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Archive Outside magazine, April 1996 Bomb City, USA Before Fat Man and Little Boy, there was the Town That Never Was. Fifty years and generations of nuclear weapons later, it remains one of the most glorified and reviled places in our history. Deep in…
Outside magazine, June 1995 One-Stop Sporting Resorts The gear, the guides, the mountains, the rivers–step out of your room and it’s all there By Bob Howells You may be imagining a plaid-shorts paradise with pastel-hued beverages served poolside, but we have something…
Outside magazine, August 1999 EXTREMES Now Entering the Drop Zone Kayaking’s radical underground is about to hit it big The Latest Buzz “You can easily train bees,”…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Caribbean 20 An all-star list of island sporting resorts, from tented camps to posh plantations When you plan a vacation in the caribbean, choosing a resort is as important as choosing an island–the overall ambience, not to mention cost,…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Hunting: Here’s Paint in Your Eye By Laura Billings You say you’ve always dreamed of shooting a bull elephant in the African bush, but you don’t want to kill it? Well, you’re pretty mixed-up, but two Zimbabwe-based entrepreneurs are ready…
 Outside magazine, March 1995 Trouble in the Land of Muy Verde Deep in Mexico’s Sierra Madre, Tarahumara Indians are being murdered and their ancient forest destroyed by drug lords and loggers. A report from the Mother Range, where the pistoleros rule, the natives…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Day Three: World Beat on a WhisperLite Mark Miller, impresario of fare from Southwestern to Asian, offers one-pot solutions for the peripatetic palate Spice packs, it seems, are extremely personal items. Southwestern cuisine authority Mark Miller calls his a…
News for Adventurous Travelers, December 1996 Soggy No More Getting soaked is a way of life in Grenada, so you’d be wise to throw a few quick-dry or waterproof items in your bag. Unfortunately, I didn’t. By Bob Howells Hiking on…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Access & Resources: Honging Around in Southern Thailand By Kit Cody Phuket is renowned for its white beaches, turquoise waters, and abundant seafood, but after a few days of basking in mind-altered bliss, paddling around Phangnga Bay’s sea stacks…
Like the sheep-eaters before us, basking in the smudge-free, high-country luxury of the nation's longest free-flowing river
Cover, October 1998 When the Tough Get Going … They go to eastern Honduras, the wildest stretch of idyll that our hemisphere has to offer By Chris Humphrey Into the Interior How to cut your own path in the…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 SPRING THESE RIVERS ROCK! When the five freshets here hit meltdown mode, you’re in for a wild ride Into the Rhyolite on the Owyhee Lochsa River, Idaho Remember that robotic B-52’s tune…
Destinations, June 1997 Smart Traveler: Albania Just Wouldn’t Be Prudent How carefully should you listen when Uncle Sam says don’t go? By Everett Potter Here’s what you can learn from current U.S. State Department travel advisories: Albania is not the…
Outside magazine, March 1996 Camping: Blue Ridge Hammock By Michael Lanza It’s the twilight challenge that makes even emphatic backpackers yearn for the mattress back home: Bedtime beckons, but you can’t find a level piece of earth to foster sleep. The ground is too…
Outside magazine, August 1991 Down The Coast Of Imprecision Paradise–and paradox–in the realm of Flora-Bama By Geoffrey Norman At the western end of the florida panhandle, and along the very bottom of eastern Alabama, the best roads go on for a while,…
Outside magazine, January 1994 Skiing: Dynamite Powder By Michael Kiefer In southern Oregon’s Cascade Range, powder is not the dry and feathery stuff that floats down over Utah. Here, it’s a bit wetter, a bit heavier. It makes you work harder. And on…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Skiing: The Amazing Three-Week Dynasty By Todd Balf (with Jim Kelly, Martin Dugard, and Alison Osius) Olympic glory hasn’t always done wonders for the U.S. Ski Team. After Bill Johnson won downhill gold in ’84, the program more or less…
06.12–19 GIRAGLIA ROLEX CUP ST.-TROPEZ, FRANCE A 243-mile sailing race from St.-Tropez to Genoa, Italy, around the island of Giraglia. The shoreside scene in St.-Tropez is peppered with the Bain de Soleil beautiful. 07.03–11 ALLIANZ SUSSE OPEN GSTAAD, SWITZERLAND At 3,000 feet,…
Go straight to the source and taste the good life at these organic farm getaways
Living well is a European tradition, but playing hard is the continent's secret passion. We discover five towns where you'll be both challenged and charmed.
Skip the well-trodden tourist routes and join this trek through a pristine mountainous area virtually unknown to Westerners.
Steve Galster and his comrades at WildAid do–and they're taking drastic action: going undercover, busting the traffickers, and poaching the poachers. It's high time wildlife conservation started fighting mean and dirty. Can you handle that?
It's climbing season again on Everest. And as hundreds of summit hopefuls converge at Base Camp, the great debate persists: Has the Big E become the Big Easy? Alpinists Greg Child and Dave Hahn take sides.
The Big Dig hits pay dirt—in the shape of a new island playground in Boston Harbor
Combine your next visit to a national park with a bonus raid on a great state park or national forest—and get twice the escape
Our word-of-mouth report: adventure lodges that belong on your radar screen
Savor our top 20 wild Canadian adventures (including 5 new parks) for heaping helpings of glacial lakes, alpine meadows, swift rivers, and snowcapped peaks
Witness a singletrack revolution on the fresh trails of a land in transition
From secret surf stashes on the Pacific to untouched Caribbean isles—plus all the volcanoes and colonial plazas in between—Nicaragua has the makings of a sporting paradise. Come discover Central America's red-hot center.
Keep the GPS handy, fly rod at the ready, and don't forget your rubber boots
Let one of America’s best sport camps propel you toward a bigger, richer life. Because nothing beats the buzz of learning something new.
The highest points in heartland states like Kansas and Iowa aren't much to look at, but when you knock off seven of them in a four-day, 3,000-mile blitz . . . well, let's just say the little bastards have a way of kicking back.
Chase your travel dreams with 48 handpicked adventures guaranteed to satisfy every type of wandering soul
With eleven time zones' worth of Tiaga, tundra, virgin peaks, and off-the-dial whitewater, Mother Russia is beginning to open her doors to adventure travelers. If you're brave enough to take her on, the next frontier beckons in the wild, wild East.
Ten handpicked resorts that are rich in sun-drenched beauty, high on adventure, and fine-tuned for luxury.
As the brutal battle over proposed drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge grinds on, a former oil worker returns to the North Slope in search of the truth about the pro-exploration argument. His conclusion? (Brace yourself.) The unthinkable is the right thing to do.
Sex. Danger. Family values. This backyard soap opera has it all—plus feathers, razor-sharp talons, and a neighborhood obsessed.
Adventure Adviser, Colorado Sunset near Cripple Creek, Colorado Q: Where are the best mountain bike rides in the Royal Gorge and Colorado Springs area? I will be there in early June and wish to see some beautiful scenery while off-road biking in the mountains.
Ronni heard it first: the softly insistent, slightly descendant keloo-keloo of the quetzal, strobing from the cloud forest around us. We were hiking the five-mile Sendero de los Quetzales (“Path of the Quetzals”), a trail that winds through the 35,390 lush acres of Panama's Volcán Barú National Park in UNESCO's…
Ready to bask in the warmth of endless summer? Our online resource is your key to the Caribbean’s most idyllic getaways. Here, you’ll find great travel deals, gorgeous places to stay, and active adventures guaranteed to get your heart racing. Dive in, the water’s warm! Nevis: Unhurried and unsung hero…
Ten North American spas that will recharge your mind, body, and soul
It seems like all God's creatures have lost their way in the Holy Land. But a few hopeful Israeli and Palestinian conservationists are tracing a new path along the flyways and wildlife corridors of the Jordan Valley—and rediscovering an ancient road map that leads from terror to peace.
An overview of Outside articles that made the cut and were included in The Best American Travel Writing 2003
Twelve value-packed Caribbean resorts where your room comes with a view—and killer perks, too
9. Ancient Crumbles in the Jungle Tikal, Guatemala Why I’m bounding up the steps of Tikal’s Temple of the Masks predawn on a chilly March morning is still not clear to me—let’s chalk it up to barroom advice that sounded completely rational after a few beers. But I…
Trekking hut to hut along South Africa’s shore is just what the witch doctor ordered
To maximize the return on your investment in wanderlust, you need know-how and solid advice. We’re here to help. From saving on destination packages and high-value gear to insider trips and the bet reasons to blow a bundle, we’ve got the lowdown on affordable, rip-roaring, full-value adventure travel.
We stopped at a boulder below the saddle of 10,229-foot Heyburn Mountain as early-May sunshine broke past the ridge and washed over us: three backcountry skiers on a mission to schuss the wild peaks of central Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, and me, a snowshoe loafer in search of serenity. As my…
As a teenage Jack London fan, I fantasized about mushing a dogsled. Grown-up city life derailed my Iditarod dreams until I came across a photograph of someone skijoring: two large, smiling malamutes towing a cross-country skier down a forested trail at breakneck speed. It appeared I could live out my…
View from the California Riding and Hiking Trail Q: Now that fall is here we’re thinking of taking a backpacking trip through the desert. Any hints on where we should go? What about day hikes? — Nicole Frisbee, Denver, Colorado Adventure Advisor:…
Escape urban gridlock in West Virginia, where country roads and mountain mamas are only a fraction of the attraction
Eileen and Tom Lonergan went out for a day of scuba diving, and never came back. The story behind the movie Open Water.
Winding a thousand miles from India to China, the Burma Road was built to defend China in World War II, but the atomic bomb made it irrelevant and the jungle reclaimed it. Mark Jenkins vowed to do what no one had done for nearly 60 years—travel the entire Burma Road—and discovered the madness of present-day Myanmar.
The gray wolf may lose federal protection. Will killing it become the law of the land?
Could you please recommend a comfortable backpack/travel pack that meets the maximum airline carry-on requirements? Maybe with an internal fre? I need something that could also be used for trekking. John W. Jones Johnston Island, APO AP
What are you looking at? Q: How can I take a safari in Africa without being a millionaire? — Gudrun Nalitla, Reykjavik, Iceland Adventure Advisor: A: At first it seems hard to believe that a little drive through a…
Today's topic: We rank the Top 40 schools where you can hit the books AND the backcountry. Your assignment: Rappel off that ivory tower and take our cram course on America's most adrenaline-friendly colleges. You'll come for your B.A. (Bachelor of Adventure) and want to stay for life.
If it's Riviera glitter you're after, head to Monaco. But for endless climbing, epic singletrack, and wild seacoast adventure, set a course for Finale Ligure.
A modern speed demon breathes new life into an ancient Hawaiian sport
A plan to save Guatemala's Mayan cities with a park and a posh eco-lodge has enviros and locals boiling