Adventure
ArchiveOutside 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…
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, March 1996 The Man with the Iron Cast Live from the glory holes of Colorado, where the angling is well above par By Randy Wayne White In decades to come, when the Vail Ironman Fly-Fishing Championship of the World has…
Outside magazine, July 1999 ATHLETES Thorpedo Away! Ian Thorpe has really humongous feet, and he’s a damn good swimmer Say, Honey, What’s This Next to the Frozen Vegetables? “We do encourage the salvaging…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Parts Is Parts After years of unchecked growth in the hunting of Canadian polar, black, and grizzly bears, lawmakers in Quebec this month will consider what many say is a long-overdue ban on the sale of bear parts. An estimated 21,000…
Outside magazine, October 1999 I found your recent article about the creation of Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic a wonderful piece (“The Very Short History of Nunavut,” July). Like some, I’m sad to see the old ways fall away, but…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Jamaica By Jonathan Runge From the 7,402-foot Blue Mountain Peak, one of the Caribbean’s loftiest vantage points, you can survey all of Jamaica’s undulating coast. And on a clear day, you’d swear you can just make out…
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, 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, 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…