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ArchiveOutside magazine, June 1995 Cycling: Lance, the Return By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) With team expectations escalating and his own patience wearing thin, American cyclist Lance Armstrong finally broke through last March with his first European victory in 18 months.
Outside magazine, September 1994 Mountaineering: Move Over, Neighbor By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and John Alderman) When two high-profile teams announced plans to climb new, ambitious routes on the famed 5,000-foot North Wall of Alaska’s Mount Hunter last spring, some imagined a battle royale–“Something like…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 “Ono” Digs, from Campsite to Suites Whether pitching a tent or booking a palace, an important consideration in choosing your lodging is access to outdoor sports. Stay in or near the mountains, and you’ll be close to hiking trails. Stay oceanside, and…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Snowplowing Rulz! “I knew they’d come around,” says Glen Plake, the unmistakably mohawked star of extreme-skiing flicks and patron saint of snowboard-bashing. “Maybe there’s a reason all those places are called ski areas?” Plake is talking about a…
Dispatches, April 1997 Crusading: Hear the One About Draining Lake Powell? A straight-faced Sierra Club uncorks a questionable cause cëlêbre By Bill Donahue For The Record Hey, You’re Not Bullwinkle! “We tried slingshots,”…
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…
 Come On, Get Paddle Happy! Whether barreling through class IV froth, gliding in a misty fiord, or floating through a sandstone canyon, immerse yourself in the waters of summer RIVER RAFTING | …
Outside magazine, July 1994 Long Weekends: Backyard Bavaria The best and wurst of Leavenworth, Washington, 100 miles east of Seattle By Johnny Dodd In the early 1960s, the townsfolk of Leavenworth, Washington, hoping to drum up a little commerce, acted on a hunch. They’d…
Destinations, May 1998 Snowboarding Soaring Id, Grounded Ego By Zev Borow I don’t think it’s until after lunch on the third day that I start to need the patronizing, to … well, not beg, but silently plead for it. I…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Resort Report: Part One When it comes to this year’s hard-earned ski trip, you need a mountain that fits just right By Ron C. Judd No matter who you are, whom you know, or how liberally you…
Cover, November 1998 The Deep, White Secret Think Whistler is the only thing that British Columbia has to offer? Think again. By Ron C. Judd Then Again, Who Needs Lifts? There’s deep. There’s really deep. And then there’s the…
Outside magazine, May 1995 On Everest, with Fewer Socks By Paul Kvinta When and if Tom Whittaker reaches 27,000 feet on his Everest expedition this month, he won’t be worrying about oxygen supply. “I’ll be too busy trying to keep my stump healthy,” he…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Alaska Biking the Alaska Highway Outfitter Price Accommodations Alaskan Bicycle Adventures 800-770-7242, www.alaskabike.com $3,195 rustic lodging, tourist hotels Cyclevents 888-733-9615, www.cyclevents.com $1,750 camping, tourist hotels The Route: Riding 12 to…
When you're baffled by bad beginnings, stymied by the unteachable, and running from impending doom, you'd better head for the hills
Outside magazine, November 1995 Surfing: Hurricane Dreams By Todd Balf (with Joe Glickman) It’s an unfortunate fact of life in professional surfing that wherever you are, the waves are better elsewhere. The irony didn’t escape those at the U.S. Open of Surfing, America’s richest…
Bulletins Resorts: Glorified Babysitting? Hardly. By Everett Potter Summer Calendar Milbridge Days Celebration July 26-27 Milbridge, Maine Teams practice for years to perfect their technique in the Great Greased Codfish Relay Race, the…
Waterworlds, Family Vacations 1998 Houseboating If staying home is what floats your boat, pull up a deck chair on one of these By Lisa Jones WATERWORLDS…
On the Road with Huggies and a Binkie, Summer 1998 Toddler Towns Six prime destinations that actually welcome the preschool set By Anne Goodwin Sides ON THE ROAD…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Traveler’s Advisory By Jeff Spurrier You’re trying to get as far as possible from asphalt and neon, but with remoteness come inherent dangers. Here’s how to play it safe in the Yucatán. Drive defensively. Highway 307 is a narrow two-lane…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Mountain Biking: The Stair Master By Todd Balf (with Derek Rielly) From the give-the-people-what-they-want department: There’s nothing like a no-holds-barred sprint-finish down multiple flights of steep wooden stairs to make 50,000 Spanish fans scream their lungs out. Switzerland’s Thomas Frischknecht and Americans…
Destinations, June 1999 God’s Country, Your Backyard Vancouver Island is just a short ferry ride away. It only feels like you’ve died and gone to heaven. By Kevin Brooker All bark, and bight: old-growth cedar…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Gear to Go Health Savers Don’t venture too far without these safety essentials By Michael Kessler MEDICAL KITS —————— “When preparing your own medical kit,” says Dr. Eric L. Weiss,…
Outside magazine, October 1994 At Play in the Fields of the Maya The condo-free Yucatan is still out there. All you have to do is look for it. By Jeff Spurrier The bad news is you’re landing in Cancún. The good news is you…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Multisport Resorts AGUILA DE OSA INN, COSTA RICA At Drake Bay, on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, I could have passed my days pleasantly enough at the E-MAIL FROM: MYSORE, INDIA "Who are you?" barks Astanga…
This Turf’s Got Surf Your home is your (sand) castle: Pitch your tent at these campgrounds by the sea SEBASTIAN INLET STATE RECREATION AREA | FLORIDA The beach: Sebastian Inlet State Recreation Area straddles two…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Southeat Asia: Thai’d In By Lisa Reed Many a promising career has been ruined by my photos,” claims Todd Skinner, one of the world’s top big-wall climbers. His subjects are not government officials caught on bearskin rugs, but the limestone…
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, June 1992 Our National Parks: Great Smoky Mountains National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Gatlinburg, TN 37738 615-436-5615 Established 1934 520,000 Acres The Big Picture: In the early 1920s, the fledgling National Park Service…
 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…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Ecuador: Survival of the Smartest The right way to cruise Darwin’s Isles-no ifs, ands, or butts By Everett Potter Let’s start with the food poisoning and the congealed spaghetti suppers and move on to the organized line-dancing classes…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Madison, Wisconsin 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, 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…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Hawaiian Calendar By Stephanie Gregory October 26: Watch 1,500 buffed competitors swim, bike, and run their way through 12,500 gallons of water and 2,000 bottles of sunscreen at the 20th Ironman Triathlon World Championships on the Big Island.
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…
Dispatches, April 1997 Environment: Come One, Come 1.4 Million A proposed new road to Prince William Sound raises the question: How many tourists is too many? By Tom Kizzia For The Record It Is a Small World, After…
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, January 2000 As a third-generation Scout, an Eagle Scout, and the survivor of two expeditions to the Philmont Scout Ranch, I took great pleasure in reading Adam Goodheart’s “Thrifty, Clean, and Brave” (November). Philmont was indeed a magical…
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…
Destinations, July 1997 Seattle from the Sea Find the best of Puget Sound without crowds, fossil fuels, or hiking boots By Tina Kelley As you paddle into Hammersley Inlet on Washington’s Cascadia Marine Trail, a crowd of small heads pops up.
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…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 1999/2000 Annual Travel Guide Traveler’s Almanac Space Camp for Amateur Astronauts; Name and Claim a Virgin Island; Where to Be on 12/31/99; Adventures in Veracruz; Millennium Blowouts; New Ways…
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…
Outside magazine, August 1991 Idling Through the Hill Country Flamethrowers, enchanted rocks, and Texas Nirvana By Stephen Harrigan The best way to drive through the Texas hill country is aimlessly. Knowing or caring where you’re headed shouldn’t be the first thing on…
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…
Outside magazine, February 1996 Skiing: Give Me Liberty…and a Lot of Monster Air Kasha Rigby’s free-heeled assault on extreme skiing By Michael Finkel “Alpine skiers,” says Kasha Rigby, pioneer of extreme telemarking, wrinkling her nose in a gesture of nordic disapproval at…
February 1995 The Outside Trip-Finder 49 destinations, 96 outfitters, 163 trips, and one tenacious case of wanderlust By Meg Lukens Noonan Europe North America Central and South America Africa…
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, July 1994 The Way Wet When it’s hot–really hot–hiding under the porch won’t do. You need water. By David Noland The dog days are back–those sultry, muggy midsummer afternoons when Sirius, the Dog Star, is riding high in the sky, influencing everyone…
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…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 WINTER NORTHWEST SKIING FIRES UP “Give us amenities to match our mountains,” they cried. They’ve been heard First-class snowfall, coach-class resorts. From the day organized skiing first hit the slopes of Mount…
 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…
Outside magazine, February 1996 Trekking: Buried at the Top of the World In the wake of Nepal’s deadliest disaster, a search for answers By Adam Horowitz (with Peter Stewart) It was easily the worst calamity to strike the Himalayas in decades: a…
Or does it loathe that enraptured human touch? An earthy tale of fungal romance, fully consummated.
In the annals of unsuccessful exploration, no mystery has remained more puzzling than the endless wrangling among historians and New York literary agents over the fate of the legendary lost expedition of Colonel Sir Edward Fallow Pike. In light of the tremendous excitement over the recent discovery of an authentic fragment of Pike's journal in an Argentine wax
Outside magazine, March 2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Hut, Hut, Hike If you’re still feeling guilty about Y2K extravagances, repent by ensconcing yourself…
 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…
Camp Outs, Summer 1998 Campsite-Finder Ten drive-up campsites with a backcountry feel Which campground sounds good? Fern Hammock Loop, Florida Sage Creek,…