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Outside magazine, April 1995 Cowboy Nation: The Eternal Sidekick: God Bless the Horse Take Old Paint out of the picture and all you’ve got is a man who chases cattle By Jim Fergus Sure, you can drive a candy-apple-red Chevy pickup…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Cowboy Nation: The Song Man: Sagebrush Troubadour Every culture has its musical spokesman. For cowpeople, it’s Ian Tyson. By Tim Cahill A big damn hand came out of the sky and tapped Ian Tyson on the shoulder.
Outside magazine, April 1995 Cowboy Nation: Viva Calf Ropers For ten days each year, Las Vegas is rodeo heaven–and the boys with the pigging strings are Wayne Newton By Lynn Snowden For ten days every December, Las Vegas becomes cowboy country.
 Outside magazine, April 1995 After Rwanda From the shadows thrown by Dian Fossey, Jose Kalpers emerged as the mountain gorillas’ next great hope. Then came a civil war that decimated a country, put the primates further at risk, and left the exiled savior…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Where to Two-Step By Sara Corbett Billy Bob’s Texas, 2520 Rodeo Plaza, Fort Worth, TX 76106; 817-589-1711. A turn-of-the-century cattle barn dressed up in neon, Billy Bob’s plays host to some of the country’s rowdiest boot-stomping. This month’s headliners…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Bodyboarding: And Huey Frowned By Todd Balf As an acclaimed master at Oahu’s Banzai Pipeline, bodyboarding champion Mike Stewart has seen a few things in his time. Until the Morey Bodyboards World Championship last January 14, however, he’d never witnessed…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Boating: How Many Engineers Does It Take… By Todd Balf Last September’s shakedown voyage of the Microship, a 19-foot trimaran capable of operating under solar, sail, or electric power, didn’t go well. Its tiny size ultimately could not accommodate…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Return of the Hunted After 70 years, phantom has become fact. But the story has just begun. By Hampton Sides It was over in less than an hour. Twenty years of debate would culminate in a prosaic…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Milestones: Walt Stack, 1908-1995 By John Brant “I’m a real bag a hell today,” Walt Stack would joke as he ran along in a dogged shuffle, “but tomorrow I may be a dead mackerel.” On January 19, after a long…
Outside magazine, April 1995 The Bags of Summer For the kind season, bedding with just enough less of everything By Douglas Gantenbein Be overprepared. That’s the Boy Scout hypermotto that many campers mistakenly live by when it comes to bedding down in…
Outside magazine, April 1995 My Imaginary Life Yin of snags, yang of stubbies. Who says you must come home again? By Randy Wayne White After only a week in Australia’s Northern Territory, mostly hanging around the town of Darwin, I caught myself…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Books: Evils of the Junket By Miles Harvey Errant Journeys: Adventure Travel in a Modern Age, by David Zurick (University of Texas Press, $30). Everywhere David Zurick looks, he finds the world “on a path toward conformity.” Yet it…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Essentials: The Pads to Pack By Douglas Gantenbein It’s not all in the name: sleeping pads do smooth over the rocks and twigs, but they also insulate you from the cold ground. A roundup of pads that elevate your body…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Buying Right: A Stove for Every Fuel By Michael Lanza Your tried and true white-gas stove will reliably follow you many places, but across an ocean isn’t one of them: Outside North America, white gas is as rare as…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Buying Right: Backcountry Watches By Gordon Black The wristwatch with a flip-out corkscrew has yet to appear, but there are backwoods timepieces that you can call tools. Whether you want to check your direction of travel, predict the weather,…
 Outside magazine, May 1998 The Jungle Took Her Twenty-seven years ago a young Canadian woman went to Borneo seeking a sort of paradise, a place where she could study the mysterious red ape, gather science, garner respect…
Outside magazine, May 1998 Allow me to be the first to congratulate you on your stunning achievement (damn you) A few heartwarming tales from the annals of high-minded competition By Florence Williams Did. Did not. Did too. How rich…
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…