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Outside magazine, May 1998 A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose In praise of doing nothing. To wit: No racing, no exceeding, no catch-and-releasing. Just time-tested fooling around. By Ian Frazier As kids, my friends and I spent a lot…
 Outside magazine, May 1998 Another Day Under the Black Volcano Picture a life in the shadow of the rumbling Soufri`ere, from whose vicissitudes come ash and rock and a possible scorching death. Would you flee, as have most of your neighbors? Or…
Outside magazine, May 1998 Something Wicked This Way Comes It walloped Hawaii, uprooting palms and swatting aside men who thought they could surf it. Now the biggest swell in 30 years was barreling across the Pacific, aiming for the coast. Anyone feeling lucky?…
Outside magazine, May 1998 Access & Resources Montserrat, minus the lava By Katie Arnold Another Day Under the Black Volcano Once you get over the fact that two-thirds of Montserrat is now buried under a thick…
Outside magazine, May 1998 Anatomy of a Big One Riding huge surf is simple, really: Know how the wave works, time your entry right, and, um, hope for the best. By Daniel Duane Something Wicked This Way…
Dispatches, May 1998 FILM If We Told You, It Wouldn’t Be a Secret, Would It? A rather silly journey in search of a very special place By Bill Vaughn Few things are as delicious as a secret, and nothing…
Dispatches, May 1998 AFTERMATHS Nuclear Weapons Waste? Right This Way. While protesters cry foul, the U.S. government prepares to throw open the gates of the nation’s first permanent plutonium graveyard By Michael Dolan A small cluster of white…
Dispatches, May 1998 LOST CAUSES Take My Monuments, Please! An Antarctic obsessive desperately tries to give his treasures away By Michael McRae ‘I guess it’s kind of a white elephant,” Warren Pearson admits, gazing at the hand-tooled copper…
Dispatches, May 1998 BOUQUETS Mulch Madness Seattle takes a deep breath — and braces for another putrid spring By Lolly Merrell Stepping onto the porch of his home one morning last spring, State Representative Brian Thomas leaned back…
Dispatches, May 1998 EXPEDITIONS Everest, the Really Hard Way Tom Whittaker, amputee mountaineer, sets his sights on the roof of the world By Jonathan Hanson You can talk to Tom Whittaker for hours and not once will he refer…
Outside magazine, May 1998 Field Notes: How Swede It Is Few races reveal as much about those who run in them as the all-but-flawless O-ringen By Bucky McMahon Before anything else happens, the moose need to be moved. And so,…
Destinations, May 1998 A Few Sage Comments on the Benefits of Higher — and Wetter, and Muddier, and Snowier — Education The simple secret to getting good at something — climbing, for instance, and sailing, mountain biking, snowboarding, and more — is to…
Outside magazine, May 1998 Out There: One Hundred Yards of Solitude The truly personal places are where you decide to find them. So ignore that speeding ferry. By Tim Cahill Nations rise and nations fall. They crest like waves and…
Destinations, May 1998 Continuing Education Ten more first-rate classrooms-with-a-view. By Cristina Opdahl Climbing Exum Mountain Guides and Mountaineering School, Wyoming. The granddaddy of climbing camps. Founder Glen Exum was the first to ascend Exum Ridge on the Grand…
Outside magazine, May 1998 Review: Crisp Shots, No Weighting Why schlepp that SLR when point-and-shoots get the job done and then some By Jonathan Hanson POINT-AND-SHOOTS | ROCK SHOES | THE…
Bodywork, May 1999 Eyes Wide Open No need to settle for so-so sight. Not when an ocular workout can bring your game into focus. By Tish Hamilton Two seasons ago Greg Vaughn was,…
Outside magazine, May 1999 BOOKS Hard Places Buy this book! Close Range: Wyoming Stories, by Annie Proulx (Scribner, $25). The author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning…
Outside magazine, May 1999 Environment Your Tax Dollars at Work. Sort Of. A bold plan may save the Okefenokee. But is the price too high? When itinerant silversmith steve Knight and his wife, Jo, decided…
Outside magazine, May 1999 LONG WEEKENDS Just Like Clockwork Celebrating Canada’s Swiss-guide centennial with an efficient assault of your own If you fancy yourself an old-school mountaineer, this summer is an especially good time to honor…
Outside magazine, May 1999 Epitaph for a Crusader Terry Freitas lived for a cause, a place, a people, but he died for no good reason at all. When Terence Freitas returned to the United States on…
Outside magazine, May 1999 Trends How Green Is My Mini-Bar? A reduced, recycled, reused sojourn at America’s most guilt-free upscale hotel Ever since its grand opening in late January, guests have been flocking to…
Outside magazine, May 1999 Expeditions Sledgepuller, P.I. Toting 300 pounds and a love of the arcane, a Canadian explorer attempts to unravel an Arctic mystery When Hans Kr’ger set out to explore a desolate stretch…
 Outside magazine, May 1999 From the Wonderful People Who Brought You the Killing Fields Never Mind the Land Mines, the Kidnappings, the Chaotic Weirdness. When the Henchmen Of Cambodia Throw Down the Welcome Mat For Tourism, the…
Outside magazine, May 1999 Endurance 113 Miles to Go? Pull, Dammit! To dream up the world’s toughest rowing race, it helps to be called The Hammer If you happen to wake at dawn some…
 Outside magazine, May 1999 Eat My Backwash, Se±or! Sixteen hours in the foul Argentine drink, at a pair of the world’s longest (and strangest) swim races By Ken Kalfus Photographs by Rob Howard After…
Outside magazine, May 1999 Lowe and Behold With most media attention on mainstream athletes like Michael Jordan, Mark McGwire, and John Elway, it was so refreshing to read your profile of climber Alex Lowe (“The Mutant and…
Outside magazine, May 1999 The Art of the Upgrade Whether you need the whole or just a few of the parts, here’s how to make sure your steed is up to speed Bikes | Pedals |…
Outside magazine, May 1999 To Hell with Me Looking for answers in “a place of unquenchable fire,” where the blind seer is open for business but the gift shop closes at half past two By Mark…
Destinations, May 1999 Cabo? Sure. But Not That Cabo. East of San Lucas’s sun-drunk hordes, the Baja that was still is By Jeff Spurrier Hustle and bustle, East Cape-style: an amphibious traffic jam…
Outside Magazine, May 1999 INNS & LODGES Rainbow Ranch A deft-enough cast from the deck adjacent to your room in Rainbow Ranch’s south wing might well plop a Madame X into a riffle of the plentiful…
Outside Magazine, May 1999 Sold to the Power Mac G3! Finding bargains on the Web’s auction block By Nate Hoogeveen Booking travel over the internet is already big business–1998 saw more than $3 billion in sales.
Outside magazine, June 1992 Wilderness Areas: Bona Fide Beaches By Meg Lukens Day at the beach doesn’t always turn out to be…well…a day at the beach. Sometimes the fog rolls in just after you’ve slathered yourself with Number 15.
Outside magazine, June 1992 Inns & Lodges: Adirondack Rock & River Guide Service, New York By Andrew Nemethy New York State’s Adirondack Park offers most everything a rock fan could want: hundreds of routes, still-virgin faces, and 46 peaks over 4,000 feet. The…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Everglades National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Box 279, Homestead, FL 33030 305-242-7700 Established 1947 1,506,539 Acres The Big Picture: Subtle, even brooding, Everglades leaves the traveler with a…
Outside magazine, June 1992 A Guide to the Guide A word about some of our terms By Debra Shore The Big Picture: A thumbnail sketch of the history, geography, myths, and peculiarities of each park, as well as its little…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Introduction By Alston Chase I was 12 when I discovered the magic of national parks. In 1947 our family was living in Fort Lewis, Washington. My father, an army officer, bought a small trailer, shaped like…
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, June 1992 Our National Parks: Denali National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Box 9, Denali Park, AK 99755 907-683-2294 Established 1917 6,000,000 Acres The Big Picture: The guidebooks say that Denali is Athapaskan for…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Grand Canyon National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Box 129, Grand Canyon, AZ 86023 602-638-7888 Established 1919 1,215,375 Acres The Big Picture: You can talk about its storied past,…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Acadia National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Box 177, Bar Harbor, ME 04609 207-288-3338 Established 1919 35,000 Acres The Big Picture: On the “crown jewels” scale, Acadia rates somewhere…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Great Smoky Mountains National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Gatlinburg, TN 37738 615-436-5615 Established 1934 520,000 Acres The Big Picture: In the early 1920s, the fledgling National Park Service…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Rocky Mountain National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Estes Park, CO 80517 303-586-2371 Established 1915 265,669 Acres The Big Picture: It doesn’t have a catchy name, it doesn’t have…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Yosemite National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Box 577, Yosemite National Park, CA 95389 209-372-0200 Established 1890 784,542 Acres The Big Picture: Ever since white men stumbled into Yosemite…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Ash Mountain, Three Rivers, CA 93271 209-565-3341 Established 1890 864,383 Acres The Big Picture: Upward mobility defines these twin parks at…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Olympic National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore 600 E. Park Ave., Port Angeles, WA 98362 206-452-4501 Established 1938 922,653 Acres The Big Picture: Its soggy reputation and inauspicious location…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Yellowstone National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Box 168, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190 307-344-7381 Established 1872 2,219,823 Acres The Big Picture: Yellowstone is both flagship and fishbowl of…
Outside magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Zion National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Springdale, UT 84767 801-772-3256 Established 1919 147,034 Acres The Big Picture: Next to its scenery, this park’s greatest resource is the metaphors…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Inns & Lodges: Big Bay Point Lighthouse, Michigan By David Willey On a foggy night in 1902, Big Bay’s first lighthouse keeper, William Pryor, wandered into the woods and hanged himself from a tree. His journal hints that he…
June 1992 Our National Parks: An Uncommon Guide By Alston Chase and Debra Shore Introduction Acadia National Park Denali National Park Everglades National Park Glacier National Park…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Regimens: Getting a Grip By John Brant Keith Cedro, a former strength and conditioning coach for the New York Mets, has seen plenty of good athletes with bad hands. But his prescription isn’t just for million-dollar ballplayers.
Outside magazine, June 1994 You Could Use Some Helping Hands You’re only as good as your grasp, so before you pick up the pace this summer, pick up the silly putty By John Brant During my freshman year in college, a…
Outside magazine, June 1993 Wilderness Areas: Grand Canyon East By Toby Thompson Surveying the enormous expanse of Pine Creek Gorge from an overlook on the east rim, you could easily mistake it for the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Hiking down to the…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Sea Kayaking: The Alternative to Old Faithful By Cynthia Hunter It’s an old saw that the typical visitor to Yellowstone National Park is attached to his car by a 100-foot rope. But even backcountry diehards might be surprised to…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Environment: Do As You Say…or Else The cost of choosing the wrong neighborhood By Susan Mulcahy Andy Kerr, conservation director for the Oregon Natural Resources Council, has firm beliefs about how much commercial logging should be allowed…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Entertainment: We Use Live Bullets! By John Galvin We Use Live Bullets! If you go to tombstone, arizona, this summer, be sure to take along your loaded six-shooter. and don’t be surprised if some of the biggest,…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Sport: One Small Tack for Womankind At last, a women-only America’s Cup team. But can it survive Bill Koch? By Dan Dickison Don’t like to be a pawn in anybody’s game,” says Betsy Alison, an American sailor…
Outside magazine, June 1994 The Perfect Summer: Shed Those Pesky Pounds Advice on lightening your backcountry load By Michael McRae In outdoor product design, the grail of going light is forever being resurrected. In the sixties Gerry Mountaineering introduced a 13-pound…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Anthropology: Quest for Roadkill By Amy Goldwasser These days the zeitgeist cauldron is bubbling with all things Cave Man. The discovery of a “missing link” skull in Ethiopia. The Flintstones movie, and, of course, the enduring popularity of Fabio.
Outside magazine, June 1994 The Perfect Summer: Call Me Mr. Ribs The last word on barbecue By Brad Wetzler If God is in the details, it’s a holy man who finger-massages his spareribs before laying them over the coals. I know.
 Outside magazine, June 1994 The Hydroponic Dreams of Laird Hamilton He was born in a bathysphere, baptized in surfboard resin, raised in the rainforest in Hawaii. Who else is ready to ride the biggest wave on earth? By Bucky McMahon…
Outside magazine, June 1994 The Perfect Summer: Let Them Build Shacks A blueprint for constructing the most regal sand castle on the beach By Brian Alexander It’s sunny. You’re at the shore. There’s sand. There’s water. A sand castle is clearly…
Outside magazine, June 1994 The Perfect Summer: A Tomato You Can Be Proud Of Secrets for sowing a prize winner By Todd Balf Some things can’t help but grow well. The tomato, in my experience, isn’t one of them. Tomatoes are…
Outside magazine, June 1994 The Perfect Summer: The Honest-to-God Curveball Loosen up the elbow. Snap that wrist. We’re not talking about softball. By Randy Wayne White Few can hit a curveball, but almost anyone can make a ball curve, unless their…
Outside magazine, June 1994 The Perfect Summer: Fear Not the Wave It’s big, it’s mean–and you must ride it. The key to clobber-proof bodysurfing. By Rob Story Hw much longer you gonna let those greasy waves jam your frequency? How many…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Mountaineering: Queen of Solo By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Eric Hagerman) French sport-climber-turned-mountaineer Catherine Destivelle, who has spent the last several years soloing some of Europe’s most venerated peaks, usually in spectacular fashion, knocked off another in…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Mountain Biking: 150-kph Dreaming By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Eric Hagerman) Funny things happen when you try to ride a mountain bike at 150 kph. Ask the new downhill speed record holder, Frenchman Christian Taillefer, who on…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Evaluation: Measuring Up the UV Index By Ami Walsh If you pay any attention to your local TV or radio meteorologist, you’ve probably noticed the National Weather Service’s UV Index in the daily forecast. This number is an attempt to…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Regimens: Workouts in No Time Flat By Mark Jannot You bet interval training hurts–all the more reason to get it over with at the lunch break, when office obligations force you to keep things brief. Here’s a high-intensity training sampler…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Mountain Biking: Iron Johnny By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Eric Hagerman) The buzz at March’s Cactus Cup wasn’t so much about former world champion John Tomac’s win as the way he looked doing it. He was buffed…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Intake: An Herbal Handbook for the Training Table By Sara Corbett For those who dismiss herbal supplements as the stuff of Mia Farrow’s disappearing acts in Alice, there’s a small body of recent research showing that the athletic benefits…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Skills: How to Hone Your Peripheral Vision By Sandy Blakeslee As a child, Bill Bradley, U.S. senator from New Jersey and former New York Knicks star forward, would walk down the streets of his hometown, keeping his eyes focused straight…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Strategies: Because Man Cannot Run on Fumes Alone By Mark Jannot A lunchtime workout inevitably squeezes out one of the day’s main events–lunch. With the assistance of Nancy Clark, director of nutrition services at the SportsMedicine Brookline clinic in Massachusetts,…
Outside magazine, July 1995 The Cost of Martyrdom By Larry Burke He is the most famous inmate in Leavenworth–indeed, one of the most famous prisoners in America. His case has become a kind of modern Sacco-Vanzetti, an international cause that’s been the subject of…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Cinema: Check Out Those Lifelike Blowholes Hollywood unveils its kinder, gentler, bad-press-proof killer whales By John Alderman “These are not illusions,” says Walt Conti, owner of Edge Innovation, a movie special-effects boutique in Mountain View, California, explaining his…
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…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Mountain Biking: Fat Tires on the Divide A 3,000-mile border-to-border trail makes its Montana debut By Bob Howells You can’t yet ride a mountain bike the length of the Continental Divide, but if you have such a hankering,…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Climbing: Freeing Trango, Again By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) In explaining the difference between his climb of Pakistan’s Trango Tower this month and other ascents that have been made, Todd Skinner doesn’t mince words. “I don’t…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Some Sand of Your Own Wild, people-free beaches where all you get is sun, water, and dunes with a view By Parke Puterbaugh No matter how high the mercury gets, sometimes acres of terry cloth and over-oiled humanity…