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ArchiveOutside 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…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Our Favorite Ski Resorts for Urban Dwellers Take a sick day and go By Ron C. Judd WACHUSETT MOUNTAIN SKI AREA, PRINCETON, MASSACHUSETTS Distance: Fifty-two miles, one hour from Boston.Take Massachusetts 2 west to 140…
 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, November 1994 The Resort Report: Monster Resorts: From mega to mini, ten ski areas that’ll fit just right By Meg Lukens Noonan Every winter, it’s the same dilemma: Do you head for a massive, all-encompassing resort where you’ll have…
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…
Searching and Fleeing and Hoping are the verbs that populated Atlin, an almost-mythical town at the very end of the road. Here, the free spirits blew in and settled like random leaves, dreaming of a life amid the wilderness. But society, it turns out, isn't so easily escaped.
The Teens are Alright Just keep it simple: Give them space, and lots of it We have taken our son on the road with us all his life, to Tuscany, Bali, both coasts of Canada, the island of…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Are We There Yet? Four Planned-to-the-Mile Road Trips by Stephan Wilkinson On the Road Again Getting There in Style By Lisa Twyman Bessone Games People Play…
 Park Places, Summer 1998 National Pastimes A visit to these parks is right up there with baseball, hot dogs, and the Fourth of July PARK PLACES…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, The Itinerant Toddler Rug-Rat Resorts Try checking in at most vacation resorts and you’re likely to get that “oh-no-here-comes-that-two-year-old” look from the weary desk clerk. For a more toddler-friendly experience, consider the following.
Outside magazine, February 1996 Water Sports: Wanted–Windsurfing Demigod, Sales Experience Preferred Bjorn Dunkerbeck is arguably the greatest boardsailor ever. Is that really enough? By Stephanie Pearson After winning boardsailing’s overall world title for eight consecutive years, Bjorn Dunkerbeck feels he’s entitled to…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 In Road Mode Don’t stay cooped up: seven day-by-day itineraries for an out-of-car experience By Bob and Lee Carol Giduz Our Favorite Places | Inside Skinny | Essential…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Sailing: Make That 74 Days By Todd Balf (with Derek Rielly) When the French catamaran Commodore Explorer won the Trophée Jules Verne in 1993 by tearing around the world in a record 79 days, six hours, and 15 minutes, tens of…
Destinations, May 1997 Looking for Lava in All the Right Places Hike like the Incas. Meet a friendly ex-headhunter or two. And see mountains vent steam. All within Ecuador’s Avenue of the Volcanoes. By Bob Payne In the past, Ecuador…
Dispatches: News from the Field, November 1996 Travel: And To Think We Almost Opted For Bora Bora By Sarah Horowitz Now that the first flakes are about to start falling, it’s time for those of us planning winter getaways to get serious. And…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Hail the Sunbelt From Death Valley to the Florida coast, six easy ways to ditch winter Camel Trek, Utah Just say “Hut!” and your camel will be up and trucking through the desert — not…
Who Loves Ya, Keiki? Say Aloha to Kids’ Camps By Jim Gullo The idea of a family vacation is, of course, to do things as a family. But even the most dedicated parents need some time to themselves, as do their kids.
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Bhutan: The New Knobby Kingdom By Meg Lukens Noonan Want to climb 36,000 feet on a mountain bike this winter? What if we said you’d also descend 46,000 feet–including one mind-altering, 52-mile, five-hour plunge? Take the topographic ride of your…
Outside magazine, April 1998 Hook, Line, and Regulator A compressed air pilgrimage to the Red Sea, where hobbyists become compulsives in the blink of a piscine eye By Jamie James Muhammad Came to This Mountain And…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Zion National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Springdale, UT 84767 801-772-3256 Established 1919 147,034 Acres The Big Picture: Next to its scenery, this park’s greatest resource is the metaphors…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Travels with Mr. Ed On Horseback through mountains, plains, and rainforest By Ann Jones India Cling on tight to this tough little mountain pony bedecked with oriental carpets and brass bells —…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Camping: I Was a Teenage Gilligan A Tlingit JD talks about his not-so-hard time on a prison isle By Bill Donahue The crime was reprehensible, but the punishment seemed like a vacation. In August 1994, after beating and…
Outside magazine, April 1996 God, Boston, Country With the devil on his shoulder and Jesus on his shoes, Cosmas Ndeti battles for his fourth straight victory By Joshua Hammer I am staring at Cosmas Ndeti’s legs. I can’t take my eyes…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Mountain Biking: Pedaling Toward Atlanta By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) When Alison Sydor was awarded her gold medal last March for winning the inaugural 39.5-kilometer cross-country race in the Pan American Games, the Canadian rider looked…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Mexico: The Mainland If your idea of good H2O involves head-high surf and barracuda-infested reefs, you’ll find no better place to hang your hammock By Jeff Spurrier Zapatistas, economic meltdown, corruption, political assassinations–there are so…
Outside magazine, March 1993 Hiking: Tennessee’s Fiery Gizzards By Russ Manning In Tennessee’s South Cumberland region, you’ll hear over and over that Davy Crockett slept here, trapped ‘coons there. Here’s one you might not hear: Davy Crockett had a bad meal here. As…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Access & Resources: Tripping the White Continent By Miles Harvey Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, highest, driest, loneliest, and arguably deadliest continent on earth. Thus, only about 8,000 visitors brave their way each year to one of the earth’s wildest…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Marathon: In Favor of the Draft By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) By recruiting the best American men’s marathon field likely to be seen anywhere this year, race president Bill Burke hoped to inspire the fastest times…
Destinations, October 1996 La Costa Incógnita Pacific Mexico is a thatch roof overhead, fresh snapper daily, and 660 miles of nada between the timeshares By Jeff Spurrier From the discos of the faux village of Puerto Vallarta south to the tired old…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Islands: Escape from Spring Break By Mike Grudowski After only a few hours on Mexico’s Isla Mujeres–a five-mile-long, barracuda-shaped Caribbean island eight miles east of the spring-break-o-rama in Cancún–you begin to understand its reputation: This is the place where…
Gone Summering, July 1998 Good-Bye Burbs, Hello Rolling Hills Just beyond Chicago’s sprawl, a two-wheeler’s playground awaits By Craig Vetter Cheeseheads, Revisited The area around the southwestern wisconsin town of Spring Green is an…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 WINTER DESOLATION! TEMPTATION! STEWED FROG! Hiking Dominica can get a little damp, but culinary surprises await at slog’s end When European colonizers swept through the West Indies, one of the islands that…
Outside magazine, June 1992 While You’re Out There… Eight unsung parks also worth a visit By Debra Shore The crown jewels are wondrous sights, but they’re by no means the be-all and end-all of American parks. In fact, only 50 of…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Hawaii Mountain-Biking Molokai Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations HareBrain Adventures 800-665-2453, 808-552-2924 5 $1,100 rustic lodging The Route: Spend seven days at a 100-year-old, 54,000-acre cattle ranch laced with dirt roads and singletrack…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Ethiopia Kayaking the Blue Nile Gorges Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Adrift 011-64-3-442-5458 2 $1,280 camping, tourist hotels The Route: A hair-raising, self-supported, seven-day descent through a 7,000-foot-deep canyon sprinkled with Class IV…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 The Netherlands Skating the Zuider Zee Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Zephyr Inline Skate Tours 888-758-8687, 612-377-8489 5 $1,665 tourist hotels The Route: Zephyr’s seven-day in-line skate tour rolls along the smooth, flat…
Outside Magazine, July 1999 Wild Winds, Rough Going, No Blarney On Ireland’s western fringe, the mystic highlands of Connemara hide an unexpected kingdom of adventure. By Michael Dolan Tribes of the sea: a Connemara pony…
Outside Magazine, November 1994 En Famille: Five Resorts in the Vanguard By Meg Lukens Noonan It’s hard enough, when you take the kids skiing, just to keep track of mittens. The last thing you need is more challenge –like a children’s rental shop that’s…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 The Ski Shrink Is In … “I was a world-ranked skier,” says Jim Taylor, “and I was a head case.” Then Taylor discovered the miracle of sports psychology, became a top-20 U.S. slalomer, went back to school, and set up…
Dispatches, March 1998 ENTREPRENEURSHIP Taking It Outdoors Three old camping buddies try to live the dream, hanging their fortunes on an RV of tents When Jeff Basford, Mike Greaves, and Bob Pecoraro talk about the way their pipe dream is…
Dispatches, June 1998 Environment I See Your Runway and Raise You a Heron Reserve Embracing a landfill, greens deal with the devil to save San Francisco Bay By Pam Squyres Ralph Nobles smooths a crumpled nautical chart over…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Sled-dog Racing: Like, Mush By Todd Balf Up North, where men are men and Susan Butcher is still the biggest name in sled-dog racing, there’s a new name to learn: Jessica Royer, a bona fide teen phenom who took…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Skiing: Thanks Coach By Todd Balf Apparently those most astonished by the U.S. alpine team’s performance in the Winter Olympics last February were the coaches. Case in point: After Diann Roffe-Steinrotter won the gold in the super G, Paul…
 Outside magazine, Family Vacation Guide Backseat Bliss If you wanna keep the pint-sized critics happy and the moveable food fights to a minimum, there’d better be something pretty awedome in store when the seat belts come off…
Outside magazine, November 1991 Let’s Ski: Says Who? Enough with the one-note wonders. Here’s a case for the I’ve-only-got-a-week-to-ski monster resort. By Donovan Webster In the preceding pages you’ve read about midsize ski areas, the precious little places whose personalities–when you get right down…
Outside magazine, February 1996 The Outside Trip-Finder: Central and South America By Kathy Martin ANTARCTICA: Cruising the Peninsula The Route: An epic ten-day to four-week ship voyage along the Antarctic Peninsula, with…
Three regular guys prepare to venture into orbit in a helium balloon. And thus is Amended the Grand Roll of Space Heroes: Shepard. Glenn. Armstrong — and Dave, John, and Bob
Outside Magazine, September 1999 LONG WEEKENDS Head Down Past Gainesville, Turn Back 50 Years Where the Suwannee hits the Gulf, a bygone Florida thrives in the wilderness Keys to the Key Cedar Key is a straight shot southwest…
 Hey, Take a Hike! A tenderfoot’s guide to making tracks: Tents and trails, packs and boots, gadgets and grub, and everything else your family will need CAR CAMPING | BACKPACKING…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Family Vacation Quiz Every clan has its own definition of vacation bliss. One group’s getaway to a pristine, leafy wilderness is another’s descent into a mosquito-plagued, showerless netherworld. Some families thrive on organized activities; others bolt at the first syllable…
Park Places, Summer 1998 Six Great Unsung Parks By Bob Howells PARK PLACES National Pastimes A visit to these parks is right up there with…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Backseat Bliss Home, Home on the Road People are plugging so many electronic gizmos into their cars, you have to wonder whether they should install a surge protector just to start the engine. Vehicles…
CHOICE RIDE: NORTHEAST The Jay Pass Loop In Vermont, paradise is just a climb away By Kate Carter Call it fate that Vermont’s Jay Pass loop begins and…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 At Play in the Spray Strap on the helmets, tighten the tevas, this ride’s gonna be wet By Mark Jannot Our Favorite Places | The Hysterical Parent |…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Surfing: Kelly Slater Reincarnate By Todd Balf (with Derek Rielly) In the April Bacchanal they call the Rip Curl Pro, aka the Association of Surfing Professionals season opener, American Kelly Slater aced the four- to six-foot waves at Bells Beach near Melbourne,…
Destinations, May 1997 Inns & Lodges: Sleeping Beauties Smoking out the overlooked fire-spotting towers By Lorien Warner In 1981, when the forest service first got the notion to convert some of its outmoded and decommissioned fire-spotting towers into ultra-primitive wilderness…
Outside magazine, April 2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Atlas of the World A…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Ten Great Front Country Campsites First pick your place Steven C. Foster State Park, Georgia Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas Gulf Islands National Seashore, Florida…
Bulletins Sailing: We Be Jammin’ By Hannah Holmes Although sailing trips usually aim to induce a euphoric torpor among adults, the windjammer Isaac H. Evans, out of Rockland, Maine, now offers three-day trips geared to the kinetics of kids. As the…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Mexico: Baja California If your idea of good H2O involves head-high surf and barracuda-infested reefs, you’ll find no better place to hang your hammock By Andrew Rice The tip of the Baja Peninsula is not…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Newfoundland Dogsledding in Gros Morne National Park Outfitter Price Accommodations Onward Tours 709-686-5333 www.onwardtours.com $800 camping, rustic lodging The Route: Mushing for five days on the glacier-carved high…
Outside magazine, April 1998 Paddling The River Primeval Access & Resources By Stephanie Gregory BACKCOUNTRY SPECIAL Unfrozen Caveman Camper The River That Time Ignored Paddling the River Primeval There…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Wilderness Areas: Bona Fide Beaches By Meg Lukens Day at the beach doesn’t always turn out to be…well…a day at the beach. Sometimes the fog rolls in just after you’ve slathered yourself with Number 15.
Outside magazine, June 1994 Inns & Lodges: Big Bay Point Lighthouse, Michigan By David Willey On a foggy night in 1902, Big Bay’s first lighthouse keeper, William Pryor, wandered into the woods and hanged himself from a tree. His journal hints that he…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Tips from the Field Interviews by Suzy Preston Nevada Wier You specialize in portraiture. How do you approach people in foreign countries to photograph them? Well, it’s pretty clear that I’m…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Inns & Lodges: Copper Canyon Riverside Lodge Chihuahua, Mexico By Matthew Joyce As you round the hairpin turns on the road that drops into Mexico’s Copper Canyon, it occurs to you that a parachute might come in handy.
Outside magazine, May 1995 Mountaineering: Isn’t That Sweet By Todd Balf In the increasingly combed-over world of mountaineering, an emerging tradition appears to be the “tandem” ascent. A few years ago, alpinists Jeff Lowe and Catherine Destivelle popularized the pursuit when they successfully climbed…
Outside magazine, June 1995 The Family Plan By Bob Howells Bring on the small fry: kids are kept happily busy at most of these resorts. At Lone Mountain Ranch, daily hikes, trail rides, animal tracking, pond fishing, campouts, and a weekly Kids’ Rodeo…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Warmest Shores: Mexico The Mainland Sunsets over the Pacific, one hundred shades of green, centuries-old civilizations, the relaxing rhythm of life, and the gentle humanity of people who honor civility, passion, and grace over…
CHOICE RIDE: SOUTHEAST The Railroad Trail From the baritone “Oh Lords” to the oyster po’boys of the Florida coast By Bucky McMahon For much of the 16 miles of the Tallahassee-St. Marks Historic Railroad State Trail,…
Outside magazine, March 1995 True Hawaii No luaus. No leis. Just a springtime ramble through the promised land. By Jonathan Runge Most people plan on getting their Hawaii fix in the dead of winter, which ironically is rainy season…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Guide to Summer: Location, Location, Direction For summer-rental perfection, WNW marks the spot By Lawrence Shames If you don’t already have a hand-held compass, get one. String it onto a lanyard, hang it around your neck, and wear…