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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…
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…
Bulletins Grandparenting: Geriat-Tricks By Bob Howells Call it cross-generational bonding, old-fashioned mentoring, or just doing neat stuff with the grandkids–more and more outfits are bringing disparate generations together on outdoor jaunts. Not surprisingly, Elderhostel lurks behind many of them, such as Let’s…
The Magnificent Seven Gear: Optics By Douglas Gantenbein When you’re standing atop Glacier Point looking out over Yosemite Valley, you’re going to wish you had the best optics to enjoy and take home the view. Canon’s new ES6000 ($1,699) is…
 The Magnificent Seven Our Favorite Parks t h e f u n f i l e: Outback Boredom Busters Uno It takes up almost no room…
The Magnificent Seven Make Family Vacation Shots a Snap By Bob Krist For some families, taking vacation photos is a painful duty, like taking the kids for flu shots or having a root canal. Following are a few suggestions to take the…
Horse Sense I Wanna Be a Cowboy The Hysterical Parent The horse will buck or run off Wranglers look for horses to put in their lines that are “bomb-proof” (their description, not ours) because they don’t underestimate their clients’…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Who Loves Ya, Keiki? No place celebrates the family quite like Hawaii Resorting to Perfection Say Aloha to Kids’ Camps By Bob Krist Short of Disneyland, families have it best in…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Horse Sense They may not be the smartest beasts, but a stint aboard a four-legged friend is a required ride of passage by Randy Wayne White I Wanna Be a Cowboy Cowboy…
Are We There Yet? Getting There in Style By Lisa Twyman Bessone From the 1950s right up through the 1980s, the quintessential family car was the venerable, if un-hip, station wagon. Fast-forward to 1997. Station wagons, like the Suburu Outback, now…
Who Loves Ya, Keiki? Resorting to Perfection By Jim Gullo Hired Hands Ocean Voyages (800-299-4444) offers customized seven-day island-to-island all-inclusive sailing trips aboard a 50-foot sloop; you decide when to go and where to stop. Rates start at…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Are We There Yet? Four Planned-to-the-Mile Road Trips by Stephan Wilkinson On the Road Again Getting There in Style By Lisa Twyman Bessone Games People Play…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Stroke, Stroke, Stroke Canoe-camping sets your kids in motion and lets them earn their keep Hired Hands The Chewonki Foundation (207-882-7323) leads a six-day Down East canoe trip on the St. Croix River…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Come Along, Little Doggie All you need to know before bringing your best friend to the backcountry By Ron C. Judd A sk any good trail dog: When slopes get steep and…
Are We There Yet? Gear: All the Right Stuff for Car-Camping By Douglas Gantenbein Cots and sleeping bags Forget sleeping on the ground: set up a couple of L.L. Bean’s Allagash folding cots ($42), made by Byer of Maine. These have…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Family Vacation Quiz Every clan has its own definition of vacation bliss. One group’s getaway to a pristine, leafy wilderness is another’s descent into a mosquito-plagued, showerless netherworld. Some families thrive on organized activities; others bolt at the first syllable…
Are We There Yet? Games People Play (in cars) By Lisa Twyman Bessone Getting there is half the fun. Whoever coined that phrase obviously wasn’t traveling with a carload of kids. Here are a few items from our bag of…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 The Adventures The Tenderfoot’s Almanac Tents and trails, guides and grub, and everything else you’ll need for the finest family backpacking trips Family Adventure Camps From sailing school to digging for artifacts, eight learning…
 Family Vacations, Summer 1997 The LowDown Chart Whitewater Rafting | Mountain Biking | Kayaking | Backpacking/Hiking | Boardsailing | Snorkeling | Rock Climbing…
Waterworlds, Family Vacations 1998 Sailing Wind in your spinnaker, a harbor ahead, and a ready-made crew to swab the decks By Dan Dickison WATERWORLDS…
Waterworlds, Family Vacations 1998 Rafting How to turn your rug rats into river rats: five rides from tame to wild By Lisa Jones WATERWORLDS…
Camp Outs, Family Vacations 1998 Backpacks To Grow On By Jonathan Hanson 1. Little hikers from three to six can walk farther if they feel they’re part of the team. Give them an L.L. Bear rucksack…
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…
Waterworlds, Family Vacations 1998 Sea Kayaking To follow the straight and narrow, just secure your spray skirt and grab a paddle By Jonathan Hanson WATERWORLDS…
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…
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…
Camp Outs, Family Vacations 1998 These Boots Were Made For Mileage By Jonathan Hanson CAMP OUTS Happy Trails From an all-day jaunt to a weeklong…
Camp Outs, Summer 1998 Campsite-Finder Ten drive-up campsites with a backcountry feel Which campground sounds good? Fern Hammock Loop, Florida Sage Creek,…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Park Places Room with a view: How to find your own space in North America’s premier national parks By Peter Shelton PARK PLACES National Pastimes…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Home Bases A cottage, a dude-ranch cabin, a multisport resort — just unpack and call it your own By Meg Lukens Noonan HOME BASES Why…
Camp Outs, Family Vacations 1998 Leave No Trace CAMP OUTS Happy Trails From an all-day jaunt to a weeklong trek, seven kid-tested routes to the wilderness…
Open Roads, Summer 1998 Baby, You Can Rate My Car By Lisa Twyman Bessone OPEN ROADS Oh, the Places You’ll Go Day-by-day itineraries for four…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Open Roads Throw some juice boxes in the cooler, toss your tent in the trunk — it’s high time to hit the highway By Ron C. Judd OPEN ROADS…
 Park Places, Summer 1998 National Pastimes A visit to these parks is right up there with baseball, hot dogs, and the Fourth of July PARK PLACES…
Park Places, Summer 1998 Six Great Unsung Parks By Bob Howells PARK PLACES National Pastimes A visit to these parks is right up there with…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Bring on the Weekend! Quick relief for city-dwellers: ten all-natural getaways close to home Boston: Carter Notch Hut, White Mountains It’s not exactly a half-pipe in the sky, but even the surliest pre-teen will have to admit…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Far-Flung Adventures Sure, the flights can be long and the fares high — but how else can your kids come face-to-bill with a blue-footed booby? By Mike Harrelson The Hysterical Parent…
Pedal On, Summer 1998 Road Cycling Freewheeling it along a canal-side towpath, country lanes, and converted rail beds By Peter Oliver PEDAL ON Mountain…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Cheap Thrills When bucks count (and when don’t they?) you need all the dollar-stretching strategies you can find. Try these ten. By Everett Potter Attempting to save money on your family holiday isn’t easy when…
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…
On the Road with Huggies and a Binkie, Summer 1998 Tips from the Trenches By Anne Goodwin Sides ON THE ROAD Tips from the Trenches…
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…
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…
Vacation Bulletins, Summer 1998 Solutions for Single Parents By Beth Johnson BULLETINS The Summer Calendar The fun begins June 4! Solutions for…
Vacation Bulletins, Summer 1998 The Summer Calendar By Stephanie Gregory BULLETINS The Summer Calendar The fun begins June 4! Solutions for Single…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Alaska, One Humongous Zoo Ten Perfect Days Day 1: After your arrival in Anchorage, settle in downtown at the Copper Whale Inn (877-267-7371), an old-fashioned-looking clapboard house with 15 rooms overlooking the ocean. Kids…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Don’t Spare the Bubbly Seven Rivers, from Wimpy to Wild Green River, Lodore Canyon, Utah Back in 1869, one-armed explorer John Wesley Powell lost a boat along the Lodore Canyon stretch of the…
1999 Family Vacation Guide All the Right Stuff for Family Camping By Douglas Gantenbein Tents A sturdy, packable tent is your family’s home on the trail. For summer camping, look for something light and well-ventilated.
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Brat Packing One, Two, Three Four … Hike! Ten Great Family Backpacking Trails Chattooga River/Bartram Trail Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, Georgia Made famous by Deliverance, that 1970s canoe-combat film, the Chattooga National…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Don’t Spare the Bubbly All the Right Stuff for Whitewater By Steve Shimek Rule number one of river travel: Rafters have more fun if they’re toasty warm. On a scenic Class…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Unsung Heroes I Want to be Alone! How to find solitude in America’s most crowded national parks They’re the blockbusters: Great Smoky Mountain, Grand Canyon, Banff, Yellowstone, and Yosemite, the five most…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Unsung Heroes The right cameras to take on the road By Douglas Gantenbein Vacation means pictures. But it also means a decision: What kind of camera to schlepp along? 35mm? APS?…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Backseat Bliss Detailed Road-Trips California’s Central Coast Day One: Oceano to Montaña de Oro State Park. Mileage: 32. Drive time: About 2 hours. Route: California 1/U.S. 101 to Avila Beach. Take Canyon…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, The Itinerant Toddler Rug-Rat Resorts Try checking in at most vacation resorts and you’re likely to get that “oh-no-here-comes-that-two-year-old” look from the weary desk clerk. For a more toddler-friendly experience, consider the following.
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Backseat Bliss Home, Home on the Road People are plugging so many electronic gizmos into their cars, you have to wonder whether they should install a surge protector just to start the engine. Vehicles…
 Outside magazine, 1999 Family Vacation Guide Unsung Heroes Ten top-ranking parks you might not have heard of — but then, no one else has either TODDLERS…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, The Itinerant Toddler All the right stuff for toddlers By Gretchen Reynolds As new parents soon learn, the defining achievement of toddlers is not walking, it’s willpower. If your little one…
Family Vacations, Summer Summer Calendar Moose Mainea May 16-June 12 Greenville, Maine At the eighth annual monthlong festival honoring Maine’s favorite four-legged celebrity, there’s something for everyone: moose safaris, a seven-mile canoe and kayak race,…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, A Wheelie Good Time All the Right Stuff for Biking By Douglas Gantenbein This year, bicycle buyers will find more and superior features for the same or lower prices — goodies…
Outside magazine, Family Vacation Guide The Art of the Quick Exit Long weekends made easy — because even die-hard city dwellers need an occasional campfire-and-pine-needle fix From Boston … Tucked into a sheltered cove on…
Outside magazine, Family Vacation Guide Brat Packing Hiking with kids doesn’t have to be one big whine fest. All you need is the right trail, the right gear, and a few time-tested tactics.
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, Family Vacation Guide The Value File For a high action-to-dollar ratio, try these six weeklong family trips from $640 to $1,358 Any parent who has priced a package to Disney World knows that kid-oriented…
Outside magazine, Family Vacation Guide The Islands of Summer Where your only concerns will be what time the tide will turn and where you left your flip-flops Santa Catalina Island, California It may seem hard…
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, June 2000 Whale Watching: Q&A with Peter Bray By David Friedland Despite the modern trend toward the efficiency and ease of airplane travel, one brave Cornish man is about to attempt a crossing of the…
Outside magazine, June 2000 Peter Bray in the Drink: A play-by-play account of the plucky kayaker’s 30-hour attempt to keep his leaking boat afloat By David Friedland At about 8 PM on June 17th, Peter Bray…
Reaching the Untouched Wall: The Kok Shal Tau Climbing Expedition Summer 2000 8.17.00 Surprise Birthday Party Mike Libecki Celebration Time: Jerry and Doug’s birthday party after the climb up the Grand Pooh-Bah…
 Reaching the Untouched Wall: The Kok Shal Tau Climbing Expedition Summer 2000 A lot can happen en route from Utah to an untouched valley in China’s Kok Shal Tau range. Via dispatches from the trail, follow four young climbers half way around…
Survivor II, Episode 2 People who eat people are the luckiest people in the world By Bill Vaughn Courtesy of CBS Before the bloodthirsty lords of England turned Australia into a very large prison island stocked with…
Outside magazine, September 1997 Stop, or I’ll Pop a Wheelie! Prowling for smugglers with the U.S. Border Patrol’s mountain-bike division By Jonathan Hanson Elle, We Hardly Knew Ye Dennis Conner’s Toshiba may be the…
Outside magazine, September 1997 Didn’t You Used to Be Scott Tinley? With a dearth of stars and an anemic purse, the Legends of Triathlon series starts with a wimper By Andrew Tilin Not Your…
Outside magazine, September 1998 It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Worrell One kind of lunatic sails the Indy 500 of catamran racing. Another dreams it up. By Brad Wetzler Daytona Beach, Florida. Day four. The Treasure Island Inn is…
Dispatches, September 1998 Climbing Hi, My Name is Hans. Now Gimme My Check Lessons in gold-digging from America’s speediest wall rat By Bill Donahue Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Midnight Rambler’s Ride If there’s one sentiment all cyclists share, it’s the melancholy that comes with autumn’s shorter days: There are fewer and fewer hours in which to ride, until finallyùwoefullyùthe…
Outside magazine, September 1999 GEAR High Design: Mountaineering’s Trick New Tools “I guess the Everest fascination has gotten folks interested in climbing,” says Tracy Roberts, “and now they want to get a good snootful of it.” As a guide on…
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, October 1994 Regimens: Don’t Forget the Little Muscles By Dana Sullivan They don’t have the bulging glamour of the body’s big guns–quads, hams, delts, pecs–but the so-called accessory muscles, such as rotator cuffs, hip abductors and adductors, and tibialis and soleus muscles, provide stability…