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The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Pakistan Traversing the Karakoram Outfitter Price Accommodations Concordia Expeditions 719-395-9191, www.concordia expeditions.com $3,900 camping, tourist hotels KE Adventure Travel 800-497-9675, www.keadven ture.com $3,995 camping, tourist hotels The Route:…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Romania Hiking the Transylvanian Alps Outfitter Price Accommodations Exodus Walking Holidays 011-44-181-675-5550, www.exodus travels.co.uk $940 camping, tourist hotels Executive Wilderness Programmes 011-44-171-832-5620, outworld. compuserve.com/ homepages/ EWP_uk $1,320…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Newfoundland Dogsledding in Gros Morne National Park Outfitter Price Accommodations Onward Tours 709-686-5333 www.onwardtours.com $800 camping, rustic lodging The Route: Mushing for five days on the glacier-carved high…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 New York/Vermont Inn-to-Inn Sea Kayaking on Lake Champlain Outfitter Price Accommodations Paddle Ways 802-660-8606, www.paddle ways.com $695 tourist hotels Zoar Outdoor 800-532-7483, www.zoar outdoor.com $405 tourist hotels The…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Antarctica Ski Mountaineering in Queen Maud Land Outfitter Price Accommodations Adventure Network International 011-44-1494-671-808, www.adventure-network.com $25,000 camping Cascade Alpine Guides & Adventures 800-981-0381, www.cascade-alpine.com $30,000 camping Geographic Expeditions 800-777-8183, www.geoex.com…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Bolivia Sea-Kayaking from the Andes to the Amazon Outfitter Price Accommodations Explore Bolivia 303-708-8810, www.explore bolivia.com $1,235 camping, rustic lodging, tourist hotels Piragis International Expeditions 800-223-6565, www.piragis.com $2,625 camping, rustic…
Outside magazine, April 1998 Unfrozen Caveman Camper Tells All In the beginning, there was fire. And it was good. Later came KOAs and solar showers and freeze-dried. And they were bad. So let’s go back. Way back. By Hampton Sides…
Outside magazine, April 1998 Getaways: Where Your Tent Can Pitch The Roanoke River dubuts ten floating campsites By Fran Severn The night music ensemble on northeastern North Carolina’s Roanoke River is a rowdy mix of hooting owls, waltzing herons,…
Outside magazine, April 1998 International: Launched By Martin Dugard BULLETINS Wet Shoes Colorado’s Beaver Creek Resort defies the onset of spring — and slush — with its annual…
Outside magazine, April 1998 Hook, Line, and Regulator A compressed air pilgrimage to the Red Sea, where hobbyists become compulsives in the blink of a piscine eye By Jamie James Muhammad Came to This Mountain And…
Outside magazine, April 1998 Paddling The River Primeval Access & Resources By Stephanie Gregory BACKCOUNTRY SPECIAL Unfrozen Caveman Camper The River That Time Ignored Paddling the River Primeval There…
 Outside magazine, April 1998 The River That Time Ignored Here among the bears and the glacial ice, our guide said, was the real world. Down the burly Stikine, learning not only how to survive, but how to thrive. By John…
Dispatches, April 1998 EXPEDITIONS As Cold As It Gets A trio of Russian climbers pulls off a daring midwinter ascent of Mount McKinley By Todd Balf When Russian mountaineers Artur Testov, Vladimir Ananich, and Alexandr Nikiforov reappeared in Talkeetna,…
Dispatches, April 1998 RETAIL One Giant Leap for Suckerkind How to buy lunar real estate, and other “bargains” on the World Wide Web By Katie Arnold As though there weren’t already enough distractions on the Internet, virtual malls are…
Dispatches, April 1998 SPORT These Guys May Be on EPO, Does Anyone Care? Despite the promise of an effective new drug test, the USOC drags its heels By Paul Keegan At 53, Allen Murray swims five times a week,…
 Outside magazine, April 1998 You Gotta Have Friends. Which is Damned Unfortunate. Tackling the Appalachian Trail on a whim would require a few essentials. I realized, foremost among them a boon companion. What I got was Katz. By Bill Bryson…
Outside magazine, April 1998 Out There: Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make me a pot In Maya Ortiz, achieving the good life requires a guy like Rick, bachelor and entrepreneur By Tim Cahill It was somewhere near three in the morning when Chillero’s…
Outside magazine, April 1998 The Outside Portfolio When the Giant Sequoia Talks, People Listen A guide to green investing in an uncertain, tail-of-the-bull age By Nelson D. Schwartz THE OUTSIDE PORTFOLIO: When the Giant Sequoia…
Outside magazine, January 1993 Access & Resources: Sea Kayaking Baja By Adam Horowitz Though it’s become big business, sea kayaking off Baja isn’t just another programmed trip; you get to make choices. Do you want to join a guided tour or plan a…
Outside magazine, January 1992 Triathlon: An Iron Grip By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) The Ironman World Championship didn’t appear to have much going for it. Mike Pigg, the short-course maestro, decided to skip the October 19 race and a confrontation with defending…
January 1992 Dispatches: For the Record Triathlon: An Iron Grip Destinations Windsurfing: Going Off to Boarding School…
Outside magazine, January 1992 Windsurfing: Going Off to Boarding School By Bob Howells Learning to windsurf all too often comes down to not learning to windsurf. A friend gives you five minutes of the basics of balance, uphauling, and tacking and then, at…
Outside magazine, January 1993 Triathlon: The Souls of Two Machines It’s deja vu all over again at the Hawaii Ironman By Ken McAlpine Mark Allen and Paula Newby-Fraser measure about the same on the triathlon immortality meter: Between them they…
Outside magazine, February 1996 Travel Luggage That Can Take It–All Rugged duffels, gear bags, and convertible packs that hold everything you think you might need By Bob Howells No one is more obnoxious than the travel geek who shows up for a…
Outside magazine, February 1996 Pumping 1,200: What It Takes By John Galvin Genes. Mark Henry hails from a long line of Brobdingnagians. His Great-Uncle Chudd stood six-foot-six and weighed 450 pounds. Mark mashed the scales at 220 by age ten. Maximum Bulk.
News for Adventurous Travelers, February 1997 Inns & Lodges: Spider Lake Lodge Hayward, Wisconsin By Gretchen Reynolds Far northern Wisconsin is a land of deep forests, heavy snows, impressive facial hair, and taxidermy as a design motif. But above all, it’s…
News for Adventurous Travelers, February 1997 Where the Lone Star Meets the Sea Warm sands, empty dunes, randy cranes, and fishing cowboys–this is the undiscovered South Coast of Texas By Paul Kvinta The next time you paddle your kayak through the…
News for Adventurous Travelers, February 1997 Bad Birds, Bad Birds By Paul Kvinta Get on the wrong side of a Texan and he’ll kick your ass-even if he’s a bird. Famous for their orneriness, the following avian toughs are not birds you’d…
News for Adventurous Travelers, February 1997 Horns of Plenty Bull stats on the great King Ranch By Paul Kvinta Nothing is so quintessentially Texas as King Ranch. It’s big. It’s swaggering. It’s full of red meat. And, for those traveling to…
News from the Field, February 1997 Environment: How Green Was My Valley? Angry at the feds for putting fish before cattle, an Oregon rancher takes his case to the Supreme Court By John Brant “We’re only asking that the law…
News from the Field, February 1997 Film: Those Men in the White Suits Soldiering, via documentary, with the pioneers of the modern ski industry By John Skow Once, before ski areas were theme parks and mountains were still where the storm…
News from the Field, February 1997 Running: Fleet-Footed Foreigners Need Not Apply A million-dollar purse for besting the American marathon mark begs a question: Why reward mediocrity? By Bill Donahue Maybe it was after African men took the top 13 spots…
News for Adventurous Travelers, February 1997 Long weekends: The Manchester Falcon On the prowl with Vermont’s birds of prey By Rebecca Gray The allure of Manchester, Vermont, has traditionally been its snow, its scenery, and its New England serenity. Visitors arrive…
Fitness ’97, February 1997 Finding the Right Beat Before you begin endurance work, a little math is in order. The key is to keep your heart rate below the point at which your metabolism changes from efficient burning of fat to gluttonous…
Fitness ’97, February 1997 Mental Training Ommmmmm, Ommmmmm? Hardly. Some of his former rivals, perhaps practicing a bit of diplomacy, like to call his approach “colorful.” Others, perhaps betraying a bit of jealousy, prefer the term “bizarre.” On one thing, however, they all…
Fitness ’97, February 1997 The Guru Speaks. You Should Listen. How to get from chump to champ in a few measly months. It took more than a decade for Mark Allen to perfect the routines that made him the fittest man on earth.
News from the Field, February 1997 Tinseltown: Alas, Mr. Speilberg has declined to direct By Adam Horowitz OK, here’s the plot: A dream team of Hollywood titans–one an avowed environmentalist–announces plans to build a 1,000-acre studio atop some of L.A.’s last wetlands. Unbowed…
Fitness ’97, February 1997 Above All Else… Endurance Allen’s long-and-slow approach to endurance training won’t work if you violate its main tenet: Stay below your maximum aerobic heart rate at all times. If you find yourself impatient and compelled to cheat by doing…
In the evolution of the species known as hockey players, those indoor patches of brine-cooled, milky-white, Zambonied ice have spawned some very good athletes. But the truly great ones arise from the dense, black freeze of the neighborhood skating pond, where weekend duffers and future stars happily collide.
Fitness ’97, February 1997 Pasta À la Allen Mark Allen’s dietary beliefs may differ from those of his peers-still, once a triathlete, always a triathlete. Which means pasta. But Allen makes sure to add calories from sources other than carbohydrates to balance his meal, as…
Hardware and Software, February 1997 Buying Right: Saltwater Fly-Fishing Tackle By Donovan Webster As I gear up for prime saltwater fly-fishing season–when tarpon begin rustling from murky depths and migrate inland, making themselves all too available–I’m reminded of my grandfather. He was among…
Outside magazine, February 1997 Above Suspicion Touring foreign lands with fake credentials, an unflappable cohort, and a Cessna 182 By Randy Wayne White Meeting hellish deadlines when in the field is tough enough without attempting to compose while strapped into a…
Fitness ’97, February 1997 Are We There Yet? Two decades of fitness grail-seeking, including a misstep or two from the master himself By Mike Grudowski 1976 To Load or Not to Load, the Prologue: Nathan Pritikin opens the Longevity…
Hardware and Software, February 1997 Books: Rough Edges, Terminal Dreams By Miles Harvey Letting Loose the Hounds, by Brady Udall (W. W. Norton, $22). “There are times,” explains a character in this sinewy collection of short fiction, “when the only way…
Hardware and Software, February 1997 Essentials: Piscine Temptations By Donovan Webster Ah, the allure of saltwater fly-fishing: Whether you’re hitting a reedy inland tide pool or throwing shooting taper lines into the deep blue, you can cast all day without a bite, content…
Hardware and Software, February 1997 Couture A-Go-Go Functional yet snappy travel garb for a haul of any length By Bob Howells Stifling heat is no excuse when you appear bare-legged at Cairo’s Mohammed Ali Mosque. You either rent a ratty…
Hardware and Software, February 1997 Patagonia Storm Cycle By Alan Coté Working out in foul weather, swaddled head to toe in crinkly, three-layer Gore-Tex, feels like doing yoga in a business suit. Sure, any waterproof-breathable fabric will keep you dry, but most simply…
Hardware and Software, February 1997 Necessities By Bob Howells A few personal favorites round out a practical traveler’s wardrobe. The Tilley Endurables T3 hat ($45) is a subtle classic, and offers unparalleled comfort: Made of vented, water-repellent cotton duck, the T3 comes in…
Hardware and Software, February 1997 Pan-Optx Sunglasses By Sarah Bowen Shea Glasses or goggles? The new Pan-Optx Raptor ($105; 800-393-9273), makes moot the vexing question of how best to protect your eyes on piste. In fact, these sunglasses–designed with peripheral molding that snugly…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Cowboy Nation: The Aerobic Cowboy: The Tush-Push Frontier A line-dancing odyssey to the land of the rhinestone-chapped and ready By Ed Zuckerman It was 7:30 on a Friday night, and the cavernous dance hall at In Cahoots, a…