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Dispatches, November 1998 Environmental A Delta Insurrection A band of renegades struggles to bring back the Mississippi Hood forest By Jonathan Miles More than 45 years ago, when John Price was a Southern boy pursuing squirrels, deer, and ducks…
Destinations, November 1998 Ace is the Place A prime-season meander down South Carolina’s Ashepoo, Combahee, and Edisto Rivers By Parke Puterbaugh If your mental image of coastal South Carolina consists mainly of Myrtle Beach’s six-lane…
Outside Magazine, November 1998 Ode to a Buck-Naked Cowboy Is there poetry — or adventure — to be found among the silver sage, flat tires, and unlikely characters of the Black Rock Desert? Maybe. By Tim Cahill I was driving north,…
Outside Magazine, November 1998 Review: No Halfpipe Can Hold Me For those with all-mountain aspirations, a freeride board is the answer By Mark North SNOWBOARDS | BUYING RIGHT | THE OTHER…
Outside magazine, November 1998 How Hard Is Hard? To firm up the nebulous, get cozy with your lactate threshold At what pace should you be working? Good question — and one you should be constantly…
Outside magazine, August 2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 NEXT STOP, MURDER LAKE Beating…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Gear to Go Travel Clothes Pack only fabrics that wick, dry fast, and refuse to wrinkle By Robert Earle Howells SHIRTS ——— Three great and distinct achievements in polyester coolness:…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Never Say Dry Just snorkel, surf, dive, sail, fish, paddle a kayak … DIVING ——— Red Hill, Maui On Maui all dive boats lead to Molokini crater, the underwater equivalent of…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Travels with Mr. Ed On Horseback through mountains, plains, and rainforest By Ann Jones India Cling on tight to this tough little mountain pony bedecked with oriental carpets and brass bells —…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Gear to Go Travel Bags Secret compartments, mesh pouches, and zip-out extensions for all your stuff By Robert Earle Howells CONVERTIBLES —————— You know what a long suitcase portage does…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Shooting from the Trip Photo safaris to hone your skills and sharpen your focus By Kara Ryan E-MAIL FROM: DAKAR, SENEGAL On the outskirts of Dakar, middle-aged borro-borros, West Africa's traditional pharmacists, sit on blue…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Tips from the Field Interviews by Suzy Preston Nevada Wier You specialize in portraiture. How do you approach people in foreign countries to photograph them? Well, it’s pretty clear that I’m…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Gear to Go Seaworthy Stuff Shield your camera from spray, your toes from rocks, your eyes from the sun By Robert Earle Howells WEATHERPROOF BAGS ————————— Whether the adversary is…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide The Beachfinder First pick your place Ko Nang Yuan; Ko Tao, Thailand Wineglass Bay; Freycinet Ntl Park, Tasmania Radha Nager Beach; Havelock Island, India…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide The (Almost) Final Frontier Don’t expect the cell phone to work Cape Leveque, Australia If you’ve ever wondered what it felt like to be a deranged Victorian explorer, try driving to Cape Leveque via…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide All This for $50 a Night? 12 weeklong tropical escapes from $650 per person to $14,000 — what’s your vacation worth? By Everett Potter HAWAII: ————— BUDGET — $750 PER PERSON…
Out Front, Fall 1998 Expeditions Race Boat Around Planet Alone. Set Record. Lose Boat. Almost Die. Repeat. Think the life of a top solo sailor is a little crazy? Right you are. By Francine Prose Isabelle Autissier seems…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Crash Tested Hollywood’s most brazen stuntwomen demonstrate how to dress for the fall (and the car wreck … and the explosion … and the 20-story leap) Fashion by Vicky McGarry, Photographs by Andrew Eccles, Text by Sarah…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 You, Incorporated A portfolio of entrepreneurial successes shows that investing in your own dream is always, ahem, a capital idea By Susan Enfield Chances are you know your office PC’s start-up rumblings and I’m-saving-now hiccups…
Out Front, Fall 1998 Activism Butterfly is Free And so, in this case, is the publicity she seeks By Bill Donahue In the beginning, she was but a pilgrim with a decidedly funky name. Julia “Butterfly” Hill, a 24-year-old…
Out Front, Fall 1998 Competition What Are Friends For? An Ironman up-and-comer looks to dethrone her mentor By Lolly Merrell When Heather Fuhr (pictured) closed on the heels of Paula Newby-Fraser at last year’s Ironman Triathlon World Championship…
Out Front, Fall 1998 Oceanography One Fish, Two Fish Sylvia Earle, mistress of the deep, surveys her perch By Karen Karbo More men have walked on the moon than where ocean explorer Sylvia Earle has walked. In 1979, Earle…
Out Front, Fall 1998 Art What a Bold Choice of, Er, Caca The latest in conceptual art is politically correct, biodegradable, and carries a formidable olfactory punch By Cristina Opdahl As Christo, everyone’s favorite environmental artiste and wrapping bandit,…
Out Front, Fall 1998 Law Go Directly to Jail — By Way of the Appalachian Trail Tracking Eric Rudolph, outdoorsman-cum-outlaw-cum-outdoorsman By Bill Donahue He was out there, somewhere, and in the oak-specked hills of North Carolina, 200 federal…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Errata The Wrong Stuff Attention shoppers: All sales are final. Especially on the Freshettes. By C.O. GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS | HEALTH |…
Out Front, Fall 1998 Science “I Have to Be … Fiorella” First, there was Copernicus. Then, Galileo. Eventually Madonna. Now comes Dr. Terenzi: astronomer, pop star, visionary. By Amy Goldwasser “We are not communicating with celestial objects,” says Dr.
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Adeventure Classics: Fly-Fishing Casting with the Big Shots Welcome to Patagonia, where even the moguls feel blessed By Katie Arnold GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS |…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Toys Sharp Objects The best ways to slice, carve, chop, whittle, and otherwise be a cutup By Michael Kessler GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS |…
Out Front, Fall 1998 Virtual Wilderness What outdoor aficionados will be reading, viewing, and downloading this season By Laura Miller and Sarah Horowitz The Road Home, by Jim Harrison, (Atlantic Monthly Press, $25) Old myths of the…
Out Front, Fall 1998 Anthropology O.J., B.C. New and disheartening evidence that domestic abuse is prehistory By Cristina Opdahl It wasn’t So Fred Flintstone flirted with waitresses in Rockapulco. And frittered away too much time at the lodge.
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Equipment The Girl-Gear Revolution State-of-the-art clothes and accoutrements that give unisex the boot. By Gretchen Reynolds and Cristina Opdahl GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS |…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Adeventure Classics: Skiing Ich Bin Ein Schusser The Austrian Way: downhill in sybaritic splendor By Stephanie Gregory GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS | HEALTH…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Fashion Trust Vicky Got a little disposable income? Let our style maven help ou spend it. By Vicky McGarry GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS |…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Yellow Pages: Resources for the Adventurous Athlete Fitness By John Brant, Gretchen Reynolds and Lea Aschkenas GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS | HEALTH |…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Longevity My, You’re a Pretty Young Thing Our octogenarian correspondent meets the septuagenarian of his dreams — with predictable results GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS |…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Recovery Yo, Mommy, Drop and Give me 50 Postpartum drills for mother and Chumley By Gretchen Reynolds GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS | HEALTH…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Technology Artifical Ingredients Added A stronger, faster better you is as close as the nearest lab By Cristina Opdahl GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS |…
 Winter Travel Guide 1996 La Ruta Tropical A mountain-to-jungle-to-reef meander through Mexico and pints south A vacation south of the border doesn’t have to mean a mega-resort crammed with sedentary chaise-loungers. In Mexico, there are Pacific beach towns and mountain hideaways that you…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 XOXO Bitch! An homage to those of us fortunate enough to have the upper hand By Mike Grudowski Everyone has heard of nature’s most notorious femmes fatales, the black widow and the praying mantis. Their habit of…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Beauty I Slough, Therefore I Am Words of wisdom from Nietzsche, Lao-tzu, and other skin-care experts By Mary Roach GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS |…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Where the Wild Guides Are By Hannah Holmes If you romped around the great outdoors for a living, where would you go when you had to take a vacation? We squeezed some winter travel tips from four professional guides: Outward…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Bet You Never Thought Of… By Laura Billings SOUTH PACIFIC Bikini Bottoms For nearly 50 years the only civilians to set eyes on the shipwrecks off the Bikini atoll–site of atomic bomb tests between 1946 and 1954–were…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Resort Report The Carribean: An all-star list of island sporting resorts, from tented camps to posh plantations THE BITTER END YACHT CLUB,VIRGIN GORDA, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS The Big Picture: Accessible only by boat, the Bitter End,…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Ecuador: Survival of the Smartest The right way to cruise Darwin’s Isles-no ifs, ands, or butts By Everett Potter Let’s start with the food poisoning and the congealed spaghetti suppers and move on to the organized line-dancing classes…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Well-Outfitted Skier The Outfit With hourglass-shaped skis, aerodynamic poles, composite boots, and an infinitude of accessories flooding the market, picking gear that’s right for you can be an ordeal. What all this super-sidecut and…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Ute For You By Lisa Twyman Bessone Sure, that sea-level-loving sedan might get you to the slopes. But when you’re heading for five-figure elevations full of ice or packed snow, you need a vehicle with postman-motto tenacity: Here are…
Winter Travel Guide Our Journey, Our Selves By Lorien Warner Some 300 outfitters now offer thousands of female-only trips worldwide. “Women today are finding that it can be more fun to hang with the ‘girls’ than compete with the boys,” says Yvonne Lusetti of…
Outside magazine, May 2001 God’s Green Earth BRUCE BARCOTT HAS floored me again (“For God So Loved the World”). When I read his feature about the green preacher Peter Illyn and the burgeoning Christian environmental movement, I…
The Perfect Directions, January 1999 Do You Know What You Don’t Know? The biggest mistake, our globe-trotting experts say, is to set off without doing your homework. But they’re happy to let you crib from their notes.
Outside magazine, December 1995 But I Do Get an Extra Lei, Don’t I? By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta “The guy who wins, wins,” says Jim Barahal, president of next month’s Honolulu Marathon. “It’s anti-athletic to award prize money based on who you are.”…
Outside magazine, December 1995 It’s a French Thing. You Wouldn’t Understand. By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta Twenty-four hours before concluding his solo transatlantic trip, French rower Joseph LeGuen slid into a deep funk. “I thought, It’s not possible that this could end,” he…
 Outside Magazine, January 1999 Blackbeard Doesn’t Come Here Anymore And for that matter, neither do the Bahamian picnickers, or the drug runners, or the gentle eccentrics who once made Gorda Cay their home. Of course, that was…
Outside magazine, January 1994 New Year’s Trips: Ringing It In Outdoors By Bob Howells New Year celebrations being among the most tedious of social obligations, the best way to get through them is to be irrevocably out of town. Out of any town,…
Dispatches, April 1998 ENVIRONMENT When We Say Roadless, We (Kinda) Mean It The Clinton administration’s latest bold move could spell the end of subsidized logging … or not By Alan Freedman It’s the timber industry’s oldest maxim: If you…
Outside magazine, January 1995 Triathlon: The Man Just Won’t Go Away By Todd Balf (with Barry Lewis and James Raia) Ten miles from the finish on a sun-baked highway on the Big Island of Hawaii, Dave Scott, competing again after a three-year “retirement,” was…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Season’s Fleeings Out with the old, in with a ramble–winter celebrations in the mountains and the sea By Meg Lukens Noonan With the holidays looming, you’re no doubt deep in shopping malls, fake snow, and way too many…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Regimens: Tuning Your Body’s Suspension By Dana Sullivan “Stretching and strengthening all of the ligaments, tendons, and muscles around the hips will stabilize the region,” says Dr. Lyle Micheli, author of The Sports Medicine Bible. In principle, Micheli approaches…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Don’t Condo Me In Sheep rancher Randy Campbell says he’s been backed against a wall. “All the spring range is being subdivided for golf courses,” sighs Campbell, who works land near Vail, Colorado. Such growth has forced him to…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Parapenting “There is apprehension,” says Susie Smyle, a trip packager with Boulder, Colorado-based All Adventure Vacations, of the booming phenomenon known as multisport sampler tours. These outdoor smorgasbords let clients try everything–rafting, hiking,…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Hey, Isn’t That Al Oerter? Maybe you aren’t going to the summer Olympics because you can’t get tickets. Or maybe it’s just jitters about Atlanta’s style–after all, do you really want to see waiflike foreign gymnasts get razzed off…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Haven’t Been There. Ain’t Done That. It’s not easy being a world-beating adventurer these days. On a planet teeming with energetic busybodies, you have to find something to be first at. But fear not. In 1996, there will be…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Be All That You Can’t Be It lets you move freely and enjoy the sights,” says Michael Sneath, an underwater trainer for Belaqua, which manufactures the Breathing Observation Bubble, a $10,000 submersible motor scooter fitted with a Jetsons-style breathing…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Don’t Wake Us When It’s Over Psyched for a presidential election year in which the centrist incumbent battles the right with a passionate defense of the environment? Well, send us a postcard from wherever that happens. Here in the…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Dolores: Whole Lotta Illin’ Comin’ On Prognostications ’96 Dolores Cannon, a 64-year-old, Huntsville, Arkansas-based occultist whose friendly face is at odds with her terrifying predictions, is the author of the three-volume Conversations with Nostradamus. The books…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: I Don’t Want To Tell You: A GOP Candidate Forum “Dear Republican Presidential hopeful,” our polite letter began. “We’d like to hear your views on a couple of major environmental issues and pose a character-testing essay question: ‘If…
Outside magazine, January 1996 A Lung in Men’s Clothing By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brooke DeNisco, Martin Forstenzer, and Eileen Hansen) Matt Carpenter pitched his usual psych job at his mountain-running rivals before last October’s Everest Skymarathon–he wears an air filter that…
Outside magazine, January 1996 A Two-Elk Pileup’s Causing Big Delays… By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brooke DeNisco, Martin Forstenzer, and Eileen Hansen) In what could be shaping up as a battle of the homespun heavyweights, Charles Kuralt has procured a radio station…
Outside magazine, January 1994 Access & Resources: The Schlepp to Sipadan By Amy Goldwasser Maybe it’ll happen on the long trip to Kota Kinabalu, when you realize you’ve lost two days to time zones. Or maybe it’ll happen as you squirm into your…
Outside magazine, January 1994 Into the Wild Biru Yonder On the Sipadan side of the world, diving is more soaring than descending By Randy Wayne White Sipadan Island, Sabah, Malaysia A side benefit of exotic travel is that you…
Outside magazine, January 1995 Smart Traveler: Wilderness By Mail Now’s the time to send away for tough-to-get permits By Debra Shore Like it or not, certain rivers, mountains, and backcountry campsites now have the cachet of a three-star restaurant where reservations are…
January 1995 Dispatches: For the Record Triathlon: The Man Just Won’t Go Away Destinations Smart Traveler: Wilderness By Mail…
Outside magazine, January 1996 When the Hips Are Down …even a simple stroll is a trial. How to keep the big ball-and-sockets rolling through the snow. By Dana Sullivan The hips are the postal workers of the human body: They’ll diligently do…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Intake: The Latest Hydration Helper By Dana Sullivan Staying hydrated during a long workout can lead the human athlete to believe that a couple of water-storing humps might be a superior evolutionary trait. Camel envy aside, a substance called glycerol–a…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Foreign Travel: Planet Marsupial Kangaroo Island, a pocket-size Australia By David Hochman If everything you imagine Australia to be were crammed into one 90-by-40-mile landscape, that microcosm would be Kangaroo Island, a place that Dr. Suess might well…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Strategies: The Orthotics Option By Dana Sullivan Close might be good enough in horseshoes, but a difference of as little as a quarter of an inch in leg length can set you up for a bad case of iliotibial band…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Camping: I Was a Teenage Gilligan A Tlingit JD talks about his not-so-hard time on a prison isle By Bill Donahue The crime was reprehensible, but the punishment seemed like a vacation. In August 1994, after beating and…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Inns & Lodges: Copper Canyon Riverside Lodge Chihuahua, Mexico By Matthew Joyce As you round the hairpin turns on the road that drops into Mexico’s Copper Canyon, it occurs to you that a parachute might come in handy.
Outside magazine, January 1996 Chronicle of a Year Foretold By Larry Burke After you’ve uncorked the Dom Perignon and yowled a few obligatory bars of “Auld Lang Syne,” dig into this month’s cover story for a revealing and decidedly effervescent sneak preview of the…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Water Sports: The Baywatch Conundrum All Craig Hummer wants is someone to take his lifeguarding seriously By Martin Dugard “Hummer Mania,” jokes professional lifeguard Craig Hummer, a Californian by way of Ohio who’s currently turning the Australian sport…