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ArchiveOutside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Extreme Measures Wherein steep becomes the mantra By Peter Shelton EXTREME MEASURES | BUNK TO BUNK | DETAILS | THE SNOW FINDER |…
Let’s ALL Go to Camp Why should the kids get all the s’mores? At these adventure retreats, families are in it together–from hiking, biking, and rafting, to the inevitable campfire singalong NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY FAMILY…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Venezuela: We’re Not in France Anymore By Paul Kvinta When students at the Universidad de los Andes in the town of M‹rida, Venezuela, aren’t playing speed chess in the Plaza BolŒvar, chances are they’re thinking about one thing–flying. How could…
< The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Trans-Africa Trucking Overland from Nairobi to Capetown Outfitters Price Accommodations Himalayan Travel 800-225-2380, www.gorp .com/himtravel.htm $3,320 camping Safaricentre 800-223-6046, www.safari centre.com $3,320 camping The Route: An epic…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Romania Hiking the Transylvanian Alps Outfitter Price Accommodations Exodus Walking Holidays 011-44-181-675-5550, www.exodus travels.co.uk $940 camping, tourist hotels Executive Wilderness Programmes 011-44-171-832-5620, outworld. compuserve.com/ homepages/ EWP_uk $1,320…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Where to Two-Step By Sara Corbett Billy Bob’s Texas, 2520 Rodeo Plaza, Fort Worth, TX 76106; 817-589-1711. A turn-of-the-century cattle barn dressed up in neon, Billy Bob’s plays host to some of the country’s rowdiest boot-stomping. This month’s headliners…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Rocky Mountain National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Estes Park, CO 80517 303-586-2371 Established 1915 265,669 Acres The Big Picture: It doesn’t have a catchy name, it doesn’t have…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 In the Lapland of Luxury… By Meg Lukens Noonan Ever want to get out of town for a while . . . and just chill? In Sweden’s northern town of Jukkasjärvi, the finishing touches are being put on the world’s…
Outside magazine, January 1994 New Year’s Trips: Ringing It In Outdoors By Bob Howells New Year celebrations being among the most tedious of social obligations, the best way to get through them is to be irrevocably out of town. Out of any town,…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Puerto Rico By Jonathan Runge For whatever reason, PR gets bad PR. True, the capital, San Juan, deserves its reputation as a honky-tonk haven for gamblers, other hedonists, and entrepreneurs looking for a tax break. But once…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Idaho Falls, Idaho 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…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Inns & Lodges: Nereledge Inn, New Hampshire By Michael Lanza After a long day of feeling the burn on the Classic Rock of New Hampshire’s Cathedral Ledge, sometimes the last thing you’re in the mood for is sleeping on the ground. Fortunately,…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 A Sportif Guide to Hawaii The fish are jumpin’ and the waves are high-how to play like a kamaaina Surfing You can slink to makaha or over to Kauai’s Hanalei Bay, Honolua Bay on Maui, or the Big…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Sailing: Down and Out on the Indian Ocean Wicked waves end Isabelle Autissier’s run in the BOC Challenge By Dan Dickison For French sailor Isabelle Autissier, December started badly and then really tanked. Three days after Christmas, the…
Camping Special, April 1997 The Dandelion Says Go Home Do-it-yourself meteorology, as taught by the flora and fauna By Steven M. Krauzer What’s the best way to predict the weather when you’re in the backcountry? “Carry a radio,” says Peter…
Outside magazine, September 1995 Resources: Where to Go to Row By Chris Dray A scull costs anywhere from $1,500 to $8,000 and takes up a good bit of space in the garage, so most people don’t jump into rowing with both oars. Instead, they…
January 1996 Dispatches: News from the Field Skiing: Outta My Way, Girlfriend! Hilary Lindh is the most successful woman downhiller in U.S.history. So why is she trying so hard to play catch-up with Picabo? By…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Boardsailing: Freedom Jiber By Todd Balf How long had he planned the daring crossing, reporters wanted to know last February. Eugenio Maderal Roman, who’d just arrived in Marathon, Florida, after a nine-hour, 110-mile boardsailing odyssey from Cuba, hadn’t planned…
Destinations, July 1997 W E E K E N D G E T A W A Y S Seattle from the Sea Find the best of Puget Sound without crowds, fossil fuels, or hiking boots By Tina Kelley…
Outside magazine, December 1997 Smart Traveler: www.getmeoutofhere.com Or how I went geek-friendly on the Web before my trip, saved cash, and avoided crisis By Everett Potter The World Wide Web is loaded with travel-related sites, from the savvy (the Association for…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 FALL DESERT ESCAPES Ride a sudden whim or a sturdy steed to arid expanses where solitude reigns HORSEPACKING IN NAVAJOLAND Drop over the South Rim and ride along the sandy…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Morocco Trekking the High Atlas Outfitters Departures Price Accommodations Adventure Center 800-227-8747, 510-654-1879 20 $490-$525 camping, rustic lodging, tourist hotels Himalayan Travel 800-225-2380, 203-359-3711 10 $895 camping, rustic lodging, tourist hotels Wilderness…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Ireland Walking the West Country Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Butterfield & Robinson 800-678-1147, 416-864-1354 5 $3,525 tourist hotels Country Walkers 800-464-9255 10 $2,250 tourist hotels Hidden Ireland Tours 800-868-4750 32 $2,150…
Outside magazine, August 1992 Inns & Lodges: Lakeside Inn, Michigan By Lisa Chase Mention the Lakeside Inn to the residents of this placid bed-and-breakfast hamlet on the southeastern shore of Lake Michigan, and you’ll raise eyebrows. They all know the place–it’s hard to…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Euro-Ski Deals If you pick the right package, a trip from New York to the Alps can cost about the same as trip to the Rockies. The following prices are per person for one-week trips that include airfare from JFK, lodging, ground…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Skiing: It’s Good To Be Alberto…Once Again By Todd Balf Several years ago, Italy’s Alberto Tomba said that his dream slalom run included a glass of wine at the start, a cigarette on the way down, and a first-place finish…
 Outside magazine, November 1996 There Must Be a God In Haiti Beyond the madness, beyond the fatalism he had succumbed to, was a far more complicated and blessed place. A possibly redemptive journey through history’s most battered nation. As close as the…
Outside magazine, Family Vacation Guide The Islands of Summer Where your only concerns will be what time the tide will turn and where you left your flip-flops Santa Catalina Island, California It may seem hard…
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…
Outside magazine, February 1996 Trip-Finder Directory Abercrombie & Kent 800-323-7308; 708-954-2944 Above the Clouds Trekking 800-233-4499 Absolute Asia 800-736-8187; 212-627-1950 Adventure Canada 800-363-7566 Adventure Center 800-227-8747; 510-654-1879 Adventure Cycling Association 406-721-1776 Adventures Abroad 800-665-3998; 604-732-9922 Africa Adventure Company 800-882-9453; 305-781-3933 Alaska…
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 Fab Five They may have paved paradise and put up a parking lot, but you don’t have to languish in the exhaust fumes–here’s how to keep some adventure in the blockbuster parks…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Who Loves Ya, Keiki? No place celebrates the family quite like Hawaii Resorting to Perfection Say Aloha to Kids’ Camps By Bob Krist Short of Disneyland, families have it best in…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Home Bases A cottage, a dude-ranch cabin, a multisport resort — just unpack and call it your own By Meg Lukens Noonan HOME BASES Why…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Alaska, One Humongous Zoo Ten Perfect Days Day 1: After your arrival in Anchorage, settle in downtown at the Copper Whale Inn (877-267-7371), an old-fashioned-looking clapboard house with 15 rooms overlooking the ocean. Kids…
Destinations, October 1996 Huachinango! (That’s Rockfish to You!) Eating Well Along the Coast By Jeff Spurrier More often than not, the best food on the Mexican coast is found in enramadas, the ubiquitous, open-air, thatch-roof restaurants that line the beaches. Even…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 ¡Viva Veracruz! Bordered by white-sand beaches to the east and the verdant Sierra…
Destinations, July 1997 I N T E R N A T I O N A L N E W S Patagonia’s Cold War Heats Up The scenery isn’t the only reason to visit the ice fields this year By…
Outside magazine, May 1996 Now, He Can Really Start Carousing After a near crash at the top of the course, in which he momentarily skidded on his hip, Alberto Tomba recovered spectacularly to capture his first-ever world championship gold medal last February at Sierra Nevada, Spain.
Outside magazine, October 1994 Access & Resources: Where the Truchas Roam By Dianna Delling Mythologized by Magellan, Darwin, and Bruce Chatwin, among others, the barren grasslands, wild rivers, and towering glaciers of Tierra del Fuego represent some of the planet’s most unforgiving and ferociously beautiful real…
Traveler’s Almanac, 1999 Annual Travel Guide On the Fly Indoorphin Rush Inside is now a whole lot closer to outside The only sane response to the idea of climbing into a flying squirrel suit and swooping around inside a silo-shaped building…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Don’t squander your summer break on another vacation cliche. Be inventive. Be bold. Make more of… Travelling En Famille By Julie Salamon “An African safari? with a three-year-old? Are you completely insane?” That was the response, from in-laws…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Bahamas By Bill Belleville If glitzy Nassau and Freeport are the fast lanes of the Bahamas, then the 30 or so inhabited cays known as the Out Islands are spectacularly retro byways. Here the pace is…
Outside 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…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Tanzania Tracking Wildlife in Mahale and Katavi Mountain Parks Outfitters Departures Price Accommodations The Africa Adventure Company 800-882-9453, 954-491-8877 On demand $5,450 rustic lodging The Route: Two weeks of trekking through completely…
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…