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ArchiveOutside magazine, March 1995 Diving: Next stop…real deep By Todd Balf (with Jim Kelly, Martin Dugard, and Alison Osius) About to attempt a world-record 416-foot breath-hold dive off Key Largo last December, Francisco “Pipin” Ferreras assumed the lotus position on the edge of his…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Genghis On My Mind He plundered half the known world and then disappeared back into Mongolia without a trace, leaving only tales about a lost tomb filled with clues to his legendary–and mystifying–reign. Seven centuries later, a Khan-besotted Maury Kravitz…
News for Adventurous Travelers, December 1996 Foreign Travel: Beyond the Bío-Bío Chile’s forgotten Lake District comes of age By Kathy Martin O’Neil Never really a stop on the adventure traveler’s worldbeat, Chile’s serene Lake District has long been overlooked in the…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Ultra: Take That, Partner By Todd Balf Of the many surprises at the 100-kilometer national championships in Sacramento, California, last February, perhaps the biggest was the dominance of newcomer Rich Hanna. “He’s a marathoner,” says Tom Johnson, the prerace…
Outside magazine, October 1996 Once Again in the Land of the Viets A war correspondent considers the dragons of his history By Robert Stone Early last year, shortly before the Vietnamese Tet holiday, I found myself aboared a bright yellow pilot boat,…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 SPRING HAWAII OFF THE BROCHURE-BEATEN PATH From a tropical treehouse to a funky little beach cottage, six hostelries in paradise that your travel agent never heard of Tranquil Kee Lagoon at Haena…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Aviation: It’s a Bird’s Life Hang-gliding legend Larry Tudor’s 400-mile dreams By Joe Bower It must be nerve-racking being a bird. The unexpected downdrafts. The bullying jet aircraft. Those disgusting contrails. “I’m as comfortable in the air as…
 Outside magazine, January 1998 Me, My Thoughts, and I A few months in a cabin on the near edge of the wilderness. With only nature for company, and time — lots and lots of time — for contemplation. By Charles…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Italy Hiking the Dolomites Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Above the Clouds Trekking 800-233-4499, 508-799-4499 3 $1,700-$1,950 rustic lodging, tourist hotels Alternative Travel 800-527-5997 7 $3,000 rustic lodging, tourist hotels Butterfield & Robinson…
Outside magazine, February 1994 Inns & Lodges: Blueberry Hill, Vermont By Adam Horowitz Upon reaching the small clearing amid the forested peaks of Vermont’s Green Mountains, after five miles of jouncing along under the evergreen canopy on…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 The Ever-Essential Art of Trip-Planning These days, the trickiest parts of your journey often come before you leave home. A stress-reducing guide to getting off on the right boot. By David Noland, Everett Potter In this era of…
Outside magazine, August 1991 Escape from Route 1 How to achieve modified rapture on the coast of Maine By John Skow Back in the late 1930s, people who hadn’t owned a car since the Crash of ’29 talked wistfully about “pleasure driving,”…
Outside Magazine, November 1994 Access & Resources: Roaming Honduras By Dianna Delling Mention Honduras and the words tourist destination probably aren’t the first ones that spring to mind. But soon they may be. Central America’s second-largest country is home to lush cloud forests,…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Access & Resources: Skiing the Promised Land By Kathy Martin A Lesson in the holy land of skiing won’t take care of life’s unruliest problems–like the mortgage–but don’t underestimate the redemptive powers of a few well-carved turns and a stein…
Destinations, June 1998 Navigating the Frontier By Bill Sherwonit ‘The civilized imagination cannot cover such quantities of wild land,” John McPhee once wrote of Alaska. Indeed, the 49th state can be daunting, its 656,424 square miles supporting a population of less than…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Surfing: Endless Tubers By Ken McAlpine Ordinary wave pools feature mushy, wave-like disturbances that are about as exciting as a choppy river. Tom Lochtefeld’s Flow Rider machine is different. It forms an eight-foot-tall tube that the 41-year-old La Jolla, California, inventor justifiably…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Expeditions: Many, Many Souls on Ice Who’s who in 1995’s ambitious–and crowded–North Pole season By Laura Billings Will Steger called it the biggest coincidence of his life when, during his historic 1986 dogsled expedition to the North Pole,…
Family Vacations, Summer Pedal with the Pros! Mountain-Bike racing for mini-riders It’s midsummer and the kids are tired of popping wheelies in the driveway — and you’re tired of watching them. You’ll all learn plenty of…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Crashing the High Life Because sometimes only a tri-level condo and saut‰ed elk medallions will do By Ron C. Judd Don’t be fooled by the first impressions when you hook up with the…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Hut, Two, Three, Four… Bunk to bunk on backcountry skis By Lisa Jones EXTREME MEASURES | BUNK TO BUNK | DETAILS | THE…
 Outside magazine, March 1995 Surge Time at the Bottom of the Earth Chasing deep history in Antarctica, Genesis in reverse By Edward Hoagland As our stubby, white, 2,000-ton ship, the Professor Molchanov, passed the Gibraltarlike bulk of Cape Horn, the…
Crossing the Australian outback, where epic vistas, charismatic wildlife, and time-forgotten outposts are matched only by the unique social opportunities
Outside magazine, October 1991 Bicycling: Last-Chance Tours of Fall By Bob Howells October is the coolest month for bike touring–a last test for your summer-hardened legs amid lingering sunshine and the carotenoids of fall. These three tours offer all the right…
The Tenderfoot’s Almanac Backpack Time Line By Douglas Gantenbein Backpack Time Line Three- to five-year-olds can hike under their own power, albeit for maddeningly short intervals. A perfect kids’ knapsack is the Tough Traveler Ruffian ($63; 800-468-6844), a…
Waterworlds, Family Vacations 1998 Rafting How to turn your rug rats into river rats: five rides from tame to wild By Lisa Jones WATERWORLDS…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Cheap Thrills When bucks count (and when don’t they?) you need all the dollar-stretching strategies you can find. Try these ten. By Everett Potter Attempting to save money on your family holiday isn’t easy when…
Outside magazine, Family Vacation Guide Brat Packing Hiking with kids doesn’t have to be one big whine fest. All you need is the right trail, the right gear, and a few time-tested tactics.
Outside magazine, April 1992 Trout Fishing: Missouri Mayhem By Brad Wetzler Wade into the cool, steady current of south-central Missouri’s Bennett Spring on the first weekend in March and you’ll feel like you peeked into the wrong circus tent. All around you, 3,000…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Windward Ho! The ocean is the source of all life. Get one By Melanie Neale Our Favorite Places | The Hysterical Parent | Inside Skinny |…
Family Vacations, Summer Australia’s new multisport playground Like Miami, Acapulco, and Waikiki, Australia’s sunny Gold Coast in Queensland’s southeast corner has been overrun by too many tourists and forests of high-rise resorts and condos. But now a much…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Long Weekends: Whistler While You Play By Bob Howells When you’re sipping your first morning latte at Moguls and you hear one Whistler local tell another, “Saw a bear on the Valley Trail this morning,” your ears perk up. The…
Family Vacations, Summer An Eco-School in Vail? Summer classes your kids will want to attend Happily, Colorado’s Vail Valley isn’t entirely consumed by golf courses — yet. And residents are doing their best to preserve…
News for Adventurous Travelers, December 1996 The Puddle-Jumper’s Reward: Carriacou By Bob Howells Laid-back, authentic, endearing, and mostly overlooked, Carriacou is Grenada’s smaller sister island, about 23 miles to the north. You can see most of its 13 square miles in a day,…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Outside’s Family Trip-Finder First pick your place Alaska Australia Belize Bolivia Canada — cycling Canada — hiking…
Outside magazine, January 1992 Windsurfing: Going Off to Boarding School By Bob Howells Learning to windsurf all too often comes down to not learning to windsurf. A friend gives you five minutes of the basics of balance, uphauling, and tacking and then, at…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Introduction By Alston Chase I was 12 when I discovered the magic of national parks. In 1947 our family was living in Fort Lewis, Washington. My father, an army officer, bought a small trailer, shaped like…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Intake: An Herbal Handbook for the Training Table By Sara Corbett For those who dismiss herbal supplements as the stuff of Mia Farrow’s disappearing acts in Alice, there’s a small body of recent research showing that the athletic benefits…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Adeventure Classics: Fly-Fishing Casting with the Big Shots Welcome to Patagonia, where even the moguls feel blessed By Katie Arnold GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS |…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Cruising: Name That Bay Playing pioneer on Canada’s Great Slave Lake By Carolyn Rice If you’re a sailor who secretly wishes you could have been there first–to slap your name on every bay, island, and headland in sight–you’ll…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Review: Hardware and Software Pack Up, Head Out, Zoom In Camcorders, CD players, even boom boxes built for the wilds Review by Andrew Tillin Buying Right: Withstanding the…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Walk Like An Amphibian Forget Tevas. Forget hiking boots. When you go trekking with locals on the muddier-than-a-landslide Kalalau Trail on Kauai, it’s more likely they’ll be wearing tabis, the reef walkers used by Japanese fishermen. “Tabis give you superior grip…
Outside magazine, March 1997 Long Weekend: Far from the Madonna Crowd Florida’s Barrier Islands are worlds away from Miami and Disney By Thomas Lepisto B U L L E T I N S Eclipse…
Destinations, April 1997 City guide: Glissading? That’s on Level Two. San Franciscans have perfected the art of bringing the Great Outdoors in By Dana Sullivan San Franciscans tend to believe in looking sleek and in being outdoors. Unfortunately, springtime…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Day Two: Sleight of Spatula Tavern on the Green’s Patrick Clark whips up classic Americana with a dash of deception Patrick Clark insists he didn’t turn down a chance in 1993 to become White House chef for fear of…
News for Adventurous Travelers, December 1996 Smart Traveler: A Europhile’s Ski Guide Some value-packed reasons to carve up the Alps By Lito Tejada-Flores It can become an addiction–all those long runs above timberline, the 6,000 feet of vertical, the sci-fi…
Outside magazine, May 1995 North Country Hazards By Tom Kizzia You already know about keeping food away from camp and pumping drinking water through a filter. Here are a few other precautions to take in the Alaska backcountry. River crossings: Glacial rivers…
Outside magazine, May 1995 Expeditioning: Spread Your Props and Fly! After 48 years in the Arctic, the Kee Bird readies for takeoff By Carl Hoffman After coming back empty-handed from his two previous missions to the Arctic, Darryl Greenamyer seems to have…
Outside Magazine, October 1998 Sensation Breathing Under Ice The Arctic may howl, but deep down it sings By Andrea Barrett Two years into the writing of a novel about mid-19th-century naturalists exploring in the Canadian Arctic, I finally had…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 THE VALUE FILE Welcome to the Caribbean’s parallel universe, where you can have it all—and your savings account, too Southeast coast of St. John, U.S. V.I. It’s a toss-up as to…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Expeditioning: A Man, a Plan, a Whoppin’ Long Rope Sliding–literally–into an odd place in history By Brooke DeNisco Ken Fuller is hoping to avoid sweaty palms this June 18. At about noon, a crowd that locals predict will…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Argentina Surveying Wildlife Along the Patagonian Coast Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Legendary Expeditions 403-678-3052 2 $3,250, includes airfare from U.S. camping The Route: A 14-day, 50-mile marine safari in expedition Kleppers,…
Adventure Found, January 1998 Value Added? Just what are you getting for your trip fee? By Anne Goodwin Sides A dirham here. Twenty thousand centimes there. Pretty soon you’re talking real money. Ever wonder where your 50 percent deposit…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 The Arctic Cruising Ellesmere and Greenland Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Quark Expeditions 800-258-8434 1 $4,495-$8,895 boat accommodations The Route: The 434-foot Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov takes an 11-day voyage out of Resolute…
Outside magazine, March 1996 Cycling: Slingshot Folding Bike By P. Yuri Samer Maps fold. T-shirts too. So-called folding bikes, on the other hand, generally demand skills in the ancient art of origami. And, after all that “unfolding,” the bike generally gives a less than…
Outside magazine, August 1991 Saved by the Thruway Rise up, ye subway riders, and grab the car keys. Ten quick trips for the city dweller. By David Noland Consider your life. You’re a working stiff, bound to the city, unable to spend…
Dog-Geared Cutting-edge essentials for the pup on the go Your thinking: Pookie, being a dog after all, doesn’t really need a fancy-pants padded bed to sleep under the stars, or especially in the tent.
Traveler’s Almanac, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Deals Frequent Freebies Skiing your brains out has its rewards By Peter Oliver Skiing is going corporate. In the past three years, large conglomerates have been swallowing up independent resorts at a dizzying…
Destinations, June 1998 The State Parks: Where Alaskans Do Alaska By Bill Sherwonit In any state, there are attractions that everyone’s heard of, that every guidebook touts, that every visitor has to see. Then there are the places the locals haunt, where…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Packing List: Seaworthy Extras By David Noland You won’t forget waterproof SPF-15 sunscreen on your next water weekend, but what about . . . Quick-dry long-sleeve shirt and pants. Light, cool, fast-drying clothes that cover the arms and legs are surprisingly…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Kayaking: The World’s Only Class IV Ice Cube By Todd Balf (with Derek Rielly) This month a bush plane will deposit a four-member kayak team on the Barnes Ice Cap, at the geographic center of Canada’s Baffin Island. “Most think we’re insane,”…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Cruise-O-Matic Because bump-free is always better By Ron C. Judd CRUISE-O-MATIC | DETAILS, DETAILS | HEY, THAT’S MY COAST | ESSENTIAL GEAR…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Alps–Because Bigger is Better You can’t ski out of bounds where there are no boundaries By Lito Tejada-Flores American skiers living happily with the myth that the world’s best snow and best skiing are found in the…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide The Snowfinder First pick your place Alta Ski Area, Utah Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, Colorado Aspen, Colorado Bear Valley Ski Area, California…
Adventure man. Freedom fighter. Brat. Meet Jack Wheeler, the Indiana Jones of the Right
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…
Deep into Anasazi country, and way back in time
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…