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Outside magazine, October 1995 Trends: How to Get Low-Level-Pollutant Clean By Mark Jannot Capitalism at its best: ozone, the same pollutant that can singe our lungs, is now being marketed as the key to a crop of new air-purification systems. “Ozone is nature’s cleansing…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Conditions: Where the Air Is Unfair By Mark Jannot Ventura, home of lemon groves, California surf, and Patagonia Inc. headquarters, is also on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s air-quality hit list. Ever since amendments to the Clean Air Act were…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Hang Gliding: Thermal Letdown By Todd Balf (with John Alderman) For drama, it wasn’t bad: on the final day of the World Hang Gliding Championships last July near Ager, Spain, Thomas Suchanek of Czechoslovakia and Manfred Ruhmer of Austria, the…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Running: Let My People Burn Rubber As controversy swirls about their gringo coach, have we seen the last of the Tarahumara? By John Tayman After negotiating unseasonable snowdrifts and equally unseasonable 105-degree heat–not to mention 100 miles of…
 Outside magazine, November 1995 The Wayward West: With Liberty and Firepower for All Like a lot of westerners, the gun-waving citizens of Catron County, New Mexico, are clinging to a way of life that may be outdated. But some of them would sooner…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Mountaineering: Someone Get the Bouncers By Todd Balf (with John Alderman) For better or for worse, 12-year-old Merrick Johnston is the youngest person ever to have reached the summit of Mount McKinley. The Anchorage sixth-grader and her mother, Jennifer Johnston,…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Wildlife: I Am Cat Bait–Hear Me Roar Tired of being prey, Californians target the protected mountain lion By Laura Hilgers Nanse Browne pulls the parchment-colored skull of an adult male cougar from her briefcase and proceeds to hold…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Mountain Biking: Eyes for Mammoth By Todd Balf (with John Alderman) Mountain-bike professionals are no strangers to tough conditions, but July’s World Cup stop on California’s Mammoth Mountain was in another realm: The course was buried in ten feet of…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Cycling: A Race to Remember, Sadly By Todd Balf (with John Alderman) Miguel Indurain’s unprecedented fifth straight victory in the the Tour de France last July was indeed impressive, but the race probably won’t be remembered for Big…
Outside magazine, November 1995 My Gelding, Myself How passion crosses the line into not-quite-respectable obsession: The complicated joys of horse ownership By Jane Smiley THE WORK Last weekend, when I went away for a two-night horse trials with my elderly…
Outside magazine, November 1995 The Wayward West: Browning up the Neighborhood Ten Wise Use outfits that are moving in–fast–to a dispute near you By Jon Christensen When the wise use movement emerged in the late eighties, environmentalists mocked it as an industry-funded…
 Outside magazine, November 1995 Born Again by the Schussmeter If you can get the turns down on the slopes, they say, you can get the turns down elsewhere. In the cradle of alpine skiing, a fool can always hope. By Chip…
 Outside magazine, November 1995 A Darkness on the River What the son found in the Peruvian jungle was a terrible truth. What his father found there months later was a way to begin again. By Tim Cahill The Marañón River drops…
Outside magazine, November 1995 The Wayward West: It Came from the Outback And then the best growled, snacked, and was sent to bed for being bad. But Congressman Don Young and his minions, eager to gobble up the nation’s environmental laws, aren’t sated yet.
Outside magazine, November 1995 Embraced by the Strangler Fig Cut loose with the world’s most maddeningly optimistic adventurer By Randy Wayne White After surviving a hideous car crash in 1980, my friend Tucker Comstock experienced a spiritual refurbishment that helped her shed…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Books: War of the Green Soothsayers By Miles Harvey In a Dark Wood: The Fight over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology, by Alston Chase (Houghton Mifflin Co., $29.95); The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless…
Outside magazine, November 1995 The New World Border “What we have here is an incredibly devious plan,” says Don Kehoe, a Monroe, Washington, landscaper with a trained eye for conspiracy. “If we allow this to happen, we’re not going to have life as we presently know…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Camp Miz “I want the inmates to hate my jails so much they never want to come back,” growls Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The bearlike 62-year-old, chief badge-holder of Maricopa County, Arizona, is called “the meanest sheriff in America,” thanks partly to his…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Update: Beyond-Basic Bindings By Glenn Randall Every major brand of bindings performs just fine these days–and has for years. So, having mastered the basics, the manufacturers have been busy tweaking their latest bindings to improve edge grip, help carve a…
Bodywork: Fitness for the Outside Athlete, November 1996 The Symmetrical Solution Correcting your natural imbalances may just be the secret to superior fitness By Cory Johnson At first it was merely a blister on her left foot. Lynn Doering had just…
Bodywork: Fitness for the Outside Athlete, November 1996 Equipment: Striking a Balance By John Alderman Chances are, you’ll never try to pull off a 720-degree spin with a tail grab on your snowboard. But if you do want to, or if you…
Bodywork: Fitness for the Outside Athlete, November 1996 Essentials: Another Form of Pain Prevention By Sarah Bowen Shea Although a rigorous preseason training regimen may take care of your muscular woes, it won’t prevent another kind of pain–that which comes from impact. Thus…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 The Animals March, Two by Ten Thousand A winter’s worth of the continent’s most spectacular migrations As season’s change, many animals have to move, and when they move en masse, it can be spectacular. Here’s’ a…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 All Creatures Fanged and Swine In the most biologically diverse area on Earth, watch your feet. By Bob Payne On the Osa Peninsula, wildlife is abundant, exotic, and striking–sometimes too striking. Snakes of all…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 The Last Best Peninsula The Costa Rica of legend still exists. But you have to crash through breakers and fight off pigs to find it. By Bob Payne At dawn, after pushing to the…
Outside magazine, November 1996 And in This Corner, the Ghost of Ernest Hemingway Battling history, or at least history’s 80-year-old sparring partner By Randy Wayne White Considering the tragic possibilities, Lorian Hemingway might now be reluctant to admit that it…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 Inns & Lodges: Home Hill Country Inn Plainfield, New Hampshire By Anne Goodwin Sides A young couple from Squaw Valley–Stephan Duroure, a French ski instructor, and Victoria Gordon, an American nouvelle chef–recently bought the…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 The Way from San José Navigating the Osa By Bob Payne For easiest access to most of the Osa Peninsula, start in the Golfo Dulce town of Puerto Jim‹nez, 50 miles south of San…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 Long Weekends: Yosemite, Unplugged In winter, see the park as the Miwok did: in solitude By Andrew Rice When the bumper-to-bumper traffic of summer disappears and the snow begins to fly, tranquility settles over…
Dispatches: News from the Field, November 1996 Technology: Flop, Flop, Fizzle, Fizzle Think $5 million can buy cycling gold? Guess again. By Eric Hagerman It was, of course, high comedy, a refreshing respite from hours of jingoistic cooing and Macarena-dancing…
Dispatches: News from the Field, November 1996 Environment: And Foul Is Fair After years of progress in the war on smog, L.A.’s air-quality board cuddles up with the spewers By Bill Donahue Though he’s one of the leading experts on the…
Dispatches: News from the Field, November 1996 Travel: And To Think We Almost Opted For Bora Bora By Sarah Horowitz Now that the first flakes are about to start falling, it’s time for those of us planning winter getaways to get serious. And…
Features: Election Preview ’96, November 1996 The Boy Scouts Find A Compass In the shrink-wrapped politics of the environment, it’s not how far you go, but in what direction By The Editors “Clinton knows that if he wins in ’92, he’ll…
 Outside magazine, November 1996 Peruvian Gothic Don Benigno Aazco carved his way 36 years deep into the green heart of the Andean forest, founded 14 settlements, abandoned his wife and many children, married his daughter, slew his son-in-law, fought drug peddlers, tamed…
Features: Election Preview ’96, November 1996 The Nature of the Beast In defense of the dandelion-pickin’, tree-lovin’ side of that environmental bogeyman, Bob Dole By Brad Wetzler Little-known fact: Bob Dole was once a demon on roller skates –the steel-wheeled, strap-on,…
Features: Election Preview ’96, November 1996 Something Toxic This Way Comes A teardrop-by-teardrop look at how close Newt Gingrich’s dream legislation is to becoming law. And who, if elected, might spoil his plans. By Lolly Merrell THE BILL: Unbeknownst to…
 Outside magazine, November 1996 The Volcano Runners No elite runners train at higher altitude, or suffer more, than the human lungs who roam these oxygen-starved slopes. And yet Mexico’s great marathoners still labor under a faint cloud,…
Review: Hardware and Software, November 1996 Dynabee Hand and Arm Exerciser By Bob Howells A 4,000-pound nautilus machine will work the big muscle groups, but if it’s your forearms and hands you want to strengthen, there’s a piece of equipment that’s considerably more…
Review: Hardware and Software, November 1996 Buying Right: Bombproof Duds for the Backcountry By Andrew Tilin Devoted backcountry skiers and snowboarders searching for new togs work from a different priority list than the rest of the downhilling populace. Features that add convenience…
Outside magazine, November 1996 Cross-Country Nation A report from the tracks in Oslo, capital of the land where to be Nordic is to ski nordic By Bill McKibben Warning! as you read this article, remember that Norway is not the…
Review: Hardware and Software, November 1996 Books: Postcards from the front By Miles Harvey Aftermath: The Remnants of War, by Donovan Webster (Pantheon Books, $23). “All around us, human bones poke from the ground,” writes Webster. He is looking out over…
Review: Hardware and Software, November 1996 Audubon CD-ROM Bird Guide By Gregory McNamee Identifying the avian cackling in your campsite or the little brown jobs swarming around the feeder on your deck–often a befuddling endeavor–just got easier. The tower of ratty field guides…
Review: Hardware and Software, November 1996 Other Stuff: Cat Eye Stadium Light By Alan Coté Monday Night Football and a Monday night bike ride don’t have much in common except the same time slot–and now the same lighting system. The new…
Review: Hardware and Software, November 1996 Merrell Millennium M2 Boot By Glenn Randall What shape will hiking boots take in the twenty-first century? Merrell’s answer, the Millennium M2 Superlight ($150, 800-869-3348), doesn’t look as radical as you might expect. Instead, the new…
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According to legend, New Zealand’s South Island was formed when the dawn froze 150 shipwrecked gods into mountains. There are worse places to spend eternity. By Patrick Symmes Geoff Spearpoint/Hedgehog House Escapism 101: Mount Aspiring, Mount Aspiring National Park…
Outside magazine, May 2000 The White Death I’ve always been impressed by the quality of Outside‘s photographs, but I have to say that your avalanche shot on the cover of February’s issue is in a category all its…
Outside magazine, June 2000 I really enjoyed reading the tree-climbing story, “They’re Not Just for Monkeys Anymore” (March), by Fred Haefele. I can remember spending many summer days in my childhood perching with friends up in the Douglas fir in my…
Family Vacations, Summer Holy Rollers! ‘Blading through Amish country On Zephyr Inline Skate Tours’ roll through Pennsylvania Amish country, your guide might be an Amish 18-year-old who’ll show kids some wicked skate moves while filling them…
Family Vacations, Summer An Eco-School in Vail? Summer classes your kids will want to attend Happily, Colorado’s Vail Valley isn’t entirely consumed by golf courses — yet. And residents are doing their best to preserve…
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, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Adventures in Snowplowing Not your average family ski trips By Thurston Clarke ADVENTURES IN SNOWPLOWING | DETAILS, DETAILS | BEGINNER ANGST Choosing a…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Light-Tackle Fishing NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA Fishing with fly rod or light conventional tackle on the rivers and billabongs and seacoast off Darwin, Australia, is, in the lexicon of guides and other facilitators of sport, “A bastard of…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Scuba Diving THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, ECUADOR On Darwin, the northernmost of the Galßpagos’s 13 major islands, every precarious niche of its black, volcanic cliffs has been colonized by blue-footed boobies. The air above is so thick with…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 When the world seems a little FLAT, you need Vertical Strategies Whatever your style — milking the steeps, laid-back cruising, schussing en famille, or single-board carving — repeat after us: location, location, location. Extreme Hills The Snow-Finder…
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…
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…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Extreme Measures Wherein steep becomes the mantra By Peter Shelton EXTREME MEASURES | BUNK TO BUNK | DETAILS | THE SNOW FINDER |…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Gearing Up For the Backcountry By Sean O’Brien BORED? BOARD! | DETAILS, DETAILS | GEARING UP | ESSENTIAL GEAR The siren…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Beginner Angst By John Galvin ADVENTURES IN SNOWPLOWING | DETAILS, DETAILS | BEGINNER ANGST It’s true. I’ve tried it: You can’t teach an old dog…
Traveler’s Almanac, 1999 Annual Travel Guide On the Fly Indoorphin Rush Inside is now a whole lot closer to outside The only sane response to the idea of climbing into a flying squirrel suit and swooping around inside a silo-shaped building…
Traveler’s Almanac, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Bargains The Circle Game Around the world for less By Everett Potter Columbus had the right idea. If you’re traveling to Asia or the Pacific, instead of making a U-turn, just keep going.
Traveler’s Almanac, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Lonely, Lonely Planet SPM/SDF ISO GTFS* *great trips for singles Okay, so a lot of us go to bed alone every night (well, most nights). Why, then, is it so hard to travel solo? Trust…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide 2 Hours, 46 Minutes, 20 Seconds to Freedom Ten easy getaways from ten big cities — because sometimes a weekend is all you need … From San Francisco Weekend vacations for my husband and me…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Hail the Sunbelt From Death Valley to the Florida coast, six easy ways to ditch winter Camel Trek, Utah Just say “Hut!” and your camel will be up and trucking through the desert — not…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Ten Great Front Country Campsites First pick your place Steven C. Foster State Park, Georgia Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas Gulf Islands National Seashore, Florida…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Powder to the People More bars! More lifts! More condos! More everything! By Ron C. Judd We’ve all been there: fighting driving wind, rain and snow. Funneling every ounce of energy into holding…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Gear to Go Skiing Essentials Barriers against the chill and sticks to make you fly By Stuart Craig HATS AND HELMETS ———————— Skiing is the ultimate head game, and how…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide One-Stop Options The guides, the reefs, the mountains, the masseurs — at these multisport resorts and spas, you just step out of your room and it’s all there Costa Azul Adventure Resort, Mexico Heading north…
Features: Election Preview ’96, November 1996 Vote For Me, I’m Nut’s Perot just too stable for you? The Federal Election Commission has a couple hundred other options. Our favorite dark-horse candidates. By Michael Kessler Harry Browne Party: Libertarian…
Outside magazine, November 1996 Fat Men Can’t Jump He’s scaled back on Big Macs–a bit–and poured on the training. Can Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards be serious? By Todd Balf Eddie wants respect. as…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Doing the Wild Thing Eight bush camps and jungle lodges where the floor show is fierce Temple Tiger Jungle Lodge, Nepal Milk and musk: That’s what a Royal Bengal tiger smells like. So said…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Gear to Go Trekking Gadgets Life on the trail just got a bit easier By Robert Earle Howells CLEAN UP ———— Bringing along your own sanitation department minimizes the risks…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Walk the Casbah A Moroccan ramble and five other foot-worthy trails Waimanu, Big Island of Hawaii One of seven amphitheater valleys carved from the extinct Kohala Volcano along the northern shore of the Big…
Outside magazine, November 1997 Chin Up — There’s Always Next Year The latest on a not-so-successful expeditionary season By Andrew Tilin Since explorers typically utter “uncle” about as often as Jackie Chan, one has to wonder what dark cosmic forces…
 Outside magazine, November 1997 The Victim’s Wake When the body of a local man surfaced in the Grenadines, the wave of accusations that followed not only swept up the wealthy American couple suspected of his murder — it also exposed anew the uneasy symbiosis…