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ArchiveOutside magazine, April 1995 My Imaginary Life Yin of snags, yang of stubbies. Who says you must come home again? By Randy Wayne White After only a week in Australia’s Northern Territory, mostly hanging around the town of Darwin, I caught myself…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Yosemite National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Box 577, Yosemite National Park, CA 95389 209-372-0200 Established 1890 784,542 Acres The Big Picture: Ever since white men stumbled into Yosemite…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Quetzals, Kayaks, and Cays, Oh My! The latest in Central American adventuring By Richard Harris GUATEMALA La Ruts Sierra Quetzals as big as hens! That’s the word on rare birds from one of the first…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Season’s Fleeings Out with the old, in with a ramble–winter celebrations in the mountains and the sea By Meg Lukens Noonan With the holidays looming, you’re no doubt deep in shopping malls, fake snow, and way too many…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Grenada & Carriacou By Jonathan Runge The mention of Grenada usually recalls the Reagan-era invasion of this 133-square-mile island, whatever that was about. Not to worry–its welcoming atmosphere has returned, and this verdant, mountainous island about 100…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Climbing: Race You, Pops By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) This month, U.S.-based mountain guide Thor Kieser hopes to lead the youngest and oldest person to the top of Mount Everest. While Kieser admits that the prospects…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Northwestern Exposure In Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and B.C., our favorite season arrives just as the throngs head home. What a pity. By Byron Ricks In the Pacific Northwest, September brings relief. For three months now you’ve been duking it…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Bulletins: News for Adventurous Travelers Ecuador: Survival of the smartest The right way to cruise Darwin’s Isles- no ifs, ands, or butts By Everett Potter Southeast Asia: Thai’d In…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Inns & Lodges: Ground Squirrel Holler, Maryland By Ellen Ryan On the five acres behind Ground Squirrel Holler, a bed-and-breakfast in the Cumberland Valley, 13 llamas romp through oak woods, green pastures, and rolling hills. Their role is more than…
Destinations, April 1997 Eric Heiden Slept Here In Lake Placid, the locals have a hard time letting go By Katie Arnold As the road curves past malfunction Junction at the outskirts of town, you begin to notice the cutely gabled…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The South Pacific: A World Away–and Worth It So what if you have to endure endless hours in the air and shake out your piggy bank. Nothing this pure comes easy. By Trish Reynales The…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Books: Blinded by Rhinestones By Andrea Barrett Sacred Horses: Memoirs of a Turkmen Cowboy, by Jonathan Evan Maslow (Random House, $25). “I had just turned 40, the biblical halfway point in life, and found myself divorced and without…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Cuisine: Medium Rare and Hold the Guilt Yes, say Doc and Connie Hatfield, the world is ready for PC beef By Wendy Marston “It’s the smell of sage after a summer thunderstorm,” intones the tall man with the…
Outside magazine, December 1997 Captain Cook Never Sailed Here It’s a long line from the old salt to the swarms at Waikiki. So real Hawaiians head for the far sides of paradise. By Rick Carroll Bone Fishing The supernatural…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Summer MAY THE HORSE BE WITH YOU No songfests. No hayrides. No dudes! Our kind of guest ranches Rankin Ranch, California Despite the recent hipification of the word dude, I’ve never…
Outside magazine, January 1998 Travel: Calling All Cashonauts Outer space is within your reach — if you have $98,000 of the right stuff By Bill Vaughn Neither Rain, nor Sleet, nor… A bitter slugfest was probably the…
Dispatches, June 1997 Expeditions: What Price Glory? Two old friends earn their spot in the record books — with tragic consequences By Todd Balf Ross and Ramsden, reunited in Massachussetts Suffering from the effects of food poisoning, a…
Outside magazine, August 1991 Road Tours Because right about now you could use one If you include the return trip, we drove 2,800 miles. Four days. Three friends. A shoe box full of cassette tapes. We got in the car, with a vague…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Skiing: Go, Cat, Go! How to get heli-skiing’s powder and vertical–for half the cost By Clifford D. May The ultimate in skiing is found not at Vail or Aspen, Whistler or Val d’Isere, but on backcountry peaks doused…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Three-Minute, Star-Studded, Fix-It-by-the-Fireside Ski Lesson A midwinter review of the essentials of the game By Michel Beaudry THE CARVED TURN Go ahead, says Olympic gold medalist Tommy Moe. Listen to what those skis are…
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Outside Magazine, February 1995 Access & Resources: Heading Out on the High Route By Seth Masia Skiers who’ve traversed Europe’s Haute Route, from Chamonix to Saas-Fee, will find the Sierra High Route higher, rougher, and more isolated. While thousands of people ski the Haute…
Toddlers Rule! Sure you can hike, bike, sail, do all the things you used to do. Yeah, right. . . Just ask these parents. CAPE COD | MASSACHUSETTS Rugrat on a Roll “Daddy, sit down!”…
Outside magazine, September 1997 E C O – T R A V E L N E W S Eco-travel News: Let No Man Own Our Island! But we’d be thrilled if he’d visit and spend some cash By Steven…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Backcountry Skiing: The Alpine Trekker By Glenn Randall Alpine skiers who long to explore the backcountry have always had a single option: buy a separate alpine-touring setup. Now a hybrid device called the Alpine Trekker is a ticket to take…
 Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Mountain Minimal Just you, your maker, and a whole lot of white stuff Alta Ski Area | Mount Baker Ski Area | Taos Ski Valley | Red…
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Within the anachronistically macho world of professional surfing, respect comes when you rip like a man and act like it's no big thing. Two-time world champion Lisa Andersen is the first woman to pull this off, changing the way beach boys look at beach girls and bringing droves of young women into the sport. But hey, no big thing.
Outside magazine, July 1995 Durango, Colorado 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 Population:…
 The Road Less Minivan-ed When it comes to four-wheeling it, don’t go with the flow. Take to the byways on these three departures from the ordinary. VALLEY OF FIRE | BIGHORN…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Horse Sense They may not be the smartest beasts, but a stint aboard a four-legged friend is a required ride of passage by Randy Wayne White I Wanna Be a Cowboy Cowboy…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Don’t Spare the Bubbly Seven Rivers, from Wimpy to Wild Green River, Lodore Canyon, Utah Back in 1869, one-armed explorer John Wesley Powell lost a boat along the Lodore Canyon stretch of the…
Outside Magazine, November 1994 Expeditions: Norman’s Conquest, Part Deux By John Galvin This time last year, Norman Vaughan, the huggable 88-year-old polar explorer, was on his way to Antarctica on an expedition to dogsled several hundred miles and then climb Mount Vaughan, the 10,302-foot…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Hey There, All you Buckaroos: Wilderness Horsepack Trips in the Northern Rockies By Nancy Debevoise On the first morning of my first wilderness horsepack trip, I awoke to the murmur of voices and the crackle of the campfire outside my…
Outside magazine, September 1995 Rowing: It’s a French Thing By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) As frenchman Jean Luckes shoved off from Cape Cod last June for a two- to three-month, 3,000-mile solo voyage across the North Atlantic, he was asked the inevitable question:…
Outside magazine, May 1996 Oh, Canada It’s not easy following in the footsteps of Ben Johnson, but Canadian Donovan Bailey–the reigning 100-meter world champion who at press time had won six of the seven indoor events he’d entered in 1996–is doing just that. Last February…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 The Last Best Peninsula The Costa Rica of legend still exists. But you have to crash through breakers and fight off pigs to find it. By Bob Payne At dawn, after pushing to the…
Traveler’s Almanac, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Bargains The Circle Game Around the world for less By Everett Potter Columbus had the right idea. If you’re traveling to Asia or the Pacific, instead of making a U-turn, just keep going.
Waterworlds, Family Vacations 1998 Canoeing Polish up those J-strokes and cross-draws — we’re journeying to the heartland By Larry Rice WATERWORLDS Rafting How…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Part One: The Coolest Terrain An Alpine Quiz How to find that perfect mountain The West It’s still wild out there The Rockies Snow like it ought to be…
Dispatches, May 1998 FILM If We Told You, It Wouldn’t Be a Secret, Would It? A rather silly journey in search of a very special place By Bill Vaughn Few things are as delicious as a secret, and nothing…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Ash Mountain, Three Rivers, CA 93271 209-565-3341 Established 1890 864,383 Acres The Big Picture: Upward mobility defines these twin parks at…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Mexican Galapagos: Cheek to Jaws By Bill Belleville For shark divers, the remote pinnacles and islands of the Revilla Gigedo off Baja California are both punishment and reward. The punishment is the 260-mile boat trip southwest from Cabo San Lucas…
Outside magazine, January 1994 Access & Resources: The Schlepp to Sipadan By Amy Goldwasser Maybe it’ll happen on the long trip to Kota Kinabalu, when you realize you’ve lost two days to time zones. Or maybe it’ll happen as you squirm into your…
Outside magazine, May 1996 No You Fool, It’s Red Wine with Spam Startling governmental conclusion of the month: Our fighting men and women hate their food. A recently released 400-plus-page tome by the federal Institute of Medicine, which spent $100,000 on the study, reported that…
Outside magazine, July 1995 San Luis Obispo, California 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…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Duffels and Packs The best in no-sweat cramming By Bob Howells Traveling is as much about carrying things as seeing sights. Whatever you’re toting there’s sure to be a better way. Good construction is a given with these…
Adventure Travel Special, January 1997 Professor Cahill’s Travel 101 From the Plato of the peripatetic, 20 indispensable dos and don’ts By Tim Cahill Dr. Cahill, loose in Irian Jaya I’ve been writing about travel…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Update: Fall of the Quartzite Eight By Wendy Marston “I did it to save lives. If we’re guilty of anything, we’re guilty of weighing human life as being worth more than that rock.” So said William Stoner, a river guide…
Destinations, April 1997 Smart Traveler: Meet Me in Malaysia or Harare or… The best deals in around-the-world airfares By Everett Potter The next time some kid clutching a battered Lonely Planet guide brags about his cheap consolidator tickets to Hong…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Turks and Caicos By Jeff Wallach Technically part of the Bahamas chain some 30 miles to the northwest, the Turks and Caicos are 30 dry, scrubby islands and keys scored by salt flats and arranged in the…
The Trip Finder, January 1997 North America By Kathy Martin O’Neil Alaska | Alberta | British Columbia | Colorado | Labrador |…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Beach Volleyball: Americans Take the Worlds By Todd Balf At last February’s Women’s Beach Volleyball World Championships in La Serena, Chile, Americans Karolyn Kirby and Liz Masakayan dropped the first set to their Brazilian rivals 12-9, never having held…
Outside magazine, June 1996 More Maple Leafs Than You Can Shake a Hockey Stick At By Cory Johnson Mention the word Canada, and ice hockey and off-kilter accents come to mind. What you may not realize is that Canada, as the second largest…
Outside magazine, December 1997 Travel: Footloose and Cholesterol-Free In the midst of its epic ride, a chat with history’s nuttiest cycling tandem John Galvin If you find yourself driving a lonely country road, only to spy a monocled, seven-foot legume…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 CAMERA EXPEDITIONS Focus on Myanmar This mystical Buddhist country (formerly called Burma) of gold-covered temples, streets lined with colorful markets, and a countryside marked by hill-tribe…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Micronesia Cruising Palau and Yap Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Zegrahm Expeditions 800-628-8747 2 $5,980-$8,980 boat accommodations, tourist hotels The Route: Exploring by yacht two rarely visited islands, where you’ll snorkel some of…
Adventure Found, January 1998 Uh-Oh ù Here Comes the Easy Part When traveling, danger lurks at the most innocuous moments By Bucky McMahon The first law of safety for scuba divers, counterintuitive but verified…
Destinations, June 1997 What Do You Mean, No Knobbies? The park can’t sate every adventure appetite. But you needn’t go far. By Parke Puterbaugh B U L L E T I N S…
Outside magazine, September 1996 The Descent, Step By Step By John Alderman and Katie Arnold The Summit 1:12 p.m.: Under blue skies and bright sunshine, Krakauer summits with Harris and Boukreev, snaps a few photos on the 29,028 foot pinnacle, and…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Best Tree Skiing Ski Homewood, California For really memorable tree skiing, it helps to get in touch with your inner pooch. “You have to act like a bloodhound to find the perfect mix of snow, trees, and slope,”…
Outside magazine, February 1996 The Outside Trip-Finder: Europe By Kathy Martin AUSTRIA: Mountaineering and Climbing in the Zillertal Alps The Route: A ten-day expedition into southern Austria’s rugged Zillertal range, including lessons in ice climbing…
The Lowdown Chart Is your kid ready for a Class IV river trip? A 5.5 climb? A five-mile hike? ROCK CLIMBING | RAFTING | HORSEBACK RIDING | SEA KAYAKING | …
Outside magazine, September 1997 Gunning for the Grails From the snow-shrouded Karakorams to our own backyard, eight of the glory seekers’ loftiest goals By Bill Donahue The golden age of exploration, of romantic and leech-filled forays into terra incognita, may…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Alpine Wishes and Adriatic Dreams Slovenia, the best of Europe in a space the size of New Jersey By Debra Weiner Unappreciated and for the most part unheard-of, the tiny nation of Slovenia, on Central Europe’s southern edge,…