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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…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Climbing: But Can You Get the “Times” Up There? Introducing Todd Skinner’s newest home away from home By Greg Child The only thing Todd Skinner seems to like more than talking about climbing is doing it. And clearly…
Equipage: Rush Slept Here Jerry Wigutow has just the bag for your right-leaning dreamer By Wendy Marston “It’s the best sleeping bag ever made for a mediocre and ungrateful world,” boasts Jerry Wigutow, the Brooklyn-born founder and CEO of Wiggy’s Bags, a ten-year-old…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Ma Sparker By Bill Donahue The story seemed almost biblical: 60-year-old Charmian Glassman so loved her prodigal, forest-fire-fighting son, Jason Robertson, that she ventured into the dry, manzanita-specked hills near her Mount Shasta home and reportedly set the forest ablaze,…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Crimes of Passion A glimpse into the covert world of rare butterfly collecting By Caroline Alexander There were few spectators present in the San Jose, California, courtroom to witness the sentencing of two convicted felons who faced up…
Outside magazine, January 1996 A Bimonthly Bath, Penguin Porn, and Thou New Year’s greetings from Don and Margie McIntyre, wrapping up 365 long days of Antarctic togetherness By Jack Barth Last January, adventurers Don and Margie McIntyre left the warmth of Sydney,…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Babes in Crampons “I’d stack my son’s psychological and physical strengths against 90 percent of the mountaineers that I meet,” brags Michael Stewart, proud father of 13-year-old Joshua, who is five summits away from his dream of being the…
The Outside Prognosticator: The Chicken Little Machine Just when you thought the weird weather of recent years was simmering down, 1995 had TV forecasters quaking under their shoulder pads again. As 1996 kicks off, prepare to hear more about a mysterious Defense Department installation–the High Frequency Active…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Bikini A-Go-Go Move over, Belau. The Marshall Islands’ Bikini Atoll, nuked repeatedly in U.S. surface tests in the forties and fifties, is about to become the South Pacific’s new must-dive local. “No question,” says Daniel J. Lenihan, chief of…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Heeere, Cujo! “They realize, after their couch has been destroyed and their neighbor's dog mauled, that they really don't want it anymore,” says Deborah Warlock, a Los Angeleno who operates a shelter for pet wolves abandoned by their owners. Sadly, the wolf-as-Fido…
The Outside Prognosticator: Come Spawn With Me You feel a tad slimy, but mostly smooth and sleek in the water. Your pink-bellied brethren are beside you, deftly slicing upstream through the current. You are salmon. Actually, you are a paying customer, and you’re on Vancouver Island with…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Apologizing Toward Bethlehem A few blocks from where the LAPD showed Rodney King that we can’t all get along, John Dawson is trying to prove that we can–if we say we’re sorry. A native New Zealander, Dawson, 43, is…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Coping With Atlanta the Violent Mood-Swing Way If you’re like us, you have mixed feelings about the Atlanta Olympics. Ponder the dynamic performances to come, the pageantry, and the first-time medal status of deserving sports like mountain biking, and…
Outside magazine, February 1998 Field Notes: Diorama Obscura Shuffling among history’s spoils, with animate bones, 18 million bugs, and trickster memories By Mark Levine Not long ago, I returned home from a trip to Asia, where I had climbed a…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Deep Space Shine Step one in sterilizing a spaceship is to swab the decks, knobs, and fuzzy mirror dice with rubbing alcohol. Step two is to bake the ship in a giant oven until any surviving microbes say “gaaack.”…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Gabby: Telling It Like It Is Prognostications ’96 “I was born with my gift,” says Gabrielle, an inexhaustible 49-year-old clairvoyant form Jacksonville, Florida, and a top hand at the La Toya Jackson Psychic Network, a 1-900 operation.
Outside magazine, February 1998 Lost in Space Australia’s huge and haunted Kimberley might just be the last frontier By Tony Perrottet Is the Water Fine? In croc country, how to look before you leap Out in…
Outside magazine, February 1998 Review: Getting Your Feet Wet Scuba essentials to serve aquatic novices and deep-sea experts alike By John L. Stein SCUBA ESSENTIALS | BUYING RIGHT | THE OTHER…
Dispatches, February 1998 THRILLS Call Me “Flyboy” A precarious new contraption lets us get our fighter-pilot ya-yas out By Paul Kvinta ‘Normally, if you were flying 80 miles per hour at six feet off the ground, you wouldn’t be…
Dispatches, February 1998 SPORT Attention, Boy Scouts In one adventure race, manners come first and butt-kicking a distant second By Paul Scott ‘A couple years ago, one of our racers had a tremendous bike crash and broke the fork…
Outside magazine, February 1998 Out There: OK Gorillas, No Belching During the Pledge of Allegiance Bringing a little jungle indoors, to a fresh generation of primatologists By Tim Cahill LISTEN UP! Tim Cahill speaks on Outside Radio…
Dispatches, February 1998 TRAGEDY A Pole Too Far Three skydivers die in Antarctica, leaving the world to ask, “Why?” By Susan Enfield ‘There’s no rhyme or reason for doing something like this,” Ray Miller, a 43-year-old Ohio marketing…
Outside magazine, February 1998 W I N T E R O L Y M P I C S P R E V I E W Nagano? Naga-Yes! Sure, this year’s Winter Olympics will have its foibles, including…
Dispatches, February 1998 ENTREPRENEURSHIP Finally, a No-Flip Lid Introducing the guaranteed-to-stay-put SpeedVisor By Shane Dubow Five years ago, Scott Oxman had a problem. He had fair skin, you see, and whenever he indulged his favorite outdoor passions, his baseball…
Dispatches, February 1998 ADVENTURE Hey, Where’s the Joystick on This Thing? As the race to soar around the globe heats up, Dick Rutan prepares for liftoff By Hampton Sides The Borax Desert around Mojave, California, is the hallowed ground…
Outside magazine, February 1999 Finishing Strong You’re leaner, harder, wiser. Now comes the fun part: putting it to use. The grand finale of the Outside Fitness Plan shows you how to clean the competition’s clock, no…
Dispatches, February 1999 Business “We Will Win, and Earth Will Win!” And other emissions from America’s greenest CEO By Erik Stokstad When Ray Anderson threw a 24th birthday bash for his billion-dollar carpet-manufacturing company, Interface, hundreds…
Destinations, February 1999 Chuck Darwin, Eat Your Heart Out The Chiricahua Mountains are as rugged and diverse as the Galápagos but have one big advantage: They’re right here at home. By Jonathan Hanson Up at…
Outside magazine, February 1998 Review: From Heaven to Hell Whether swamping through the jungle or easing into St. Moritz, here’s the only baggage you need By Robert Earle Howells BAGGAGE…
Outside magazine, March 1994 My Malaria Adventures in delirium. Or, why I’m on a steak and gin-and-tonic diet, for my health By Tim Cahill I was eating breakfast on the terrace of a small restaurant near Santa Fe, New Mexico, when…
For years, virtually no one could beat Lynn Hill to the top of a climbing wall. Then along came Isabelle Patissier, and beyond a shadow of a doubt things are changing.
Outside magazine, March 1995 Honoring the Day of Active Rest Go ahead and exercise in your downtime, but thou shalt keep it easy. That’s a command. By Ken McAlpine Spring beckons, and with it the temptation to hack out a new you:…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Skills: Getting an Early Hold on Climbing Season By Nancy Prichard An early-season climb can be a humbling experience: No matter how many moguls you mastered over the winter, that first afternoon at the crag can make you feel like…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Evaluation: Matchmaker, Shoemaker? By Sara Corbett We’re not all fortunate enough to have a knowledgeable running-shoe salesperson at the local sporting goods store — someone who’ll gently intervene when we snatch up the first comfy pair we find, who’ll deftly…
Destinations, February 1999 First Tracks Catching a Break (or Three) The endless-summer set has yet to find Raglan’s world-class waves. Lucky for you. Surfing N.Z. Getting Around: For getting…
Outside magazine, February 1999 Books: The Way Home By James Zug BAGGAGE | BUYING RIGHT | THE OTHER STUFF | BOOKS…
Outside magazine, March 1994 Meanwhile, Closer to the Ground… Eight reasons to believe that smaller might be bigger By Kiki Yablon Around the country, and especially in the West, there’s been an evolution in the revolution. Focused but not myopic, this…
Destinations, February 1999 And for a Little Human Diversity … Don’t miss Bisbee, the funky desert oasis where left and right have agreed to meet in the middle The contrast between the sprawling concrete of…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Intake: The Bar Exam By Dana Sullivan First there was PowerBar. Now nearly two dozen sports energy bars are contending for a place in your pack. They’re all portable; the trick is to find one that’s palatable, too. Beyond taste,…
Outside magazine, February 1999 Review: Camcorder? What Camcorder? Palm-size digital video cameras let you play tourista without looking the part By Brent Hurtig BAGGAGE | BUYING RIGHT |…
Outside magazine, March 1994 A Few Good Gatormen Beating the swamps for mythological survivors By Randy Wayne White I’m no admirer of tabloid newspapers, but last November, while standing in line at the grocery, I noticed a startling headline on the…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Strategies: Running Right By Mark Jannot While Stu Mittleman is mostly known for preaching slow going, that’s only half his equation: He’s just as likely to take you to task for your form. “Any time your body isn’t aligned,…
Outside magazine, April 1996 The Town That the A-Bomb Built By Lawrence Burke Last summer’s 50th anniversary observances of the trinity blast, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki understandably focused on the world-historical transformation brought about by the atomic bomb. Considerably less was said about the here…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Symptoms: Seven Reasons to Stop, Period By Ken McAlpine Active rest may satisfy your compulsions, but there are still times when complete rest is best. “Injury and breakdown are right around the corner from success,” warns trainer Diane Buchta. “Fortunately,…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Training: The Pre-Approach Approach By Jim Rosenthal To become a better climber, get out and climb: The sport is so specific that it’s difficult to simulate with weights. So for pre- and midseason training, hit the rock gym at least…
Outside magazine, September 1994 When the Whammy Strikes It’s 3 a.m. in a big, foreign city. Do you know where your running shoes are? By Randy Wayne White Maybe through influence, but probably through curse, the Temple of the Giant Jaguar was the shaper…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Intake: Rehydrate, Reload, Recover By Suzanne Schlosberg “Eating and drinking properly after a major athletic push can make the difference between recovering quickly and having fatigue lag on for days,” says Bonnie Modugno, a dietician based in Santa Monica,…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Trail Running: Ankles Away By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and John Alderman) Prior to last June, nobody from outside Interior Alaska had won the Annihilator 10k, in the town of Nenana. And with good reason: It’s remote, steep, bug-plagued, and proudly…
 Outside magazine, April 1996 Bomb City, USA Before Fat Man and Little Boy, there was the Town That Never Was. Fifty years and generations of nuclear weapons later, it remains one of the most glorified and reviled places in our history. Deep in…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Regimens: Going Long the Light-Weight Way By Mark Jannot Endurance training happens in the weight room too, with light weights and lots of repetitions. These exercises provide a full-body workout with that aim. Stu Mittleman recommends “stacking” three…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Rowing: There Must Be Some Mistake By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and John Alderman) It was a melancholy day for the ascotted, cognac-sipping cultural elite along the banks of the Thames last June as Yankee boats tore up the mile-plus course…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Prescriptions: Soothing the Burn By Kiki Yablon When your hair-trigger camp stove has just seared your backcountry buddy, forget what you think you know. “Your campsite isn’t the place to ‘stop, drop, and roll,'” says Dr. William Forgey, editor of…
Outside magazine, April 1996 The Slow Train to Fitness Jogging at a snail’s pace, say many elite athletes, will improve your health and stamina–and even your speed By Mark Jannot I recently went for a run with Forrest Gump–or our nearest equivalent…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Paddling: NE14 Kayaks? By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and John Alderman) The Bankoh Kayak Challenge, the 32-mile open-water paddle from Molokai to Oahu, can’t be called a kayak race. Of the 81 entrants last May, all but four chose surf skis,…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Offering Oneself to the Fat Boys Even to a man with a powder pedigree, skis with girth provide the gift of flotation By James Salter I can’t remember when I started to ski powder–when I had to, probably.
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Warmest Shores: Caribbean and Atlantic Isles The Florida Keys The Bahamas Turks and Caicos Cayman Islands Jamaica Puerto Rico…
Outside magazine, December 1995 A Landscape of Possibility To lose the wilderness, author Rick Bass argues, is to lose our ability to imagine By Rick Bass When the 104th congress reconvenes next month, its unfinished business is likely to include 22 million…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Boots That Fight Cool-Guy Conformity A new pair of Sorels is for clomping and surviving and kicking stupid people, says our man from Minnesota By Garrison Keillor In my youth in Minnesota, it was definitely not cool to…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Confessions of a Cosmic Resonator Fie on sunspots! Damn those katabatic winds! I’m weather sensitive, and I’m just sick about it. By Sallie Tisdale “Plaguey twelvepenny weather,” said Jonathan Swift, and I know just what he meant. We…
Outside magazine, December 1995 The Board Report: Outta My Flight Path, Peewee! Bend those knees, square those shoulders, and kiss your ghost date good-bye. The 48-hour path to postadolescent snowboarding. By Hampton Sides I was unaware that they made ibuprofen bottles this…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Bulletins: News for the Adventurous Traveler Welcome to the Bottom of the World New trips to the deep, deep South Mexican Galápagos: Cheek to Jaws In the Lapland of Luxury…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Environment: Thank You, Sirs, May I Have Another? Bruce Babbitt braces for another whipping By Florence Williams Jayne Belnap spent much of last year watching a ten-foot-long plastic tube suck air in the Utah desert. Hitched to a…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Boots for the Path of Most Resistance With a big load on your back, your footwear standards had better be rigid By Glenn Randall Stiffness–in backpacking boots, anyway–is next to godliness. Stiffness is what shields your feet from roots and…
Outside magazine, December 1995 My Little Serrated Security Blanket The blacksmith of horror rejoices in the potentialities of an ice ax By Stephen King This is not the sort of gadget to inspire nursery rhymes. I look at the DMM Predator ice…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Puerto Rico By Jonathan Runge For whatever reason, PR gets bad PR. True, the capital, San Juan, deserves its reputation as a honky-tonk haven for gamblers, other hedonists, and entrepreneurs looking for a tax break. But once…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Preassembled Salve for All Good Adventuresses Homemaking’s high priestess sifts through the medicine chest for first-aid kits By Martha Stewart I have a saying, “The right tool for the right job,” and when I look at a single…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Grenada & Carriacou By Jonathan Runge The mention of Grenada usually recalls the Reagan-era invasion of this 133-square-mile island, whatever that was about. Not to worry–its welcoming atmosphere has returned, and this verdant, mountainous island about 100…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Geosynchronous Satellites in the Palm of His Hand Governor Moonbeam navigates the political landscape with his GPS gizmo By Jerry Brown A goofy presidential campaign full of the usual suspects is coming around again. Media pundits, working for…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Multisport: Paula in the Rearview Mirror Karen Smyers’s Newby-Fraser-free dreams of ruling the triathlon world By Tish Hamilton Karen Smyers wants to make one thing perfectly clear: her toppling of Paula Newby-Fraser in last year’s Hawaii Ironman…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Back in L.A., Farrah, Kate, and Jaclyn Were All Smiles By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta “We’re not models on in-line skates,” clarifies Katina Salafatinos. “We’re speed skaters who do some modeling.” A crucial distinction–at least as far as burglar…
Outside magazine, May 1996 Wow, Man, That’s Some Righteous Shoe In what passes for a victory in America’s anemic War on Drugs, Adidas has agreed to change the name of its new sneaker, “The Hemp.” Made from the plant that produces marijuana, the shoe stirred up…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Culture: Warhol Favored a Sloping Down Tube A traveling exhibit makes us ponder: Is that art you’re pedaling? By Alex Frankel “The design of this bicycle makes you think of all the ways in which the object…
Outside magazine, May 1996 No You Fool, It’s Red Wine with Spam Startling governmental conclusion of the month: Our fighting men and women hate their food. A recently released 400-plus-page tome by the federal Institute of Medicine, which spent $100,000 on the study, reported that…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Videos: Remembering Abbey By Gregory McNamee Edward Abbey has been dead for five years now, a fact that, as you might imagine, has spawned a sizable wave of anniversary remembrances. A new “spiritual biography” of Abbey has just appeared…
Destinations, May 1997 Smart Traveler: We’re Learning to Fly. And It Shows. How to save yourself from the world’s worst airlines By Everett Potter B u l l e t i n s Dune Buzzers…