Adventure
Archive Outside Magazine, November 1994 Radioactive and Here to Stay Say it loud and say it proud: Uranium City, Saskatchewan, boomtown, ghost town, antimecca of the atomic age, is still a great place to glow in. By Rebecca Lee From above, it’s…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Skiing: Outta My Way, Girlfriend! Hilary Lindh is the most successful woman downhiller in U.S. history. So why is she trying so hard to play catch-up with Picabo? By Hal Clifford “I always wind up looking like a…
For years, virtually no one could beat Lynn Hill to the top of a climbing wall. Then along came Isabelle Patissier, and beyond a shadow of a doubt things are changing.
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Running: A Chip Off the Kip By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) University of Arizona senior Martin Keino, son of Kenyan Olympic champion Kip Keino, went wire to wire to win the NCAA cross-country championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on November…
Dispatches, March 1998 INNOVATION Spray Skirts Are for Sissies Kayaking pioneer Jeff Snyder rocks a sport back onto its heels Five years ago, Jeff Snyder had a rather tragic mishap. Kayaking over a 45-foot waterfall in Mexico, Snyder misfired and his…
Outside magazine, May 1996 Paradise Browsed Eight Fine Bookstores Chessler Books, Box 399, 26030 Highway 74, Kittredge, CO 80457; 800-654-8502 (303-670-0093 in Colorado). The largest mountaineering book dealer in the world- the majority of its sales through mail order-with more than 30 titles…
Dispatches, June 1998 Lifestyles Chitty Chitty Wonk Wonk Steve Roberts, cycling technogeek extraordinaire, nears the end of the road By Jean-Francois Hardy When Steve Roberts finally decided to free himself from the tyranny of “working a job I…
Outside magazine, June 1999 Environment For Thine Is the Kingdom, Dude Santa Barbara’s surfers turn to the cleansing power of prayer “We are calling on the archangels!”exclaims Hillary Hauser in the take-no-prisoners tone…
Outside magazine, August 1995 Paddling: The Lugbill Factor By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) Before last May’s U.S. Canoe and Kayak whitewater slalom trials on the Ocoee River in Tennessee, canoeist Jon Lugbill told a friend he couldn’t remember the last time he showed…
Outside magazine, September 1997 Boots That Will Transport You Midweight leather backpacking boots are the ticket for most treks you’ll take By Douglas Gantenbein Essentials Saving Your Hides BOOT CARE IS REALLY QUITE SIMPLE. Clean them. Grit…
Outside magazine, April 1998 Field Notes: 50 CC of Pampering for the Skier-Stump, Stat! A peek under the rug of Aspen’s ER, where Very Important Ligaments come to be healed By Florence Williams You want Chris Martinez to be…
Out Front, Fall 1998 Mountaineering Whither the Big One? Climbing Everest can be a ho-hum affair — unless, that is, you have a gimmick By Mike Grudowski There was a time — 23 years ago, to be precise —…
 Outside magazine, May 1997 Everest a Year Later: False Summit After a lifetime of wanting, Jon Krakauer made it to the world’s highest point. What he and the other survivors would discover in the months to come, however, is that it’s even…
Like Buford Pusser before him, Sheriff Harry Lee is mad. For his brazen archenemy--the nutria, a large, burrowing, oversexed rodent with an insatiable appetite for flood-control canals--that means a dose of maximum justice.
Outside magazine, October 1995 Leeward Islands By Matthew Joyce, Tom Morrisey The islands of the Lesser Antilles' northern chain may share a location sheltered from prevailing northeasterlies, but that's about all they have in common. Name your sport, then pick your island.
Outside magazine, September 1999 Swing Shift A simple routine that’ll take your hips from out of whack to in the groove “An athlete’s platform of strength, balance, and quickness needs to be based on good range of…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Look at All the Fire-Folk Sitting in the Air! In which two men of science, armed with flashlights, video cameras, and a 50-gallon garbage can, seek out the look of love in a fiery…
Outside magazine, February 2000 Did you notice that in only one of the five photos of Alex Lowe in your memorial feature (“The Man Who Matched Our Mountains,” December), he wasn’t smiling? This was a guy who lived life and…
Outside magazine, September 1998 It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Worrell One kind of lunatic sails the Indy 500 of catamran racing. Another dreams it up. By Brad Wetzler Daytona Beach, Florida. Day four. The Treasure Island Inn is…
Out Front, October 1997 Nice to See You. Hope You’ll Be Staying Awhile. Introducing the latest arrivals to the world as we know it By Elizabeth Royte Sadly, we’ve lost dozens of animal species over the last several decades, among…
Outside magazine, February 1996 Everyone Agreed–Nice Handling, Smooth Ride, Plenty of Headroom By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Debra Shore) “We call it a bailout,” explains U.S. Border Patrol spokeswoman Ann Summers. “A bunch of folks all jump out at the same time…
Destinations, March 1999 Milestones Auld Lang Climb Celebrating Mount Rainier’s centennial one step at a time By Claire Martin “I did not mean to climb it, but got excited and soon was on top,”…
Outside magazine, December 1998 Manifest Destiny How to track your days in the quest for that elusive “zone” By Paul Keegan Jim Loehr wants you to be a control freak. Not the kind who…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Summer 101 They call these trips learning vacations. But don’t let the name scare you By Caitlin Maynard Our Favorite Places The very idea of a learning vacation is enough…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Marathon: Salazar’s Back (With A Smile) By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and John Alderman) In the long, strange trip that is Alberto Salazar’s life, another chapter: Mired in the proverbial road-race desert for 12 winless years, the former victor in both…
Outside magazine, September 1997 S M A R T T R A V E L E R Lariam’s Sting Is the world’s top antimalarial drug safe? By Eric Ransdell B U L…
Destinations, May 1997 Honk If You Voted for El Loco Ecuador’s volcanoes seem too tame for you? Try its politics. By Joshua Hammer Middle-American tourists on the hunt for Andean woolens and Panama hats don’t usually expect to find themselves…
Outside magazine, August 1996 The Book On: Marathon Do look back. Ladies: underdog Jenny Spangler may be gaining By Gretchen Reynolds Jenny Spangler, the unsponsored, unheralded, and extremely unlikely winner of the 1996 Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials, goes into the…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Sasquatch Phone Home By Andrew Rice The Northern California mountains have long been known as bigfoot country. Sightings date back to the 1880s, but it was Roger Patterson’s now famous (and never discredited) 1967 film of a female bigfoot…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Protests: Greenpeace Posts a Route By John Galvin “Hey, it’s the dude that was on TV!” Thus was John Mallett greeted by fellow jailbirds at New York City’s central lockup on July 11, after getting busted for climbing halfway up Time’s…
 Outside magazine, November 1995 The Wayward West: With Liberty and Firepower for All Like a lot of westerners, the gun-waving citizens of Catron County, New Mexico, are clinging to a way of life that may be outdated. But some of them would sooner…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 The Way from San José Navigating the Osa By Bob Payne For easiest access to most of the Osa Peninsula, start in the Golfo Dulce town of Puerto Jim‹nez, 50 miles south of San…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Beginner Angst By John Galvin ADVENTURES IN SNOWPLOWING | DETAILS, DETAILS | BEGINNER ANGST It’s true. I’ve tried it: You can’t teach an old dog…
Outside magazine, December 1997 My Name is Bill. I’m an Aquamaid. There, shimmering brightly in the deep end of the pool, treads a pioneer. A soggy Billie Jean King, a Speedo-clad Shannon Faulkner. A brave beacon to…
Outside magazine, January 1999 Down, but Not Out No-nonsense rehab to get you back on the slopes By Kevin Foley The season’s finally under way, with rocks covered and bumps taking shape, when an injury…
News from the Field, February 1997 Running: Fleet-Footed Foreigners Need Not Apply A million-dollar purse for besting the American marathon mark begs a question: Why reward mediocrity? By Bill Donahue Maybe it was after African men took the top 13 spots…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Return of the Hunted After 70 years, phantom has become fact. But the story has just begun. By Hampton Sides It was over in less than an hour. Twenty years of debate would culminate in a prosaic…
Outside magazine, May 1999 BOOKS Hard Places Buy this book! Close Range: Wyoming Stories, by Annie Proulx (Scribner, $25). The author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Entertainment: We Use Live Bullets! By John Galvin We Use Live Bullets! If you go to tombstone, arizona, this summer, be sure to take along your loaded six-shooter. and don’t be surprised if some of the biggest,…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Proudly Sponsored by Your Local Gastroenterologist Some triathletes will do anything to qualify for Hawaii’s Ironman-but unfortunately, this seems to include plunging into water choked with fecal coliform bacteria and gut-twisting pathogens like Giardia lamblia. Indeed, it is these components of raw…
Vacation Special, August 1997 D I V I N G T H E C H A N N E L I S L A N D S Flipper … Is That You? North mixes with tropics in the…
Destinations, August 1998 Other Choices, Other Flumes Can’t make it to Temagami? Here are five great waterways closer to home. By Jonathan Hanson The Gila River, Arizona Nothing heightens the glories of a river quite so much as drought.
Outside magazine, November 1998 But They Dig Me In São Paulo! Meet Guilherme. He’s a very famous athlete. In Brazil. Although not in America. Poor Guilherme. By Mike Grudowski On a perfect Saturday, off…
Out Front, Fall 1998 Law Go Directly to Jail — By Way of the Appalachian Trail Tracking Eric Rudolph, outdoorsman-cum-outlaw-cum-outdoorsman By Bill Donahue He was out there, somewhere, and in the oak-specked hills of North Carolina, 200 federal…
Outside magazine, December 1995 But I Do Get an Extra Lei, Don’t I? By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta “The guy who wins, wins,” says Jim Barahal, president of next month’s Honolulu Marathon. “It’s anti-athletic to award prize money based on who you are.”…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Chronicle of a Year Foretold By Larry Burke After you’ve uncorked the Dom Perignon and yowled a few obligatory bars of “Auld Lang Syne,” dig into this month’s cover story for a revealing and decidedly effervescent sneak preview of the…
Dispatches, February 1998 THRILLS Call Me “Flyboy” A precarious new contraption lets us get our fighter-pilot ya-yas out By Paul Kvinta ‘Normally, if you were flying 80 miles per hour at six feet off the ground, you wouldn’t be…
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, 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, July 1995 Books: In Search of the Monster Slayer By Andrea Barrett Talking to the Ground: One Family’s Journey on Horseback Across the Sacred Land of the Navajo, by Douglas Preston (Simon & Schuster, $24). Preston’s long-standing interest in the…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Thou Shalt Not Chum Jon Cappella’s dream of making a fortune by lowering thrill-seeking scuba divers into sharky waters is about to be thwarted for good. Next month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will likely approve regulations that would prohibit chumming…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Will the Real Adults Please Stand Up? By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta On the drama meter, it didn’t rank with Tommy Smith and John Carlos raising Black Power fists at the 1968 Olympic Games. But Anne-Caroline Chausson’s bit of…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Swimming: She’s No Slug By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) Taking advantage of unusually fine conditions, last November Karen Burton of Monument, Colorado, broke both the men’s and women’s records for the 22-mile Catalina Channel crossing, American open-water swimming’s most…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: Well, It Won’t Fix Itself: Part 3 The ego-inflating way to fix a flat… By Scott Sutherland When I’m in the middle of a race and I get a flat, I have to fix it…
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, 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…
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, June 1995 House Hunting: Seek the Unheralded By Sara Corbett Blissfully removed from Jersey shore speedboats and the swank of Hilton Head Island, these five out-of-the-way places promise summer rentals with not a Dairy Queen in sight. Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts. Cuttyhunk’s…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Go Ahead, Dis My Kumquat “Someone suddenly says dried apricots give you cancer, you stop eating dried apricots, and the farmer loses his shirt,” huffs John Keeling of the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re tired of people playing loose with the facts.”…
Outside magazine, October 1996 Philately: And Now, a Word From Our Sponsors By Michael Kessler This month, as chemicals heir John du Pont stands trial for the January 26 murder of former Olympic wrestling gold medalist Dave Schultz, at least one noteworthy detail from…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Law: Who’s to Blame for Kolob Creek? Survivors of a fatal Utah canyon trip point the finger at “the people who were supposed to know” By Clint Willis Mark Brewer still has nightmares about Kolob Creek, but…
Review: Hardware and Software, January 1997 Books: The Haunting of Open Spaces By Miles Harvey Bad Land: An American Romance, by Jonathan Raban (Pantheon, $25). When Ismay, Montana, became Joe, Montana, in 1993–a short-lived attempt to cash in on the name…
Outside magazine, April 1999 Review: All Play, No Work The latest whitewater kayaks put the emphasis where it belongs By Bob Woodward KAYAKS | BUYING RIGHT |…
Dispatches, July 1997 E V E N T S The Race Is On At the start of a less-predictable new era, a look at the crˆme of the Tour de France field By Alan Coté With the retirement of…
Outside magazine, July 1997 Noriega Sat Here Our man in Panama works the strange case of the generalisimo’s purloined bar stools By Randy Wayne White Because the Panama Canal will be officially transferred to its host republic at noon on…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Film: Remember, Mr. Daniels, You Love the Geese Crackpot no more, a biology buff’s passion goes Hollywood By Florence Williams When we last met Canadian ultralight pilot and amateur biologist William Lishman, he had finally turned the corner…
Outside Magazine, October 1998 Premonition X-Acto Vision There in the palm of my had lay my future By David James Duncan I was struck in boyhood by a suspicion that rivers and mountains are myself turned inside out.
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,…
 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, 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…
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, June 1996 The Great White Philharmonic Amidst the thundering crescendos of calving ice, a beer-ad guy can find symphonic enightenment By Tim Cahill You know how guys in beer ads are always pictured doing stuff you wouldn’t do–or shouldn’t do–when…
Outside magazine, July 1998 Review: A Little Bright Out? Think Polarized. By Bob Howells SAILBOATS | SUNGLASSES | THE OTHER STUFF | BOOKS Those who work…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Up Next, Orange Vests Just when you thought TV home shopping had reached its saturation point–with channels hustling everything from Pete Rose autographed baseballs to plum-size cubic zircon–the Sportsmans’ Outdoor Network crackled to life this spring, hoping to capitalize on the untapped…
Outside Magazine, November 1994 Final Exits: Ready, Aim, Rest in Peace By Hannah Holmes “Everybody thinks that you get cremated, then you get left in a shoe box, spilled, swept up, spilled, swept up. But you have many choices!” So says Jay W. “Canuck”…
Review: Hardware and Software, January 1997 Classics: The Wool Ski Sweater By Scott Sutherland Chemicals do make our lives better. Hexamethyldisilazane, chlorinated phenyl methyl polysiloxane, polypropylene–wonderful stuff all. But sometimes you want to snuggle up against something other than abandoned plastic soda bottles…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Marathon: Chariots of Permafrost By Ken McAlpine Whiteout. Headwinds that set your cheeks to slapping the back of your neck. Then a starting pistol fires and a hundred fleecy distance runners peel out across the permafrost, taking baby steps lest…
Outside magazine, March 1997 Lean, Green, and Amazingly Serene An ode to Moss Man, who after 28 days in a hot spring emerged a changed person By Randy Wayne White The reason I was reluctant to participate in the bizarre…