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ArchiveOutside 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, July 1996 Day One: Innovation Within Reason Seattle legend-in-the-making Monique Barbeau looks to expand the boundaries of trailworthy cuisine One of the reigning queens of the current Northwestern culinary scene is Monique Barbeau, head chef of Seattle’s acclaimed Fullers restaurant. “I…
Camping Special, April 1997 Heigh-Ho, It’s Off to the Woods We Go And who better to lead us than the man who literally wrote the book on camping By Elizabeth Royte T H…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Backpacking: Vital Experience By Glenn Randall Natural Balance’s Vital Experience backpack takes an ambitious stab at one of the thorniest problems in pack design: how to carry a multiday load without feeling like you’ve got the freedom of movement…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Best Mogul Run “The BMT,” Steamboat Springs, Colorado Why would one of the top women’s mogul skiers in the U.S. train at Steamboat? “Duh,” says Ann Battelle, fifth-place finisher on the World Cup circuit last year, of Nelson’s…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 Close-Encounter Camps Moholoholo Forest Camp and Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Hoedspruit, South Africa Though the African wild is rife with carnivorous creatures, the Moholoholo Forest Camp,…
Destinations, June 1997 Inns & Lodges: Jake’s Village Treasure Beach, Jamaica By John Robson Despite its reputation as a celebrity magnet, Jake’s Village, on the south coast of Jamaica, sports no line of limos, no velvet ropes, and no VIP…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Mauritania Cruising the Sahara Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Bicycle Africa 206-767-0848 1 $1,090 rustic lodging The Route: A dusty, 17-day, 1,000-mile overland circuit by Land Cruiser, with visits to the vast dunes…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Washington Climbing Mount Rainier Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Alpine Ascents International 206-378-1927 3-5 $550 camping American Alpine Institute 360-671-1505 3-5 $590 camping Cascade Alpine Guides 800-981-0381, 425-688-8054 3-5 $590 camping Mount…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Bring on Atlanta Canada’s Alison Sydor opened the 1996 mountain-biking season true to last year’s form. She won her second-straight Cactus Cup stage race in March outside Scottsdale, Arizona, thus quickly answering the question of how she was coping with life…
Outside magazine, August 1994 Foreign Travel: Beyond Reykjavík On foot, bike, and pony through untrammeled Iceland By Michael Paterniti To drive 30 miles across the black lava flats from the Keflavik airport to Reykjavík, Iceland’s capital, is to realize that you’ve…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 | WINTER SKI 2002—NOW Salt Lake City–area resorts are pumped for the Games. But for non-Olympians, this is the uncrowded time to go Park City, by…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 WINTER SKI IN, MELLOW OUT: GREAT NORTHERN LODGES Three snowy outposts where the sauna’s always hot BEARSKIN LODGE, MINNESOTA Gliding along the exquisitely sculpted cross-country ski trails of northern Minnesota’s Bearskin Lodge,…
Destinations, September 1998 Dingle All the Way To tireless hikers, Ireland throws open a 112-mile arm By Kiki Yablon Tourism is a relatively new game — and athletic tourism an even newer one — on Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula. Although B&Bs have…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Ice Skating: Trash-Talkin’ Canucks By Todd Balf From Les Arcs, France, to Montreal, Canada, mild winter weather in December and January disrupted almost anything requiring the cold white stuff. The biennial world championships of alpine skiing, scheduled for Sierra Nevada,…
 Outside magazine, October 1995 The East–Hail the Tower-Mounted Sno-Gun In the old-time resorts of New England, rocks and ice have gone the way of the wooden ski By Meg Lukens Noonan Skiing in the East used to require…
 Outside magazine, February 1997 South of the Border, Upside-Down Mexico Way In remote Zapatista country, the good people of Chiapas are engaged in a once-a-year chance to upend the world. Men become women. Night becomes day. And a pilgrim in a rental…
 Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Rockies–Snow Like It Ought To Be Never mind the glitterati and the wannabes–the perfectly fluffed white stuff will keep you coming back By Peter Shelton The high, curved spine of the Rockies cradles some of the…
Outside magazine, January 1993 A Little Good, Clean Fun In Baja …but I liked it anywayBy Tim Cahill Martine Springer was tall and tan, fit as a broadcast aerobics instructor, and she was waist-deep in the resort pool, demonstrating how to get back into a sea kayak once you’ve…
In the nearly four decades since Jeff Hakman first rocketed down the face of a 20-foot wave at Oahu's Waimea Bay, he's been on a dazzling and harrowing journey. There were his golden years as the sport's premier competitive superstar. He went on to make millions as cofounder of the surfwear juggernaut Quiksilver USA. And then he almost lost everything to heroin
Outside magazine, November 1995 Travel: A Kaboom with a View Have you made your reservations for the Big One? By Christopher Smith Bob Foster worries about sending people the wrong message. A polygamist who lives and stockpiles explosives in a cave near…
Bulletins Boating: Home, Home on the Lake By Debra Shore You take your kids out of one house and plunk them down in another that just happens to be mobile. What could be simpler? The best part about houseboating is that even…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Waterworlds Whatever your vessel, it wouldn’t be summer without a big splash of H20 By Thurston Clarke WATERWORLDS Rafting How to turn your…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Back to Summer Camp en Famille Learn to rock climb, track critters in the wild, paddle a kayak — seven family adventure outposts where school becomes play By Lisa Twyman Bessone Island Institute Orcas…
Family Vacations, Summer The Barker Image: The latest gear for dogs on the go By day, Riley’s sporty Glow Dog Reflective Jacket is a sedate royal blue. By night, it glows an eerie white.
Outside magazine, April 1995 Inns & Lodges: Doe Bay Village Resort, Washington By Kit Cody Back when the waters off Orcas Island were still teeming with the namesake whales, Lummi Indians from the surrounding archipelago held potlatches in a protected cove on the island’s…
Outside magazine, July 1995 This Isn’t Heaven, It’s Madison, Wisconsin By Mike Steere Raise high the roof beam–Mr. Paradise is among us. My own verdigris awe is talking. Bill Birnn himself makes no effort to be grand. But this man, fortyish and trim and…
Traveler’s Almanac, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Traveler’s Almanac Twelve All-New Sporting Adventures Bargains: The Circle Game Around the world for less Last-Minute Travel: Good News for Procrastinators On the Fly:…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Long Weekends: Survival of the Sespe An honest-to-God wild river two hours from Los Angeles By Andrew Rice Sespe Creek has miraculously survived the hell-bent development of the last half-century and is now the last river in southern California not…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 When the world seems a little FLAT, you need Vertical Strategies Whatever your style — milking the steeps, laid-back cruising, schussing en famille, or single-board carving — repeat after us: location, location, location. Extreme Hills The Snow-Finder…
Wet as You Wanna Be It’s Time for Whitewater Class By Stephanie Gregory Whitewater rafting can be one of the best ways for families to spend quality time together–the kids can’t wander farther than the confines of the raft’s rubber rim and there’s…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Adeventure Classics: Diving Yeah, Yeah, I’ll Get to the Damn Hole Because there’s a lot more to Belize than one undersea wonder By Katie Arnold GEAR | TRAVEL…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Bolivia Sea-Kayaking from the Andes to the Amazon Outfitter Price Accommodations Explore Bolivia 303-708-8810, www.explore bolivia.com $1,235 camping, rustic lodging, tourist hotels Piragis International Expeditions 800-223-6565, www.piragis.com $2,625 camping, rustic…
News for Adventurous Travelers, February 1997 Long weekends: The Manchester Falcon On the prowl with Vermont’s birds of prey By Rebecca Gray The allure of Manchester, Vermont, has traditionally been its snow, its scenery, and its New England serenity. Visitors arrive…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Grand Canyon National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Box 129, Grand Canyon, AZ 86023 602-638-7888 Established 1919 1,215,375 Acres The Big Picture: You can talk about its storied past,…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Climbing: Freeing Trango, Again By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) In explaining the difference between his climb of Pakistan’s Trango Tower this month and other ascents that have been made, Todd Skinner doesn’t mince words. “I don’t…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Where the Wild Guides Are By Hannah Holmes If you romped around the great outdoors for a living, where would you go when you had to take a vacation? We squeezed some winter travel tips from four professional guides: Outward…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Warmest Shores: Caribbean and Atlantic Isles The Florida Keys The Bahamas Turks and Caicos Cayman Islands Jamaica Puerto Rico…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Cuisine: Hit-and-Run of the Day By Sara Corbett “You can pan-fry it, grill it, or put it in chili,” reports Elizabeth Hatch of West Danville, Vermont. “And it makes the best lasagne you ever ate.” At the Elks Lodge in…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Cayman Islands By Tom Morrisey, Jean Pierce For bubble-blowing novice divers, the multithousand-foot vertical walls and fish-crowded reefs of Grand Cayman might seem like a little piece of scuba heaven, but many cognoscenti now view the 76-square-mile…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Snowbound Bliss Aerobic days, fireside nights at seven remote backcountry lodges Rock Creek Lodge | Mount Assiniboine Lodge | Lake O’Hara Lodge | The Lodge at Potosi Hot Springs…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Smart Traveler: The City-Hopper’s Workout Guide Where to sweat in Chicago, New York, Washington, and Los Angeles By Dana Sullivan Unless you routinely pack fitness equipment that will keep you busy inside a hotel room, your on-the-road workouts…
 Outside magazine, April 1997 Life Among the Swells By William Finnegan The professional surfing circuit ends each year at the Pipeline Masters. Here the would-be, the has-been, and the already-are hero boys of the sport come to be swallowed up–and possibly…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Bear Necessities If you think those Yellowstone grizzlies are scary, wait until you come face to fang with an aggressive raccoon, which will shred a backpack at the first whiff of flank steak or lip balm. So the rule is simple:…
Dispatches, April 1997 Trends: Ugh, Those Stink! I’ll Give You $1,000 for Them. The latest Western icon to take Japan by storm: gamy old Nikes By Bill Donahue “For many, many hours,” confides Masato Kakamu, a Japanese student at the…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Water: Divine Me a River Wally Spencer, droning maverick, says he’s found enough buried juice to soak the whole Southwest By Kit Cody This could turn Nevada into a Garden of Eden,” a spectacled, overweight man said…
 Outside magazine, June 1996 If I Can Take It There, I Can Take It Anywhere Barrow, Alaska, is brutally cold, dark, and dull–in fact, it may be the worst place in the U.S. of A. But the money’s great, there’s no overcrowding, and…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Best Hot Tub The Resort at Squaw Creek “It’s great for business,” says six-time world speed-skiing champion Franz Weber. “I got a speaking engagement just by hanging out in that tub.” Weber, who is the director of skiing…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 SPRING BAJA ROAD TRIP Leave Cabo and Ensenada to the party animals—crowd-free Bahía de los Ángeles is the place to go The garden that is Baja teems with cardón cactus and…
Adventure Travel Special, January 1997 Remember, It Never Hurts to Interrogate Questions to ask those outfitters before sending your deposit By David Noland Do you run this trip yourself, or do you use a local…
Outside magazine, February 1994 We Just Want to Belong On the Island of Misfit Sports, everybody’s a loser By Todd Balf The campaigning began six years ago, moments after Lillehammer won the bid to host the 1994 Winter Games. “We got…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 California Backpacking the John Muir Trail Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Southern Yosemite Mountain Guides 800-231-4575 2 $3,245 camping, rustic lodging The Route: Hiking through the heart of the Sierra, you’ll negotiate passes…
Outside magazine, June 1996 The River Intimate Kayaks to float the entry-level boater safely from gentle flows to roiling rapids By Gordon Grant If you’ve ever been whitewater rafting, you felt a little jealous–admit it!–of the kayakers who shared the river. With…
Outside magazine, August 1991 The High Plains Gallop Blazing a lonesome trail through the Rockies By Jim Fergus It has been suggested that there is no romance left on the American road, that it has been tamed and homogenized and is now…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Skiing with Laird Hamilton By Paul Kvinta Occupation: Big-Wave Kahuna Favorite Places to Ski: “Wherever they don’t have rules and regulations.” That means heli-skiing in places like the Chugach Mountains near Valdez, Alaska–“Seventy-five feet of base snow. Yeah,…
Outside magazine, May 1995 Skiing: Earth to Cloud Nine. Do You Read? By Todd Balf In explaining his hard-fought victory in the combined moguls-ballet-aerials event last February at the World Freestyle Ski Championships in La Clusaz, France, Minnesotan Trace Worthington noted that he’d chosen…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 High-Country Basics By Alex Wells For a thorough introduction to winter backcountry travel, sign up for the National Outdoor Leadership School’s two-week spring ski-mountaineering course (307-332-6973). This year’s class ($1,400), set for March 5 – 18, begins with three…