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Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Put Sizzle in Your Single-Track Is this any way to travel? “It has a big ol’ flame coming out the back,” says Bernie Schreiber, an Albertville, France-based American who’s developing the Kamikaze Regulator RP 220, a hydrogen-peroxide-powered…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Really Quite Stupid Is this any way to travel? “What I do is fall,” says Dan Osman, explaining his routine of climbing high on a fixed object or up a rock face and then leaping into the…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: It Pays to Keep a Level Head How to wear your helmet right By Dana Sullivan Wear a helmet whenever you’re on your bike — that’s all there is to our lecture. But to help…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Sailing: Down and Out on the Indian Ocean Wicked waves end Isabelle Autissier’s run in the BOC Challenge By Dan Dickison For French sailor Isabelle Autissier, December started badly and then really tanked. Three days after Christmas, the…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: First, You Need a Bike That Fits By Dana Sullivan The last time you bought a bike, the guy at the shop probably had you straddle the top tube to determine the fit. If there were a…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: The Road to Wetville “After my husband’s lecture on the colon, our guests can’t wait to get cleaned out,” says Wendy Pope, the perky founder of the Mountain Trek Fitness Retreat & Health Spa, a British Columbia wilderness lodge…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Inns & Lodges: Ground Squirrel Holler, Maryland By Ellen Ryan On the five acres behind Ground Squirrel Holler, a bed-and-breakfast in the Cumberland Valley, 13 llamas romp through oak woods, green pastures, and rolling hills. Their role is more than…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Wooood-y! Wooood-y! We’re drinking bottled water, We’ll soon be drinking bottled air… In 1991 he caught our ear by warbling these earnest lyrics. In 1996, as Outside names Woody Harrelson the Embarrassing Enviro Celeb of His…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: Practice Rolling Acts of Kindness Harmonious trail riding in five friendly steps By Sara Corbett As anyone with a set of knobbies knows, there can be trouble out in the hills, as mountain bikers are…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Books: The Spirits of Science By Miles Harvey Ship Fever and Other Stories, by Andrea Barrett (W. W. Norton, $21). Barrett, an Outside contributor and noted novelist, has put together a soaring collection of stories about characters, some…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Update: Fall of the Quartzite Eight By Wendy Marston “I did it to save lives. If we’re guilty of anything, we’re guilty of weighing human life as being worth more than that rock.” So said William Stoner, a river guide…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Surfing: Beach Blanket Bango Is assault and battery the next big thing on the waves? By Ken McAlpine Lacerated liver, broken ribs, broken pelvis, contusions all over his body, three bite marks, and internal bleeding,” says Geoff Allard,…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: Mountain Bike Skills: Let the Missile Guide You Missy Giove’s hard-won lessons in fat-tire control By Kiki Yablon “The best way to monitor your speed is by gauging the amount of control, or lack thereof,”…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Spelunking: And Please, No Flash Pictures of the Blob By Hannah Holmes “It’s very rare, but occasionally you find a really big example of a cockroach,” Vadim Mikhailov says, with oddly upbeat emphasis. Mikhailov, 29, is trying to drum up…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Insulated Jackets for One-Step Warmth When you don’t want to pile on the pile, down and synthetic-fill clothing still stands alone By Glenn Randall Once you’ve experienced the miracle of layering, it’s easy to forget that there are…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The River Made Wild By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brooke DeNisco, Martin Forstenzer, and Eileen Hansen) A year ago, kayaker Scott Shipley was none too impressed when he surveyed the then-under-construction Olympic whitewater course on Tennessee’s Ocoee River.
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: Progressive Machines: Mountain Bikes By Bob Howells and Gordon Black Performance in reserve — that’s the theme for this year’s mountain bikes, and you don’t have to deplete your finances to get it. Examples: Stiff, lightweight aluminum…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: …And Manage the Pressure By Alan Cote The easiest yet most profound way to change a bike’s performance involves nothing more than a pump and a valve. A difference of as little as ten pounds per square…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Access & Resources: Tripping the White Continent By Miles Harvey Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, highest, driest, loneliest, and arguably deadliest continent on earth. Thus, only about 8,000 visitors brave their way each year to one of the earth’s wildest…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: Road Bike Skills: Take It From Mr. Persistence Steve Bauer’s tips from a lifetime on the road By Scott Sutherland In a tip of the helmet to cycling Darwinism, Motorola Cycling Team’s Steve Bauer, 35,…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: The Dirt Dictionary BOING: A suspension fork or stem; a dual-suspension bike is a boing-boing. “Mark’s not going to feel much pain with his new boing-boing.” BONK: Cycling’s classic term for blowing up, hitting the…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Up, Up, and…Ach! By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brooke DeNisco, Martin Forstenzer, and Eileen Hansen) “Party pollution!” exclaims Jim DeForge, decrying the thousands of helium balloons that revelers will unleash this New Year’s Eve. In a pointed attack,…
Outside magazine, March 1995 True Hawaii No luaus. No leis. Just a springtime ramble through the promised land. By Jonathan Runge Most people plan on getting their Hawaii fix in the dead of winter, which ironically is rainy season…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: Rid Yourself of Pain Shock absorbers: the next generation By Alan Cote Suspension technology isn’t going to stop bouncing rapidly forward, so you’ll need to invest in it with a certain mindset: Worry less…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: Careful, Buster Urban attitude advice from an honest cop By Sara Corbett City cyclists have an attitude problem,” says Sergeant Richard Green, a bicycle patrol officer in Santa Barbara, California. “They think, ‘Look at us,…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: Keep Your Chin Up …and your day job. A racer’s life is far from glamorous. By Alan Cote Sooner or later, be it on an organized group ride or at a bike shop, you’re going…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Silly Yanks, Tricks Are for Losers By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brooke DeNisco, Martin Forstenzer, and Eileen Hansen) At the World Surf Kayak Championships last September in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, tempers flared when an eve-of-the-race rules meeting evolved…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Dr. Pavlov, I Presume? In a world that’s going to the hogs, this little Piggy will have none of it. By Randy Wayne White There was much to recommend the rainforest coast of northeastern Australia, many curios and…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Hard Parts A skeletal view of trilobites and other objets d’art By David Quammen Let me pose an intrusive but well-meant question: When you pass from this life, what will you leave behind? And don’t try to tell…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Buying Right: Technical Day-Packs for Neophyte Climbers By Duane Raleigh Well, it seems the climbing bug has bitten you, and now you’ve got a growing pile of equipment and a yearning to get out on the rock. The question is,…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Swimming: In our ongoing search for masochists… By Todd Balf (with Jim Kelly, Martin Dugard, and Alison Osius) Call Guy Delage a dreamer, but on December 16 the 42-year-old Frenchman left the Cape Verde Islands in a heroic bid to…
Destinations, April 1997 The Suburban Jungle In praise of the East Coast’s most unfiltered wilderness experience, the Adirondack High Peaks By Thurston Clarke It’s This or Bivouac High Peaks inns range from rustic to luxe The high peaks region,…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Running: Hey! You! Get offa my singlet! By Todd Balf (with Jim Kelly, Martin Dugard, and Alison Osius) As the unusually large five-man pack jockeyed for the final sprint at the 10,000-meter U.S. cross-country national championships last December in Portland,…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Surfing: With the Worlds on her lumbar By Todd Balf (with Jim Kelly, Martin Dugard, and Alison Osius) Lisa Andersen’s beachside entourage was the size of a Paia block party. There were trainers, coaches, friends, family, and sponsors on hand…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Sport Climbing: Tres Bon, Robyn By Todd Balf (with Jim Kelly, Martin Dugard, and Alison Osius) Robyn Erbesfield has no peer in sport climbing. Period. At the World Cup finale last December in Birmingham, England, she out-jousted France’s Natalie Richer…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: Progressive Machines: Road Bikes By John Lehrer For inveterate roadies, the picture is not a pretty one: In 1994, road-bike sales declined for the third straight year, and this year the ten most prolific road-bike manufacturers will…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Expeditions: Vaughan on Vaughan By Todd Balf (with Jim Kelly, Martin Dugard, and Alison Osius) It took him 65 years, but last December 16, at 8 A.M., Norman Vaughan stood atop Mount Vaughan, the previously unclimbed 10,302-foot Antarctic peak named…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Diving: Next stop…real deep By Todd Balf (with Jim Kelly, Martin Dugard, and Alison Osius) About to attempt a world-record 416-foot breath-hold dive off Key Largo last December, Francisco “Pipin” Ferreras assumed the lotus position on the edge of his…
Bodywork, April 1997 Regiments: The Painful Truth is Intervals Are Good By Ken McAlpine “The name of the game is who can hold off the lactic-acid onslaught,” says Matt Giusto, 30, who last year coached himself to the season’s fastest American road…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Where to See It Through April 16 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art September 1 to December 29 at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota January 1997 at the Museum of Canadian Art and Design in Toronto…
Bodywork, April 1997 Routines: Get Shipshape in Five Weeks By Lolly Merrell “Most paddlers concentrate on building up their big arm muscles over the winter,” says two-time World Cup champion kayaker Scott Shipley. “Trouble is, they don’t realize that the neck, shoulders,…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Big Weather: Tornadoes Greenness, hail, air pressure flattening your skull. Hide the children, save the banjo. By Jane Smiley By the time I was 25 and living in Iowa City, my fear of tornadoes was a significant fact…
Destinations, April 1997 City guide: Glissading? That’s on Level Two. San Franciscans have perfected the art of bringing the Great Outdoors in By Dana Sullivan San Franciscans tend to believe in looking sleek and in being outdoors. Unfortunately, springtime…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Big Weather: Lightening No place to escape the white sizzle, coming in at 200,000 amps per bolt By E. Annie Proulx What a fiery summer, no rain, the well gone dry. I was trying to finish the house.
Outside magazine, April 1996 Essentials: Boot Gear Basics By Douglas Gantenbein Leather, alone or combined with synthetic fabric, remains the best footwear material known–durable, breathable, and comfortable. But it absorbs water, and water dries leather out and leaves damaging salt and grit behind. So…
 Outside magazine, March 1995 Trouble in the Land of Muy Verde Deep in Mexico’s Sierra Madre, Tarahumara Indians are being murdered and their ancient forest destroyed by drug lords and loggers. A report from the Mother Range, where the pistoleros rule, the natives…
Destinations, April 1997 Foreign Travel: See the South Pacific. Bunk with a Chicken. A new hut-to-hut system makes for memorable island overnights By Tony Perrottet B u l l e t i n s Creature…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: Shop Talk: A Phrase Book for the Bike Bazaar By Scott Sutherland CNC: Computer numerical control, as applied to hunks of raw aluminum, is the hot way to machine weight from components — and to put…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Big Weather: The Gale Riding a thousand-ton surge of furious Pacific, waiting…waiting…for the ship to roll back over By Robert Stone For weeks we had been heading south through azure tropical waters a thousand miles west of South…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Camping: Guardian Plus Purifier By Glen Randall Sometimes you just need a water filter; sometimes you need a full-blown purification system. Now, SweetWater’s Guardian Plus lets you decide on the fly. The Guardian Plus comes in two parts: the Guardian…
Bodywork, April 1997 The Creed for Speed How to break through your performance firewall By Ken McAlpine Calculations Testing Your Limits Intervals wouldn’t be useful without a credible figure for your anaerobic threshold heart rate, the level of exertion…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Cycling: BikeE By Bob Howells That the BikeE semirecumbent bike looks something like a chopper with pedals is not entirely ironic. Sure, one is about staid utilitarianism, the other mostly about outlaw showiness. But chopper riders, beneath their bearded-and-tattooed…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: The Spin Doctor Says: Pair Up Wisely By Dr. Ruth Westheimer “The most important consideration is that your partner really likes that wind blowing and seeing new vistas — and does not only ride to please the…
Bodywork, April 1997 Strategies: Lactic Acid Loopholes By Ken McAlpine Pain may be the unfortunate constant when coping with lactic acid, but there are a few salvations. Say you find yourself suffering on an ambitious outing–quads burning, lungs heaving, mind wishing you…
Bodywork, April 1997 Intake: Puppy Uppers By Brad Wetzler Mocha-flavored Powerbars, orangeburst Gu, Thunder Bars–and don’t forget Super Mega Mass 4000. Clearly, real food isn’t in among endurance athletes these days. And if carbo-visionary Pat Meiering has his way, your dog will…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Buying Right: Satellite Navigation for Civilian Budgets By Jerry Gibbs Even when your hiking trips don’t call for serious orienteering, it can be comforting to have a guide with area-specific savvy. But then, a handheld global positioning system (GPS)…
Outside magazine, April 1999 Letters: Uncorked As a former commercial salmon fisherman now fighting to preserve the fish that once filled my nets, I appreciated your effort to reexamine the role of our nation’s dams (“Blow-Up,” February). As…
 Outside magazine, April 1997 Life Among the Swells By William Finnegan The professional surfing circuit ends each year at the Pipeline Masters. Here the would-be, the has-been, and the already-are hero boys of the sport come to be swallowed up–and possibly…
Outside magazine, April 1999 Good-bye, Guesswork The grounded new way to know how hard to go By Peter Lewis You’re probably well aware of the fact that you should divide your endurance regimen among long…
Dispatches, April 1997 Crusading: Hear the One About Draining Lake Powell? A straight-faced Sierra Club uncorks a questionable cause cëlêbre By Bill Donahue For The Record Hey, You’re Not Bullwinkle! “We tried slingshots,”…
Camping Special, April 1997 Play Wiffle Ball! Discuss Descartes! Swim Buck Naked! Because there are no boring camping trips, only boring campers By Brad Wetzler There’s always one in the crowd, the neophyte camper who, in a panic over leaving…
Outside magazine, April 1999 The Old Guard Do the big dogs still have bite? If the nineties have been good for grassroots groups, top-heavy national shops have languished on the vine. Greenpeace USA cut 85 percent…
Dispatches, April 1997 Environment: Come One, Come 1.4 Million A proposed new road to Prince William Sound raises the question: How many tourists is too many? By Tom Kizzia For The Record It Is a Small World, After…
Review, April 1997 Books: Lighting Out By Miles Harvey No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo, by Redmond O’Hanlon (Knopf, $27.50). The author of Into the Heart of Borneo and In Trouble Again has built an…
Review, April 1997 Solo Shelters: Tents for the Compulsive Weight-Watcher By Doug Gantenbein Despite its dramaturgic lonely-guy feel, there are a few advantages to camping solo. First, you don’t have to bathe as often. And you can travel much more lightly; solo…
Dispatches, April 1999 Media Next Year We’ll Be Hosting the Downhill in Bosnia! Are the X Games sacrificing safety on the altar of “good” television? By Kimberly Lisagor (with John Bresee) “We’re still trying to figure out how to…
Outside magazine, April 1997 Continued Cool, with Occasional Tsunamis Is it us, or do things seem to be getting a little less pleasant out there? By Debra Shore Golly, it was a super year, wasn’t it? We’re speaking of…
Outside magazine, April 1999 Near to the Ground It hasn’t been a bad decade for the environment, all things considered. But before you send those huzzahs ù and your checks ù to those far-off groups in Washington,…
Camping Special, April 1997 The Dandelion Says Go Home Do-it-yourself meteorology, as taught by the flora and fauna By Steven M. Krauzer What’s the best way to predict the weather when you’re in the backcountry? “Carry a radio,” says Peter…
Destinations, April 1997 Eric Heiden Slept Here In Lake Placid, the locals have a hard time letting go By Katie Arnold As the road curves past malfunction Junction at the outskirts of town, you begin to notice the cutely gabled…
Outside magazine, April 1997 Another Herbal Wrap, O Immortal One? Should fortune, fame, and flabby acolytes be your heart’s desire, the first American sumo champion suggests thinking really, really big By Brad Wetzler When he…
Dispatches, April 1997 Sport: Carving Toward Destiny? Chris Davenport tries to secure the top spot in extreme-skiing history–on his own terms By Michael Finkel E A R T O T H E G R O U N…
Dispatches, April 1999 Sport Spiked Almost Off the Map By Tim Zimmermann Let’s begin with a flashback. Atlanta, Georgia. July 1996. Beach volleyball is making its Olympic debut while serving as party central for a…
Review, April 1997 Buying Right: Bantam Binoculars By Gregory McNamee If you spend time in the backcountry, where there are specific advantages to being able to discern whether that distant lump on the trail is a fallen log or a hungry bear,…
Destinations, April 1997 Smart Traveler: Meet Me in Malaysia or Harare or… The best deals in around-the-world airfares By Everett Potter The next time some kid clutching a battered Lonely Planet guide brags about his cheap consolidator tickets to Hong…
Review, April 1997 All the Tent You Need For most people, most of the time, a super-light shelter for two is just enough By Doug Gantenbein Essentials: Tent Pampering Backcountry truism: Your tent is only as good as…
Outside magazine, April 1999 Go West, and Preferably at Race Pace The training secrets of the athletes on the Old Frontier? Play often, work seldom, and always remember that the good guys wear white. Fashion by…
Dispatches, April 1999 Environment Sprawl? Smog? The New California Says No. Only in la-la land could the same By Melba Newsome Only in La-La Land could the same society that embraced bumper-to-bumper traffic and…
Camping Special, April 1997 The Right Duff Are you sure you know what it takes to pick the perfect campsite? By Brad Wetzler In Plato’s realm of ideals, you’d find the perfect campsite floating in the ether, next to a…
Camping Special, April 1997 Freeze-Dried Is for Losers A guide to culinary success alfresco By Brad Wetzler Anybody can scarf pb&j while perched on a mountain rock, but one might argue that you’re not really camping till you dirty a…