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ArchiveBut how long before Mother Nature stops taking it and starts dishing it out? Soon, say the Earth Changers. Very, very soon.
Dispatches, September 1998 Science Jim Will Now Subdue the Panda by Killing It To the relief of wildlife everywhere, animal darting cleans up its act By Steve Hendrix Last May, when California Fish and Game warden Dave Smith…
Outside magazine, September 1999 CULTURE Beyond the Cutting Edge An epic garden-tractor odyssey trumps the vision of David Lynch If next month’s premiere of the latest David Lynch film, The Straight Story, shocks your sensibilities and leaves you…
 Outside magazine, November 1995 Jack LaLanne Is Still an Animal Those biceps! That thorax! How, after all these years, does the godfather of fitness do it? By balancing the brain with the beast–and knowing the power of a…
Reaching the Untouched Wall: The Kok Shal Tau Climbing Expedition Summer 2000 8.17.00 Surprise Birthday Party Mike Libecki Celebration Time: Jerry and Doug’s birthday party after the climb up the Grand Pooh-Bah…
Outside magazine, October 1996 Gardening: It’s Not Just For Smokin’ Anymore Woody Harrelson goes on trial to defend his favorite crop By Bill Donahue The protest was pure Joan Baez, except for the cell phones. On a scorching day in June, Woody…
Outside magazine, February 1996 Intake: The Absorption Race By Andrew Tilin If you never warmed to rice cakes, rejoice! Almost nothing converts to sugar in your bloodstream faster, in turn spiking your insulin level and causing more of the food to be stored as…
Cycling Special, March 1999 Live to Ride The dedicated biker’s dream? Simple: a sweet bike, supple skills, and a very cool place to deploy them. By Florence Williams “Between the Idea / and the Reality…
Outside magazine, May 1997 So What Did You Do Today? Seven extraordinary reasons to start getting up a little earlier in the morning By Paul Kvinta You’ve trained 12 grueling months for your first…
T H E H O L I D A Y G I F T G U I D E For the BACKCOUNTRY For the COLD For the…
Outside magazine, September 1995 Mountaineering: Because It’s a Jolly Good Place to Twirl a Lariat What’s up on the world’s tallest mountain By Greg Child Mount Everest may lack some of the quiet, end-of-the-earth charm that it once had–this year 276 people…
Dispatches, August 1998 Science And You’ll Do What for a Herring? Biologists uncover a scurrilous sex trade on the most unlikely of continents By Rob Nixon “If they’re going to have a quickie with another guy, they have…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Cowboy Hit Parade “Home on the Range,” TRADITIONAL, CIRCA 1880 “When the Work’s All Done This Fall,” CARL T. SPRAGUE, 1925 “Tumbling Tumbleweeds,” SONS OF THE PIONEERS, 1932 “Cattle Call,” TEX OWENS, 1934…
Outside magazine, July 1994 A Guide to the Guide By Debra Shore Mug Shot: What’s the nature of the criminal behavior? Why do deviants like this place so much? The Facts: Some numbers you should know, including how many acres each ranger must cover,…
Outside magazine, August 1996 The Book On: Whitewater Yes, Scott Shipley’s laid back–but he’s still too good to beat By Julian Rubinstein By the time the evacuation order was announced at tennessee’s Ocoee Whitewater Center on April 21, the afternoon sky…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Mountaineering: Himalayan Hat Trick By Todd Balf (with Greg Child and Dan Dickison) As climbing seasons go, New Zealander Rob Hall had a phenomenal summer. On May 9, with Seattle’s Ed Viesturs, he led an 11-member team, including six guided clients, to…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Mountaineering: Down by Law A judge gives the boot to a team of Park Service-approved Mount McKinley guides By Douglas Gantenbein It’s a long hike in to the Enchantment Lakes, a gorgeous bowl of ice-carved granite high in Washington’s Cascades,…
Bodywork: Fitness for the Outside Athlete, November 1996 The Symmetrical Solution Correcting your natural imbalances may just be the secret to superior fitness By Cory Johnson At first it was merely a blister on her left foot. Lynn Doering had just…
Outside magazine, April 2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Spin Control Clay Ellis…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 There’s a Reason They Call It a Brewski Six of America’s Best Microbrews The Brew: Long Trail India Pale Ale The Ski: Stowe, Vermont Our Hopsmeister Says:…
Outside magazine, January 1999 Take Two of These and Call Me from the Podium Will a new wonder drug replace exercise? By Theodore Spencer Here it is, the news we’ve all been patiently awaiting…
News for Adventurous Travelers, February 1997 Bad Birds, Bad Birds By Paul Kvinta Get on the wrong side of a Texan and he’ll kick your ass-even if he’s a bird. Famous for their orneriness, the following avian toughs are not birds you’d…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Cowboy Nation: Viva Calf Ropers For ten days each year, Las Vegas is rodeo heaven–and the boys with the pigging strings are Wayne Newton By Lynn Snowden For ten days every December, Las Vegas becomes cowboy country.
Outside magazine, May 1998 Field Notes: How Swede It Is Few races reveal as much about those who run in them as the all-but-flawless O-ringen By Bucky McMahon Before anything else happens, the moose need to be moved. And so,…
Destinations, May 1999 Cabo? Sure. But Not That Cabo. East of San Lucas’s sun-drunk hordes, the Baja that was still is By Jeff Spurrier Hustle and bustle, East Cape-style: an amphibious traffic jam…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Paddling: Last One There is a Soggy Egg By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) Churning across the flatwater speed course at Ellen Trout Lake in Lufkin, Texas, last April, two-time Olympian Traci Phillips earned the title “fastest…
Dispatches, August 1997 M O U N T A I N E E R I N G More of the Same Another season on Everest brings eight deaths — and plenty of close calls By Andrew Tilin…
Shark Alley, August 1998 The Shark Blotter When man meets fish By Mike Grudowski More people perish each year, it’s been said, from coconuts falling on their heads than from shark attacks. These luckless victims probably would’ve preferred to take…
Outside magazine, November 1997 Whither the Eco-Warrior? Amid financial crisis and disturbing allegations, Greenpeace USA heads in a familiar new direction By Florence Williams Girls Will Be Boys When you’re the top-ranked female surfer in the world,…
Out Front, Fall 1998 Activism Butterfly is Free And so, in this case, is the publicity she seeks By Bill Donahue In the beginning, she was but a pilgrim with a decidedly funky name. Julia “Butterfly” Hill, a 24-year-old…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Bet You Never Thought Of… By Laura Billings SOUTH PACIFIC Bikini Bottoms For nearly 50 years the only civilians to set eyes on the shipwrecks off the Bikini atoll–site of atomic bomb tests between 1946 and 1954–were…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: I Don’t Want To Tell You: A GOP Candidate Forum “Dear Republican Presidential hopeful,” our polite letter began. “We’d like to hear your views on a couple of major environmental issues and pose a character-testing essay question: ‘If…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Coping With Atlanta the Violent Mood-Swing Way If you’re like us, you have mixed feelings about the Atlanta Olympics. Ponder the dynamic performances to come, the pageantry, and the first-time medal status of deserving sports like mountain biking, and…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Evaluation: Matchmaker, Shoemaker? By Sara Corbett We’re not all fortunate enough to have a knowledgeable running-shoe salesperson at the local sporting goods store — someone who’ll gently intervene when we snatch up the first comfy pair we find, who’ll deftly…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Boots for the Path of Most Resistance With a big load on your back, your footwear standards had better be rigid By Glenn Randall Stiffness–in backpacking boots, anyway–is next to godliness. Stiffness is what shields your feet from roots and…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Big Water: Will the Real Colorado River Please Rise Up? A $4.5 million experiment unleashes a deluge of habitat-restoring froth By Rob French It will begin with the touch of a human finger. An engineer will press a…
Outside magazine, August 1999 Hey (Hey!) You (You!), Get Off of My Trail! Can’t we all just get along? Apparently not. By Jill Danz Temporary détente at New Jersey’s Tourne County Park…
News from the Field, February 1997 Design: All the World’s a Workshop Forever in search of the perfect backpack, peripatetic tinkerer Patrick Smith says he’s found the answer deep in the woods By Michael McRae The backcountry is filled with loners,…
Winter Olympics Preview, February 1998 THE HORROR The Schmucks of Winter They cheated, they sniped, they taught us the true meaning of “loser.” God bless ’em. By Mike Grudowski Every rose, a great philosopher once said, has its thorn.
Outside magazine, January 1996 One False Move? By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brooke DeNisco, Martin Forstenzer, and Eileen Hansen) Canadian high-wire walker Jay Cochrane expected last October’s jaunt above China’s Yangtze River to be the performance of his life. His host, the…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Up, Up, and…Ach! By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brooke DeNisco, Martin Forstenzer, and Eileen Hansen) “Party pollution!” exclaims Jim DeForge, decrying the thousands of helium balloons that revelers will unleash this New Year’s Eve. In a pointed attack,…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: The Spin Doctor Says: Pair Up Wisely By Dr. Ruth Westheimer “The most important consideration is that your partner really likes that wind blowing and seeing new vistas — and does not only ride to please the…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Reluctant Provider Why bamboo waits so long between incarnations By David Quammen The novelist Louise Erdrich recently published a lapidary one-paragraph essay, excerpted from something longer, that begins, “I would be converted to a religion of grass.” The…
Outside magazine, September 1995 Sport: Excuuuse Me for Living Can Dave Cullinan, cocky heart patient, recapture the worlds? By Eric Hagerman “I’m going to serve John Tomac a big can of whup-ass when I get fit,” says 25-year-old professional mountain biker Dave…
News for Adventurous Travelers, December 1996 The Grenadian Spell It starts with a whiff of nutmeg on the tarmac. A few jungle pools and plates of lambie later, you may never go home. By Bob Howells Twelve degrees north latitude is…
Outside magazine, April 1999 I’ve Fallen, and I’m Pretending I Can’t Get Up In the perilous quest to produce state-of-the art wilderness medicine, our writer is just what the doctor ordered By Ken Kalfus It…
Outside magazine, January 1997 Letters: Haitian Spell Bob Shacochis’s “There Must Be a God In Haiti” (November) was the best thing I’ve read about the battered Caribbean nation. Having studied its music, dance, and a bit of voodoo, as well as sponsoring a…
Bodywork, April 1999 Push. Pull. Explode. Repeat. Old-fashioned exercise with a latter-day twist Dynamic calisthenics essentially takes classic moves — squats, lunges, push-ups — and modifies them to prep your joints, boost reaction time, and improve your balance. The idea is to…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Mountain Biking: Eat My Mascara! Champion downhiller Leigh Donovan’s unpopular crusade By Eric Hagerman Downhill mountain bikers are like butterflies. They show up every spring, flapping their wings, showing off their colors. This year Missy Giove, 1994…
Outside magazine, July 1997 Letters: Bad Intentions I am appalled that killer Chad McKittrick got off with such a light sentence (“The Killing of Wolf Number Ten,” May). At the very least, his restitution ought to include the cost of his capture,…
Dispatches, July 1998 Environment Divided We Fall? The Sierra Club’s debate over immigration may be just the beginning By Dirk Olin When it was finally announced that the Sierra Club’s rank and file had scuttled a proposal to…
Outside magazine, October 1997 Jane Goodall We’re all equal in her eyes By Michael Nichols I met Jane Goodall at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1989. I was there to…
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…
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…
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 magazine, January 1998 Review Books Haunted by Waters By Miles Harvey THE STREAMLINED HOME GYM | ESSENTIALS | THE OTHER STUFF | BOOKS…
Outside magazine, March 1996 The Showroom: The Worthiest Steeds, Circa 1996 By Gordon Black, Alan Coté and Bob Howells GT Backwoods, $654 The Backwoods may have a low-end price, but don’t be fooled: This bike would be regarded a…
Outside magazine, May 1995 Volleyball: Side Out, Part Two: Trouble in the Big City By Todd Balf In the final preseason event held indoors last February at Madison Square Garden, Randy Stoklos and Adam Johnson easily ousted Karch Kiraly and Kent Steffes. For the…
Outside magazine, July 1999 The Diving Dig The Diving Dig | The Cartwheel | The Figure Four | Take the Stairs | The Crossover Dribble…
Roiling nature outside my boat, a nicely fashioned society within, and just an inch of planking between. The joys and geopolitics of seagoing
Outside magazine, September 1996 This Is Great! Drink a Little Beer, Play a Little Frisbee, and Save the World! All rise for Adam Werbach, the Sierra Club’s new 23-year-old president By Paul Keegan Adam has the munchies. “Oh yeah, sandwiches and soda…
Outside magazine, October 1996 It’s Just the Dog in Them Seven reasons why, the next time you venture outdoors, you might want to pack a pooch. Profiles in canine courage. WEELA Pit Bull, ten years old Mise-en-ScŠneSpring 1993, in…
Recent Press Releases Exclusive: Nando Parrado’s Miracle in the Andes in the May issue of Outside Christopher Keyes Becomes Editor of Outside Outside Magazine Announces 2006 Trip of the Year Awards Outside Magazine Partners with Kaos Entertainment Editor of Outside Magazine Departing Dennis Lewon…
Review, March 1997 Books: Paradise … for a Price By Miles Harvey Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things, by Leah Hager Cohen (Doubleday, $23). From a cafï near Boston, Leah Hager Cohen considers the glass…
Outside magazine, May 1996 The Good Life: Dan Gavere Is Away from His Desk The mobile art of making a living in the Big Inestimable By Paul Kvinta “I really need a cellular phone,” frets Dan Gavere, kayaker-snowboarder extraordinaire, from a pay…
Outside magazine, September 1997 Pleased to MEET YOU, Hope You Guess MY NAME With venom in their teeny hearts and malevolence in their jaws, the denizens of the great outdoors can’t wait to welcome you to the neighborhood By Katherine…
Outside magazine, June 1999 Borne-Back Blues Like the straight and narrow? Then forget about the Columbia River Highway. My Delta, Myself | A Little Good, Clean Lust in Utah |…
Outside magazine, August 1995 Books: Dances with Bigfoot By Miles Harvey The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing and the Formation of American Culture, by Lawrence Buell (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, $35), and Walden: An Annotated Edition, edited by Walter…
Outside magazine, September 1997 Crude Awakening Torpedoed 55 years ago off central California, a once-forgotten tanker presents a sticky dilemma By Christopher Weir Warning: Your Kids May Be Listening to Yanni Sure, they figured…
Dispatches: News from the Field, November 1996 Business: Steeper, Deeper, Higher Profit Margins Merger mania sweeps the ski industry, raising the stakes, the expectations, and the specter of monopoly By Andrew Tilin One of the worst purchases Les Otten ever made…
 Outside magazine, January 1998 FIRST TRACKS Feeling a little wobbly on those teles? Get yourself in school. Whether you want to become immersed in all the intricacies of backcountry skiing or just get your feet damp, there are courses to fill whatever…
Outside magazine, September 1995 The Flatland’s Private Big Blue What’s so great about the Great Lakes? Big water, big winds, big wilderness. By Mike Steere Great Lakes people use statistics calculated to amaze–like the lakes’ six quadrillion gallons of water being enough…
The lures of the Southern Ocean are few. Seven-story avalanches of frigid sea. Blinding squalls of snow. Hull-peeling icebergs. There’s little sane reason to sail this territory, unless you’re a sportsman looking to shatter the round-the-world record — or are assigned to rescuing someone who foolishly thought he could.By…
As the sun sets on the gilded age of hot-air adventuring, a few fat cats look for ways—any which way—to keep pushing the envelope
Outside magazine, September 1998 Hey Neighbor First: Get to Know the Locals. Next: Dress to Blend In. And Finally: Seize Canada Fashion by Vicky McGarry, Photographs by Cathrine Wessel, Text by Susan Casey It’s tough to find on maps,…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Murder Most Fish They call him Flipperùbut America’s newspaper of record calls him a warm-blooded Ripper. Our man investigates. By Tim Cahill A recent New York Times story blasted dolphins right…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Paddling: Who Was That Fast Man? By Todd Balf (with Joe Glickman) At the start of the 715-mile Finlandia Clean Water Challenge, the world’s longest kayak race, South African Lee McGregor paddled into Lake Michigan from the Chicago shore at…
 Reaching the Untouched Wall: The Kok Shal Tau Climbing Expedition Summer 2000 A lot can happen en route from Utah to an untouched valley in China’s Kok Shal Tau range. Via dispatches from the trail, follow four young climbers half way around…