, almost no avalanche danger—a nordic skier’s paradise. Now imagine it’s your summer…
Destinations, June 1997 Off Season: Kiwi Ski Where else can you get snow and cheap digs in June? By Eric Blehm It starts so innocently. As the mechanic at your bike shop finishes tweaking your crash-mangled GripShift, you limp over…
Outside magazine, October 1995 The Exhaust-Free, Self-Propelled Foliage Tour Let the motorized leaf peepers have their New England. It’ll keep them far away from ours. By Todd Balf Migrationally speaking, almost everything leaves New England in autumn. The exception?…
Is to attract (specifically to draw my wandering kayak to the Philippine archipelago). And to beguile (specifically me).
Outside magazine, September 1999 Reasonable Rockies Ah, post-Labor Day domestic travelù those glorious weeks of low hotel rates and no crowds. To further entice, Key to the Rockies Lodging is charging just $64 per person per night for a four-night condo-stay in Keystone,…
Family Vacations, Summer Summer Calendar Moose Mainea May 16-June 12 Greenville, Maine At the eighth annual monthlong festival honoring Maine’s favorite four-legged celebrity, there’s something for everyone: moose safaris, a seven-mile canoe and kayak race,…
The World’s Great Towns, June 1997 Pack Up the Grill, Honey, We’re Moving to Reykjavík You don’t have to live where you’re living now. You could head for an exotic town. By the Editors You’ve dreamt it, right? Who hasn’t…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide One-Stop Options The guides, the reefs, the mountains, the masseurs — at these multisport resorts and spas, you just step out of your room and it’s all there Costa Azul Adventure Resort, Mexico Heading north…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Welcome to the Bottom of the World New trips to the deep, deep South By Laura Billings CHILE Fjord Explorers Patagonia’s howling winds, pelting rains, and Andean chubascos can make a visitor wonder how…