Travel
ArchiveOutside magazine, February 1994 Desert Hikes: Sweet Nothingness By Mike Steere Parsimony, the natural theme of the continent’s driest and hottest places, is its own kind of wealth, and those willing to brave the low deserts of the American Southwest come into inheritances…
Outside magazine, May 1995 Travel: Beam Me Up, Venture Capitalists Stargazing idea men and their way-out-there schemes for twenty-first century adventurers By Steve O’Keefe Admit it: every time you see clips of Alan Shepard bashing golf balls on the Moon back in…
Outside magazine, August 1991 Into The Big Empty On a roll to nowhere in California and Nevada By Phil Garlington The roads that take you there are shoulderless, straight as yardsticks, black as tar, and skunk-striped. They’re narrow and seemingly endless, these…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Best Place to Learn How to Ski Buttermilk at Aspen, Colorado A hop, skip, and off-the-lip jump from Aspen Mountain, Buttermilk draws about 1,000 first-timers each season, including, as you might imagine, various people from the greater Beverly…
Destinations, June 1998 Across the Strait and Narrow By Patty Sullivan The last frontier has always drawn its fair share of adventurers and explorers, both reasonable and insane. But no other spot in Alaska has held quite the mythic allure of the…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Smart Traveler: Flying the Mother Load How to get big gear on board By Mike Steere Taking along your own equipment can turn a mere vacation into a honeymoon: oneness in paradise with an expensive thing you love. But love,…
Outside magazine, March 1996 Skates That Cruise the Learning Curve Quick, high-performance rides to take you from early T-stops to in-line confidence By Andrew Tilin Skates that keep up with you–that should be your watchword at the local in-line shop. That’s because…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 LET’S SKI A DEAL: DOING THE BOBFEST On January 20, 2000, the overcaffeinated, underfed independent moviemaking world will descend on Park City, Utah, for the start…
 Outside Magazine, January 1999 Powder Burn Whatever the suspects behind the worst act of eco-terrorism in U.S. history hoped to accomplish by torching Vail, their agenda likely didn’t include helping the company that owns the resort and…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide No Seaweed Body Wraps Here It’s not the foofy frills that matter — it’s the mountain By Peter Shelton Fuggeddaboudit. some mountains got the goods, and some sidestep their insufficiencies with theme parks…
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Outside magazine, November 1995 Travel: A Kaboom with a View Have you made your reservations for the Big One? By Christopher Smith Bob Foster worries about sending people the wrong message. A polygamist who lives and stockpiles explosives in a cave near…
Bulletins Boating: Home, Home on the Lake By Debra Shore You take your kids out of one house and plunk them down in another that just happens to be mobile. What could be simpler? The best part about houseboating is that even…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Waterworlds Whatever your vessel, it wouldn’t be summer without a big splash of H20 By Thurston Clarke WATERWORLDS Rafting How to turn your…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Back to Summer Camp en Famille Learn to rock climb, track critters in the wild, paddle a kayak — seven family adventure outposts where school becomes play By Lisa Twyman Bessone Island Institute Orcas…
Family Vacations, Summer The Barker Image: The latest gear for dogs on the go By day, Riley’s sporty Glow Dog Reflective Jacket is a sedate royal blue. By night, it glows an eerie white.
Outside magazine, April 1995 Inns & Lodges: Doe Bay Village Resort, Washington By Kit Cody Back when the waters off Orcas Island were still teeming with the namesake whales, Lummi Indians from the surrounding archipelago held potlatches in a protected cove on the island’s…
Outside magazine, July 1995 This Isn’t Heaven, It’s Madison, Wisconsin By Mike Steere Raise high the roof beam–Mr. Paradise is among us. My own verdigris awe is talking. Bill Birnn himself makes no effort to be grand. But this man, fortyish and trim and…
Traveler’s Almanac, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Traveler’s Almanac Twelve All-New Sporting Adventures Bargains: The Circle Game Around the world for less Last-Minute Travel: Good News for Procrastinators On the Fly:…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Long Weekends: Survival of the Sespe An honest-to-God wild river two hours from Los Angeles By Andrew Rice Sespe Creek has miraculously survived the hell-bent development of the last half-century and is now the last river in southern California not…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 When the world seems a little FLAT, you need Vertical Strategies Whatever your style — milking the steeps, laid-back cruising, schussing en famille, or single-board carving — repeat after us: location, location, location. Extreme Hills The Snow-Finder…
Wet as You Wanna Be It’s Time for Whitewater Class By Stephanie Gregory Whitewater rafting can be one of the best ways for families to spend quality time together–the kids can’t wander farther than the confines of the raft’s rubber rim and there’s…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Adeventure Classics: Diving Yeah, Yeah, I’ll Get to the Damn Hole Because there’s a lot more to Belize than one undersea wonder By Katie Arnold GEAR | TRAVEL…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Bolivia Sea-Kayaking from the Andes to the Amazon Outfitter Price Accommodations Explore Bolivia 303-708-8810, www.explore bolivia.com $1,235 camping, rustic lodging, tourist hotels Piragis International Expeditions 800-223-6565, www.piragis.com $2,625 camping, rustic…
News for Adventurous Travelers, February 1997 Long weekends: The Manchester Falcon On the prowl with Vermont’s birds of prey By Rebecca Gray The allure of Manchester, Vermont, has traditionally been its snow, its scenery, and its New England serenity. Visitors arrive…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Grand Canyon National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Box 129, Grand Canyon, AZ 86023 602-638-7888 Established 1919 1,215,375 Acres The Big Picture: You can talk about its storied past,…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Climbing: Freeing Trango, Again By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) In explaining the difference between his climb of Pakistan’s Trango Tower this month and other ascents that have been made, Todd Skinner doesn’t mince words. “I don’t…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Where the Wild Guides Are By Hannah Holmes If you romped around the great outdoors for a living, where would you go when you had to take a vacation? We squeezed some winter travel tips from four professional guides: Outward…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Warmest Shores: Caribbean and Atlantic Isles The Florida Keys The Bahamas Turks and Caicos Cayman Islands Jamaica Puerto Rico…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Cuisine: Hit-and-Run of the Day By Sara Corbett “You can pan-fry it, grill it, or put it in chili,” reports Elizabeth Hatch of West Danville, Vermont. “And it makes the best lasagne you ever ate.” At the Elks Lodge in…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Cayman Islands By Tom Morrisey, Jean Pierce For bubble-blowing novice divers, the multithousand-foot vertical walls and fish-crowded reefs of Grand Cayman might seem like a little piece of scuba heaven, but many cognoscenti now view the 76-square-mile…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Snowbound Bliss Aerobic days, fireside nights at seven remote backcountry lodges Rock Creek Lodge | Mount Assiniboine Lodge | Lake O’Hara Lodge | The Lodge at Potosi Hot Springs…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Smart Traveler: The City-Hopper’s Workout Guide Where to sweat in Chicago, New York, Washington, and Los Angeles By Dana Sullivan Unless you routinely pack fitness equipment that will keep you busy inside a hotel room, your on-the-road workouts…
 Outside magazine, April 1997 Life Among the Swells By William Finnegan The professional surfing circuit ends each year at the Pipeline Masters. Here the would-be, the has-been, and the already-are hero boys of the sport come to be swallowed up–and possibly…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Day One: Innovation Within Reason Seattle legend-in-the-making Monique Barbeau looks to expand the boundaries of trailworthy cuisine One of the reigning queens of the current Northwestern culinary scene is Monique Barbeau, head chef of Seattle’s acclaimed Fullers restaurant. “I…
Camping Special, April 1997 Heigh-Ho, It’s Off to the Woods We Go And who better to lead us than the man who literally wrote the book on camping By Elizabeth Royte T H…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Backpacking: Vital Experience By Glenn Randall Natural Balance’s Vital Experience backpack takes an ambitious stab at one of the thorniest problems in pack design: how to carry a multiday load without feeling like you’ve got the freedom of movement…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Best Mogul Run “The BMT,” Steamboat Springs, Colorado Why would one of the top women’s mogul skiers in the U.S. train at Steamboat? “Duh,” says Ann Battelle, fifth-place finisher on the World Cup circuit last year, of Nelson’s…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 Close-Encounter Camps Moholoholo Forest Camp and Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Hoedspruit, South Africa Though the African wild is rife with carnivorous creatures, the Moholoholo Forest Camp,…
Destinations, June 1997 Inns & Lodges: Jake’s Village Treasure Beach, Jamaica By John Robson Despite its reputation as a celebrity magnet, Jake’s Village, on the south coast of Jamaica, sports no line of limos, no velvet ropes, and no VIP…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Mauritania Cruising the Sahara Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Bicycle Africa 206-767-0848 1 $1,090 rustic lodging The Route: A dusty, 17-day, 1,000-mile overland circuit by Land Cruiser, with visits to the vast dunes…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Washington Climbing Mount Rainier Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Alpine Ascents International 206-378-1927 3-5 $550 camping American Alpine Institute 360-671-1505 3-5 $590 camping Cascade Alpine Guides 800-981-0381, 425-688-8054 3-5 $590 camping Mount…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Bring on Atlanta Canada’s Alison Sydor opened the 1996 mountain-biking season true to last year’s form. She won her second-straight Cactus Cup stage race in March outside Scottsdale, Arizona, thus quickly answering the question of how she was coping with life…
Outside magazine, August 1994 Foreign Travel: Beyond Reykjavík On foot, bike, and pony through untrammeled Iceland By Michael Paterniti To drive 30 miles across the black lava flats from the Keflavik airport to Reykjavík, Iceland’s capital, is to realize that you’ve…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 | WINTER SKI 2002—NOW Salt Lake City–area resorts are pumped for the Games. But for non-Olympians, this is the uncrowded time to go Park City, by…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 WINTER SKI IN, MELLOW OUT: GREAT NORTHERN LODGES Three snowy outposts where the sauna’s always hot BEARSKIN LODGE, MINNESOTA Gliding along the exquisitely sculpted cross-country ski trails of northern Minnesota’s Bearskin Lodge,…
Destinations, September 1998 Dingle All the Way To tireless hikers, Ireland throws open a 112-mile arm By Kiki Yablon Tourism is a relatively new game — and athletic tourism an even newer one — on Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula. Although B&Bs have…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Ice Skating: Trash-Talkin’ Canucks By Todd Balf From Les Arcs, France, to Montreal, Canada, mild winter weather in December and January disrupted almost anything requiring the cold white stuff. The biennial world championships of alpine skiing, scheduled for Sierra Nevada,…
 Outside magazine, October 1995 The East–Hail the Tower-Mounted Sno-Gun In the old-time resorts of New England, rocks and ice have gone the way of the wooden ski By Meg Lukens Noonan Skiing in the East used to require…
 Outside magazine, February 1997 South of the Border, Upside-Down Mexico Way In remote Zapatista country, the good people of Chiapas are engaged in a once-a-year chance to upend the world. Men become women. Night becomes day. And a pilgrim in a rental…
 Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Rockies–Snow Like It Ought To Be Never mind the glitterati and the wannabes–the perfectly fluffed white stuff will keep you coming back By Peter Shelton The high, curved spine of the Rockies cradles some of the…
Outside magazine, January 1993 A Little Good, Clean Fun In Baja …but I liked it anywayBy Tim Cahill Martine Springer was tall and tan, fit as a broadcast aerobics instructor, and she was waist-deep in the resort pool, demonstrating how to get back into a sea kayak once you’ve…
In the nearly four decades since Jeff Hakman first rocketed down the face of a 20-foot wave at Oahu's Waimea Bay, he's been on a dazzling and harrowing journey. There were his golden years as the sport's premier competitive superstar. He went on to make millions as cofounder of the surfwear juggernaut Quiksilver USA. And then he almost lost everything to heroin
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…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Tanzania Climbing the back Way Up Kilimanjaro Outfitters Price Accommodations Alpine Ascents International 206-378-1927, www.mountain zone.com/aai $3,795 camping, tourist hotels Mountain Travel-Sobek 800-282-8747, www.mt sobek.com $4,540-$5,390 camping, tourist hotels…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Belize Beach-to-Beach Cat Sailing in the Southern Cays Outfitter Price Accommodations Under the Sun 800-285-6967, www.colorado pros.com/ underthesun $1,100 rustic lodging Island Expeditions 800-667-1630, www.island expeditions.com $1,099 camping,…
Fitness ’97, February 1997 Are We There Yet? Two decades of fitness grail-seeking, including a misstep or two from the master himself By Mike Grudowski 1976 To Load or Not to Load, the Prologue: Nathan Pritikin opens the Longevity…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Acadia National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Box 177, Bar Harbor, ME 04609 207-288-3338 Established 1919 35,000 Acres The Big Picture: On the “crown jewels” scale, Acadia rates somewhere…