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ArchiveOutside’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, 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…
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, 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 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…
Dispatches, March 1997 Surfing: Up Close and Way Too Personal By Sarah Horowitz All hail the World Wide Web. Not only does it give us instantaneous access to results from any sporting event we care to follow; it now also…
Outside magazine, May 1995 Inns & Lodges: The Inn on Winter’s Hill, Kingfield, Maine By Scott Sutherland Winter in western Maine’s Carrabassett Valley means throngs of powder hounds swarming the slopes of Sugarloaf. Spring and summer, by comparison, are the calm after the storm–especially…
 Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Vacation Bulletins News for adventurous families BULLETINS The Summer Calendar The fun begins June 4! Solutions for Single Parents An increasing…
Outside magazine, May 1995 Mountaineering: Alison Hargreaves Wants to Know… Why shouldn’t the world’s best climbing mom leave home for Everest? By Nancy Prichard “I think I was being quite conservative,” says British alpinist Alison Hargreaves, defending a climb of the Eiger…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Wet as You Wanna Be Six great family rivers, from tame to tumultuous by Peter Shelton Inflatable Journeys The Fun File: What to do when the water’s calm…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Open Roads Throw some juice boxes in the cooler, toss your tent in the trunk — it’s high time to hit the highway By Ron C. Judd OPEN ROADS…
Outside magazine, February 1996 Anatomy of an Adventure As you sift through the multitude of trips out there, it’s wise to know exactly what you’re paying for By David Noland Flip through the pages of this year’s Trip-Finder, our annual directory to…
Family Vacations, Summer Keeping Up with the (Indiana) Joneses Essential outdoor toys for kids Whether they’re on a 10-day wilderness safari or a quick trip to the compost pile, kids can go gizmo gonzo with…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 Long Weekends: Yosemite, Unplugged In winter, see the park as the Miwok did: in solitude By Andrew Rice When the bumper-to-bumper traffic of summer disappears and the snow begins to fly, tranquility settles over…
 Open Roads, Summer 1998 Oh, the Places You’ll Go OPEN ROADS Oh, the Places You’ll Go Day-by-day itineraries for four family road trips…
Outside magazine, April 1998 International: Launched By Martin Dugard BULLETINS Wet Shoes Colorado’s Beaver Creek Resort defies the onset of spring — and slush — with its annual…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Yellowstone National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Box 168, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190 307-344-7381 Established 1872 2,219,823 Acres The Big Picture: Yellowstone is both flagship and fishbowl of…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Foreign Travel: Planet Marsupial Kangaroo Island, a pocket-size Australia By David Hochman If everything you imagine Australia to be were crammed into one 90-by-40-mile landscape, that microcosm would be Kangaroo Island, a place that Dr. Suess might well…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Spokane, Washington 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…
Outside magazine, February 1994 Regimens: Keep It Fun, But Keep ‘Em Moving Quality time that’s good for both heart and soul By Kit Cody Tossing a ball with your kids is as American as Cub Scouts and training wheels, but it…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Guide to Summer: Flatwater Is for Sissies Fear not the aerated froth–canoes can handle whitewater, too By Marni Jackson If you’ve never canoed whitewater before, by all means cut this out, tape it to your paddle, and have…
News from the Field, January 1997 Around the World on an IOU With momentum, if not sponsors, firmly on their side, a team of female sailors tacks toward the record books By Lolly Merrell It was 1988 when Tracy Edwards first…
Gone Summering, July 1998 This Is the Panhandle? Southwest canyon country, where you’d least expect it By Annick Smith Deep in the Heart of Palo Duro The history of human occupation in Palo Duro…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 SUMMER CANADA WILD From Newfoundland to B.C. to the great in-between, four adventures in the unfrozen north Grey Islands, Newfoundland The concept may be appealing—exploring an uninhabited island off the northeast Newfoundland…
Outside magazine, August 1995 Endurance: Is That Legal? By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) It’s not easy being an ecoathlete. (Not that we’re entirely clear on what an ecoathlete is.) Last May’s Eco Challenge Adventure Race, a seven-stage competition in the high desert of…
Destinations, September 1998 Hot Dam! Where to get that last whitewater fix of the season By Stephanie Gregory It’s still too warm out to mourn the end of summer, though we do get wistful for whitewater about now. But thanks to…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Snowboarding: This Isn’t Baseball By Todd Balf With two rival race circuits splitting up the best international talent, several American riders, led by former world champion Mike Jacoby, were happy to devour the inaugural Grundig Snowboard World Cup tour, put…
 Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Mountain Maximus You can’t ski in the fast lane without plenty of high-speed quads Lake Louise Ski Area | Aspen/Snowmass Ski Area | Vail | Squaw Valley…
Or does it loathe that enraptured human touch? An earthy tale of fungal romance, fully consummated.
 The Magnificent Seven Our Favorite Parks t h e f u n f i l e: Outback Boredom Busters Uno It takes up almost no room…
Vacation Bulletins, Summer 1998 Solutions for Single Parents By Beth Johnson BULLETINS The Summer Calendar The fun begins June 4! Solutions for…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Mountaineering: One Per Continent By Todd Balf (with Derek Rielly) Working in the vast publicity shadow of climber and Seven Summits contender Sandy Pittman (“Rock and Hype,” May) Alaska’s Dolly Lefever walked up Australia’s Mount Kosciusko last March to become the first…
 Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Islands We’d Love to be Stranded On From the South Pacific to the Mediterranean, the Keys to Waterbound Bliss Palau The republic of Palau is the original Waterworld. No particular dollop of land among…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Island-to-Island Sailing THE WHITSUNDAY ISLANDS, AUSTRALIA In the Antipodes, even the yachting scene feels upside-down. Instead of places like Newport, Rhode Island, where stiffly coiffed Republicans sip Dewar’s in members-only clubs, Australia has Shute Harbour: Deep in…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Africa: Surf ‘n’ Safari By Ann Jones East africa still offers the best wildlife parade on the planet. You can view it from the window of a minivan, as tens of thousands of visitors to East Africa do each year,…
Hardware and Software, February 1997 Patagonia Storm Cycle By Alan Coté Working out in foul weather, swaddled head to toe in crinkly, three-layer Gore-Tex, feels like doing yoga in a business suit. Sure, any waterproof-breathable fabric will keep you dry, but most simply…
 Outside magazine, August 1999 Into Kosovo A Reporter’s Diary of Two Months on the Road Across a Ruined Landscape, Over the Accursed Mountains, and Down to a Place Where Nightmares Come True By Joshua Hammer…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Travel Essentials For the Discerning Vagabond Just when you think you’ve thought of everything, you discover an ingenious solution to a travel problem you’d decided to live with. A few revelations. By Bob Howells Sangean ATS606P World…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Put Sizzle in Your Single-Track Is this any way to travel? “It has a big ol’ flame coming out the back,” says Bernie Schreiber, an Albertville, France-based American who’s developing the Kamikaze Regulator RP 220, a hydrogen-peroxide-powered…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Let There Be High Water By Hampton Sides Thirty-three years after Glen Canyon Dam strangled the West’s most celebrated river, the Grand Canyon gets its first regularly scheduled flood. Only Jehovah could have done it better. We tether our…
Outside magazine, May 1994 A Rebel in Big-and-Tall Wear Breaking the age rules with Al Oerter, fitness explorer By Randy Wayne White “One of these days,” Al Oerter told a sportswriter back in 1963, “I might try to put out a…
Outside magazine, December 1997 Adventure: To the Pole … the One-Brick-Short-of-a-Load Way A group of fearless “expeditioners” rings in the new year with an aerial assault on Antarctica By Susan Enfield Next Time You Feel Like Whining…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Cameroon Mountain-biking the Western Highlands Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Bicycle Africa 206-767-0848 1 $1,090 rustic lodging The Route: Self-supported mountain-biking across the shoulders of 13,541-foot Mount Cameroon and the Bamileke Highlands. Trip…
Adventure Found, January 1998 People Are Strange… The dos and don’t-even-think-about-its of group travel By Randy Wayne White You’ve booked yourself onto a kick-butt adventure-travel exploratory. You’re a stranger in a mixed bunch of…
Destinations, June 1997 Southern Exposure To find Smoky Mountain wilderness, follow the paths not taken. You’ll know them. They’re unpaved. By Parke Puterbaugh This is what often passes for a wilderness outing in the nation’s most visited national park: Tourists…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Skiing With Peter Jennings By Paul Kvinta Occupation: Living Room News Fixture Favorite Place to Ski: Whistler/Blackcomb. “That whole area is wonderful. One time I went salmon fishing in the morning, skiing in the afternoon, and then I…
Steve Galster and his comrades at WildAid do–and they're taking drastic action: going undercover, busting the traffickers, and poaching the poachers. It's high time wildlife conservation started fighting mean and dirty. Can you handle that?
06.12–19 GIRAGLIA ROLEX CUP ST.-TROPEZ, FRANCE A 243-mile sailing race from St.-Tropez to Genoa, Italy, around the island of Giraglia. The shoreside scene in St.-Tropez is peppered with the Bain de Soleil beautiful. 07.03–11 ALLIANZ SUSSE OPEN GSTAAD, SWITZERLAND At 3,000 feet,…
Skip the well-trodden tourist routes and join this trek through a pristine mountainous area virtually unknown to Westerners.
Living well is a European tradition, but playing hard is the continent's secret passion. We discover five towns where you'll be both challenged and charmed.
It's climbing season again on Everest. And as hundreds of summit hopefuls converge at Base Camp, the great debate persists: Has the Big E become the Big Easy? Alpinists Greg Child and Dave Hahn take sides.
The Big Dig hits pay dirt—in the shape of a new island playground in Boston Harbor
Go straight to the source and taste the good life at these organic farm getaways
Combine your next visit to a national park with a bonus raid on a great state park or national forest—and get twice the escape
Our word-of-mouth report: adventure lodges that belong on your radar screen
Savor our top 20 wild Canadian adventures (including 5 new parks) for heaping helpings of glacial lakes, alpine meadows, swift rivers, and snowcapped peaks
Witness a singletrack revolution on the fresh trails of a land in transition
From secret surf stashes on the Pacific to untouched Caribbean isles—plus all the volcanoes and colonial plazas in between—Nicaragua has the makings of a sporting paradise. Come discover Central America's red-hot center.
Keep the GPS handy, fly rod at the ready, and don't forget your rubber boots
Let one of America’s best sport camps propel you toward a bigger, richer life. Because nothing beats the buzz of learning something new.
The highest points in heartland states like Kansas and Iowa aren't much to look at, but when you knock off seven of them in a four-day, 3,000-mile blitz . . . well, let's just say the little bastards have a way of kicking back.
Chase your travel dreams with 48 handpicked adventures guaranteed to satisfy every type of wandering soul
With eleven time zones' worth of Tiaga, tundra, virgin peaks, and off-the-dial whitewater, Mother Russia is beginning to open her doors to adventure travelers. If you're brave enough to take her on, the next frontier beckons in the wild, wild East.
Ten handpicked resorts that are rich in sun-drenched beauty, high on adventure, and fine-tuned for luxury.
As the brutal battle over proposed drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge grinds on, a former oil worker returns to the North Slope in search of the truth about the pro-exploration argument. His conclusion? (Brace yourself.) The unthinkable is the right thing to do.
Sex. Danger. Family values. This backyard soap opera has it all—plus feathers, razor-sharp talons, and a neighborhood obsessed.