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ArchiveThe 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…
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 Inns & Lodges: The Steamboat Inn, Steamboat, Oregon By Michael McRae Sometime during the 1930s, Zane Grey, western novelist and angler extraordinaire, wet a line in Oregon’s North Umpqua, just north of the Rogue, and never left. His summer camps…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Adeventure Classics: Skiing Ich Bin Ein Schusser The Austrian Way: downhill in sybaritic splendor By Stephanie Gregory GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS | HEALTH…
 Outside magazine, April 1996 Bomb City, USA Before Fat Man and Little Boy, there was the Town That Never Was. Fifty years and generations of nuclear weapons later, it remains one of the most glorified and reviled places in our history. Deep in…
Outside magazine, June 1995 One-Stop Sporting Resorts The gear, the guides, the mountains, the rivers–step out of your room and it’s all there By Bob Howells You may be imagining a plaid-shorts paradise with pastel-hued beverages served poolside, but we have something…
Outside magazine, August 1999 EXTREMES Now Entering the Drop Zone Kayaking’s radical underground is about to hit it big The Latest Buzz “You can easily train bees,”…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Caribbean 20 An all-star list of island sporting resorts, from tented camps to posh plantations When you plan a vacation in the caribbean, choosing a resort is as important as choosing an island–the overall ambience, not to mention cost,…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Hunting: Here’s Paint in Your Eye By Laura Billings You say you’ve always dreamed of shooting a bull elephant in the African bush, but you don’t want to kill it? Well, you’re pretty mixed-up, but two Zimbabwe-based entrepreneurs are ready…
 Outside magazine, March 1995 Trouble in the Land of Muy Verde Deep in Mexico’s Sierra Madre, Tarahumara Indians are being murdered and their ancient forest destroyed by drug lords and loggers. A report from the Mother Range, where the pistoleros rule, the natives…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Day Three: World Beat on a WhisperLite Mark Miller, impresario of fare from Southwestern to Asian, offers one-pot solutions for the peripatetic palate Spice packs, it seems, are extremely personal items. Southwestern cuisine authority Mark Miller calls his a…
News for Adventurous Travelers, December 1996 Soggy No More Getting soaked is a way of life in Grenada, so you’d be wise to throw a few quick-dry or waterproof items in your bag. Unfortunately, I didn’t. By Bob Howells Hiking on…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Access & Resources: Honging Around in Southern Thailand By Kit Cody Phuket is renowned for its white beaches, turquoise waters, and abundant seafood, but after a few days of basking in mind-altered bliss, paddling around Phangnga Bay’s sea stacks…
Like the sheep-eaters before us, basking in the smudge-free, high-country luxury of the nation's longest free-flowing river
Cover, October 1998 When the Tough Get Going … They go to eastern Honduras, the wildest stretch of idyll that our hemisphere has to offer By Chris Humphrey Into the Interior How to cut your own path in the…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 SPRING THESE RIVERS ROCK! When the five freshets here hit meltdown mode, you’re in for a wild ride Into the Rhyolite on the Owyhee Lochsa River, Idaho Remember that robotic B-52’s tune…
Destinations, June 1997 Smart Traveler: Albania Just Wouldn’t Be Prudent How carefully should you listen when Uncle Sam says don’t go? By Everett Potter Here’s what you can learn from current U.S. State Department travel advisories: Albania is not the…
Outside magazine, March 1996 Camping: Blue Ridge Hammock By Michael Lanza It’s the twilight challenge that makes even emphatic backpackers yearn for the mattress back home: Bedtime beckons, but you can’t find a level piece of earth to foster sleep. The ground is too…
Outside magazine, August 1991 Down The Coast Of Imprecision Paradise–and paradox–in the realm of Flora-Bama By Geoffrey Norman At the western end of the florida panhandle, and along the very bottom of eastern Alabama, the best roads go on for a while,…
Outside magazine, January 1994 Skiing: Dynamite Powder By Michael Kiefer In southern Oregon’s Cascade Range, powder is not the dry and feathery stuff that floats down over Utah. Here, it’s a bit wetter, a bit heavier. It makes you work harder. And on…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Skiing: The Amazing Three-Week Dynasty By Todd Balf (with Jim Kelly, Martin Dugard, and Alison Osius) Olympic glory hasn’t always done wonders for the U.S. Ski Team. After Bill Johnson won downhill gold in ’84, the program more or less…
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.
Australia finally lays tracks to the outback from Adelaide to Darwin
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 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…
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 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…