Adventure
ArchiveOutside magazine, July 1997 The Mild One In which the author confronts the one obstacle between his throaty bike and the call of the open road: himself By Nicholas Dawidoff The author considers the road ahead I took my…
Outside magazine, October 1996 Wondering Where the Lions Are The Goal: Encountering Zimbabwe’s legendary wildlife. The Method: Authentic safariing, on battered foot through prickly bush. The Result: Well, now that you ask… Gavin Ford, one of Zimbabwe’s legendary…
Outside Magazine, October 1998 Destruction The Fire Inside Trees burn, as do young men. And therein lies the lesson By David Guterson All day we stood on the fire line, bored, wetting down the trees. Occasionally we wedged…
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, 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, 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, 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, February 1995 Environment: War of the Worldviews Yes, Wise Users hate greens. But have they really inspired a wave of anti-green hate crimes? By Paul Koberstein Last Fall, in the northeastern Oregon town of Joseph, angry loggers and ranchers on…
Outside magazine, June 1997 Sin in the Wild Outdoors We Confess Pride goeth before a fall, as any climber knows. But what about the other deadly sins that flesh is heir to? Gluttony It’s…
Outside magazine, September 1996 I Spend, Therefore I Am Fresh off an aborted attempt to become the first person to pilot a hot-air balloon around the world (see “Balloonatics”), enormously wealthy Chicago commodities dealer Steve Fossett set his sights on the sea last June…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Innovation: Better Footware Through Perseverance Obstacles be damned. Molly Strong finally brings her toasty, grippy boots to her style-impaired public By Michael Parrish “Life for the small inventor is nothing less than brutal,” says Molly Strong with…
Outside magazine, June 1997 Straw Dogs In northern Botswana, a campaign to save an unvalued resident By Elizabeth Royte A predator is loose in the villages. It comes out of the tall grasslands, from the savanna to the north, and…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Endurance: Team American What? By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) Two days into the Raid Gauloises adventure race last October on Borneo, Mark Burnett, the captain of Team American Pride, wasn’t in what you might call a stars-and-stripes mood. “I…
Dispatches, March 1997 Sport: Hey, America, Remember Us? With sponsors and spectators vanishing and TV saying no thanks, a sinking USA Track & Field tosses its top man overboard By John Brant For The Record Mud Is Thicker Than…
Outside magazine, May 1996 Ten Books that Changed Our World Julie, or the New Eloise, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In his own lifetime, Rousseau was best known not for his philosophical tracts but for this lusty 1761 novel-set in the wilds of the Alps-that helped…
Dispatches, June 1998 Travel Welcome to Nowhere! An Idaho visionary peddles his grand dream. Is anyone buying? By Florence Williams Many people who stand atop Idaho’s Kellogg Peak see pretty much the same thing: a vast swatch of…
Outside magazine, June 1999 This Teeming Ark Expelled from their forested Eden, man and beast drift downriver under the spell of a charming, unreliable deity By Tim Cahill It was like trying to drink a beer…
Outside magazine, August 1995 Cinema: Thumbs Up for the Instinctive Disregard for Human Life By Paul Kvinta “They’re small creatures, there’s a lot of them, and they latch on to your brain,” says University of Illinois film instructor Richard Leskosky about the spongy little…
Outside magazine, March 2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Step Right Up All the guidance and gear you need for a…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Expeditions: More Daunting than Everest, More Technical than a Yosemite Wall With increasing regulation looming, climbers scramble to negotiate with the federal government By Douglas Gantenbein They could never do this with backpackers or handicapped people,” snarls…
Outside magazine, March 1999 Review: Just as Tough as They Look Beefy leather hiking boots to last you a lifetime By Kent Black ELECTRONICS | BUYING RIGHT |…
 Outside magazine, September 1999 The Low-Tech, High-Speed, Retro-Manic Simple Life Join us, friends, for the epic buggy adventure of Eustace Conway, world’s fastest postmodern mountain man By Florence Williams Photographs by Daniel Peebles Eustace…
 Outside magazine, September 1999 Into Kosovo A Reporter’s Diary of Two Months on the Road Across a Ruined Landscape, Over the Accursed Mountains, and Down to a Place Where Nightmares Come True By Joshua Hammer I. La Vikinga, the hydrofoil that…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Running:…But Radionucleotides Can Never Hurt Me The worrisome world of Matt Carpenter, skymarathonman By Martin Dugard “I have a social life,” proclaims Matt Carpenter, king of the fledgling sport known as skymarathoning, which basically entails running 26.2-mile races…
Outside magazine, September 1997 Didn’t You Used to Be Scott Tinley? With a dearth of stars and an anemic purse, the Legends of Triathlon series starts with a wimper By Andrew Tilin Not Your…
Dispatches, October 1998 Deep Thoughts Oprah, That Carabiner Won’t Hold Paul Stoltz explains by anybody who isn’t a climber is, well, a loser. By David Rakoff So you think fending off that grizzly attack with your portable cappuccino-maker last…
Outside magazine, February 1996 An Organ-Grinder with Star Power By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Debra Shore) Last month in these pages we reported on a brewing battle in south Texas, where trigger-happy ranchers were taking aim at 600 Japanese snow monkeys running…
Outside magazine, March 1999 Remember, Fear Is Your Friend And other strategies gleaned from a hike through Yellowstone’s grizzly alley By Patrick Symmes There’s no bear in this story ù I want to make…
Outside Magazine, November 1994 Essentials: Board Care By Seth Masia Why is it that we’ll carefully ponder how to spend $1,000 on ski equipment but not think twice about how we transport or store it? Here are some strategies for protecting your investment.
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Hail the Hoofable These trails were made for hiking–even in a size two boot By Thurson Clarke Our Favorite Places | Essential Gear | Staying Safe…
Outside magazine, August 1998 Poet … Lover … Omnivore … Friend A consideration of Bart the Bear, from those whose lives he’s touched By David Rakoff He is the ur-ursus, our bear of necessity, providing an adoring moviegoing public…
Outside magazine, August 1995 Mountaineering: It’s Hard When You’re All Alone By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) Was Alison Hargreave’s solo ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen last May really the greatest feat ever by a woman mountaineer? Both the 33-year-old mother of two…
Dispatches, May 1997 Entertainment: Who Needs the Great Outdoors? A few words with Evan Dando, reluctant champion of the proudly slothful By Hal Espen For nearly a decade, Evan Dando has been lead singer of the Lemonheads, a band…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Regimens: A No-Drag Pool Session By Laura Hilgers If anyone could swim on strength alone, it would be Amy Van Dyken, America’s fastest female 50-meter freestyler. At six feet and 155 pounds, the 23-year-old Olympian is all power. “But even…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Jurisprudence: All the Vanishing Horses Is the BLM running roughshod over America’s fabled wild steeds? By Anne Goodwin Sides One of the bureau of land management’s better efforts in recent years has been the promotion of its…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Wildlife: Lead Us Not Into Power Lines An ultralight pilot teaches birds to deliver themselves south By Williams. Florence Last fall, Canadian pilot William Lishman landed a rickety ultralight aircraft near Warrenton, Virginia, with 18 Canada geese tailing him like…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Running: Let My People Burn Rubber As controversy swirls about their gringo coach, have we seen the last of the Tarahumara? By John Tayman After negotiating unseasonable snowdrifts and equally unseasonable 105-degree heat–not to mention 100 miles of…
Outside magazine, November 1996 And in This Corner, the Ghost of Ernest Hemingway Battling history, or at least history’s 80-year-old sparring partner By Randy Wayne White Considering the tragic possibilities, Lorian Hemingway might now be reluctant to admit that it…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Adventures in Snowplowing Not your average family ski trips By Thurston Clarke ADVENTURES IN SNOWPLOWING | DETAILS, DETAILS | BEGINNER ANGST Choosing a…
Outside magazine, December 1997 El Niño Has a Headache He’s not simply an omnipotent and recurring global weather pattern. He’s anger and angst, caprice and compassion, fury and fun. And he wants to be understood. By David Rakoff…
Outside magazine, January 1999 Review: Accessorize Those Platforms Just the trimmings you’ll need for your winter wanderings By Andrew Tilin and Stuart Craig SNOWSHOES | BUYING RIGHT |…
News from the Field, February 1997 Film: Those Men in the White Suits Soldiering, via documentary, with the pioneers of the modern ski industry By John Skow Once, before ski areas were theme parks and mountains were still where the storm…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Boating: How Many Engineers Does It Take… By Todd Balf Last September’s shakedown voyage of the Microship, a 19-foot trimaran capable of operating under solar, sail, or electric power, didn’t go well. Its tiny size ultimately could not accommodate…
Outside magazine, May 1998 Review: Crisp Shots, No Weighting Why schlepp that SLR when point-and-shoots get the job done and then some By Jonathan Hanson POINT-AND-SHOOTS | ROCK SHOES | THE…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Environment: Do As You Say…or Else The cost of choosing the wrong neighborhood By Susan Mulcahy Andy Kerr, conservation director for the Oregon Natural Resources Council, has firm beliefs about how much commercial logging should be allowed…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Volleyball: While You Were Away… By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) With an injured Kent Steffes leaving partner Karch Kiraly to play with less bankable substitutes for two long months, the pro tour was decidedly invigorated last…
 Outside magazine, August 1997 The Chilling Effect A small can of chlorofluorocarbons, the UN says, can destroy 70,000 pounds of the ozone layer. In the last three years, smugglers have brought 60 million pounds of bootleg CFCs into the United States. “It’s…
Outside magazine, August 1998 Review: Sticks and Stones? No Problem. Today’s beefed-up trail runners smooth even the harshest terrain By Andrew Tilin OFF-ROAD RUNNING SHOES | BUYING RIGHT | THE OTHER…
Outside magazine, November 1997 A Slippery Slope The world’s first ice-climbing park goes up in Colorado By Pam Grout B U L L E T I N S Waves…
Out Front, Fall 1998 Art What a Bold Choice of, Er, Caca The latest in conceptual art is politically correct, biodegradable, and carries a formidable olfactory punch By Cristina Opdahl As Christo, everyone’s favorite environmental artiste and wrapping bandit,…
The Perfect Directions, January 1999 Do You Know What You Don’t Know? The biggest mistake, our globe-trotting experts say, is to set off without doing your homework. But they’re happy to let you crib from their notes.
January 1995 Dispatches: For the Record Triathlon: The Man Just Won’t Go Away Destinations Smart Traveler: Wilderness By Mail…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Gabby: Telling It Like It Is Prognostications ’96 “I was born with my gift,” says Gabrielle, an inexhaustible 49-year-old clairvoyant form Jacksonville, Florida, and a top hand at the La Toya Jackson Psychic Network, a 1-900 operation.
Outside magazine, March 1994 Meanwhile, Closer to the Ground… Eight reasons to believe that smaller might be bigger By Kiki Yablon Around the country, and especially in the West, there’s been an evolution in the revolution. Focused but not myopic, this…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Multisport: Paula in the Rearview Mirror Karen Smyers’s Newby-Fraser-free dreams of ruling the triathlon world By Tish Hamilton Karen Smyers wants to make one thing perfectly clear: her toppling of Paula Newby-Fraser in last year’s Hawaii Ironman…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Then Again, Big Mig Could Eat Some Bad Gazpacho… A bettor’s guide to the chase pack By Alan Cote Should some stroke of divine intervention stop Miguel Indurain from riding into Paris on July 23 wearing his favorite…
Outside magazine, August 1999 BOOKS Winging It Buy this book! Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, by…
 Outside magazine, September 1994 Give Me Your Birders, Your Paddlers, Your Huddled Masses. . . Ad libitum through Central Park, America’s wildest experiment in democracy By Toby Thompson It’s a perfect fall day in New York City: 60 degrees, the spires above Central…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Adventure: Feel the Burn! Treasure the Earth! Be on TV! Part music video, part human stampede, a controversial new sport invades America. Do you care? By Martin Dugard In October of last year, as people in the Bornean…
Outside magazine, January 1998 Events: Hey, You’re Not Davy Crockett! As wintertime boredom sets in, the hook-and-bullet crowd turns back the clock By Paul Kvinta For biathlete Mike Burke, it’s one thing to blast targets with an antique rifle…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Regimens: Dave Scott’s Ten-Day Program By Ken McAlpine Six-time ironman champion Dave Scott knows the value of active rest. He also knows the value of intense training. To help his athletes mix the two, he lays out a ten-day regimen…
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: 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, 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…
Outside magazine, May 1995 Politics: …And Drilling Rights for All Can you blame Senator Ted Stevens for putting our land to good use? By Ned Martel Effigy manufacturers should expect brisk sales during this summer’s bonanza of species-protection hearings on Capitol Hill.
Outside magazine, July 1996 A Not-So-Sweet Threepeat “What do athletes do when nature calls,” probed USA Today a week after Uta Pippig’s dramatic victory at the 100th Boston Marathon last April, her third-straight triumph. The reference, of course, was to Pippig’s embarrassing predicament: She spent the…
Camping Special, April 1997 What’s in Paul’s Pack? If it’s good enough for him, it’s good enough for you By Brad Wetzler Here it is from on high: Paul Petzoldt’s time-tested backcountry musts, altered and updated for the nineties backpacker.
Outside magazine, January 1997 Dispatches: News from the Field Adventure: Around the World on an IOU With momentum, if not sponsors, firmly on their side, a team of female sailors tacks toward the record books By Lolly Merrell…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Recreation: Divot Derby By Ken McAlpine A pastoral fairway. Sunshine lacquering a relaxed, plaid-pantsed foursome as they wait for the green to clear. Suddenly, wasp-waisted runners in wraparound shades play through, slashing turf like Chi-Chi Rodriguez on amphetamines. Make…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Rick of Arc Though Alaskan Jeff King captured the 1996 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race last March with the second-fastest time ever recorded, the rowdiest cheer at the postrace banquet was reserved for disqualified five-time winner Rick Swenson, who was chosen by…
Dispatches, July 1997 F I L M A Star Is Reborn Marty Stouffer gets a makeover, Hollywood-style By Johnny Dodd Take heart, fans of wildlife filmmaker Marty Stouffer: This month, just half a year after being removed from his PBS…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Crime: Trail of Fears A muddled Park Service murder probe leaves Appalachian hikers on edge Late last May, a distraught Thomas Williams called Shenandoah National Park to report that his 24-year-old daughter, Julianne, had not returned on time from a…
Outside magazine, October 1997 Robert Redford The anti-Woody. Proof that an enviro-celeb needn’t be a nut. By Jim Fergus Robert Redford may be one of the more durable leading men of our times, but off…
Outside Magazine, October 1998 Books: Field Tripping By James Zug JACKETS | BUYING RIGHT | THE OTHER STUFF | BOOKS Shadows in the Sun: Travels…
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, 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…