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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…
Two authors and their search for the Anasazi
 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…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Climbing: Schoolhouse Rock Katie Brown’s milk-and-cookies assault on the vertical world By Stephanie Pearson Now that 85-pound teenager Katie Brown has taken the sport-climbing world by storm, will we soon see the day when rock climbing, like women’s…
Outside magazine, April 1996 The Case for Speed By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta Will mountaineering’s next era be all about linking the premier routes of yesteryear in nonstop climb-a-thons? Marc Twight thinks so. Best known for his ice-climbing prowess and tortured poetry (see…
Outside magazine, April 1996 God, Boston, Country With the devil on his shoulder and Jesus on his shoes, Cosmas Ndeti battles for his fourth straight victory By Joshua Hammer I am staring at Cosmas Ndeti’s legs. I can’t take my eyes…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Redemption on Wheels By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta While the sight of a longhaired man carrying a cross at Eastertime may be a little disconcerting, don’t worry: The fellow tromping around Madagascar this month with a 12-foot-tall rolling crucifix…
Outside magazine, May 1995 Mountaineering: Isn’t That Sweet By Todd Balf In the increasingly combed-over world of mountaineering, an emerging tradition appears to be the “tandem” ascent. A few years ago, alpinists Jeff Lowe and Catherine Destivelle popularized the pursuit when they successfully climbed…
Outside magazine, April 1996 26.2 Legendary Miles Of Foot-Pounding, Heartbreaking, Endorphin-Inducing Huff America’s oldest, greatest marathon transformed distance running from lonely obsession to the mass promenade of a fitness nation. On the centennial of the grueling Yankee race that helped launch a revolution, a boisterous salute.
 Outside magazine, April 1996 A Good Hair Week in Mongolia After years of government oppression, the country that gave us Genghis Khan, the Attilla the Hun Show, and possibly the first Americans is rolling out the welcome mat. On an archaeological tress-hunt in the land…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Books: Lunar Landscapes By Miles Harvey Clearcut: The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry, edited by Bill Devall (Sierra Club Books/ Earth Island Press, $50). For years, the timber industry has been skilled at concealing the horrific effects of clear-cut…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Mountaineering: New Route, Same Dangers By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Eric Hagerman) Because of a well-earned reputation as the world’s most dangerous 8,000-meter peak, K2 doesn’t see a lot of new routes–the old ones are tough enough.
Outside magazine, May 1996 He’s Bad. He’s Windy. He’s a Tourist with an Attitude. Meet Robert Young Pelton, guerrilla guide to the world’s most dangerous places By Jack Hitt Robert Young Pelton is a tough guy. Just ask him. By his own…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Climbing: Little Half Dome on the Prairie Rising from the bean fields, a big wall is born By Kathy Martin Basically I live like a spider,” Chris Schmick says, sounding oddly upbeat. Schmick, 27, and his wife, Pam,…
Outside magazine, April 1996 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn–or Else By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta “Those guys deal with rapes and murders all day,” says New York City parks official Bradley Tusk of the city’s criminal court judges. “They never took environmental…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Sturdy Boots Without the Burden Lightweight, trailworthy hikers for both fast-moving day hikes and overnight jaunts By Douglas Gantenbein Horrific tales of foot agony in decades past are the best argument for today’s lightweight hiking boots, so here’s…
Outside magazine, May 1996 Next, It’s Time to Power Up Once you’ve laid a solid strength base, says Karch Kiraly, the next step is to work on power. The difference? “Strength is the ability to move really heavy objects,” he explains. “Power is the ability to…
Outside magazine, April 1996 U.S.Å., U.S.Å. By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta In what may spur twin national crises in Norway and Sweden, two American nordic skiers upstaged the Scandinavians at their national championships. Nina Kemppel of Anchorage, Alaska, who trains and races with…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Ruling the Cs By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta Sure it’s overshadowed by its more famous sibling, but what the Little America’s Cup sailing race lacks in hoopla it makes up for in flat-out speed. That much was obvious in…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Do Unto Smelt Thumpers The six commandments of fly-fishing humility By Randy Wayne White Fly-fishing, at its best, is a craft and so affords a studied, even serious approach, though that doesn’t mean that those who approach…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Big Water: Will the Real Colorado River Please Rise Up? A $4.5 million experiment unleashes a deluge of habitat-restoring froth By Rob French It will begin with the touch of a human finger. An engineer will press a…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Cruising: Name That Bay Playing pioneer on Canada’s Great Slave Lake By Carolyn Rice If you’re a sailor who secretly wishes you could have been there first–to slap your name on every bay, island, and headland in sight–you’ll…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Evaluation: Acupuncture for Athletes By Meredith Gould By now, any variety of chronic pain or malaise might have led you to an acupuncturist with hopes that some 3,000-year-old needlework would take over where twentieth-century medicine left off. If you walked…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Cycling: The VistaLite VL530 By Hal Walter Most bike lights are sentenced to life on your handlebars. That’s OK when you’re staring straight ahead at single-track, but beyond the periphery of your bar-ends your prospects remain dim. A permanently mounted…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Approach Shoes Backcountry footwear that’s part hiker, part running shoe, part Reinhold Messner By Bob Howells The indefatigable mountaineer is certainly familiar with the term “approach shoe”: It’s what he wears over trail and talus slope to the…
Outside magazine, June 1995 One-Stop Sporting Resorts The gear, the guides, the mountains, the rivers–step out of your room and it’s all there By Bob Howells You may be imagining a plaid-shorts paradise with pastel-hued beverages served poolside, but we have something…
Outside magazine, June 1995 What Happened Out Here? A death in the wilderness raises disturbing questions about boot camps for troubled teens By Christopher Smith When a Utah judge raps his gavel on May 22 to begin a preliminary criminal hearing into…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Then Again, Big Mig Could Eat Some Bad Gazpacho… A bettor’s guide to the chase pack By Alan Cote Should some stroke of divine intervention stop Miguel Indurain from riding into Paris on July 23 wearing his favorite…
Outside magazine, June 1995 As the World Tilts By Larry Burke With an imperceptible heave of the axis, the season of sunscreen and bug juice is upon us once again, and suddenly the world is thrumming. This time of year, the only thing people…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Strategies: Learning to Exceed Your Reach By Ken McAlpine The games of summer demand reach, the supple, powerful upper-body extension that enables you to charge a rapid, clean a 5.10 pitch, or spike a volleyball. And acquiring a good reach…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Cuisine: Hit-and-Run of the Day By Sara Corbett “You can pan-fry it, grill it, or put it in chili,” reports Elizabeth Hatch of West Danville, Vermont. “And it makes the best lasagne you ever ate.” At the Elks Lodge in…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Cycling: Lance, the Return By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) With team expectations escalating and his own patience wearing thin, American cyclist Lance Armstrong finally broke through last March with his first European victory in 18 months.
Outside magazine, July 1995 Madison, Wisconsin A town where you can have a real job, a real life, and still get to move in with the scenery. Several reasons to split the city and head for the Big Outdoors. By Mike Steere…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Prescriptions: How to Heal Creature Discomforts By Kiki Yablon In the world of wilderness first aid, Bill “Doc” Forgey wrote the book. In fact, the Merrillville, Indiana-based physician has penned or contributed to a daypack-load of them, most recently the…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Idaho Falls, Idaho A town where you can have a real job, a real life, and still get to move in with the scenery. Several reasons to split the city and head for the Big Outdoors. By Mike…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Climbing: Race You, Pops By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) This month, U.S.-based mountain guide Thor Kieser hopes to lead the youngest and oldest person to the top of Mount Everest. While Kieser admits that the prospects…
Outside magazine, July 1995 San Luis Obispo, California A town where you can have a real job, a real life, and still get to move in with the scenery. Several reasons to split the city and head for the Big Outdoors. By…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Bodyboarding: Just One of the Girls By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) After Brazil’s Mariana Nogueira darted around Hawaii’s famed Banzai Pipeline to win the World Championships of Women’s Bodyboarding last February, most of her rivals and…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Keeping in Step with Summer Preparation for these sunny times shouldn’t stop at the quads or biceps. Your feet need a hand, too. By Sara Corbett Summertime–when we trot up and down mountains, sashay through 10k races, leap…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Spokane, Washington A town where you can have a real job, a real life, and still get to move in with the scenery. Several reasons to split the city and head for the Big Outdoors. By Mike Steere…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Regimens: Getting a Foot Up on Overuse Injuries By Sara Corbett Modern athletic shoes may have given us too much of a good thing. “They’ve allowed the muscles that naturally stabilize our feet to weaken,” says Tom McPoil, an associate…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Mountain Biking: Pedaling Toward Atlanta By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) When Alison Sydor was awarded her gold medal last March for winning the inaugural 39.5-kilometer cross-country race in the Pan American Games, the Canadian rider looked…
 Outside magazine, July 1995 The Zen of Apnea, the Ennui of Chub Breathlessly beside myself at the world spearfishing championships By Tim Cahill “Two,” the announcer said in Spanish, “four, six, eight, ten…” In front of him, under the bright spotlights…
Outside magazine, June 1995 The Family Plan By Bob Howells Bring on the small fry: kids are kept happily busy at most of these resorts. At Lone Mountain Ranch, daily hikes, trail rides, animal tracking, pond fishing, campouts, and a weekly Kids’ Rodeo…