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Out Front, October 1997 To Do: Hang Out at Mall, Torture Little Brother, Save World A few young go-getters who’ll soon be making headlines By Brad Wetzler Don’t worry, we know your type. sure, you’re interested in what happened during…
Outside Magazine, October 1998 Inspriation Enlighten My Load Sometimes you find yourself in the most predictable places By Pico Iyer I am sitting on a high hill above the dusty passageways of Ganden Monastery in Tibet. The sky…
Outside magazine, October 1997 Phil Knight His big sell: Everyone’s an athlete By Donald Katz A billionaire nearly six times over, and every cent of it born of entrepreneurial obsession and the abiding allure…
Tony Little (I'm the World's Number One Personal Trainer!) travels to Tonga (it's a monarchy, right? you just stop the fatty food from coming in!) and whips the island nation into shape (holy shit, these people are huge!)
Outside magazine, October 1997 Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot … Together again: the noble, the menacing, the triumphant, the pratfalling, and other unforgettable elements of the outdoor universe Attention: the Editors Have Left the Building Celebrating two…
Outside magazine, October 1997 The Record Holders Pity the ones who will follow them By Brad Wetzler Joe DiMaggio’s 56 consecutive games with a base hit. Mark Spitz’s seven gold medals in a single Olympics. Cool Hand…
Outside Magazine, October 1998 Predation A Talent for Killing The cruel links of the food chain, wonderfully revealed By Bernd Heinrich Every April since I was a kid, a pair of goshawks have built their nest in a…
 Outside magazine, October 1997 Uno … Dos … Tres … Urrrrnggghhh! Six thousand years of triumphant Basque sport have come down to this moment, when the toughest mother from the world’s toughest race attempts the near impossible.
Outside magazine, October 1997 The Soloists Why? Not even they can tell us. By Robert Stone Isabelle Autissier, a 38-year-old French marine biologist and marathon sailor, rides her dismasted, jury-rigged 60-foot racing yacht through the…
Outside magazine, October 1998 Moments Past Then he saw the bear. It did not emerge, appear: it was just there, immobile, fixed in the green and windless noon’s hot dappling, not as big as he had dreamed it but as big as he had…
Out Front, October 1997 Sorry, No Can Do Five athletic achievements you might as well give up on now By Todd Balf In the last two decades, all manner of lofty athletic goals have fallen by the wayside. Miguel Indurain…
Outside magazine, October 1997 I Was a Prisoner of the Mudpeople It could have been the Fly-Fishians that got me. Or the Marathon Men. Or even the dread Golf-oids. But the fiendish Congregation of Dirtheads had already claimed my soul. From the cults…
Outside magazine, October 1998 Is Time Running Out for the Mythic Man Fish? The greatest breath-hold diver the sport has ever seen By Paul Kvinta Looking back on it, I should have suspected trouble right…
Dispatches, October 1998 Events Men Who Run with the Bulls A bunch of guys in the desert try to get in touch with the Inner Bovine By Matt Purdue “I‘ve watched this in Spain on television and thought, ‘What…
Outside Magazine, October 1998 Review: Rain, Rain, Bring It On From backwoods anoraks to city slickers, the latest shells look good and repel even better By Andrew Tilin JACKETS | BUYING RIGHT |…
Outside Magazine, October 1998 Books: Field Tripping By James Zug JACKETS | BUYING RIGHT | THE OTHER STUFF | BOOKS Shadows in the Sun: Travels…
Dispatches, October 1998 Endurance My Name is Don, and I’m Addicted to Skydiving Will someone please get this man some help? By Bill Donahue Don Kellner of Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania, recently became the first American sky diver to notch 25,000…
Outside magazine, October 1998 The Basics, Done Right By Paul Keegan The beauty of Newton’s resistance-training program is that you need only master 12 exercises to follow it. How much weight to use is difficult to estimate,…
Dispatches, October 1998 Public Relations No Wonder the Reception’s So Good at the Statue of Liberty A few modest proposals for ways the cell-phone industry might dress up its towers By Bruce McCall The purveyors of cellular communications,…
Cover, October 1998 When the Tough Get Going … They go to eastern Honduras, the wildest stretch of idyll that our hemisphere has to offer By Chris Humphrey Into the Interior How to cut your own path in the…
Outside Magazine, October 1998 Review: Chained to Your Desk? Not Anymore. By Mark North JACKETS | BUYING RIGHT | THE OTHER STUFF | BOOKS…
Dispatches, October 1998 Sport We Are Shocked. Shocked. Now Pass the Hypodermic Needle. Unmasked and besieged, international cycling still refuses to break off its incorrigible affair with drugs. By Russ Spenser An American in Paris “I’ve always believed…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Best $5 Lunch BaseBox Restaurant, Mad River Glen, Vermont “We get a lot of telemarkers, and they tend to be, well, you know, tree-huggers,” says Basebox head chef Peter Thompson, explaining his large selection of vegetarian…
News from the Field, December 1996 Sport: Why Is This Kid Grinning? Because 15-year-old Chris Sharma is the future of American sport climbing By Todd Balf “I think most people are past the age thing,” says Chris Sharma, 15, after another…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 A Little Humility Never Hurt Learning to snowboard can be a bumpy ride. Get over it, will you? By Mike Harrelson Ask most folks to describe their first day on a snowboard, and what they’re sure…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Hey, Nice Curves! Those shapely new skis will do the carving. You just have to let them. By Katie Arnold The long afternoons of cursing your skis through quad-burning turns are over. Everyone, let’s welcome the…
News from the Field, December 1996 Recreation: Come to New Zealand, Lose Your Lunch Introducing the utterly questionable sport of zorbing By Bill Donahue First you’re shoved into a ten-foot-high clear plastic ball. Next you roll to the edge of a…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Excuse Me, but Do You Jazzercise? The lift rides may be getting quicker, but you don’t have to be strangers up there By Marshall Sella Etiquette has been pretty well mapped out during the twentieth century.
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Because You Have the Closet Space With a ski for every condition, it’s now downright impossible to have too many By Bryant Gates Remember me? I’m the guy whose giant ski bag…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Best Knee Surgeon Dr. Richard Steadman J. Richard Steadman has seen it all–and none of it has been pretty. The U.S. Ski Team’s top orthopedic surgeon since 1973, Steadman, 59, has repaired everything from frayed tendons to shattered…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Best Mogul Run “The BMT,” Steamboat Springs, Colorado Why would one of the top women’s mogul skiers in the U.S. train at Steamboat? “Duh,” says Ann Battelle, fifth-place finisher on the World Cup circuit last year, of Nelson’s…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Flash! Bumps Are Actually Good For You! Not sure it’s time to return to moguls? Remember, you used to hate broccoli, too. By Michael Finkel Jonny Moseley can empathize. Although he’s a two-time World Cup overall…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 No Pain…No Pain Speed, spray, and an intact bone structure! Cruising is where it’s at. By Adam Horowitz They’re but four syllables. Three, really, if you account for redundancy. They form a pedantic, infantile schoolyard taunt,…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Best Hot Tub The Resort at Squaw Creek “It’s great for business,” says six-time world speed-skiing champion Franz Weber. “I got a speaking engagement just by hanging out in that tub.” Weber, who is the director of skiing…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 One Giant Leap for Grommetkind Snowboarding’s new step-in bindings make getting on a snap. By Susanna Levin It was the last bastion of skier superiority, the ability to smugly glide from chair to slope while the…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Best Spot to View the Carnage Bear Mountain Lodge, Killington, Vermont Located at the base of Outer Limits, one of the East’s most challenging mogul runs, the deck at Bear Mountain Lodge can be like a front-row seat…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 My Type of Gomorrah, Aspen Is Yes, all you naysayers, skiing and caviar do mix By Craig Vetter Aspen Mountain, the red-hot center of schuss-n-glitz, celebrates the golden anniversary of Lift 1 this year, and despite…
News from the Field, December 1996 Wildlife: Hasta la Vista, Poultry Celebrities share their favorite recipes to aid a carnivorous friend By Mike Steere If the gray wolf knew of the bathos perpetrated in its name, the species might have boycotted…
News from the Field, December 1996 Environment: Pssst, Mr. President, Have I Got a Parcel for You With wilderness to be saved and the coffers closed, the feds start swapping By John Brinkley After country-rock crooner Bonnie Raitt and more than…
Outside magazine, December 1997 Adventure: To the Pole … the One-Brick-Short-of-a-Load Way A group of fearless “expeditioners” rings in the new year with an aerial assault on Antarctica By Susan Enfield Next Time You Feel Like Whining…
Outside magazine, December 1997 Field Notes: Boneheads A tale of big money, prison, Disney World, and the world’s foremost dinosaur-hunting twins By John Tayman On the morning when the fair-market value for the world’s finest unassembled real-bone Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton was…
Outside magazine, December 1997 Smart Traveler: www.getmeoutofhere.com Or how I went geek-friendly on the Web before my trip, saved cash, and avoided crisis By Everett Potter The World Wide Web is loaded with travel-related sites, from the savvy (the Association for…
Outside magazine, December 1997 Captain Cook Never Sailed Here It’s a long line from the old salt to the swarms at Waikiki. So real Hawaiians head for the far sides of paradise. By Rick Carroll Bone Fishing The supernatural…
Outside magazine, December 1996 The War of the Rosebuds Downwardly mobile at the U.S. National Toboggan Championships By Randy Wayne White Even though my arenas of expertise are canted toward tropical places, I was not surprised to receive a call last…
Outside magazine, December 2000 Perfect Pitch I HAVE TO TELL YOU that the article on El Capitan by Dan Duane (“Up on the Big Stone,” October) was quite simply one of the best pieces…
 Outside magazine, December 1997 Hello, I Must Be Going Dire forecasts predict the end of the all-u-can-eat seafood buffet, as the world’s fisheries fall victim to big fleets and a fragile nature. But if the waters are really emptying, why is your…
Outside magazine, December 1997 Sport: From Tabula Rasa to Pipeline Masters Shaping a few winning boards with the North Shore’s humble Picasso-of-the-planer By William Finnegan E A R T O T H E G R O U N…
Outside magazine, December 1996 Stocking Stuffers PowergelAll three of this new rocket fuel’s flavors give a quick-hit, easy-down-the-gullet carbo boost, but the strawberry-banana adds extra bang with a blend of caffeine, ginseng, and kola nut extract. $1.29 per 1.4-ounce packet. From PowerBar, 800-587-6937.
Outside magazine, December 1997 Enterprise: Eureka? Above the din of doubters, a prospector swears a filthy Canadian river will make him filthy rich By Trevor Curwin ‘Oh, it’s down there, all right. that gold is definitely there, as we speak,”…
Outside magazine, December 1997 Travel: Footloose and Cholesterol-Free In the midst of its epic ride, a chat with history’s nuttiest cycling tandem John Galvin If you find yourself driving a lonely country road, only to spy a monocled, seven-foot legume…
Outside magazine, December 1997 Philanthropy: Do-Gooders Rule! In this age of mounting apathy, an unlikely subculture steps up to the plate By Paul Kvinta And the Moral Is, Never Underestimate the Home-River Advantage…
 Outside magazine, December 1997 Humbly Goes the Mountain Man A decidedly unheroic trip up Kilimanjaro By Chip Brown Access & Resources From the Savanna to the Snowfields This way to…
Outside magazine, December 1997 Out There: Taking the Red-Eye For our misty frequent flier, what a long, strange 100 months it’s been By Randy Wayne White More by Randy Wayne White Croco%#@! Dundee…
Outside magazine, December 1996 Hide, and Go Seek NecroSearch’s charter: Head into the woods, use nature skills, find murder victims By Mike Grudowski In the somber days after she vanished, no one had reason to suspect it would take so long…
 Outside magazine, December 1997 Mourning in the Land of Magic Rampant in the island nation of Indonesia is the idea that everyday life is governed by forces unseen, administered by the true leaders of the country, sorcerers known as dukuns. Among the…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 WINTER SUBEQUATORIAL BLISS South America, Australia, New Zealand: The adventurous best of the other hemisphere SOUTH AMERICA Fly-Fishing Junín de los Andes Patagonia Patagonia is trout…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 WINTER DESOLATION! TEMPTATION! STEWED FROG! Hiking Dominica can get a little damp, but culinary surprises await at slog’s end When European colonizers swept through the West Indies, one of the islands that…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Mileage Madness Judging by what I’ve been reading of late, we seem to…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 LIVING LIGHTLY IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS Seven discrete retreats in Guatemala and Belize where the adventures range from underground paddles to lost-city forays GUATEMALA…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 DOWN UNDER Blackwater Rafting Waitomo, New Zealand I have a theory that brain cells are sucked from our heads when we cross the equator. There’s…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 SPRING HAWAII OFF THE BROCHURE-BEATEN PATH From a tropical treehouse to a funky little beach cottage, six hostelries in paradise that your travel agent never heard of Tranquil Kee Lagoon at Haena…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 THE VALUE FILE Welcome to the Caribbean’s parallel universe, where you can have it all—and your savings account, too Southeast coast of St. John, U.S. V.I. It’s a toss-up as to…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 SPRING THESE RIVERS ROCK! When the five freshets here hit meltdown mode, you’re in for a wild ride Into the Rhyolite on the Owyhee Lochsa River, Idaho Remember that robotic B-52’s tune…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 GEAR TO GO ANYWHERE FOOTWEAR Footloose and blister-free There I was, packing for a trip to British Columbia that I knew would entail some floatplane flying, and hence, weight- and bulk-fussy pilots.
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 FALL STEALTH SAFARIS When it comes to critter spotting, the quiet approach is the way to go On Foot As the low, rumbling growl reverberated from…
Outside magazine, May 1999 He’s Big, He’s Bad, He’s…Japanese? Running wild with C. W. Nicol, proud citizen, silly celebrity, and stubborn environmentalist By Jeffrey Bartholet We’re in basho territory, yet nothing seems quite right. It’s not…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 Close-Encounter Camps Moholoholo Forest Camp and Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Hoedspruit, South Africa Though the African wild is rife with carnivorous creatures, the Moholoholo Forest Camp,…
 Outside magazine, June 1994 Richard Leakey’s Fall from Grace His will and ego made him the most powerful, respected man in African conservation. In the end, they’re what brought him down. By Joshua Hammer At half past nine in the…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 SPRING BAJA ROAD TRIP Leave Cabo and Ensenada to the party animals—crowd-free Bahía de los Ángeles is the place to go The garden that is Baja teems with cardón cactus and…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 1999/2000 Annual Travel Guide Traveler’s Almanac Space Camp for Amateur Astronauts; Name and Claim a Virgin Island; Where to Be on 12/31/99; Adventures in Veracruz; Millennium Blowouts; New Ways…
Dispatches, May 1997 Art: Let’s Just Say It’s Not Whistler’s Mother By Peter Von Ziegesar “You can compare his work to the grueling physicality of climbing a mountain or negotiating a whitewater stream,” enthuses Robert Riley, curator of media arts at the…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 GEAR TO GO SOFT WEAR FOR HARD TRAVELS Durable but softer-than-you-realize synthetics and blends rendered in travel-specific configurations (like neat-o hidden pockets) are the key to packing light and looking earnestly presentable when…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 GEAR TO GO LIGHT…ACTION…CAMERAS! Sure shooters for gear abusers Rule number one about travel-friendly cameras: The camera that captures the most memories is the one that’s easiest to use and easiest…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 FALL DESERT ESCAPES Ride a sudden whim or a sturdy steed to arid expanses where solitude reigns HORSEPACKING IN NAVAJOLAND Drop over the South Rim and ride along the sandy…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Summer MAY THE HORSE BE WITH YOU No songfests. No hayrides. No dudes! Our kind of guest ranches Rankin Ranch, California Despite the recent hipification of the word dude, I’ve never…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 CAMERA EXPEDITIONS Focus on Myanmar This mystical Buddhist country (formerly called Burma) of gold-covered temples, streets lined with colorful markets, and a countryside marked by hill-tribe…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Wildlife: Who’s Afraid of a Little Blood and Guts? One entrepreneur’s sticky plan to bring man and shark closer together By Brian Alexander Jon Cappella still believes his idea is a blue-chipper: Dump bucketfuls of fish innards…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 GEAR TO GO PACK IT UP, MOVE IT OUT CONVERTIBLES There’s really just one reason to get a convertible—a bag that morphs from suitcase to backpack: to save your body on long-haul carries.