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Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 FALL ASIA ABOVE THE FRAY Where noise means impudent monkeys, your bivy’s a bungalow, and trail snacks drip with oyster sauce. Dynamic-moving up the Phra Nang cliffs, Thailand GUNUNG RINJANI VOLCANO LOMBOK,…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 SUMMER CANADA WILD From Newfoundland to B.C. to the great in-between, four adventures in the unfrozen north Grey Islands, Newfoundland The concept may be appealing—exploring an uninhabited island off the northeast Newfoundland…
Outside magazine, June 1992 While You’re Out There… Eight unsung parks also worth a visit By Debra Shore The crown jewels are wondrous sights, but they’re by no means the be-all and end-all of American parks. In fact, only 50 of…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 SUMMER WAVESIDE SITES East and west, beachfront campgrounds where the breakers roar you to sleep There’s nothing more peaceful than the sound of waves breaking against the beach, rhythmically transporting you…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 HOW THEY DO IT Tips from the pros Wu: Coral grouper in the Red Sea Macduff Everton is a Santa Barbara–based photo documentarian and…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 FALL DEEP BLUE SOUTH Dive the undived, paddle the unvisited, and otherwise indulge your Pacific island fantasies Traditions die hard in Vanuatu SOLOMON ISLANDS DIVING After the recently launched Solomon Islands…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 GEAR TO GO GEARING UP FOR THE SLIPPERY SLOPE The state of the alpine art continues to bring once-exotic concepts to the fore: Witness short trick skis, racy boots and bindings, and smart…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 GEAR TO GO BACKCOUNTRY WARES For the snowy yonder APPAREL Learn this name: Schoeller. This fabric company’s blends are water-repellent, quick-drying, breathable, wind-resistant, and amazingly durable. Built from Schoeller’s Dryskin Extreme, a…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Technology: It’s a Bike and You Row It. RowBike. Get it? By Laura Billings “You can see the countryside on a regular bike, but you can’t get a total-body workout,” shouts inventor Scott Olson, 35, as he loads…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Aviation: It’s a Bird’s Life Hang-gliding legend Larry Tudor’s 400-mile dreams By Joe Bower It must be nerve-racking being a bird. The unexpected downdrafts. The bullying jet aircraft. Those disgusting contrails. “I’m as comfortable in the air as…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Please Don’t Eat the Shrubbery In what amounts to the most revolutionary breakthrough in waste disposal since indoor plumbing, Americans in the dusty Southwest and elsewhere are flooding their backyards, stocking them with snails, hibiscuses, and bamboo, and letting these “wetlands” decompose…
Outside magazine, June 1996 They’re Back Twelve gold medals, 21 world titles. But for four of this century’s finest athletes, the road to Atlanta begins in Atlanta with this month’s U.S. Olympic Trials. Where, as at least one of them knows, anything can happen.
Outside magazine, June 1995 Expeditioning: A Man, a Plan, a Whoppin’ Long Rope Sliding–literally–into an odd place in history By Brooke DeNisco Ken Fuller is hoping to avoid sweaty palms this June 18. At about noon, a crowd that locals predict will…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Further Proof that Size Doesn’t Matter After hearing the recent shocking news that the African elephant-nose fish possesses a “bigger” brain than we human beings-as determined by the percentage of the body’s total oxygen intake that is consumed by the gray matter-we…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Running: Rabbit’s Revenge By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Eric Hagerman) Wen Paul Pilkington reached the halfway point at last February’s Los Angeles Marathon, he glanced over his shoulder, glanced again, and then estimated he had a quarter-mile…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Guide to Summer: There’s Nothing Like Dining Alfresco Don’t fight the urge to be social–we’re genetically programmed to picnic By Pete Nelson Most of my favorite outdoor parties have been interrupted by visits from the police, but these…
Dispatches, June 1997 Diversions: Because It’s…Absurd and Illegal The latest sport to take London by storm: sewer canoeing By Denise Dowling Given that most British celebrities — David Bowie, Brenda Blethyn, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales — tend…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Rowing: Enough’s Enough By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Eric Hagerman) In his second bid to row some 5,000 miles west to east across the Pacific, British adventurer Peter Bird called it quits in March after ten stormy…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Wildlife: Marty Stouffer’s Apocryphal America After a raft of allegations, his peers ask: Has the popular PBS filmmaker gone too far? By John Tayman When 50 filmmakers settled into missoula, Montana, last March for the 19th annual International…
Destinations, June 1997 Smart Traveler: Albania Just Wouldn’t Be Prudent How carefully should you listen when Uncle Sam says don’t go? By Everett Potter Here’s what you can learn from current U.S. State Department travel advisories: Albania is not the…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Mushing: Locals–Who Needs ‘Em? By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) As the first non-Alaskan to win the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Doug Swingley didn’t go out of his way to empathize with the grieving hometowners…
Destinations, June 1997 Inns & Lodges: Jake’s Village Treasure Beach, Jamaica By John Robson Despite its reputation as a celebrity magnet, Jake’s Village, on the south coast of Jamaica, sports no line of limos, no velvet ropes, and no VIP…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Paleontology: Don’t Touch the Femurs By Chris Dray “Finally, I can get back to work.” That’s about all Peter Larson had to say after a jury last March acquitted him of the major charges in a rare case involving dinosaurs…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Don’t Shoot, or We’ll Shoot Don’t Shoot, or We’ll Shoot Supporters of a California ballot initiative to manage the state’s growing cougar population through sport hunting not only suffered a crushing defeat in the March referendum–they’ve become targeted game themselves. State…
Outside magazine, January 1998 Out There: I Have a Scheme Attention charlatans, con men, mountebanks, and swindlers: Here’s Tim! By Tim Cahill It was a money-laundering scheme for rapacious dimwits and hoggish simpletons. There was $2 million in it,…
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…