Adventure
ArchiveOutside 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, 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.
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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 Back in L.A., Farrah, Kate, and Jaclyn Were All Smiles By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta “We’re not models on in-line skates,” clarifies Katina Salafatinos. “We’re speed skaters who do some modeling.” A crucial distinction–at least as far as burglar…
 Outside magazine, July 1995 The Zen of Apnea, the Ennui of Chub Breathlessly beside myself at the world spearfishing championships By Tim Cahill “Two,” the announcer said in Spanish, “four, six, eight, ten…” In front of him, under the bright spotlights…
Outside magazine, July 1996 The Little Freshman Who Could Living up to preseason predictions declaring her American sport climbing’s next great hope, 15-year-old Katie Brown won the season-opening U.S. competition last March in Tucson, Arizona. Brown’s victory, her first in adult competition, was impressive, particularly since…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Matchmaking: Wanted: Young Man Single and Free By Joseph Hooper It sounded like a bad idea for a Keanu Reeves vehicle called Forest Guy. According to an Associated Press story that ran in papers around the United States, the Juma Indians,…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Law and Order: Does This Man Belong in the Hoosegow? The continuing saga of Paul Watson, eco-pirate By John Alderman Having stared down the barrels of Japanese guns,” says a defiant Paul Watson, “being on trial didn’t really…
News from the Field, January 1997 Celebrity: Up Next…Naomi’s Polar Quest? By Lolly Merrell Say you’re a lanky, 32-year-old woman who has it all: classic good looks, legions of adoring fans, and a job at which you’re paid top dollar to travel to…
Outside magazine, March 1994 Sport: Mush! Haw!…And Shake, Don’t Stir! A comfier variation on Alaska’s Last Great Race By Hampton Sides Three days after the last Iditarod team skitters from the starting chute in Anchorage, Alaska, early this month, another convoy…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: It Pays to Keep a Level Head How to wear your helmet right By Dana Sullivan Wear a helmet whenever you’re on your bike — that’s all there is to our lecture. But to help…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Silly Yanks, Tricks Are for Losers By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brooke DeNisco, Martin Forstenzer, and Eileen Hansen) At the World Surf Kayak Championships last September in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, tempers flared when an eve-of-the-race rules meeting evolved…
Review, April 1997 Books: Lighting Out By Miles Harvey No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo, by Redmond O’Hanlon (Knopf, $27.50). The author of Into the Heart of Borneo and In Trouble Again has built an…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Sport: Let the Blur Spins Begin! The Extreme Games will be hip and on the tube for 50 in-your-face hours. Oh, boy… By Paul Kvinta What would you make of guys in yellow leather bodysuits schussing down your…
Outside magazine, July 1996 The Ultimate Hardware Camp stove (Coleman Peak 1 Apex II or MSR WhisperLite Shaker Jet) fuel bottle (MSR or Sigg). In summer, figure on one-third of a quart of fuel per stove per day. Small funnel for filling stove…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Books: Contrarian Carols By Miles Harvey The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean, by Paul Theroux (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, $27.50). You’re not likely to find a better holiday gift for armchair adventurers than this wild…
Outside magazine, April 1997 That’s a Lovely Fish. Is There a Scarf to Match? On the leisure coast of California, the locals display the secrets of dressing for fun–without looking like something that washed ashore. Spring Fashion By Vicky Mcgarry…
 Outside magazine, January 1997 Veni, Vidi, œre Og Berùmmelse! Was a wintery time when little Telemark, Norway, invented a sport. Then infidels from America snatched it away. But now the Norwegians have come to North America, and to skiing’s most punishingly brutal…
Outside magazine, April 1999 Scorching the Earth to Save It Conciliation may indeed be a trend in the new environmentalism, but if so, the folks at one firebrand group never got the memo. Which, to judge by…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Environment: A Man, a Plan, a Foursome of Kalahari Bushmen James Blanchard’s grandiose scheme for the mozambican coast By Bill Donahue James ulysses blanchard III has a new plan for Mozambique. In the late eighties, you’ll recall,…
Dispatches, July 1997 P R O T E S T Sympathy for the Rebel Celebs try to free the Sea Shepherds’ captain — and option the movie rights By John Galvin For The…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Environment: OK, Meet You at Eight on Super-Unleaded Loop Hard up for cash. California’s state parks reach out to the multinationals By Bill Donahue You’re wending through an alpine meadow, savoring the melodious twee-twee of the avifauna,…
Dispatches, October 1998 Endurance My Name is Don, and I’m Addicted to Skydiving Will someone please get this man some help? By Bill Donahue Don Kellner of Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania, recently became the first American sky diver to notch 25,000…
Outside magazine, December 2000 Perfect Pitch I HAVE TO TELL YOU that the article on El Capitan by Dan Duane (“Up on the Big Stone,” October) was quite simply one of the best pieces…
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, March 1996 Soaring Fortunes By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brian Alexander and Steve Law) Things are suddenly looking up for America’s long-woeful nordic skiing teams. Last December, Todd Lodwick won an early-season World Cup event in the nordic combined–which features…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Oops, Missed a Spot News that surveyors have been inaccurately marking the South Pole for years came as a surprise, even to Gordon Shupe of the U.S. Geological Survey, who concedes that the Survey’s recent adoption of global positioning system technology has…
Dispatches, June 1997 Sport: All the Guts, None of the Glory Tim Twietmeyer has won the Western States 100 Mile Run four times. Nuf said? Apparently not. By Brad Wetzler What draws a person to ultramarathoning is anyone’s guess.
Outside magazine, June 1997 Dr. Pepper For the seasoned traveler, the world is but a backdrop in the quest for the perfect chili By Randy Wayne White Perfection is a goofball pursuit, one that’s not only subjective but ultimately self-defeating:…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Jong-yul of the Desert On Thursday, June 6–seven months, seven pairs of shoes, and innumerable sandstorms after leaving Nouakchott, Mauritania–38-year-old South Korean Choi Jong-yul strolled into Suakin, a Sudanese port on the Red Sea, to become the first person ever to walk…
 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…