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Adventure Travel Special, January 1997 Remember, It Never Hurts to Interrogate Questions to ask those outfitters before sending your deposit By David Noland Do you run this trip yourself, or do you use a local…
Outside magazine, January 1998 Review Essentials Strength Through Simplicity By Patrick Leyland THE STREAMLINED HOME GYM | ESSENTIALS | THE OTHER STUFF | BOOKS…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Cameroon Mountain-biking the Western Highlands Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Bicycle Africa 206-767-0848 1 $1,090 rustic lodging The Route: Self-supported mountain-biking across the shoulders of 13,541-foot Mount Cameroon and the Bamileke Highlands. Trip…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Tanzania Tracking Wildlife in Mahale and Katavi Mountain Parks Outfitters Departures Price Accommodations The Africa Adventure Company 800-882-9453, 954-491-8877 On demand $5,450 rustic lodging The Route: Two weeks of trekking through completely…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Papau New Guinea Touring the Southern Highlands Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Asia Transpacific Journeys 800-642-2742 1 $6,995 rustic lodging, tourist hotels, boat accommodations Journeys International 800-255-8735 3 $2,295 rustic lodging, tourist…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Hawaii Mountain-Biking Molokai Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations HareBrain Adventures 800-665-2453, 808-552-2924 5 $1,100 rustic lodging The Route: Spend seven days at a 100-year-old, 54,000-acre cattle ranch laced with dirt roads and singletrack…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Botswana Exploring the Okavango Delta on elephantback Outfitters Departures Price Accommodations The Africa Adventure Company 800-882-9453, 954-491-8877 25 $5,500 camping Esplanade Tours 800-426-5492 27 $5,500 camping Explore Inc. 888-596-6377, 505-820-2470 8…
Outside magazine, January 1998 Review The Streamlined Home Gym How to choose a sport-specific machine for automatic fitness By Patrick Leyland THE STREAMLINED HOME GYM | ESSENTIALS | THE OTHER…
Outside magazine, January 1998 Due Process: Or Maybe We Get a Gigantic Shop-Vac… How to drain Lake Powell? Punticilious minds want to know. By Bruce McCall Though you won’t find mention of it in your local papers, Congress recently…
 Outside magazine, January 1998 Me, My Thoughts, and I A few months in a cabin on the near edge of the wilderness. With only nature for company, and time — lots and lots of time — for contemplation. By Charles…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Argentina Surveying Wildlife Along the Patagonian Coast Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Legendary Expeditions 403-678-3052 2 $3,250, includes airfare from U.S. camping The Route: A 14-day, 50-mile marine safari in expedition Kleppers,…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Namibia Crossing the Desert on Horseback Outfitters Departures Price Accommodations Equitour-FITS Equestrian 800-545-0019 7 $2,275 camping The Route: Thirteen days and 217 miles of cantering among zebras, springboks, and ostriches, through starkly…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Mauritania Cruising the Sahara Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Bicycle Africa 206-767-0848 1 $1,090 rustic lodging The Route: A dusty, 17-day, 1,000-mile overland circuit by Land Cruiser, with visits to the vast dunes…
Outside magazine, January 1998 Science: Check It Out, Beavis: They Said “Appendage” Because one man’s harbinger of doom is another’s prurient thrill By Sarah Horowitz Certainly, what with an entire episode of Nightline and untold column inches devoted…
Outside magazine, January 1998 The 1998 Outside Prognosticator Curious events to unfold in the coming year throughout the worlds of outdoor endeavor, environment, amphibians By David Rakoff Gotham Embraces Gator Reintroduction Scheme; Rats say “Rats” Remember the good old…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Morocco Trekking the High Atlas Outfitters Departures Price Accommodations Adventure Center 800-227-8747, 510-654-1879 20 $490-$525 camping, rustic lodging, tourist hotels Himalayan Travel 800-225-2380, 203-359-3711 10 $895 camping, rustic lodging, tourist hotels Wilderness…
Outside magazine, January 1998 Travel: Calling All Cashonauts Outer space is within your reach — if you have $98,000 of the right stuff By Bill Vaughn Neither Rain, nor Sleet, nor… A bitter slugfest was probably the…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Micronesia Cruising Palau and Yap Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Zegrahm Expeditions 800-628-8747 2 $5,980-$8,980 boat accommodations, tourist hotels The Route: Exploring by yacht two rarely visited islands, where you’ll snorkel some of…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Ethiopia Kayaking the Blue Nile Gorges Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Adrift 011-64-3-442-5458 2 $1,280 camping, tourist hotels The Route: A hair-raising, self-supported, seven-day descent through a 7,000-foot-deep canyon sprinkled with Class IV…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 South Georgia Island Overland Arctic Trek Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Adventure Network International 011-44-1494-671-808 1 $8,800-$11,000 boat accommodations Quark Expeditions 800-356-5699 1 $8,800-$11,000 boat accommodations The Route: A 21-day journey by…
Outside magazine, February 1994 Let the Vinterleker Begin! Thank Thor they’re back. An armchair Olympian’s guide to the Winter Games By Alex Heard No point denying it: as a concept, the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics have sounded a little off-key, like a…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Italy Hiking the Dolomites Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Above the Clouds Trekking 800-233-4499, 508-799-4499 3 $1,700-$1,950 rustic lodging, tourist hotels Alternative Travel 800-527-5997 7 $3,000 rustic lodging, tourist hotels Butterfield & Robinson…
Adventure Found, January 1998 Value Added? Just what are you getting for your trip fee? By Anne Goodwin Sides A dirham here. Twenty thousand centimes there. Pretty soon you’re talking real money. Ever wonder where your 50 percent deposit…
Outside magazine, February 1994 We Just Want to Belong On the Island of Misfit Sports, everybody’s a loser By Todd Balf The campaigning began six years ago, moments after Lillehammer won the bid to host the 1994 Winter Games. “We got…
Adventure Found, January 1998 People Are Strange… The dos and don’t-even-think-about-its of group travel By Randy Wayne White You’ve booked yourself onto a kick-butt adventure-travel exploratory. You’re a stranger in a mixed bunch of…
Adventure Found, January 1998 Uh-Oh ù Here Comes the Easy Part When traveling, danger lurks at the most innocuous moments By Bucky McMahon The first law of safety for scuba divers, counterintuitive but verified…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 United States Mountain-Biking the Continental Divide Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Adventure Cycling 800-755-2453, 406-721-1776 1 $2,800 camping, rustic lodging The Route: An epic 75-day, 2,500-mile self-supported border-to-border dirt ride from Canada to…
Adventure Found, January 1998 The World Is My Crispy Maggot A spot or two of earthly advice, from the perspective of Michael Palin By Adam Platt Five years ago, when we last checked in with Michael Palin (“And Now…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 The Netherlands Skating the Zuider Zee Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Zephyr Inline Skate Tours 888-758-8687, 612-377-8489 5 $1,665 tourist hotels The Route: Zephyr’s seven-day in-line skate tour rolls along the smooth, flat…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Colorado Inn-to-Inn Paddle-rafting on the Arkansas Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Wilderness Aware 800-462-7238, 719-395-2112 On demand $800 rustic lodging The Route: A relatively posh but damp four-day inn-to-inn rafting trip from Buena…
Adventure Found, January 1998 You Will Follow Him How to settle on the most critical component of your trip: the guide By David Noland It was early afternoon, and our group had almost summited…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Cuba Mountain-Biking Off-limits Territory Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations International Bicycle Fund 206-767-0848 1 $990 rustic lodging Adventures Unlimited 800-567-6286 2 $1,300 rustic lodging Company of Adventurers 604-687-5856 4 $1,300 rustic lodging…
Outside magazine, February 1994 Inns & Lodges: Blueberry Hill, Vermont By Adam Horowitz Upon reaching the small clearing amid the forested peaks of Vermont’s Green Mountains, after five miles of jouncing along under the evergreen canopy on…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 The Arctic Cruising Ellesmere and Greenland Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Quark Expeditions 800-258-8434 1 $4,495-$8,895 boat accommodations The Route: The 434-foot Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov takes an 11-day voyage out of Resolute…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Croatia Cruising the Dalmatian Coast Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Remote Odysseys Worldwide (ROW) 800-451-6034, 208-765-0841 1 $1,795-$1,995 boat accommodations, tourist hotels The Route: Yachting for 12 days in a 95-foot motor-powered…
Outside magazine, February 1994 Desert Hikes: Sweet Nothingness By Mike Steere Parsimony, the natural theme of the continent’s driest and hottest places, is its own kind of wealth, and those willing to brave the low deserts of the American Southwest come into inheritances…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Washington Climbing Mount Rainier Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Alpine Ascents International 206-378-1927 3-5 $550 camping American Alpine Institute 360-671-1505 3-5 $590 camping Cascade Alpine Guides 800-981-0381, 425-688-8054 3-5 $590 camping Mount…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 California Backpacking the John Muir Trail Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Southern Yosemite Mountain Guides 800-231-4575 2 $3,245 camping, rustic lodging The Route: Hiking through the heart of the Sierra, you’ll negotiate passes…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Ireland Walking the West Country Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Butterfield & Robinson 800-678-1147, 416-864-1354 5 $3,525 tourist hotels Country Walkers 800-464-9255 10 $2,250 tourist hotels Hidden Ireland Tours 800-868-4750 32 $2,150…
Outside magazine, January 1998 Review Books Haunted by Waters By Miles Harvey THE STREAMLINED HOME GYM | ESSENTIALS | THE OTHER STUFF | BOOKS…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Nova Scotia Biking the Cabot Trail Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Freewheeling Adventures 902-857-3600 5 $919 tourist hotels The Route: Pedaling for five days on the 184-mile paved loop around Cape Breton Island.
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Regimens: Gaining Ground on the Treadmill By Dana Sullivan Running six miles is easier on a treadmill than in the real world of wind, unforgiving pavement, traffic lights, and dogs. So if bouts of nasty weather move some of your…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Boardsailing: Dunking Robby By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) Robby Naish, sailing in the long shadow of perennial world champion Björn Dunkerbeck, appeared to have his rival’s number during the wave-performance competition in last November’s season-ending Aloha Classic at Maui’s…
Outside magazine, March 1996 The Technician: Practice, Patience, and a Few Swabs of the Hanky The basics of on-trail repair from D. Scott Daubert, grease monkey to the elite By Kiki Yablon Scott Daubert has one last item he’d…
Outside magazine, March 1996 The Artist: More Bike for Your Buck No matter what your budget, designer Scot Nicol offeres strategies for buying a solid machine By Andrew Tilin Scot Nicol, builder of high-end bike frames, pauses in the middle of…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Medicine: The Right Pill for the Pain By Dorothy Foltz-Gray With the introduction several months ago of Aleve, the first new over-the-counter pain reliever to appear since ibuprofen products made their debut in 1984, there seem to be as many…
Outside magazine, March 1996 Soaring Fortunes By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brian Alexander and Steve Law) Things are suddenly looking up for America’s long-woeful nordic skiing teams. Last December, Todd Lodwick won an early-season World Cup event in the nordic combined–which features…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Prevention: Keeping Ankles from Taking a Turn for the Worse By Martha Thomas Unless you’re a swimmer, there’s a 75 percent chance that your sports injury will be ankle – related,” says William Hamilton, senior attending orthopedic surgeon at St.
Outside magazine, May 1995 Running: Never Mind the Skull Tattoos Ben Hian says he’ll whip everyone at this year’s Western States 100 By Martin Dugard From a distance, ultramarathoner Ben Hian looks something like an ancient Celtic manuscript with skinny legs, his…
Outside magazine, March 1996 The Virtuoso: Front-Suspension Symbiont, Meet Ms. Controlled Abandon Cross-country world champ Alison Sydor shows how you and your bike can achieve that elusive two-part harmony By Ken McAlpine When it comes to bike handling, there are…
Outside magazine, March 1996 Long Climb the Queen By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brian Alexander and Steve Law) In what may have been her finest and final performance, American expatriate Robyn Erbesfield captured the sport-climbing season finale in Aix-les-Bains, France, last December…
Outside magazine, March 1996 Communications: Talk Alien to Me An Everyman’s plan to mingle with the stars By Paul Kvinta “If that call comes and you don’t answer, you’ll regret it,” trumpets astronomer Paul Shuch, in a wobbly impression of Humphrey Bogart…
Outside magazine, March 1996 Goodness, Gracious By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brian Alexander and Steve Law) After last December’s inferno at the Malden Mills plant in Methuen, Massachusetts, shock waves could be felt both locally and throughout the outdoor-recreation business. The blaze…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Skysurfing: Beware Falling Cameramen By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) Question: If a person skysurfs at 13,000 feet and nobody is there to see it, does it happen at all? Well, for all intents and purposes, no. At October’s Freestyle…
Outside magazine, March 1996 Bodies of Evidence A few good sports share bits on their pieces By Cory Johnson Body Part: Feet Body: Ultramarathon Tom Johnson, 36, Loomis, California; North American 100-kilometer record holder, three-time winner and course record…
Outside magazine, March 1996 1-800-SNOWJOB By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brian Alexander and Steve Law) Organizers of the embattled Iditarod International Sled Dog Race say they expect a near-record 73 mushers at the starting line this month. Among the entrants will be…
Outside magazine, May 1995 Mountain Biking: Who Needs Brakes? By Todd Balf French downhiller Christian Taillefer isn’t known for his success on the summer tour, but put him on the iced-over speed-skiing course at Vars, France, and he’s a sonic blur. Taillefer again proved…