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Dispatches, June 1998 History Camelot Exposed An intimate encounter with JFK’s base layer By Tizia Garden For all his virile athleticism, let it be said that John F. Kennedy was no icon of hard-core outdoor adventure. The man never…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Deetjen’s Inn Big Sur, California By Andrew Rice Before california 1, aka the coastal highway, opened in 1937, Helmuth “Grampa” and Helen “Grandma” Deetjen built a small home in Castro Canyon using lumber salvaged from Monterey’s Cannery Row.
Outside magazine, July 1996 Sidestepping Summer’s Ills Active antidotes to keep an injured body in motion By Gretchen Reynolds It’s the ri-i-iping sound as the achilles tendon ruptures that’s so gruesome,” says Jim Allivato, athletic trainer of the sports medicine center at…
Outside magazine, June 1999 Culture We Say It’s Art. But What About Ewe? Two acclaimed landscape artists face their touchiest critics ever For more than 35 years, art fans have thrilled to the…
The World’s Great Towns, June 1997 Pack Up the Grill, Honey, We’re Moving to Reykjavík You don’t have to live where you’re living now. You could head for an exotic town. By the Editors You’ve dreamt it, right? Who hasn’t…
Outside magazine, July 1996 You’re Only as Good as Your Preparation All the logisitics, equipment, techniques, and shortcuts you’ll need to become a campground superchef By Paul Kvinta While we camp cooks are often content to let our gastrointestinal…
Outside magazine, June 1999 HONK IF YOU’RE IRRATIONAL They called it an unmapped drive through Indiana. But it really was a silent cry for help. My Delta, Myself | A…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Windward Ho! The ocean is the source of all life. Get one By Melanie Neale Our Favorite Places | The Hysterical Parent | Inside Skinny |…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Law Enforcement: Drop that Rack, or I’ll Vaporize You Yellowstone’s infamous Antler Wars enter a new phase By Todd Wilkinson “It’s fine with us if they believe there’s a camera lurking behind every tree,” says Brian O’Dea, criminal…
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, June 1999 Expedition If the Approach Doesn’t Kill You, Try Out the Ascent Deep in the Karakoram, three American climbers attempt the biggest wall of them all…
Outside magazine, July 1996 It’s the Environment, Stupid Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, national nanny, and Green Party candidate for president, wants to be your commander-in-chief By Miles Harvey Of all the comebacks by 1970s icons in recent years–from John Travolta to Tom…
Outside magazine, July 1995 This Isn’t Heaven, It’s Madison, Wisconsin By Mike Steere Raise high the roof beam–Mr. Paradise is among us. My own verdigris awe is talking. Bill Birnn himself makes no effort to be grand. But this man, fortyish and trim and…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Wildlife: Hey, You’re Not My Mommy! Duane Kraemer’s lab is a through-the-looking-glass place where cows beget oxen. Is it also the last hope for species on the run? By Paul Kvinta Standing in the office of Texas A&M…
Destinations, June 1999 God’s Country, Your Backyard Vancouver Island is just a short ferry ride away. It only feels like you’ve died and gone to heaven. By Kevin Brooker All bark, and bight: old-growth cedar…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Houseboating on Lake Powell By Zac Korth For the past 20 years, my family has spent two weeks of the summer aboard a houseboat on Lake Powell in Utah. I’m 19, so I’ve been doing this my whole life. My…
Outside magazine, June 1999 Don’t Get Used to It. Get Good at It. Falling happens, but it doesn’t have to hurt Good balance is essential, sure, but as spectacularly demonstrated by the…
Outside magazine, August 1994 Long Weekends: The Pedaler’s Haute Route Summertime hut-hopping on Colorado’s Tenth Mountain Trail By Peter Shelton The highlights of our five-day hut-to-hut bike tour on Colorado’s Tenth Mountain Trial came on the downhill glide from the Peter…
 Outside magazine, July 1999 Love and Death and the Leviathan’s Lair At first glance, the fight seems both easy and familiar. Baby whales, good. Rapacious multinational conglomerate, bad. But on a scouting trip among the gigantic grays…
Outside magazine, September 1995 Mountaineering: Because It’s a Jolly Good Place to Twirl a Lariat What’s up on the world’s tallest mountain By Greg Child Mount Everest may lack some of the quiet, end-of-the-earth charm that it once had–this year 276 people…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Books: The Marlboro Man’s Lament By Andrea Barrett Biting the Dust: The Wild Ride and Dark Romance of the Rodeo Cowboy and the American West, by Dirk Johnson (Simon & Schuster, $22). In the rodeo version of the American cowboy myth,…
Dispatches, July 1998 Trends If It’s 100 Years Old, It Must Be Good! Cycling’s slightly baffling (and very bumpy) infatuation with retro-chic By Paul Andersen ‘It’s the purest sense of the bicycle there is,” says Wes Williams as he…
 Outside magazine, September 1994 So You’re Young Black South African and You Want to Sail Around the World Neal Petersen knows it will take more than geluk. Ten thousand miles from his home, awash on the benevolent shores of Ireland, he hasn’t lost sight of…
Outside magazine, August 1998 Poet … Lover … Omnivore … Friend A consideration of Bart the Bear, from those whose lives he’s touched By David Rakoff He is the ur-ursus, our bear of necessity, providing an adoring moviegoing public…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Marathon: Salazar’s Back (With A Smile) By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and John Alderman) In the long, strange trip that is Alberto Salazar’s life, another chapter: Mired in the proverbial road-race desert for 12 winless years, the former victor in both…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Sailing: Liberte, Fraternite, Butt-Whuppin’ Why French skippers are–again–likely to bop the competition in the world’s longest race By Dan Dickison Every four years French sailors make the competition eat spray in the BOC Challenge–a four-stage around-the-world solo rip across 27,000…
Vacation Special, August 1997 S W I M M I N G T H E L O W E R A M M O N O O S U C God’s Own Plunge Pool A grotto behind the…
Dispatches, July 1998 Rodent Rights Why Is Everybody Always Pickin’ on Me? They’re cute and furry, yet they get no respect. A look at the star-crossed plight of the American sod poodle. Yes, it’s now official: prairie dogs have become…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Women’s Sprints Here comes Gwen Torrence, America’s fastest loose cannon By Mark Jannot Gwen Torrence promises to be among the most hyped athletes of the Atlanta Games: a hometown girl who returns to accolades and–a good bet–Olympic gold…
Destinations, July 1997 I N T E R N A T I O N A L N E W S Patagonia’s Cold War Heats Up The scenery isn’t the only reason to visit the ice fields this year By…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Men’s Sprints: Odds That Michael Johnson will win both the 200 and 400…….1-1 Donovan Baileywill win gold in the 100………10-1 Carl Lewiswill medal in the 100……….15-1…
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Outside magazine, August 1996 Apparel: Patagonia’s on-the-Go T By Bob Howells How does a t-shirt justify a $29 price tag? Well, it’s a smart combination of 70 percent environmentally correct organic cotton and 30 percent Capilene polyester, of wicking long-underwear fame. The key…
Destinations, July 1997 S M A R T T R A V E L E R It’s Not a Canoe. It’s a Tuba. Tromping about on Spain’s unique western shore, where fjords abound and vino is a breakfast staple…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Women’s Sprints: Odds That… Gwen Torrence will win three gold medals……..2-1 Merlene Ottey will shake the winner’s hand…..50-1 The U.S. women will take all sprinting gold…..4-1…
Outside magazine, August 1996 The Wannabes: It’s Been Fun, Modern Pentathlon… …But don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Presenting the winner and losers in the made-for-tv future of the Games Beach Volleyball |…
Outside magazine, August 1999 Jocko’s Rocket Will the car of the future come screaming out of the Mojave desert? By Brad Wetzler Ninety miles east of Los Angeles, the San Bernardino Mountains give way…
Dispatches, August 1998 Cuisine How ‘Bout We Just Nibble on Them a Bit? In Vietnam a scourge of rats puts the crimp on fine feline dining By Jonathan Birchall Ok, it’s now official: by formal government…
Dispatches, August 1998 Science And You’ll Do What for a Herring? Biologists uncover a scurrilous sex trade on the most unlikely of continents By Rob Nixon “If they’re going to have a quickie with another guy, they have…
Don’t miss: Video clips of “Thor” in action, from the International Hurling Society Outside magazine, August 1995 It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Case of Spam! In Texas they’re chucking commodes, Buicks, and…
Dispatches, August 1998 Animal Rights Put That Bunny Down, or I’ll Kick Your Butt Steve Hindi pioneers a new brand of brass-knuckled activism By Jonathan Eig Yes, it’s true that Steve Hindi is both an animal-rights activist and…
Destinations, August 1998 Can’t See the Forest for the Fees The feds’ new pay-to-play scheme has public-lands users up in arms By Andrew Rice Jeff Pine is standing on a high ridge, thousands of acres of national forest stretching…
Outside magazine, August 1995 Mountaineering: It’s Hard When You’re All Alone By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) Was Alison Hargreave’s solo ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen last May really the greatest feat ever by a woman mountaineer? Both the 33-year-old mother of two…
Outside magazine, September 1997 S M A R T T R A V E L E R Lariam’s Sting Is the world’s top antimalarial drug safe? By Eric Ransdell B U L…
Outside magazine, August 1996 The Book On: Men’s Sprints Can anyone beat Donovan Bailey, track-god-come-lately? By Mark Jannot It must be hard for other sprinters not to pigeonhole Donovan Bailey, 28, as just another track-world dilettante. A native Jamaican who immigrated…
Fitness special, August 1998 Bring It Home: Coach V’s Four Week Plan By Andrew Tilin Can’t make it to IPI? Well, you’re not getting off the hook that painlessly. For those too busy to come to him, Mark…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Good Thing He Didn’t Try Sky Diving Nobody expects world-class athletes to compete forever, but Tom Mason has probably just set a record for career brevity. Before it was all over, however, the controversial 34-year-old street luger made quite an impression in…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Sloth: Then Again, There’s Always Pop-Tarts By Adam Horowitz With apologies, I ask all you connoisseurs of fine food to hold the outrage. Blasphemous though it may be, someone has to stand up for the more practical-minded among us.
Outside magazine, September 1995 Rowing: It’s a French Thing By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) As frenchman Jean Luckes shoved off from Cape Cod last June for a two- to three-month, 3,000-mile solo voyage across the North Atlantic, he was asked the inevitable question:…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Yemen Touring the Frankincense Route Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Geographic Expeditions 800-777-8183, 415-922-0448 2 $5,590-$6,260, includes airfare from U.S. tourist hotels The Route: A 17-day, 1,000-mile Land Cruiser tour that includes visits to the city…
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Family Vacations, Summer Keeping Up with the (Indiana) Joneses Essential outdoor toys for kids Whether they’re on a 10-day wilderness safari or a quick trip to the compost pile, kids can go gizmo gonzo with…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Triathlon: Beware of Dave By Todd Balf (with Derek Rielly) As the season kicked off last April with the St. Croix International Triathlon, the buzz on the street was about the imminent return of Dave Scott, the six-time Hawaii Ironman champion turned…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Sailing: Make That 74 Days By Todd Balf (with Derek Rielly) When the French catamaran Commodore Explorer won the Trophée Jules Verne in 1993 by tearing around the world in a record 79 days, six hours, and 15 minutes, tens of…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Surfing: Kelly Slater Reincarnate By Todd Balf (with Derek Rielly) In the April Bacchanal they call the Rip Curl Pro, aka the Association of Surfing Professionals season opener, American Kelly Slater aced the four- to six-foot waves at Bells Beach near Melbourne,…
Family Vacations, Summer Fantastic Voyageurs: In the wake of Lewis and Clark Sometimes kids need to be reminded that not everyone grew up with a laptop, a Furby, and a soccer match on Saturdays. Since history…
 Outside magazine, Family Vacation Guide Unsung Heroes Ten top-ranking parks you might not have heard of — but then, no one else has either TODDLERS…
 Family Vacations, Summer Hawaii for the Whole Ohana Perfect family weeks on Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and the Big Island By Alex Salkever HAWAII The Molokai Alternative…
Family Vacations, Summer The Itinerant Toddler What Terrible Twos? A parental primer on where to go, what to bring, and how to stay sane TODDLERS…
Family Vacations, Summer Australia’s new multisport playground Like Miami, Acapulco, and Waikiki, Australia’s sunny Gold Coast in Queensland’s southeast corner has been overrun by too many tourists and forests of high-rise resorts and condos. But now a much…
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, Family Vacation Guide Where in the World? From trekking in the Andes to sea kayaking in Samoa, 21 family odysseys ODYSSEYS Outside’s Family…
Traveler’s Almanac, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Traveler’s Almanac Twelve All-New Sporting Adventures Bargains: The Circle Game Around the world for less Last-Minute Travel: Good News for Procrastinators On the Fly:…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Gear to Go Cameras Shooter’s choice: Digital? Camcorder? Splashproof? Or just goof-around basic? By Peter Burian NO FILM NEEDED ——————— The latest trend is in digital cameras — especially those…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Gear to Go Health Savers Don’t venture too far without these safety essentials By Michael Kessler MEDICAL KITS —————— “When preparing your own medical kit,” says Dr. Eric L. Weiss,…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Gear to Go Snowboarding Essentials From helmets to boards, performance and comfort are high on this year’s list By Sean O’Brien HELMETS AND HATS ———————— With in-the-trees riding the rage,…
 Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Islands We’d Love to be Stranded On From the South Pacific to the Mediterranean, the Keys to Waterbound Bliss Palau The republic of Palau is the original Waterworld. No particular dollop of land among…
Out Front, Fall 1998 Relations The Taliban and I Shall we lunch? I get the kabobs. And he’s having Afghanistan. By Amy Goldwasser “It’s a good thing we don’t have beaches anywhere in our country,” Mawlawi Abdul Wahab says…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Environment: No, Uh, Cooperation in Defense of Mother Earth Can’t anybody organize this thing? How backroom feuds led to this month’s Earth Day chaos. By Bill Gifford Nobody organizes Earth Day,” former senator Gaylord Nelson said last summer…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Bicycling: Straighten Up and Ride Right The National Mountain Bike Patrol aims to help fat-tire riders buff a tarnished image By Florence Williams Ross Blasman hates to admit it, but he looks like a cop, and when…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Access & Resources: Deep in the Karakoram; By Sara Corbett In Pakistan’s northeast corner, where blossoming apricot, peach, and cherry orchards proliferate under robust, 25,000-foot Karakoram peaks, the Hunza Valley is nothing short of dazzling. Prime trekking season is June…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Oceanography: R2DTuna By Mark Wheeler “Tuna are the fighter planes of the fish world,” says Dave Barrett, a 35-year-old ocean engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hoping to put that power in a can, Barrett and his colleagues are…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Cowboy Nation: Clothes Make the Cowpoke From the homespun to the highflautin, the best in buckaroo gear By Sara Corbett In a marketplace choked with faux western wear, it’s important to keep in mind that cowboys, real cowboys,…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Wildlife: To Love, Honor, and Consume Do American Indians have a better idea for Yellowstone’s bison mess? By Amy Linn Sunrise glows on rifle barrels as park rangers and game wardens huddle in a Montana snowfield just outside…
Outside magazine, May 1996 Now, He Can Really Start Carousing After a near crash at the top of the course, in which he momentarily skidded on his hip, Alberto Tomba recovered spectacularly to capture his first-ever world championship gold medal last February at Sierra Nevada, Spain.
Outside magazine, April 1995 Cowboy Nation: King of the Yee-Hah He knows everything there is to know about life in the saddle. Catch him at a 100-mph gallop, and he’ll tell you all about it. By Tim Cahill Four or five…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Cowboy Hit Parade “Home on the Range,” TRADITIONAL, CIRCA 1880 “When the Work’s All Done This Fall,” CARL T. SPRAGUE, 1925 “Tumbling Tumbleweeds,” SONS OF THE PIONEERS, 1932 “Cattle Call,” TEX OWENS, 1934…
Outside magazine, May 1996 Oh, Canada It’s not easy following in the footsteps of Ben Johnson, but Canadian Donovan Bailey–the reigning 100-meter world champion who at press time had won six of the seven indoor events he’d entered in 1996–is doing just that. Last February…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Cowboy Nation: Introduction Whatever the decade, whatever the mood, we always have Shane in our hearts. A salute to the most dependable and deconstructed American hero. By William Kittredge Before I could read, I learned to imitate buckaroos…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Dude-Free Ranches By Sara Corbett All ‘Round Ranch, Jensen, Utah. This 400-square-mile spread in the northeastern corner of Utah will put you on a horse and keep you there for four- to six-day pack trips through aspen-covered backcountry. Capacity:…