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Outside magazine, September 1998 Hey Neighbor First: Get to Know the Locals. Next: Dress to Blend In. And Finally: Seize Canada Fashion by Vicky McGarry, Photographs by Cathrine Wessel, Text by Susan Casey It’s tough to find on maps,…
Dispatches, September 1998 Politics A Paler Shade of Brown Republican hard-liners say they care — no, really — about the environment By Jonathan Miles It wasn’t particularly surprising — or even unusual — that more than 100 stalwart…
Dispatches, September 1998 Sport The Snow is Fake, but the Air Totally Rocks The notoriously contrived, made-for-television X Games finally get real. By Kimberly Lisagor Some might call it hype. But the next time a 110-foot snow cone towers…
 Outside magazine, September 1999 The Low-Tech, High-Speed, Retro-Manic Simple Life Join us, friends, for the epic buggy adventure of Eustace Conway, world’s fastest postmodern mountain man By Florence Williams Photographs by Daniel Peebles Eustace…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Swing Shift A simple routine that’ll take your hips from out of whack to in the groove “An athlete’s platform of strength, balance, and quickness needs to be based on good range of…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Straight Up, No Cheating Professional advice for topping 14,000 feet? Don’t sprint. YOUR INNER ARNOLD Talk of personal-best bench presses may be the stuff of locker-room preening rituals, but it’s…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Hip to the Bone Often overlooked, it puts the groove in your move By Matthew Segal STRETCHES | STRENGTHENERS…
Outside magazine, September 1999 MARKETING Hakkalüugi Be Thy Name The etymological quest to conceive hot new taglines for the latest gear Yes, it’s that time of year again: the gear world’s annual silly season, when companies must conjure up…
Outside Magazine, September 1999 OFF-ROADING Going Down? Brian Head’s 6,000-foot vertical red-rock relief should do the trick You can be forgiven for snubbing Brian Head during ski season. For while tiny Brian Head Resort does amass…
Outside magazine, September 1999 SPORT Out of This World Can a daring French rider called “the Alien” keep pace with downhill mountain biking’s wild, wild ride? “This is what I like,” says French downhill mountain-bike racing phenom Nicolas Vouilloz,…
Outside magazine, September 1999 TECHNOLOGY Heavy Breathing A device for improving lung capacity has athletes in a lather For years, the quest to gain stamina and speed by developing bigger, stronger lungs has led athletes of all stripes…
Outside magazine, September 1999 CYCLING Negative Spin After this year’s events, will the Tour de France ever be albe to redeem itself? Early in the morning on July 4, 189 cyclists were pooled together in a mass…
Outside Magazine, September 1999 Beyond the Zone As the United States prepares to hand over the canal, Panama’s wild wonders are ripe for discovery. By Alex Markels The easy way to spot quetzals: Lounge on…
Outside magazine, September 1999 BOOKS Rough Going Buy this book! Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam,…
Outside Magazine, September 1999 LONG WEEKENDS Head Down Past Gainesville, Turn Back 50 Years Where the Suwannee hits the Gulf, a bygone Florida thrives in the wilderness Keys to the Key Cedar Key is a straight shot southwest…
Outside magazine, September 1999 WILDLIFE MOBILITY Unnatural Selection When a protected bird preys on a nearly extinct fish, who do you back? From the water, tiny rice island in the Columbia River seems a peaceful place, the tall…
Outside magazine, September 1999 CULTURE Beyond the Cutting Edge An epic garden-tractor odyssey trumps the vision of David Lynch If next month’s premiere of the latest David Lynch film, The Straight Story, shocks your sensibilities and leaves you…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Murder Most Fish They call him Flipperùbut America’s newspaper of record calls him a warm-blooded Ripper. Our man investigates. By Tim Cahill A recent New York Times story blasted dolphins right…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Good, Clean, Dangerous Places Wilderness is where we find our deepest imagery, our purest freedom, our truest selves. We’d be lost without it, and we’ve never needed it more than we do now.
Outside magazine, September 1999 Wearing the Future Welcome to the next paradigm of outdoor technology: clothing as gear By Sarah Friedman SHIRTS | INSULATION |…
 Outside magazine, September 1999 Into Kosovo A Reporter’s Diary of Two Months on the Road Across a Ruined Landscape, Over the Accursed Mountains, and Down to a Place Where Nightmares Come True By Joshua Hammer I. La Vikinga, the hydrofoil that…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Look at All the Fire-Folk Sitting in the Air! In which two men of science, armed with flashlights, video cameras, and a 50-gallon garbage can, seek out the look of love in a fiery…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Virgin Land: A History POLITICS | VIRGIN LAND: A HISTORY | FRONT LINES | CONTENDERS Two millennia before President Lyndon Johnson signed the Wilderness…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Tour de Pharmacie As a competitive cyclist in the United States, I was particularly impressed with John Brant’s coverage of an almost decade-long scandal that has completely rocked the professional road-cycling world (“Playing Dirty,”…
Outside magazine, September 1999 FRONT LINES The Wild Bunch A dozen threatened Edens, peaceable kingdoms, and unspoiled Nirvanas: Outside’s roster of great places that deserve the ultimate protection—wilderness designation POLITICS |…
Outside magazine, October 1993 Trail Riding: Choctaw Country on the Hoof By Sharon Martin Few states make a bigger hoopla over their equestrian heritage than Oklahoma, and few places can justify it like the state’s southeastern corner, which rises from the plains into gentle hardwood- and…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Skills: Ride Out the Revolutions By Dana Sullivan Titanium pedals are fine if you have the money, but there’s a more basic way to improve your cycling stroke. According to Jeff Broker, a biomechanics expert with the U.S. Olympic Committee, most recreational…
Outside magazine, September 1999 CONTENDERS The Wild Bunch, Cont. Why stop at 12? There’s plenty more where those came from. POLITICS | VIRGIN LAND: A HISTORY | FRONT…
Outside magazine, September 1999 POLITICS The New Wilderness Land Grab Armed with serious money, a young cadre of green activists is about to put naked nature back on the national agenda By Elizabeth Arnold…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Reasonable Rockies Ah, post-Labor Day domestic travelù those glorious weeks of low hotel rates and no crowds. To further entice, Key to the Rockies Lodging is charging just $64 per person per night for a four-night condo-stay in Keystone,…
Outside magazine, October 1991 Inns & Lodges: The Ark, California By Charlie Haas Even without the framed photos of student-hippie carpenters at work, vibes from the seventies would flow right through the walls of The Ark, a tiny cottage in the…
Outside magazine, October 1991 Bicycling: Last-Chance Tours of Fall By Bob Howells October is the coolest month for bike touring–a last test for your summer-hardened legs amid lingering sunshine and the carotenoids of fall. These three tours offer all the right…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Strategies: Slow Down and Release the Insulin By Mark Jannot Insomnia is the thinking man’s disease: “Anything that causes you to reflect or act while you’re in bed,” says Wilse B. Webb, author of Sleep, the Gentle Tyrant, the definitive text…
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…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Inns & Lodges: The Bungalow, Montana By Hunter Cynthia On 80 acres beneath a vast, reef-shaped sandstone mountain, The Bungalow bed-and-breakfast appears to be a miniature, two-story version of Yellowstone National Park’s Old Faithful Inn. Which is really no surprise, since it…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Intake: Water on the Mountain By Suzanne Schlosberg You wouldn’t think of going on a three-hour bike ride without a water bottle or two. But get on the ski slope, where your equipment doesn’t boast handily mounted water-bottle cages, and…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Strategies: The Video Verite Approach to ACL Aid By Kiki Yablon There’s no sound a skier dreads more than the fabled pop. And when U.S. Skiing’s Diann Roffe heard it on December 19, 1990, she was third overall in the…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Showdown in the West By Larry Burke Nowhere is our national distrust of Washington more extreme than in the West, where ranchers, loggers, and miners lately have been playing brinkmanship with the federal government, whose environmental laws often cramp their…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Just Add Intensity Ahtletes dread intervals because they’re tough. They’re also worth it. By Terry Mulgannon RUNNING | SWIMMING | CYCLING A GUIDE YOU CAN…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Climbing: The Last Ascent of Alison Hargreaves Why did the world’s finest woman alpinist never come off K2? By Greg Child On what seemed to be a perfect August day in the Karakoram range of Pakistan, Alison Hargreaves…
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…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Jurisprudence: Presumed Gullible By Ken Olsen It almost seemed cruel. After tracing fugitive animal-rights activist Rod Coronado to a house on an Arizona Indian reservation, police spun a tale about an injured bird down at the local fire station. The…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Ballooning: Let the Hot Air Begin By Todd Balf (with Joe Glickman) Get out your telescopes: No fewer than three international teams are scheduled to lift off this month in hopes of becoming the first to circumnavigate the world nonstop…
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…
 Outside magazine, November 1995 Jack LaLanne Is Still an Animal Those biceps! That thorax! How, after all these years, does the godfather of fitness do it? By balancing the brain with the beast–and knowing the power of a…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Paddling: Who Was That Fast Man? By Todd Balf (with Joe Glickman) At the start of the 715-mile Finlandia Clean Water Challenge, the world’s longest kayak race, South African Lee McGregor paddled into Lake Michigan from the Chicago shore at…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Climbing: Dad, Am I Over the Hill? By Todd Balf (with Joe Glickman) As a 98-pound 12-year-old, Tommy Caldwell of Colorado climbed the Diamond on Rocky Mountain National Park’s Longs Peak, one of the premier big-wall routes in the country.
Outside magazine, November 1995 Wildlife: Load the Stun Gun, Pass the Old Spice On the trail of 600 pounds of prehistoric phew By Stephanie Pearson With a monkey-like head and Lon Chaney Jr.’s overbite, it crashes through the forest, a fanged pied…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Running:…But Radionucleotides Can Never Hurt Me The worrisome world of Matt Carpenter, skymarathonman By Martin Dugard “I have a social life,” proclaims Matt Carpenter, king of the fledgling sport known as skymarathoning, which basically entails running 26.2-mile races…
Outside magazine, February 2000 Did you notice that in only one of the five photos of Alex Lowe in your memorial feature (“The Man Who Matched Our Mountains,” December), he wasn’t smiling? This was a guy who lived life and…
Outside magazine, Februrary 2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Fresh Breath Modern snorkels may…
Outside magazine, March 2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Hut, Hut, Hike If you’re still feeling guilty about Y2K extravagances, repent by ensconcing yourself…
Outside magazine, March 2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 DO THE OSCILLATION MENTAL STAMINA TEST |…
Outside magazine, March 2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 REALITY CHECK MENTAL STAMINA TEST | HEALTHY…
Gear Up: All the right stuff for biking If you’ve considered trading in that 1972 Schwinn Collegiate for something a bit more…modern?, now’s a great time to do it. Visit any cycling shop and you’ll find…
The Spokespeople Hop on your bikes and head for the hills—of California’s Lost Coast, Ontario’s Forest Trails, or the carraige roads of Mount Desert Island Flat-Out Adventure A family fiets through the Dutch…
Gear Up: All the right stuff for taking photos With cameras becoming easier to use and ever more compact, you no longer need to sport the flopping-camera-on-the-belly tourist look, or beg the kids to hold still…
Top Family Finds These ain’t no roadside motels: Sleep in a tented camp in California, a secret hideout in Belize, a former lime mill on St. Lucia. . . EARLY WINTERS CABINS | WASHINGTON…
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…
 The Road Less Minivan-ed When it comes to four-wheeling it, don’t go with the flow. Take to the byways on these three departures from the ordinary. VALLEY OF FIRE | BIGHORN…
Gear Up: All the right stuff for camping MED KITS | WATER FILTERS | TENTS | BAGS AND PADS | BACKPACKS | KIDS’ BOOTS | STOVES | …
Islands We Love Slip on the flip-flops, pack up the frisbee: It’s not really summer till the ferry pulls away and you leave the mainland behind MADELINE ISLAND | APOSTLE ISLANDS, WISCONSIN During the 20-minute ferry ride from Bayfield, on…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Wet as You Wanna Be Six great family rivers, from tame to tumultuous by Peter Shelton Inflatable Journeys The Fun File: What to do when the water’s calm…
The Teens are Alright Just keep it simple: Give them space, and lots of it We have taken our son on the road with us all his life, to Tuscany, Bali, both coasts of Canada, the island of…
 Hey, Take a Hike! A tenderfoot’s guide to making tracks: Tents and trails, packs and boots, gadgets and grub, and everything else your family will need CAR CAMPING | BACKPACKING…
Five Trips You Never Thought Of We’re doing what this summer? How about chasing a few tornadoes, training like an Olympian, and learning to hang glide? The Hogan Way CANYON DE CHELLY, ARIZONA…
The Tenderfoot’s Almanac Essential Backpack Recipes By Lorien Warner Cooking up menus that the kids won’t wrinkle their noses at is difficult enough; it can seem next to impossible when camping. But follow advice from the experts–from outfitters…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Family Adventure Camps On belay, Mom! Eight learning centers where it’s recess all day long By David Noland Tell any red-blooded American kids that they’re going to spend their cherished summer vacation learning stuff instead…
The Tenderfoot’s Almanac Gear: All the Right Stuff for Backpacking By Douglas Gantenbein Sleeping bags and pads When buying a sleeping bag, your main choice is whether to go with down or synthetic insulation. Down is generally warmer for its weight and…
The Tenderfoot’s Almanac Backpack Time Line By Douglas Gantenbein Backpack Time Line Three- to five-year-olds can hike under their own power, albeit for maddeningly short intervals. A perfect kids’ knapsack is the Tough Traveler Ruffian ($63; 800-468-6844), a…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 The Tenderfoot’s Almanac Tents and trails, guides and grub, and everything else you need to put one foot in front of the other by Peter Shelton Walk This Way Backpack…
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…
Wet as You Wanna Be Inflatable Journeys The Hysterical Parent Falling out of the raft Never go out on the water without a personal flotation device (PFD), helmet, and sports sandals or tennis shoes. Your guide will school you…
Horse Sense Cowboy vs. Dude By Ryan Underwood t h e f u n f i l e: Outback Boredom Busters Watch Birds Pack binoculars…
Wet as You Wanna Be Gear: All the Right Stuff for Rafting By Steve Shimek Waterproof bags Everyone and everything gets totally drenched on any self-respecting whitewater trip. If you want to keep the snacks and the wallet dry, a waterproof bag…