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ArchiveOutside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 THE VALUE FILE Welcome to the Caribbean’s parallel universe, where you can have it all—and your savings account, too Southeast coast of St. John, U.S. V.I. It’s a toss-up as to…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Expeditioning: A Man, a Plan, a Whoppin’ Long Rope Sliding–literally–into an odd place in history By Brooke DeNisco Ken Fuller is hoping to avoid sweaty palms this June 18. At about noon, a crowd that locals predict will…
Adventure Found, January 1998 Value Added? Just what are you getting for your trip fee? By Anne Goodwin Sides A dirham here. Twenty thousand centimes there. Pretty soon you’re talking real money. Ever wonder where your 50 percent deposit…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 The Arctic Cruising Ellesmere and Greenland Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Quark Expeditions 800-258-8434 1 $4,495-$8,895 boat accommodations The Route: The 434-foot Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov takes an 11-day voyage out of Resolute…
Outside magazine, March 1996 Cycling: Slingshot Folding Bike By P. Yuri Samer Maps fold. T-shirts too. So-called folding bikes, on the other hand, generally demand skills in the ancient art of origami. And, after all that “unfolding,” the bike generally gives a less than…
Outside magazine, August 1991 Saved by the Thruway Rise up, ye subway riders, and grab the car keys. Ten quick trips for the city dweller. By David Noland Consider your life. You’re a working stiff, bound to the city, unable to spend…
Dog-Geared Cutting-edge essentials for the pup on the go Your thinking: Pookie, being a dog after all, doesn’t really need a fancy-pants padded bed to sleep under the stars, or especially in the tent.
Traveler’s Almanac, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Deals Frequent Freebies Skiing your brains out has its rewards By Peter Oliver Skiing is going corporate. In the past three years, large conglomerates have been swallowing up independent resorts at a dizzying…
Destinations, June 1998 Navigating the Frontier By Bill Sherwonit ‘The civilized imagination cannot cover such quantities of wild land,” John McPhee once wrote of Alaska. Indeed, the 49th state can be daunting, its 656,424 square miles supporting a population of less than…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Surfing: Endless Tubers By Ken McAlpine Ordinary wave pools feature mushy, wave-like disturbances that are about as exciting as a choppy river. Tom Lochtefeld’s Flow Rider machine is different. It forms an eight-foot-tall tube that the 41-year-old La Jolla, California, inventor justifiably…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Expeditions: Many, Many Souls on Ice Who’s who in 1995’s ambitious–and crowded–North Pole season By Laura Billings Will Steger called it the biggest coincidence of his life when, during his historic 1986 dogsled expedition to the North Pole,…
Family Vacations, Summer Pedal with the Pros! Mountain-Bike racing for mini-riders It’s midsummer and the kids are tired of popping wheelies in the driveway — and you’re tired of watching them. You’ll all learn plenty of…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Crashing the High Life Because sometimes only a tri-level condo and saut‰ed elk medallions will do By Ron C. Judd Don’t be fooled by the first impressions when you hook up with the…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Hut, Two, Three, Four… Bunk to bunk on backcountry skis By Lisa Jones EXTREME MEASURES | BUNK TO BUNK | DETAILS | THE…
 Outside magazine, March 1995 Surge Time at the Bottom of the Earth Chasing deep history in Antarctica, Genesis in reverse By Edward Hoagland As our stubby, white, 2,000-ton ship, the Professor Molchanov, passed the Gibraltarlike bulk of Cape Horn, the…
Crossing the Australian outback, where epic vistas, charismatic wildlife, and time-forgotten outposts are matched only by the unique social opportunities
Outside magazine, October 1994 Fall Color: The Sans-Granny-Gear Foliage Tour Off-season pedaling on Vermont’s Champlain Islands By Catherine Fredman The mention of an October bike tour in Vermont conjures up a pair of contradictory images: that of a transcendent, Edenesque experience in the midst…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Shwoosh! To put some joie into your trail riding, just let the children take the lead by Jeff Spurrier All You Need is Dirt Bike Camps By Michael…
Camp Outs, Family Vacations 1998 Happy Trails From an all-day jaunt to a weeklong trek, seven kid-tested routes to the wilderness CAMP OUTS Happy Trails…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 On the Road with Huggies and a Binkie Some might call it lunacy to drag toddlers on “vacation.” But we say, boldly go where no sane parent has gone before. By Hampton Sides…
Outside magazine, Family Vacation Guide Alaska, One Humongous Zoo Where moose are on the loose, birds fly underwater, and otters pop up out of nowhere ALASKA…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Wilderness Made Easy Ten campsites you can get to in mere hours, but feel light-years away from the workaday world By Larry Rice It’s early on a Friday afternoon, and claustrophobia has set in: You have to flee…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Let’s Do Launch For the time-crunched athlete, the midday break is long enough to order up a good workout By Mark Jannot The problem with summer: It’s out there, and we’re in here. Five days a week, we…
Outside magazine, Family Vacation Guide A Wheelie Good Time From coastal byways to high-altitude singletrack, four planned-to-the-mile family bike trips BIKING Gear to Go…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Conquering the Other Mount Shasta By Andrew Rice Mount Shasta’s influence over northernmost California is more than just vertical. Almost everything you need–food, places to stay, equipment rental–is clustered in or around the tiny city of Mount Shasta, at the…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Dollar by Dollar Vacation fantasies may be fueled by travel magazines and brochures, but vacation reality is driven by your bank account. By Everett Potter Whether you’re dreaming of a palm-lined Caribbean beach or a…
Outside magazine, December 1995 The Hyperactive’s Caribbean Don’t even think of sitting on the beach all week–nine resorts where boredom is not an option By Bob Howells With apologies to sloth, a week in the Caribbean dedicated to beach-lounging and rum-sipping can…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Adeventure Classics: Rafting Wild Enough for You? It’s not easy to run the Selway. Be one of the happy few who do. By Christina Opdahl GEAR | TRAVEL…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Egypt Sailing the Nile Outfitters Price Accommodations Adventure Center 800-227-8747, www.adventure -center.com $515-$560 camping, tourist hotels, boat accommodations Himalayan Travel 800-225-2380, www.gorp.com/ himtravel.htm $655 camping, tourist hotels, boat accommodations…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Antarctica Ski Mountaineering in Queen Maud Land Outfitter Price Accommodations Adventure Network International 011-44-1494-671-808, www.adventure-network.com $25,000 camping Cascade Alpine Guides & Adventures 800-981-0381, www.cascade-alpine.com $30,000 camping Geographic Expeditions 800-777-8183, www.geoex.com…
News for Adventurous Travelers, February 1997 Inns & Lodges: Spider Lake Lodge Hayward, Wisconsin By Gretchen Reynolds Far northern Wisconsin is a land of deep forests, heavy snows, impressive facial hair, and taxidermy as a design motif. But above all, it’s…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Glacier National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore West Glacier, MT 59936 406-888-5441 Established 1910 1,013,598 Acres The Big Picture: Human beings have always played second fiddle in Glacier. It’s…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Inns & Lodges: The Steamboat Inn, Steamboat, Oregon By Michael McRae Sometime during the 1930s, Zane Grey, western novelist and angler extraordinaire, wet a line in Oregon’s North Umpqua, just north of the Rogue, and never left. His summer camps…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Adeventure Classics: Skiing Ich Bin Ein Schusser The Austrian Way: downhill in sybaritic splendor By Stephanie Gregory GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS | HEALTH…
 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…
Destinations, June 1998 The State Parks: Where Alaskans Do Alaska By Bill Sherwonit In any state, there are attractions that everyone’s heard of, that every guidebook touts, that every visitor has to see. Then there are the places the locals haunt, where…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Packing List: Seaworthy Extras By David Noland You won’t forget waterproof SPF-15 sunscreen on your next water weekend, but what about . . . Quick-dry long-sleeve shirt and pants. Light, cool, fast-drying clothes that cover the arms and legs are surprisingly…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Kayaking: The World’s Only Class IV Ice Cube By Todd Balf (with Derek Rielly) This month a bush plane will deposit a four-member kayak team on the Barnes Ice Cap, at the geographic center of Canada’s Baffin Island. “Most think we’re insane,”…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Cruise-O-Matic Because bump-free is always better By Ron C. Judd CRUISE-O-MATIC | DETAILS, DETAILS | HEY, THAT’S MY COAST | ESSENTIAL GEAR…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Alps–Because Bigger is Better You can’t ski out of bounds where there are no boundaries By Lito Tejada-Flores American skiers living happily with the myth that the world’s best snow and best skiing are found in the…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide The Snowfinder First pick your place Alta Ski Area, Utah Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, Colorado Aspen, Colorado Bear Valley Ski Area, California…
Adventure man. Freedom fighter. Brat. Meet Jack Wheeler, the Indiana Jones of the Right
Then what to my wondering eyes should appear, but an odd little atoll and great birds with no fear. A slightly unusual holiday in the far Pacific.
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,…
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.
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
Go straight to the source and taste the good life at these organic farm getaways
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?
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
