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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…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Endurance: Who Needs Pruny Toes? Maddy Tomoen’s splash-free dreams of becoming queen of the multiworld By Martin Dugard “I’ve gotten used to the lack of respect,” says Maddy Tormoen, her voice betraying irritation. “But sometimes it really bothers…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Sport: The Next Best Thing to Arena Football John Vande Velde says your town needs his portable cycling league By Dan Gindling “We’re Americanizing the sport of cycling,” says John Vande Velde, the 46-year-old creator of the Vandedrome,…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Marathon: Threepeat and Repeat By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) Cosmas Ndeti got a foothold in the record books last April when he became one of three runners in history to win the Boston Marathon, the country’s…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Fitness: Coming Soon to a Little Plastic Cup Near You A peek inside the medicine chest of the chemically enhanced athlete By Mark Adams In these quick-fix, gain-without-pain nineties, it’s no surprise that some athletes’ journeys to the…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Mountain Biking: Dear Juli, Wish We Could Spin Like You By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) At April’s Hawaiian Mountain Tour, the first major mountain-bike stage race in the United States, the Hawaii Five-O theme played during…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Paddling: Last One There is a Soggy Egg By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) Churning across the flatwater speed course at Ellen Trout Lake in Lufkin, Texas, last April, two-time Olympian Traci Phillips earned the title “fastest…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Triathlon: The Waning of Tinley? By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) Scott Tinley, hoping to rub out the memory of a subpar performance at last year’s Hawaii Ironman, didn’t do himself any favors when he chose to…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Surfing: Battle of the Buffed By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) Sunny Garcia hasn’t always been what you’d call devout about his off-season training program. But before the 1995 tour, he paired up with fellow Hawaiian John…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Volleyball: While You Were Away… By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) With an injured Kent Steffes leaving partner Karch Kiraly to play with less bankable substitutes for two long months, the pro tour was decidedly invigorated last…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Proudly Sponsored by Your Local Gastroenterologist Some triathletes will do anything to qualify for Hawaii’s Ironman-but unfortunately, this seems to include plunging into water choked with fecal coliform bacteria and gut-twisting pathogens like Giardia lamblia. Indeed, it is these components of raw…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Am I There Yet? Over the previous five years, Australian Dean Gardiner had won surf kayaking’s unofficial world championship-the 32-mile Molokai to Oahu Bankoh Kayak Challenge-three times, in conditions ranging from tempestuous to preternaturally calm. In this year’s contest, held last May,…
Outside magazine, August 1996 The Gizmos: Better Olympians through Science Can Technology help score medals? Consider the $5 million superbike By Andew Tilin Strength, stamina, agility. They’re only part of the equation. In some sports, your gear had better be as…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Windfishing: Call Me…Dude By John Galvin Though catching air off the lip of big waves is Jeff Olson’s first love, he’s also been known to tell a pretty good fish story. “When this one hit, he pulled my board backward,”…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Et Tu, Mr. Foreman? “The environmental movement is like a bunch of alpha dogs, always trying to establish dominance,” explains Victor Rozek of the Native Forest Council, an antilogging group based in Eugene, Oregon. “And some just can’t handle it when others…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Crux Climbing Shorts By Nancy Prichard Climbing puts an unusual dual demand on your shorts: They have to be comfortable and nonchafing under-harness-wear as well as durable and functional outerwear. Summit Shorts from Crux Climb Wear ($38) meet the…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Review: Sport Utility Sneakers Running Shoes stable enough for trial, cushy enough for pavement By Andrew Tilin Attribute it to our increasingly paved-over world: Most trail runners’ internal odometers start spinning well before their knobby soles reach singletrack.
Outside magazine, August 1996 Books: Time and Tide Caught Inside: A Surfer’s Year on the California Coast, by Daniel Duane (North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $21). Thoreau did it from the door of his cabin; Darwin, from the deck of the H.M.S. Beagle;…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Watercraft: A Sailboat for Beginners By Dan Dickison Sailing’s nuances–the physics of wind and water, the web of lines, cleats, and sails, and yacht club etiquette–spell intimidation for the beginner. The Escape, an innovative sailboat from Sunfish Laser, helps the…
Dispatches, August 1997 E Y E C A N D Y The Tornadoman Cometh Much to the delight of twister-lovers, artist Ned Kahn takes his chaos on tour By Anne Goodwin Sides E A R T O…
Dispatches, August 1997 M E T E O R O L O G Y Say, Brother, Can You Spare a Huge Windfall? One woman’s high-priced offer to save us from nature’s wrath By Sarah Horowitz…
Outside magazine, August 1997 Cheeky Bit of Ocean There, What? Exactly why are two young Brits pedaling, pedal-boating, and cross-dressing their way around the globe? Splendid question. They’re still trying to come up with a logical answer.
Dispatches, August 1997 B U S I N E S S Come Spew on Us How best to lure industry to New York State? With a license to pollute, of course. By Bill Donahue…
 Outside magazine, August 1997 No Surrender In the summer of 1876, Custer and Sitting Bull squared off at the bloodbath known as Little Bighorn. For the descendents of those who died or walked away scarred — and for those who squabble over…
Dispatches, August 1997 L A N D M A R K S Are You Sure the Kennedys Live Around Here? After 62 years of shelling on New England’s summer playground, the EPA orders the military to hold its fire By…
Dispatches, August 1997 M O U N T A I N E E R I N G More of the Same Another season on Everest brings eight deaths — and plenty of close calls By Andrew Tilin…
Dispatches, August 1997 Y A C H T I N G Like the Vikings, Except for that Nasty Pillaging An adventuresome author tries to recreate a dicey 1,000-year-old voyage By Paul Scott It was like the crack you hear…
Review, August 1997 Buying Right: The Maximum Surfer Surfing may seem the most minimalist of sports, but a few extras are worth considering, if only to ensure you do it safely — and stylishly. By John Stein Surfboard…
Outside magazine, August 1997 Scavenging Angel Following in the wake of drug lords, one maritime salvager attempts to make good from bad By Randy Wayne White On the drive southeast from the old conquistador city of Cartagena to the broad…
 Outside magazine, August 1997 The Chilling Effect A small can of chlorofluorocarbons, the UN says, can destroy 70,000 pounds of the ozone layer. In the last three years, smugglers have brought 60 million pounds of bootleg CFCs into the United States. “It’s…
Vacation Special, August 1997 D I V I N G T H E C H A N N E L I S L A N D S Flipper … Is That You? North mixes with tropics in the…
Vacation Special, August 1997 R O A M I N G L A G U N A M I R A M A R To the Inland Sea The best swimming in Mexico: Ocean? By Christopher Shaw…
Vacation Special, August 1997 T U B I N G T H E I C H E T U C K N E E Blissful Indolence Made Simple A Florida stream, an inner tube, and no ambition in sight.
Vacation Special, August 1997 R A F T I N G T H E G A U L E Y The Hillbilly Autobahn The best swimming in Mexico: Ocean? By Stephanie Gregory…
Review, August 1997 Surf Tools Eight great ways to catch a summer wave By John Stein A Kayak That’s at Home on Any Surfer’s Turf Surf kayaking is the ugly stepsister of wave riding: How can you…
Vacation Special, August 1997 C O T T A G I N G I N O N T A R I O A Piece of the Shore Skinny-dipping under the stars, and other reasons to go cottaging in Ontario.
Vacation Special, August 1997 K A Y A K I N G T H E F L A M B E A U Wild, Wild Midwest This just in: You can say “Wisconsin” and “wilderness” in the same…
Vacation Special, August 1997 F L Y – F I S H I N G T H E R O G U E Time Off the Grid In blissful isolation along the Rogue River, where it’s easier to find…
Shark Alley, August 1998 Here, Sharky, Sharky In the seas off South Africa’s Dyer Island, shark mania and risk adventure have combined with a vengeance. For a few bucks, one of a gang of ill-qualified, ill-equipped dive operators will drop you into the…
Dispatches, August 1998 Esoterica Games (Really Weird) People Play By Katie Arnold It’s surely no secret that Europeans, enthusiastic practitioners of such dubious activities as snooker and ferret-legging, possess a flair for peculiar sports. But it is in August, when…
Fitness special, August 1998 Welcome to Your Future, Sissy Boy You fancy yourself an athlete? Well, so did the NBA All-Star, and the American League Rookie of the Year. But hard-guy trainer Mark Verstegen broke them down.
Dispatches, August 1998 Sport Same Ball, Little Different Spin Beach volleyball’s emerging phenom wants his sport to look more like America By Sarah Freidman When Dain Blanton explodes from the sand and smashes a scorching spike over…
Dispatches, August 1998 Controversy But Captain, I Played the Seal Last Time! The late great Jacques Cousteau takes another posthumous hit By Dirk Olin “We always said that we would be looking at the man, warts and all,”…
Dispatches, August 1998 Philanthropy An Unexpected Cash Flow How a grungy river rat’s $13 million bequest is changing the West By Mark Obmascik A respected if somewhat scruffy whitewater guide based in Moab, Utah, Steve Arrowsmith lived…
Shark Alley, August 1998 The Shark Blotter When man meets fish By Mike Grudowski More people perish each year, it’s been said, from coconuts falling on their heads than from shark attacks. These luckless victims probably would’ve preferred to take…
Destinations, August 1998 A Brief and Shining Season Summer is short in Colorado’s highest wilderness. Better hurry. By Stephanie Gregory Geographically, the north park region of Colorado couldn’t be much closer to the state’s megaresorts. Steamboat Springs lies just 65…
Destinations, August 1998 The Big Easy Summertime adventuring, Canadian style, on the continent’s finest spot for cooling your heels By John Jerome Hang a Left at the Sturgeon And other secrets of navigating Canada’s Near North…
Outside magazine, August 1998 Review: Sticks and Stones? No Problem. Today’s beefed-up trail runners smooth even the harshest terrain By Andrew Tilin OFF-ROAD RUNNING SHOES | BUYING RIGHT | THE OTHER…
Destinations, August 1998 Other Choices, Other Flumes Can’t make it to Temagami? Here are five great waterways closer to home. By Jonathan Hanson The Gila River, Arizona Nothing heightens the glories of a river quite so much as drought.
Outside magazine, October 1995 Triathlon: Hey, You Got Cottage Cheese Fat on My Prayer Flags What it takes to be the next King of Kona. A Hawaii Ironman Preview. By Martin Dugard Like so many in the once booming sport of triathlon,…
 Outside magazine, August 1999 Into Kosovo A Reporter’s Diary of Two Months on the Road Across a Ruined Landscape, Over the Accursed Mountains, and Down to a Place Where Nightmares Come True By Joshua Hammer…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Caveat Emptorium A user’s guide to a very iffy marketplace By Amanda Stuermer Aaron Bacon’s death has prompted new demands for oversight of the wilderness-therapy industry, but for now, parents seeking reliable information won’t find a one-stop source.
Outside magazine, October 1995 A Spin Around the Gab Galaxy By Sara Corbett “America loves a female athlete with a big personality,” says Kathy Dasilva, a producer of MTV Sports. “Someone who’s a force field unto herself, who’s all-around big.” Of course, the…
 Outside magazine, October 1995 The Ubergirl Cometh The age of Gabrielle Reece is upon us. She’s big, she’s strong, and with thousands more like her out there, she’s replicating fast. Can you deal with that?…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Essentials: Protect That Shell By Bob Howells A durable water-repellent finish on your shell is like a wax job on your car: It’ll bead water when new, and when it wears out what’s underneath will suffer. That means your jacket’s…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Let There Be Light It’s the latest in evening wear, and the world will never be the same By Randy Wayne White I was surprised it wasn’t easier to convince my old friend Elston that if he joined…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Books: Vengeance and Cactus By Miles Harvey Painted Desert, by Frederick Barthelme (Viking, $22.95). This vibrant novel has fascinating parallels with nature essayist Bill McKibben’s acclaimed 1992 nonfiction work, The Age of Missing Information. In that book, McKibben…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Buying Right: World Bands on the Run By Manrico Delcore (with Mary Beth Debicki) If the one top 40 station your AM radio will pick up in the middle of nowhere has soured you on audio entertainment in the hinterlands,…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 In the Lapland of Luxury… By Meg Lukens Noonan Ever want to get out of town for a while . . . and just chill? In Sweden’s northern town of Jukkasjärvi, the finishing touches are being put on the world’s…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Quetzals, Kayaks, and Cays, Oh My! The latest in Central American adventuring By Richard Harris GUATEMALA La Ruts Sierra Quetzals as big as hens! That’s the word on rare birds from one of the first…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Mexican Galapagos: Cheek to Jaws By Bill Belleville For shark divers, the remote pinnacles and islands of the Revilla Gigedo off Baja California are both punishment and reward. The punishment is the 260-mile boat trip southwest from Cabo San Lucas…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Middle East: The Peace Dividend By Todd Balf A year or two ago, adventure travel in the Middle East was virtually nonexistent, but the ongoing peace process has changed all that. Wilderness Travel’s 21-day hike through Israel’s hills of Galilee…
 Outside magazine, November 1997 She Thought She Spied a Killer Beast Out There Among the Turks, and fled the river for the hills where odd adventure lurks. “Hello,” said Bob the earless dog. “I’m one of many quirks.” A looking glass experience…