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ArchiveOutside magazine, September 1999 Reasonable Rockies Ah, post-Labor Day domestic travelù those glorious weeks of low hotel rates and no crowds. To further entice, Key to the Rockies Lodging is charging just $64 per person per night for a four-night condo-stay in Keystone,…
The Tenderfoot’s Almanac Essential Backpack Recipes By Lorien Warner Cooking up menus that the kids won’t wrinkle their noses at is difficult enough; it can seem next to impossible when camping. But follow advice from the experts–from outfitters…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Far-Flung Adventures Sure, the flights can be long and the fares high — but how else can your kids come face-to-bill with a blue-footed booby? By Mike Harrelson The Hysterical Parent…
Family Vacations, Summer Summer Calendar Moose Mainea May 16-June 12 Greenville, Maine At the eighth annual monthlong festival honoring Maine’s favorite four-legged celebrity, there’s something for everyone: moose safaris, a seven-mile canoe and kayak race,…
Outside magazine, April 1992 Inns & Lodges: Coloma Country Inn, California By Stan White Late risers, beware: There’s no sleeping till noon at Coloma Country Inn. Soon after daybreak guests are levitating high above the oak woodlands of the Sierra Nevada foothills in…
The World’s Great Towns, June 1997 Pack Up the Grill, Honey, We’re Moving to Reykjavík You don’t have to live where you’re living now. You could head for an exotic town. By the Editors You’ve dreamt it, right? Who hasn’t…
 Family Vacations, Summer Hawaii for the Whole Ohana Perfect family weeks on Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and the Big Island By Alex Salkever HAWAII The Molokai Alternative…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide One-Stop Options The guides, the reefs, the mountains, the masseurs — at these multisport resorts and spas, you just step out of your room and it’s all there Costa Azul Adventure Resort, Mexico Heading north…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 It’s a Big, Big, Big, Big World Way beyond the border, cowboys ride camels and birds have blue feet By David Noland Thirty-four years later, we still talk about it in mythical terms: The Trip to…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Welcome to the Bottom of the World New trips to the deep, deep South By Laura Billings CHILE Fjord Explorers Patagonia’s howling winds, pelting rains, and Andean chubascos can make a visitor wonder how…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 New York/Vermont Inn-to-Inn Sea Kayaking on Lake Champlain Outfitter Price Accommodations Paddle Ways 802-660-8606, www.paddle ways.com $695 tourist hotels Zoar Outdoor 800-532-7483, www.zoar outdoor.com $405 tourist hotels The…
Dispatches, April 1998 EXPEDITIONS As Cold As It Gets A trio of Russian climbers pulls off a daring midwinter ascent of Mount McKinley By Todd Balf When Russian mountaineers Artur Testov, Vladimir Ananich, and Alexandr Nikiforov reappeared in Talkeetna,…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Everglades National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Box 279, Homestead, FL 33030 305-242-7700 Established 1947 1,506,539 Acres The Big Picture: Subtle, even brooding, Everglades leaves the traveler with a…
Outside magazine, June 1993 Wilderness Areas: Grand Canyon East By Toby Thompson Surveying the enormous expanse of Pine Creek Gorge from an overlook on the east rim, you could easily mistake it for the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Hiking down to the…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide The (Almost) Final Frontier Don’t expect the cell phone to work Cape Leveque, Australia If you’ve ever wondered what it felt like to be a deranged Victorian explorer, try driving to Cape Leveque via…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Climbing: Little Half Dome on the Prairie Rising from the bean fields, a big wall is born By Kathy Martin Basically I live like a spider,” Chris Schmick says, sounding oddly upbeat. Schmick, 27, and his wife, Pam,…
Outside Magazine, August 1999 TRAIL TOOLS Backcountry 3-D Glasses Sold Separately Skip McWilliams, a veteran guide and lodge owner in Mexico’s Copper Canyon, doesn’t like topographic maps: “They’re geographical pornography, reducing a…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Well-Outfitted Skier Smiley’s knit and fleece Bormio Peak ($26) is also available with a Gore-Tex lining ($32). Thanks to nylon frames and polycarbonate lenses, Bolle’s Coach Whip sunglasses ($60) stay light and deter scratches. The boxed finger construction and rubber…
CHOICE RIDE: PACIFIC The Point Reyes Seashore Absorbing California’s great shake, rattle, and roll By Langdon Cook Unclipping from our pedals and dismounting, we stare out over the…
Outside 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…
Outside magazine, June 1999 Big Sky Bargains BULLETINS Turbulence over Moab New air service makes Slickrock City more accessible. Is that a good thing? STEALS June in northwestern Montana means a…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Expeditions: Yet More Souls On Ice By Todd Balf Late last December, Liv Arnesen, a former schoolteacher from Oslo, Norway, became the first woman to reach the South Pole alone. Beginning at Hercules Inlet, near Patriot Hills, she skied 745…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Snowboarding–It’s a Right, Not a Privilege Accept no flak from those hostile two-plankers: seven resorts that want you By Eric Blehm During the mid-to-late eighties, if a ski resort allowed snowboarding at all, it was automatically considered friendly.
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Don’t Be a Lard Puppy* *N: an out-of-shape, weekend leisure rider By Lisa Twyman Bessone Whitewater Kayaking The School: Sundance Kayak School and Expeditions, Merlin, Oregon The Drill: In the wilderness alongside…
 Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 The Snow Finder EXTREME MEASURES | BUNK TO BUNK | DETAILS | THE SNOW FINDER | ESSENTIAL GEAR…
Outside magazine, February 2001 A Long, Brave Trip I FIRST RAN INTO Rick Ridgeway (“Below Another Sky,” December) some years ago when he was giving a talk about his K2 adventures. Halfway through the…
Within the instructive story of four American adventurers gone to Colombia on vacation, we encounter dozens of armed rebels, several ransom demands, one daring escape, many hard feelings, and a single elusive, slightly drab, certainly-not-worth-risking-your-life-over bird
Outside magazine, October 1991 Inns & Lodges: The Ark, California By Charlie Haas Even without the framed photos of student-hippie carpenters at work, vibes from the seventies would flow right through the walls of The Ark, a tiny cottage in the…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Family Adventure Camps On belay, Mom! Eight learning centers where it’s recess all day long By David Noland Tell any red-blooded American kids that they’re going to spend their cherished summer vacation learning stuff instead…
Waterworlds, Family Vacations 1998 Sailing Wind in your spinnaker, a harbor ahead, and a ready-made crew to swab the decks By Dan Dickison WATERWORLDS…
Pedal On, Summer 1998 Road Cycling Freewheeling it along a canal-side towpath, country lanes, and converted rail beds By Peter Oliver PEDAL ON Mountain…
Outside magazine, Family Vacation Guide The Art of the Quick Exit Long weekends made easy — because even die-hard city dwellers need an occasional campfire-and-pine-needle fix From Boston … Tucked into a sheltered cove on…
Outside magazine, April 1993 Mountain Bike Tours: Esprit de Knobby By Johnny Dodd Time spent tricking out your mountain bike is inversely related to time spent bumping down the trail. But come a spell of warm spring weather and even the most discriminating…
Outside magazine, July 1996 You’re Only as Good as Your Preparation All the logisitics, equipment, techniques, and shortcuts you’ll need to become a campground superchef By Paul Kvinta While we camp cooks are often content to let our gastrointestinal…
Family Vacations, Summer The Itinerant Toddler What Terrible Twos? A parental primer on where to go, what to bring, and how to stay sane TODDLERS…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Utah Five-O What Ranger Rick does between nature talks By Debra Shore From the Bullfrog subdistrict dispatch log, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah, May 28-30, 1993. FRIDAY 9:16 A.M. Large group of underage youths drinking at…
Family Vacations, Summer Holy Rollers! ‘Blading through Amish country On Zephyr Inline Skate Tours’ roll through Pennsylvania Amish country, your guide might be an Amish 18-year-old who’ll show kids some wicked skate moves while filling them…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Walk the Casbah A Moroccan ramble and five other foot-worthy trails Waimanu, Big Island of Hawaii One of seven amphitheater valleys carved from the extinct Kohala Volcano along the northern shore of the Big…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Adeventure Classics: Trekking More Pad Thai, Dumbo? Soothing yourself — and some wanton beasts — in Thailand’s hill country By Robert Earl Howells GEAR | TRAVEL |…
 Outside magazine, January 1999 The Nile at Mile One On the rough road in Uganda, where visions past and future clash. And all things flow from the mighty river By Mark Hertsgaard Where the Nile…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Utah Trekking in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Outfitter Price Accommodations Red Rock n’ Llamas 877-955-2627, www.gorp. com/redrock $1,275 camping Escalante Canyon Outfitters 888-326-4453, www.gorp. com/escalante $795 camping, tourist hotels…
Outside magazine, January 1993 Access & Resources: Sea Kayaking Baja By Adam Horowitz Though it’s become big business, sea kayaking off Baja isn’t just another programmed trip; you get to make choices. Do you want to join a guided tour or plan a…
Outside magazine, June 1992 A Guide to the Guide A word about some of our terms By Debra Shore The Big Picture: A thumbnail sketch of the history, geography, myths, and peculiarities of each park, as well as its little…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Sea Kayaking: The Alternative to Old Faithful By Cynthia Hunter It’s an old saw that the typical visitor to Yellowstone National Park is attached to his car by a 100-foot rope. But even backcountry diehards might be surprised to…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide All This for $50 a Night? 12 weeklong tropical escapes from $650 per person to $14,000 — what’s your vacation worth? By Everett Potter HAWAII: ————— BUDGET — $750 PER PERSON…
Outside magazine, April 1996 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn–or Else By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta “Those guys deal with rapes and murders all day,” says New York City parks official Bradley Tusk of the city’s criminal court judges. “They never took environmental…
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…