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He rescued some of the West's hallowed lands. He became one of the most influential environmental leaders of the century. In the process, he sacrificed friends, family, and anyone who couldn't keep up. Now, alone in the twilight, how does the archdruid make peace with it all?
 Outside magazine, March 1997 Lost At Sea Tragic are the people of the lovely Marshall Islands. When America exploded the A-bomb it took their homes, and when it gave comfort it took their ambition, and when it offered only craven solutions it…
Outside magazine, May 1996 Great Openings “As a former academic and a natural history book reviewer I was astonished to discover, on being threatened with a two-month exile to the primary jungles of Borneo, just how fast a man can read. Powerful as your scholarly instincts…
Sin in the Wild Outdoors, June 1997 We Confess Pride goeth before a fall, as any climber knows. But what about the other deadly sins that flesh is heir to? Gee, there’s nothing like fresh air and sunshine, vigorous exercise, working up…
Outside magazine, June 1999 Montana, the Dry Run Liquid Louie’s was fun, but still no match for the impossibly blue horizon My Delta, Myself | A Little Good, Clean Lust…
Outside magazine, August 1995 Update: Up in Smoke By Carl Hoffman “We made hundreds of repairs and improvisations, and one of them failed–but how can you think of everything?” So said Darryl Greenamyer, an adventure pilot who last spring attempted to complete a unique…
Outside magazine, August 1996 The Book On: Decathlon For Dan O’Brien, the chance to atone for ’92 has finally come By Mark Jannot Fewer shadows in track and field are longer–or stranger–than the one that Dan O’Brien has cast over the…
Dispatches, May 1998 SPORT Some Kind of Hero After bringing new meaning to “Olympic Gold,” Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati returns to a festive welcome By Bill Donahue On a blustery, gray day in Whistler, British Columbia, we gather shoulder-to-shoulder…
 Outside magazine, October 1997 Dyn-O-Mite! A visual history of all the gear we couldn’t — and still can’t — do without By Andrew Tilin and Mike Grudowski The Best of Toys, the Worst of Toys Endless…
Outside magazine, December 1997 Solo Faces A black outdoorsman takes a wilderness census, and finds it disturbingly light By Eddy L. Harris Night was falling all around the dusty mountains of southeastern Utah. It was a warm, clear…
Review, June 1997 Books: The Woods Divided By Miles Harvey Mason & Dixon, by Thomas Pynchon (Henry Holt, $28). In 1763, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two British surveyors, embarked on a perilous trek through Indian-controlled wilderness to establish a…
But 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,…
Outside magazine, November 1995 The New World Border “What we have here is an incredibly devious plan,” says Don Kehoe, a Monroe, Washington, landscaper with a trained eye for conspiracy. “If we allow this to happen, we’re not going to have life as we presently know…
News from the Field, December 1996 Equipage: It’s a Boat. It’s a Plane. It’s… …well, we were right the first time. On the leading edge of sailing technology, a futuristic hybrid is born By Anne Goodwin Sides Amid the sleek, blue-blooded…
Outside magazine, January 1999 This, in Fact, Will Hurt a Bit The champ’s plan to get you to the next level To hone your athletic prowess, Huffins suggests that you look inward — to your body’s…
Outside magazine, January 1993 Triathlon: The Souls of Two Machines It’s deja vu all over again at the Hawaii Ironman By Ken McAlpine Mark Allen and Paula Newby-Fraser measure about the same on the triathlon immortality meter: Between them they…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Cowboy Nation: The Song Man: Sagebrush Troubadour Every culture has its musical spokesman. For cowpeople, it’s Ian Tyson. By Tim Cahill A big damn hand came out of the sky and tapped Ian Tyson on the shoulder.
Dispatches, May 1998 EXPEDITIONS Everest, the Really Hard Way Tom Whittaker, amputee mountaineer, sets his sights on the roof of the world By Jonathan Hanson You can talk to Tom Whittaker for hours and not once will he refer…
Outside magazine, May 1999 To Hell with Me Looking for answers in “a place of unquenchable fire,” where the blind seer is open for business but the gift shop closes at half past two By Mark…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Mountain Biking: Dear Juli, Wish We Could Spin Like You By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) At April’s Hawaiian Mountain Tour, the first major mountain-bike stage race in the United States, the Hawaii Five-O theme played during…
Dispatches, August 1997 L A N D M A R K S Are You Sure the Kennedys Live Around Here? After 62 years of shelling on New England’s summer playground, the EPA orders the military to hold its fire By…
Dispatches, August 1998 Philanthropy An Unexpected Cash Flow How a grungy river rat’s $13 million bequest is changing the West By Mark Obmascik A respected if somewhat scruffy whitewater guide based in Moab, Utah, Steve Arrowsmith lived…
Outside magazine, November 1997 Remember, They Scoffed at Aspen, Too A Mexican developer’s enterprising plan to bring skiing south of the border By Chris Humphrey Allan Bard, 1952-1997 Of Allan Bard’s many trailblazing…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 You, Incorporated A portfolio of entrepreneurial successes shows that investing in your own dream is always, ahem, a capital idea By Susan Enfield Chances are you know your office PC’s start-up rumblings and I’m-saving-now hiccups…
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…
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…
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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 |…