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ArchiveThe 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 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…
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…
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…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Some Sand of Your Own Wild, people-free beaches where all you get is sun, water, and dunes with a view By Parke Puterbaugh No matter how high the mercury gets, sometimes acres of terry cloth and over-oiled humanity…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Resort Report The Carribean: An all-star list of island sporting resorts, from tented camps to posh plantations THE BITTER END YACHT CLUB,VIRGIN GORDA, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS The Big Picture: Accessible only by boat, the Bitter End,…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Bulletins: News for the Adventurous Traveler Welcome to the Bottom of the World New trips to the deep, deep South Mexican Galápagos: Cheek to Jaws In the Lapland of Luxury…
Outside 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…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Houseboating on Lake Powell By Zac Korth For the past 20 years, my family has spent two weeks of the summer aboard a houseboat on Lake Powell in Utah. I’m 19, so I’ve been doing this my whole life. My…
 Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Islands We’d Love to be Stranded On From the South Pacific to the Mediterranean, the Keys to Waterbound Bliss Palau The republic of Palau is the original Waterworld. No particular dollop of land among…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Scouting Reports: Wheeler Geologic Area, Colorado By Jeff Spurrier Pulitzer prize-Winning photographer Jack Dykinga lives in the southwestern United States, and much of his work has showcased that region’s deserts. His affinity for the landscape is clear–as witnessed by his ability to…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Island-to-Island Sailing THE WHITSUNDAY ISLANDS, AUSTRALIA In the Antipodes, even the yachting scene feels upside-down. Instead of places like Newport, Rhode Island, where stiffly coiffed Republicans sip Dewar’s in members-only clubs, Australia has Shute Harbour: Deep in…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 A Lake of One’s Own: Cabins for Rent By Anne Moore Full-fledged resorts can be a great way to go, but sometimes all you want is the simplicity, privacy, and flexibility of your own housekeeping cabin in the woods. Herewith,…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Africa: Surf ‘n’ Safari By Ann Jones East africa still offers the best wildlife parade on the planet. You can view it from the window of a minivan, as tens of thousands of visitors to East Africa do each year,…