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ArchiveOutside magazine, January 1996 Camping: I Was a Teenage Gilligan A Tlingit JD talks about his not-so-hard time on a prison isle By Bill Donahue The crime was reprehensible, but the punishment seemed like a vacation. In August 1994, after beating and…
Outside magazine, April 1996 God, Boston, Country With the devil on his shoulder and Jesus on his shoes, Cosmas Ndeti battles for his fourth straight victory By Joshua Hammer I am staring at Cosmas Ndeti’s legs. I can’t take my eyes…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Mountain Biking: Pedaling Toward Atlanta By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) When Alison Sydor was awarded her gold medal last March for winning the inaugural 39.5-kilometer cross-country race in the Pan American Games, the Canadian rider looked…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Mexico: The Mainland 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 Jeff Spurrier Zapatistas, economic meltdown, corruption, political assassinations–there are so…
Outside magazine, March 1993 Hiking: Tennessee’s Fiery Gizzards By Russ Manning In Tennessee’s South Cumberland region, you’ll hear over and over that Davy Crockett slept here, trapped ‘coons there. Here’s one you might not hear: Davy Crockett had a bad meal here. As…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Access & Resources: Tripping the White Continent By Miles Harvey Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, highest, driest, loneliest, and arguably deadliest continent on earth. Thus, only about 8,000 visitors brave their way each year to one of the earth’s wildest…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Marathon: In Favor of the Draft By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) By recruiting the best American men’s marathon field likely to be seen anywhere this year, race president Bill Burke hoped to inspire the fastest times…
Destinations, October 1996 La Costa Incógnita Pacific Mexico is a thatch roof overhead, fresh snapper daily, and 660 miles of nada between the timeshares By Jeff Spurrier From the discos of the faux village of Puerto Vallarta south to the tired old…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Islands: Escape from Spring Break By Mike Grudowski After only a few hours on Mexico’s Isla Mujeres–a five-mile-long, barracuda-shaped Caribbean island eight miles east of the spring-break-o-rama in Cancún–you begin to understand its reputation: This is the place where…
Gone Summering, July 1998 Good-Bye Burbs, Hello Rolling Hills Just beyond Chicago’s sprawl, a two-wheeler’s playground awaits By Craig Vetter Cheeseheads, Revisited The area around the southwestern wisconsin town of Spring Green is an…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 WINTER DESOLATION! TEMPTATION! STEWED FROG! Hiking Dominica can get a little damp, but culinary surprises await at slog’s end When European colonizers swept through the West Indies, one of the islands that…
Outside magazine, June 1992 While You’re Out There… Eight unsung parks also worth a visit By Debra Shore The crown jewels are wondrous sights, but they’re by no means the be-all and end-all of American parks. In fact, only 50 of…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Hawaii Mountain-Biking Molokai Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations HareBrain Adventures 800-665-2453, 808-552-2924 5 $1,100 rustic lodging The Route: Spend seven days at a 100-year-old, 54,000-acre cattle ranch laced with dirt roads and singletrack…
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, 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 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…
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 1994 Welcome to Honduras. Beware the Laughing Fish. Tourism arrives in yet another Third World country. But out there beyond the fire, Wasa is still muy profundo. By Tim Cahill Once upon a time, in the past and…
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, June 1999 A Little Good, Clean Lust in Utah Where red rock and Mormonism converge, ten minutes of pure bliss My Delta, Myself | A Little Good, Clean…
Destinations, September 1998 There’s Something in the Rocks Beyond the top ropes and chalk stains, Joshua Tree’s famous granite reveals its more mysterious faces By Robert Earle Howells Hang a Left at the Cholla How to find your way…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Alps: The Poor Man’s Zermatt By Lorien Warner Olympic skiing gold medalist Mateja Svet was born here. Elan, a worldwide staple in ski equipment, is based here. This is a country that’s steeped in ski culture. Austria? No. Try…
 Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The West–It’s Still Wild Out There Skiing the left coast means untracked glades, few pretensions, and plenty of space to spare By Ron C. Judd Invariably, you’ll be upside down and three feet deep…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Bring on the Mac ‘n’ Cheese … and the Nintendo and Snowboarder Barbie and … By Meg Lukens Noonan If I didn’t already ski or snowboard, I think I would have started as…
Outside magazine, February 1996 The Outside Trip-Finder: Asia and the Pacific By Kathy Martin AUSTRALIA: Sea Kayaking the Great Barrier Reef The Route: A three- to eight-day Coral Sea paddle along the coral…
It 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, May 1998 Another Day Under the Black Volcano Picture a life in the shadow of the rumbling Soufri`ere, from whose vicissitudes come ash and rock and a possible scorching death. Would you flee, as have most of your neighbors? Or…
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…
Five Trips You Never Thought Of We’re doing what this summer? How about chasing a few tornadoes, training like an Olympian, and learning to hang glide? The Hogan Way CANYON DE CHELLY, ARIZONA…
 Family Vacations, Summer 1997 The LowDown Chart Whitewater Rafting | Mountain Biking | Kayaking | Backpacking/Hiking | Boardsailing | Snorkeling | Rock Climbing…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Bring on the Weekend! Quick relief for city-dwellers: ten all-natural getaways close to home Boston: Carter Notch Hut, White Mountains It’s not exactly a half-pipe in the sky, but even the surliest pre-teen will have to admit…