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ArchiveOutside’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, March 1997 Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers Paradise Leased Borrowing a million-dollar boat. Cruise the Caribbean. Grin. A beginner’s guide to sailboat charters. By Dan Dickison Long Weekend: Far from the Madonna Crowd…
Shwoosh! Bike Camps By Michael Kessler t h e f u n f i l e: Outback Boredom Busters Organize A Treasure Hunt Let older kids…
 Outside magazine, September 1997 The Twilight Expedition It’s a bitter time to be a serious explorer. After all, Magellan circled the world centuries ago. Stanley hacked a path deep into the Congo back in the 1800s. And Tenzing and Hillary knocked off…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Outside’s Slope Finder We’re all looking for the ski area that has everything, and most of the resorts listed here could easily qualify under all the following categories. But when we took an informal poll, this was the consensus that emerged:…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Fishing! No…Sailing! No…Biking! At a multisport resort, deciding how to play is the hardest thing you’ll do all day I t may be the best of all worlds: a camplike array of things to do,…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 THE SNOW FINDER SKI AREA: Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, Colorado Information: 888-272-7246; Reservations: same THE DRAW: A-Basin is a purist’s dream come…
There, in the forgotten corner of the subcontinent, nosed up between contentious Myanmar and hoar-rimed Tibet, lay the brocaded splendor of Arunachal Pradesh. A void in the national map, but not in the individual imagination.
Give us deep pleasure or give us death! A summer road trip with purpose.
 Outside magazine, May 1998 Another Day Under the Black Volcano Picture a life in the shadow of the rumbling Soufri`ere, from whose vicissitudes come ash and rock and a possible scorching death. Would you flee, as have most of your neighbors? Or…
Islands We Love Slip on the flip-flops, pack up the frisbee: It’s not really summer till the ferry pulls away and you leave the mainland behind MADELINE ISLAND | APOSTLE ISLANDS, WISCONSIN During the 20-minute ferry ride from Bayfield, on…
Are We There Yet? Getting There in Style By Lisa Twyman Bessone From the 1950s right up through the 1980s, the quintessential family car was the venerable, if un-hip, station wagon. Fast-forward to 1997. Station wagons, like the Suburu Outback, now…
Open Roads, Summer 1998 Baby, You Can Rate My Car By Lisa Twyman Bessone OPEN ROADS Oh, the Places You’ll Go Day-by-day itineraries for four…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Brat Packing One, Two, Three Four … Hike! Ten Great Family Backpacking Trails Chattooga River/Bartram Trail Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, Georgia Made famous by Deliverance, that 1970s canoe-combat film, the Chattooga National…
Outside magazine, February 1996 The Outside Trip-Finder: North America By Kathy Martin New ALASKA: Mountain Biking around Denali The Route: A six- or 14-day knobby-tire tour on dirt and gravel roads through…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Esprit de Shore The beach is serene, relaxing…a total snore. Says who? Here are six beaches that will knock your snorkel off By Parke Puterbaugh Our Favorite Places | Staying…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Yemen Touring the Frankincense Route Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Geographic Expeditions 800-777-8183, 415-922-0448 2 $5,590-$6,260, includes airfare from U.S. tourist hotels The Route: A 17-day, 1,000-mile Land Cruiser tour that includes visits to the city…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Dude-Free Ranches By Sara Corbett All ‘Round Ranch, Jensen, Utah. This 400-square-mile spread in the northeastern corner of Utah will put you on a horse and keep you there for four- to six-day pack trips through aspen-covered backcountry. Capacity:…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 Inns & Lodges: Home Hill Country Inn Plainfield, New Hampshire By Anne Goodwin Sides A young couple from Squaw Valley–Stephan Duroure, a French ski instructor, and Victoria Gordon, an American nouvelle chef–recently bought the…
Traveler’s Almanac, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Lonely, Lonely Planet SPM/SDF ISO GTFS* *great trips for singles Okay, so a lot of us go to bed alone every night (well, most nights). Why, then, is it so hard to travel solo? Trust…
Bulletins Wave Riding: Surfin’ Camp U.S.A. By Andrew Rice Summer Calendar Days of Swine and Roses May 31-June 1 Madison, Nebraska Folks go hog-wild at this two-day salute to swine when they step up…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Era of Green Rule South Africa goes eco By Mike Steere With self-styled Stanleys rushing to South Africa, new and evermore exquisite accommodations are popping up to keep pace. Forest Lodge is this season’s latest opus in…
Outside magazine, April 1998 Getaways: Where Your Tent Can Pitch The Roanoke River dubuts ten floating campsites By Fran Severn The night music ensemble on northeastern North Carolina’s Roanoke River is a rowdy mix of hooting owls, waltzing herons,…
Destinations, May 1998 Continuing Education Ten more first-rate classrooms-with-a-view. By Cristina Opdahl Climbing Exum Mountain Guides and Mountaineering School, Wyoming. The granddaddy of climbing camps. Founder Glen Exum was the first to ascend Exum Ridge on the Grand…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Olympic National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore 600 E. Park Ave., Port Angeles, WA 98362 206-452-4501 Established 1938 922,653 Acres The Big Picture: Its soggy reputation and inauspicious location…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Middle East: The Peace Dividend By Todd Balf A year or two ago, adventure travel in the Middle East was virtually nonexistent, but the ongoing peace process has changed all that. Wilderness Travel’s 21-day hike through Israel’s hills of Galilee…
Outside magazine, January 1994 Into the Wild Biru Yonder On the Sipadan side of the world, diving is more soaring than descending By Randy Wayne White Sipadan Island, Sabah, Malaysia A side benefit of exotic travel is that you…
Destinations, May 1997 Smart Traveler: We’re Learning to Fly. And It Shows. How to save yourself from the world’s worst airlines By Everett Potter B u l l e t i n s Dune Buzzers…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Bodyboarding: Just One of the Girls By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) After Brazil’s Mariana Nogueira darted around Hawaii’s famed Banzai Pipeline to win the World Championships of Women’s Bodyboarding last February, most of her rivals and…
Outside magazine, October 1995 The Florida Keys By Jeff Klinkenberg The Florida Keys, the 100-mile string of bridge-connected islands that curve southwest into the Gulf of Mexico, can put you to sleep or make you want to rumba. On one level,…
Outside magazine, February 1996 Wildlife: Who’s Afraid of the Mexican Wolf? As the long-lost lobo eyes its return, some cagey southwesterners bare teeth By Keith Easthouse Jim Winder has never seen a Mexican wolf in the wild, but for as long…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Surfing: Beach Blanket Bango Is assault and battery the next big thing on the waves? By Ken McAlpine Lacerated liver, broken ribs, broken pelvis, contusions all over his body, three bite marks, and internal bleeding,” says Geoff Allard,…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Guide to Summer: The Seamless Escape Butter up the boss and grab your pack–it’s never too late to split for the weekend By Elizabeth Royte Jack (not his real name) is between jobs. This has allowed him to…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Virgin Islands By Matthew Joyce Conditions in the Virgin Islands make even novice sailors seem like seasoned old salts: Plentiful sheltered moorings preclude long overnight sails, clusters of small islands make for calm seas, the trade winds…
The Trip Finder, January 1997 Asia and the Pacific By Kathy Martin O’Neil New Australia | China | Fiji | New India | Indonesia…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Multisport: Born to Suffer By Todd Balf John Stamstad’s taste in cycling events is simple: the longer and more weather-whipped, the better. The Iditasport, a 235-kilometer marathon pitting cyclists against cross-country skiers in Alaskan blizzards each February, qualifies on…
Outside magazine, July 1998 Where Have All the Wise Men Gone? Certainly not into the Sahara, not to race 142 miles in seven days, not to broil beneath a 120-degree sky, not to seek glory in the Marathon des Sables, the world’s most…
Outside magazine, December 1996 Hide, and Go Seek NecroSearch’s charter: Head into the woods, use nature skills, find murder victims By Mike Grudowski In the somber days after she vanished, no one had reason to suspect it would take so long…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 FALL ASIA ABOVE THE FRAY Where noise means impudent monkeys, your bivy’s a bungalow, and trail snacks drip with oyster sauce. Dynamic-moving up the Phra Nang cliffs, Thailand GUNUNG RINJANI VOLCANO LOMBOK,…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 United States Mountain-Biking the Continental Divide Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Adventure Cycling 800-755-2453, 406-721-1776 1 $2,800 camping, rustic lodging The Route: An epic 75-day, 2,500-mile self-supported border-to-border dirt ride from Canada to…
Sin in the Wild Outdoors, June 1997 Covetousness How much is that bivy sack in the window? And can I get it in all three sizes By Bill McKibben At a recent mammoth outdoor-equipment show, I stopped by a seminar…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Exploration: Gentlemen, Start Your Regulators In perhaps the most contentious race ever held beneath the earth’s surface, two teams rush to claim the world’s largest underwater cave system By Dave Plank On Saturday, June 15, the moment that…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Skiing With Bruce Babbitt By Paul Kvinta Occupation: Head Tree-Hugger Favorite Place to Downhill: “When I’m traveling out West, I usually try to route my trip through Salt Lake City because the slopes are so accessible to the…
Dispatches, March 1997 Surfing: Up Close and Way Too Personal By Sarah Horowitz All hail the World Wide Web. Not only does it give us instantaneous access to results from any sporting event we care to follow; it now also…
The Tenderfoot’s Almanac Walk This Way The Hysterical Parent Bear attacks Bears are shy animals who tend to hightail it out of the vicinity when they hear you and your brood approaching. Experts suggest wearing bells and jingling down…
Outside 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.
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 All-Inclusive Resorts Margaritas for nothing and the chips for free By Matthew Joyce In the notoriously high-priced Caribbean, it doesn’t take long to max out a credit card or burn through a wad of traveler’s checks–those $50-per-day equipment…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Wet as You Wanna Be Six great family rivers, from tame to tumultuous by Peter Shelton Inflatable Journeys The Fun File: What to do when the water’s calm…
Who Loves Ya, Keiki? Resorting to Perfection By Jim Gullo Hired Hands Ocean Voyages (800-299-4444) offers customized seven-day island-to-island all-inclusive sailing trips aboard a 50-foot sloop; you decide when to go and where to stop. Rates start at…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Open Roads Throw some juice boxes in the cooler, toss your tent in the trunk — it’s high time to hit the highway By Ron C. Judd OPEN ROADS…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Backseat Bliss Detailed Road-Trips California’s Central Coast Day One: Oceano to Montaña de Oro State Park. Mileage: 32. Drive time: About 2 hours. Route: California 1/U.S. 101 to Avila Beach. Take Canyon…
Outside magazine, February 1996 Anatomy of an Adventure As you sift through the multitude of trips out there, it’s wise to know exactly what you’re paying for By David Noland Flip through the pages of this year’s Trip-Finder, our annual directory to…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 The Zen of Car-Camping Since you can haul as much stuff as your car can hold (and even if you drive a Hyundai, that translates into considerably more cargo space than even the roomiest expedition pack), car-camping is pretty much the…
Family Vacations, Summer Keeping Up with the (Indiana) Joneses Essential outdoor toys for kids Whether they’re on a 10-day wilderness safari or a quick trip to the compost pile, kids can go gizmo gonzo with…
Destinations, May 1997 Getting Around: Anchors — and Bombs — Aweigh See Alaska from the deck of a minesweeper By Peter Nelson In recent years, Southeast alaska, with its 10,000 miles of coastline, towering old-growth spruce, and almost guaranteed…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 Long Weekends: Yosemite, Unplugged In winter, see the park as the Miwok did: in solitude By Andrew Rice When the bumper-to-bumper traffic of summer disappears and the snow begins to fly, tranquility settles over…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide 2 Hours, 46 Minutes, 20 Seconds to Freedom Ten easy getaways from ten big cities — because sometimes a weekend is all you need … From San Francisco Weekend vacations for my husband and me…
 Open Roads, Summer 1998 Oh, the Places You’ll Go OPEN ROADS Oh, the Places You’ll Go Day-by-day itineraries for four family road trips…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Barbados By Matthew Joyce At first glance, Barbados seems like a tropical version of England: cricket players in starched white uniforms and tea-and-crumpet socials at sedate hotels. But while 300 years of uninterrupted British rule have given…