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ArchiveOutside magazine, January 1996 Backcountry Skiing: The Alpine Trekker By Glenn Randall Alpine skiers who long to explore the backcountry have always had a single option: buy a separate alpine-touring setup. Now a hybrid device called the Alpine Trekker is a ticket to take…
 Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Mountain Minimal Just you, your maker, and a whole lot of white stuff Alta Ski Area | Mount Baker Ski Area | Taos Ski Valley | Red…
Outside magazine, February 1996 Trip-Finder Directory Abercrombie & Kent 800-323-7308; 708-954-2944 Above the Clouds Trekking 800-233-4499 Absolute Asia 800-736-8187; 212-627-1950 Adventure Canada 800-363-7566 Adventure Center 800-227-8747; 510-654-1879 Adventure Cycling Association 406-721-1776 Adventures Abroad 800-665-3998; 604-732-9922 Africa Adventure Company 800-882-9453; 305-781-3933 Alaska…
Within the anachronistically macho world of professional surfing, respect comes when you rip like a man and act like it's no big thing. Two-time world champion Lisa Andersen is the first woman to pull this off, changing the way beach boys look at beach girls and bringing droves of young women into the sport. But hey, no big thing.
Outside magazine, July 1995 Durango, Colorado 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 Mike Steere Population:…
Deep into Anasazi country, and way back in time
 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…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Horse Sense They may not be the smartest beasts, but a stint aboard a four-legged friend is a required ride of passage by Randy Wayne White I Wanna Be a Cowboy Cowboy…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Don’t Spare the Bubbly Seven Rivers, from Wimpy to Wild Green River, Lodore Canyon, Utah Back in 1869, one-armed explorer John Wesley Powell lost a boat along the Lodore Canyon stretch of the…
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…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Hey There, All you Buckaroos: Wilderness Horsepack Trips in the Northern Rockies By Nancy Debevoise On the first morning of my first wilderness horsepack trip, I awoke to the murmur of voices and the crackle of the campfire outside my…
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:…
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…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Zimbabwe Walking Safari in Matuzviadohna National Park Outfitters Price Accommodations Africa Adventure Company 800-882-9453, www.africa- adventure.com $1,225 camping Wild Africa Safaris 800-991-6111, www.wild africasarari .com $1,690 camping African…
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,”…
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…
The Lowdown Chart Is your kid ready for a Class IV river trip? A 5.5 climb? A five-mile hike? ROCK CLIMBING | RAFTING | HORSEBACK RIDING | SEA KAYAKING | …
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…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Alpine Wishes and Adriatic Dreams Slovenia, the best of Europe in a space the size of New Jersey By Debra Weiner Unappreciated and for the most part unheard-of, the tiny nation of Slovenia, on Central Europe’s southern edge,…
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…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Burlington, Vermont 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 Mike Steere…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Argentina Climbing Aconcagua via the Guanacos Valley Route Outfitter Price Accommodations Aventuras Patagonicas 888-203-9354, www.climbnet.com/ patagonia $3,000 camping The Route: Tackling the 22,834-foot summit of the highest peak outside the…
Two things guaranteed to ruin a trip are dysentery and bad traveling companions, and I frankly prefer the former, because dysentery at least ensures some quality private time. Unfortunately, there are no guidelines by which to cull good travelers from bad. People expected to be tough will sometimes fold like…
Where kids can catch a faceful of the wild
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…