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Outside magazine, July 1996 Calculations Sports by Calories By Katie Arnold Counting calories, we admit, is really Jenny Craig’s gig. But outdoor athletes might take note–to make sure they’re getting enough fuel for their pursuits. “You shouldn’t get hung up on numbers,”…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Ride Like a Pack Mule What you really need before hitting the road By Bob Howells If your bike-touring burden consists of everything in your pockets, it matters little what bike you ride: Your mountain bike will do…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Dominica By David Noland Dominica is for people who need sweat and grit in their tropical vacation: The island’s few beaches are mostly of black volcanic sand, and none rates even fair by Caribbean standards. What Dominica…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Cayman Islands By Tom Morrisey, Jean Pierce For bubble-blowing novice divers, the multithousand-foot vertical walls and fish-crowded reefs of Grand Cayman might seem like a little piece of scuba heaven, but many cognoscenti now view the 76-square-mile…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Mining: Big Gulp Some call it fun. Some call it a huge, rubbly mess. News from the prospecting frontier. By Jonathan Weisman Glistening in a wetsuit and diving gear, 56-year-old Chuck Tabbert splashes to the surface in a section of…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Mountaineering: Move Over, Neighbor By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and John Alderman) When two high-profile teams announced plans to climb new, ambitious routes on the famed 5,000-foot North Wall of Alaska’s Mount Hunter last spring, some imagined a battle royale–“Something like…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Milestones: Xaver Bongard, 1964-1994 By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and John Alderman) Xaver Bongard, one of climbing’s most colorful of big-wall specialists, died on April 15 when both his parachutes failed to deploy during a BASE jump near Interlaken, Switzerland. The…
Outside magazine, August 1999 Easy Strider Finding the perfect-fitting running shoe is a simple matter of one, two, or three By Andrew Tilin CUSHIONING | STABILITY…
Outside magazine, August 1999 BUYING RIGHT Big Beats Writ Small CYBERTUNES Maybe you’re into filipino folk, or Chicago blues, or both. You can find it in cyberspace…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Travel Essentials For the Discerning Vagabond Just when you think you’ve thought of everything, you discover an ingenious solution to a travel problem you’d decided to live with. A few revelations. By Bob Howells Sangean ATS606P World…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Hang Gliding: Holier Than Thou By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and John Alderman) Over the years, top-ranked American pilot Tony Barton has collided with mountains, tangled in trees, and splatted on hardpan, but until the second day of last June’s Sandia…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Inns & Lodges: Nereledge Inn, New Hampshire By Michael Lanza After a long day of feeling the burn on the Classic Rock of New Hampshire’s Cathedral Ledge, sometimes the last thing you’re in the mood for is sleeping on the ground. Fortunately,…
Outside magazine, September 1994 The Gargantua File By Byron Ricks Every region has oddities that befuddle even the locals. In the Pacific Northwest, the flora and fauna follow the example of the region’s geologic features, often growing to eccentric proportions. We asked Ann Saling, author of…
Outside magazine, August 1999 THE PRESERVATIONIST Guranteed to Last The distinguished professor of worn-out boots is hell bent for leather The doctor is in: cobbler Dave Page Describing the loyalty of Dave…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Triathlon: The Fugitives By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and John Alderman) In true hardball style, the International Triathlon Union flexed its muscle last May, and the result was a season-long suspension of the sport’s top stars, Americans Mark Allen, Scott Tinley,…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Northwestern Exposure In Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and B.C., our favorite season arrives just as the throngs head home. What a pity. By Byron Ricks In the Pacific Northwest, September brings relief. For three months now you’ve been duking it…
Outside magazine, August 1999 THE MAINE GUIDES Custom of the Country They make their own paddles. Their own pemmican. Their own packs. They make you happy. Welcome, tenderfoot: the Conovers on Sebec Lake, Maine…
Outside magazine, August 1999 MOTHER NATURE Letting It Be She moved hearts, minds, and mountains THE REBEL The Importance of Being Ornery Living the life, monkeywrenching…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Sports You Can (and Should) Do with Your Eyes Closed By Mark Jannot According to Gary Kamen, the motor-control expert at Boston University, most athletes spend too much time looking where they’re going. After all, it’s not your eyes that help you…
 Outside magazine, September 1994 Give Me Your Birders, Your Paddlers, Your Huddled Masses. . . Ad libitum through Central Park, America’s wildest experiment in democracy By Toby Thompson It’s a perfect fall day in New York City: 60 degrees, the spires above Central…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Regimens: Stretching for the Long Run or Ride By Dana Sullivan Tis the season for marathons, centuries, and strained leg muscles. “I see a lot more pulled muscles in the fall,” says Tom Nance, an athletic trainer at the Cincinnati Sportsmedicine and…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Matchmaking: Wanted: Young Man Single and Free By Joseph Hooper It sounded like a bad idea for a Keanu Reeves vehicle called Forest Guy. According to an Associated Press story that ran in papers around the United States, the Juma Indians,…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Intake: A Meatless Path to Protein By Elaine Appleton If you’ve been eating less meat, there may be a voice in your head telling you to up your protein intake. You should listen: Athletes need as much as seven grams of protein…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Duffels and Packs The best in no-sweat cramming By Bob Howells Traveling is as much about carrying things as seeing sights. Whatever you’re toting there’s sure to be a better way. Good construction is a given with these…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Getting in Touch with Your Motions Ahtletes worth their joint receptors learn to move with a sense of kinesthetic grace By Mark Jannot Quick: Where is your right index finger–exactly? At what angle is your left elbow bent? Now touch…
Outside magazine, December 1991 Unhappy Birthday The National Park Service gets older, but no wiser By Alston Chase Last October the National Park Service threw a birthday party for itself. It was a posh event, held in Vail, Colorado, featuring speakers representing the inner…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Leeward Islands By Matthew Joyce, Tom Morrisey The islands of the Lesser Antilles' northern chain may share a location sheltered from prevailing northeasterlies, but that's about all they have in common. Name your sport, then pick your island.
Outside magazine, October 1995 Jamaica By Jonathan Runge From the 7,402-foot Blue Mountain Peak, one of the Caribbean’s loftiest vantage points, you can survey all of Jamaica’s undulating coast. And on a clear day, you’d swear you can just make out…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Yoga with a Twist Flexibility and meditation, you bet. But astanga also delivers a Western-style workout. By John Brant I took my last yoga class in 1977, when both the world and the discipline being taught were profoundly…
Outside magazine, October 1995 The Florida Keys By Jeff Klinkenberg The Florida Keys, the 100-mile string of bridge-connected islands that curve southwest into the Gulf of Mexico, can put you to sleep or make you want to rumba. On one level,…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Rack It Up Who says you can’t take it with you? By John Lehrer What to look for in a car rack? Ease of use (for example, can you open the ski/ snowboard holder with frozen fingers?), durability…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Hawaii–Paradise Without Customs Sure, those lei-drapers are pesky–but at least they don’t make you wait in line. A quick jaunt to the wild, actively volcanic U.S. of A. By Curt Sandburn The great thing about…
Outside magazine, December 1992 Triathlon: Ask Mr. Ironman By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius and Terry Rutlin) If you placed bets on last year’s triathlon season, Andy Carlson was the ultimate preseason gamble. In 1990 he was Triathlete magazine’s Rookie of the…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Outside Yenta Says… 1. If you migrated toward (a), you’re a PURIST. Crowds and glitz, say you, are the source of all evil. Take your Birkenstock-wearing, muesli-munching, powder-lusting self to Mount Baker, Washington–Mecca for laid-back thirtysomething free-riders. Please,…
Outside magazine, December 1995 How to Get All Bent into Shape By Stephanie Pearson “Yoga’s aim is to connect the mind and body in friendship,” says Holiday Johnson, director of the Health and Fitness Yoga Center in Portland, Oregon, and instructor to many mountaineers,…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Outside Yenta Says… 1. If you consistently selected (a), you are a HOPELESS AMPHIBIAN. Your body requires moisture at all times. Bring your scuba gear, surfboard, sailboard, or sea kayak to Bonaire–Plummeting coral walls just 100 feet from…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Part I Ten questions to help you find that perfect mountain By Paul Kvinta If you’ve ever been beaned by a flying snowboarder, failed to score the perfect lodge martini, or found that the only diversion…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Part II A test to pair you with your sultry better half By Paul Kvinta The cliché-filled travelogues that lump all islands together in a wad of sand, cocoa butter, and umbrella-festooned drinks are intrinsically flawed.
Outside magazine, October 1995 Mexico: The Mainland If your idea of good H2O involves head-high surf and barracuda-infested reefs, you’ll find no better place to hang your hammock By Jeff Spurrier Zapatistas, economic meltdown, corruption, political assassinations–there are so…
Outside magazine, October 1995 St. Lucia By Trish Reynales Sure, St. Lucia’s twin peaks make for great postcards. “Pitons soar a half-mile into the sky. Mist dripping from the vines. Parrots mocking me from the palms. Mud up to my knees.
Outside magazine, December 1995 Prescriptions: Stopping Exercise-Induced Asthma Cold By Paul Gains Winter athletes know the importance of protecting the extremities: Fingers and toes, ears and heads have to be insulated from the conditions that can lead to frostbite and hypothermia. Less obviously in…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Warmest Shores: Mexico The Mainland Sunsets over the Pacific, one hundred shades of green, centuries-old civilizations, the relaxing rhythm of life, and the gentle humanity of people who honor civility, passion, and grace over…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Operation Forest Storm By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta With bar-code scanners blazing, biologist Dan Janzen and a band of about 200 taxonomists will fan out across Costa Rica’s 463-square-mile Guanacaste Conservation Area next month to conduct what may be…
Outside magazine, December 1995 The Queen Has Left the Building By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta It wasn’t how Paula Newby-Fraser had envisioned her au revoir at the Hawaii Ironman. And for those packing the sidelines, it was hard to watch. But with just…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Schizophrenic? Start a Compost Heap. By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta “Let yourself be absorbed by the creek or the cloud formation,” psychologist William Cahalan urges his clients. “Feel its healing power.” For Cahalan and a growing fringe of therapists…
Outside magazine, December 1995 A Tale of Winning Ugly By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta You think no good can come of a paddler waxing Dickensian? Then don’t ask David Hearn about Gate 24. “It was the best and worst of slalom moves all…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Adventure: Feel the Burn! Treasure the Earth! Be on TV! Part music video, part human stampede, a controversial new sport invades America. Do you care? By Martin Dugard In October of last year, as people in the Bornean…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Law and Order: Does This Man Belong in the Hoosegow? The continuing saga of Paul Watson, eco-pirate By John Alderman Having stared down the barrels of Japanese guns,” says a defiant Paul Watson, “being on trial didn’t really…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Will the Real Adults Please Stand Up? By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta On the drama meter, it didn’t rank with Tommy Smith and John Carlos raising Black Power fists at the 1968 Olympic Games. But Anne-Caroline Chausson’s bit of…
Outside magazine, August 2000 The Life Worth Living I couldn’t put down Rob Buchanan’s haunting, thought-provoking article on Guy Waterman (“A Natural Death,” June). As the mother of nine, all grown, and a resident of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, I…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Introducing the Particle-Accelerating Bohunk Next Door By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta Uh, meet Brian Scottoline. Stanford biochemist. HIV researcher. Sweaty pinup boy in the 1996 Studmuffins of Science calendar, on sale now in most university bookstores. Really. “I’m…
Outside magazine, December 1995 In This Corner… By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta Score one for the mighty green and golden bell frog. Since 1993, Australian officials have tried to relocate the endangered thimble-size creatures from a trash-filled brick quarry that’s slated to become…
Outside magazine, August 2000 CAMPAIGN 2000: GORE | GORE’S GREEN CORPS BUSH | BIG MAN ON CAMPUS ASSUME THE POSITIONS RALPH NADER All Bulworth, No…
Outside magazine, September 2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 Anatomy of…
Outside magazine, September 2000 The Naked Truth I’M SURE YOU’LL TAKE some flak for having a naked girl in your magazine (“Marla Streb’s Mind-Body Problem,” July), but Andrew Tilin’s article (as well as the pictures) rocked, and that’s what mountain…
Sifting through the ashes—and questions—amid one of one of the worst fire seasons ever Michael Darter Unfriendly fire: one of 235 homes incinerated by the Cerro Grande blaze in Los Alamos in May CHRIS KIRBY IS a large…
Outside magazine, September 2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 THE OTHER STUFF All Aboard A LONGBOARD REVOLUTION swept the surfing world in the…
Summer 2000: A Gear Odyssey This year, at least, there wasn’t a tornado. A twister that struck before opening day became the biggest story out of last year’s Outdoor Retailer Summer Market in Salt Lake City. But this year, new gear made…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Always-Prepared Traveller By Bob Howells Pentax 8 x 24 UCF WR binoculars The stylish Pentax 8 x 24 UCF WR binoculars have rubber armoring and a sealed body to keep knocks, spray, and rain from sullying the…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Caribbean Calendar By Stephanie Gregory October 23-27: Meet “Q” of 007 fame at the world’s first and only James Bond Festival in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Also screen rare film footage, tour creator Ian Fleming’s Goldeneye estate, and sip…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Costa Rica To Go Let an Outfitter Do the Work By Bill Patrick Mountain Biking in a Country of Mountains The pleasures of mountain biking in Costa Rica range from cruising through a serene countryside…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Well-Outfitted Skier Smiley’s knit and fleece Bormio Peak ($26) is also available with a Gore-Tex lining ($32). Thanks to nylon frames and polycarbonate lenses, Bolle’s Coach Whip sunglasses ($60) stay light and deter scratches. The boxed finger construction and rubber…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Walk Like An Amphibian Forget Tevas. Forget hiking boots. When you go trekking with locals on the muddier-than-a-landslide Kalalau Trail on Kauai, it’s more likely they’ll be wearing tabis, the reef walkers used by Japanese fishermen. “Tabis give you superior grip…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Caribbean 20 An all-star list of island sporting resorts, from tented camps to posh plantations When you plan a vacation in the caribbean, choosing a resort is as important as choosing an island–the overall ambience, not to mention cost,…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 From Here To Antipodes On the other side of the world are other worldly sights-Tasmanian Devils, spirit houses, and the greates reef of them all AUSTRALIA High summer kicks off here in December. But when the Christmas picnic…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Snowbound Bliss Aerobic days, fireside nights at seven remote backcountry lodges Rock Creek Lodge | Mount Assiniboine Lodge | Lake O’Hara Lodge | The Lodge at Potosi Hot Springs…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 “Ono” Digs, from Campsite to Suites Whether pitching a tent or booking a palace, an important consideration in choosing your lodging is access to outdoor sports. Stay in or near the mountains, and you’ll be close to hiking trails. Stay oceanside, and…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Hawaiian Calendar By Stephanie Gregory October 26: Watch 1,500 buffed competitors swim, bike, and run their way through 12,500 gallons of water and 2,000 bottles of sunscreen at the 20th Ironman Triathlon World Championships on the Big Island.
Winter Travel Guide 1996 A Sportif Guide to Hawaii The fish are jumpin’ and the waves are high-how to play like a kamaaina Surfing You can slink to makaha or over to Kauai’s Hanalei Bay, Honolua Bay on Maui, or the Big…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Planet of the Apes Have Banana, Will Travel By Laura Billings For opportunities to rub elbows with very, very distant relatives, sign on for the Orangutan Foundation International Research/ Study Tour in Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park. Each…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Bulletins: News for Adventurous Travelers Ecuador: Survival of the smartest The right way to cruise Darwin’s Isles- no ifs, ands, or butts By Everett Potter Southeast Asia: Thai’d In…
Outside magazine, February 1997 Fitness ’97 By Todd Balf The Guru Speaks. You Should Listen. Mark Allen, six-time winner of the Hawaii Ironman and unrivaled exemplar of the exceedingly fit, has called his career quits. Now…
Adventure Travel Special, January 1997 Professor Cahill’s Travel 101 From the Plato of the peripatetic, 20 indispensable dos and don’ts By Tim Cahill Dr. Cahill, loose in Irian Jaya I’ve been writing about travel…
Outside magazine, February 1996 Wildlife: Who’s Afraid of the Mexican Wolf? As the long-lost lobo eyes its return, some cagey southwesterners bare teeth By Keith Easthouse Jim Winder has never seen a Mexican wolf in the wild, but for as long…
Outside magazine, January 1997 He’s Not Worthy A portrait of a millionaire at a crux. By Craig Vetter CONSIDER YVON CHOUINARD. To the world that once made him happy, he says: YOU’RE DOOMED. To the…