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ArchiveDispatches, July 1997 C A R E E R S A Not-So-Golden Parachute Your humble tour guides: former cycling greats By Andrew Tilin Whither the retired professional cyclist? Times were tough enough while carving out a spot in the…
Out Front, October 1997 To Do: Hang Out at Mall, Torture Little Brother, Save World A few young go-getters who’ll soon be making headlines By Brad Wetzler Don’t worry, we know your type. sure, you’re interested in what happened during…
Dispatches, October 1998 Public Relations No Wonder the Reception’s So Good at the Statue of Liberty A few modest proposals for ways the cell-phone industry might dress up its towers By Bruce McCall The purveyors of cellular communications,…
Outside magazine, December 1997 Sport: From Tabula Rasa to Pipeline Masters Shaping a few winning boards with the North Shore’s humble Picasso-of-the-planer By William Finnegan E A R T O T H E G R O U N…
Dispatches, June 1997 Diversions: Because It’s…Absurd and Illegal The latest sport to take London by storm: sewer canoeing By Denise Dowling Given that most British celebrities — David Bowie, Brenda Blethyn, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales — tend…
Outside magazine, March 1996 The Virtuoso: Front-Suspension Symbiont, Meet Ms. Controlled Abandon Cross-country world champ Alison Sydor shows how you and your bike can achieve that elusive two-part harmony By Ken McAlpine When it comes to bike handling, there are…
Outside magazine, June 1996 O My Preppy Soul! Hours from anywhere but on the edge of nowhere, the rough Down East passages welcome the well heeled and unpedigreed alike By John Skow We had rounded schoodic point some hours before, or so…
Dispatches, June 1997 Science: If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, De-Clone ‘Em A revealing look into a future clouded by double vision By Bruce McCall For The Record Just Smush It…
Outside magazine, August 1995 Solitude on the High Seas By Lawrence Burke There are few sporting events on earth more taxing of mind and body than the BOC Challenge, the around-the-world solo sailing marathon that ended late last spring in Charleston, South Carolina. During…
Outside Magazine, November 1994 Citius, Altius, Picabo On her way to downhill glory and a country and western singing career, Picabo Street, force of nature, brakes for no one By Lynn Snowden Picabo Street, the 23-year-old downhill skier who won a silver…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Ski Like Picabo, Dress Like a Partridge Seventies style is back–and it’s groovier than ever By Katie Arnold Pea green matched with deep mustard rust. Mile-wide stripes. The dare-me look of animal print on nylon. Welcome…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Books: The Urban Wild Thing By Miles Harvey Snowshoeing Through Sewers: Adventures in New York City, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, by Michael Aaron Rockland (Rutgers University Press, $21.95). A few years back it occurred to Rockland, an American Studies…
Dispatches, March 1998 WILDLIFE The Debate That Roared A plan to reintroduce the grizzly in Idaho causes considerable growling People who live around the Bitterroot Range, an expanse of rugged real estate that sprawls across 44,000 square miles of Idaho and…
Outside magazine, May 1996 Hall of Shame Books for a Brown World Gilgamesh, The oldest literary work in history stars a hero, the Sumerian king Gilgamesh, who achieves glory by killing the forest demon Huwawa. “It is a sorry fact of history,” notes…
Outside magazine, June 1998 Review: They Breathe. They Wick. They Even Seem Natural. Smart twists in the latest athletic apparel: style and comfort By Kent Black ATHLETIC ATTIRE | WATCHES |…
Outside magazine, June 1999 BOOKS Beastliness Buy this book! The Man Who Tried to Save the World, by Scott Anderson (Doubleday,…
Outside magazine, August 1996 The Book On: Cycling Race-shy no more. Rebecca Twigg should prove her mettle By Alan Cote In the four years since Barcelona, olympic cycling has altered course. In Atlanta, women will finally get their due with five…
 Outside magazine, October 1996 We Few, We Happy Few, We Band of Fledgling Monkeywrenchers Learning to Speak in Sound Bites At the nation’s lone training ground for environmental activists, aimless tree huggers are fashioned into media-savvy eco-warriors, ready for the fray. A postcard from this…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Mountaineering: Tragedy on Pisang By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) In one of the worst mishaps in the history of commercial expeditions, ten alpinists from a German climbing club and their Sherpa guide were killed in a freak accident November…
Dispatches, November 1998 Expeditions Meet Scott. He Knows What He’s Doing. Really. Is this man as hot as he thinks? He’s about to find out. By Bill Donahue The producers have, for some reason, bleeped the expletive, but…
Outside magazine, October 1992 Dave Scott, Mere Mortal He virtually invented the sport of triathlon. He became its first pro, won its biggest race six times, set unassailable standards for preparation and athletic passion. There’s only one thing the original Ironman never figured out about his…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Hip to the Bone Often overlooked, it puts the groove in your move By Matthew Segal STRETCHES | STRENGTHENERS…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Tour de Pharmacie As a competitive cyclist in the United States, I was particularly impressed with John Brant’s coverage of an almost decade-long scandal that has completely rocked the professional road-cycling world (“Playing Dirty,”…
The Spokespeople Hop on your bikes and head for the hills—of California’s Lost Coast, Ontario’s Forest Trails, or the carraige roads of Mount Desert Island Flat-Out Adventure A family fiets through the Dutch…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Midnight Rambler’s Ride If there’s one sentiment all cyclists share, it’s the melancholy that comes with autumn’s shorter days: There are fewer and fewer hours in which to ride, until finallyùwoefullyùthe…
Outside magazine, November 1995 The Wayward West: We’re Mad Too…Darn It! So what now? Onetime renegade Dave Foreman offers a few suggestions for curing the green malaise. By Margaret Kriz With the environmental movement dusting off its pants after a withering brown…
Outside magazine, February 1996 One Giant Leap for Dudette Kind By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Debra Shore) Lisa Andersen is no suffragette, but events last November, when she clinched a second-straight world surfing title at the Roxy Hawaiian Pro, elevated the Floridian…
Destinations, March 1999 Right Time, Right Place, Right Now Fifty-odd years ago, a young guy’s visit to Vanuatu inspired the legend of Bali Hai. Thankfully, the good life’s still here. Why aren’t you? By Bob Payne…
Outside Magazine, November 1994 Volleyball: One of Those Stages By Todd Balf (with Jim Hage) Having been to the winner’s podium as often as he has, you might think Karch Kiraly would have the hang of it by now. However, Kiraly took a scary…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Gunwale Up With a canoe as your Sherpa, camping gets a five-star rating By David Dunbar Our Favorite Places | Inside Skinny | Staying Safe |…
Vacation Special, August 1997 S W I M M I N G T H E L O W E R A M M O N O O S U C God’s Own Plunge Pool A grotto behind the…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Good Thing He Didn’t Try Sky Diving Nobody expects world-class athletes to compete forever, but Tom Mason has probably just set a record for career brevity. Before it was all over, however, the controversial 34-year-old street luger made quite an impression in…
Dispatches, May 1997 Law Enforcement: This Is the Park Service: Come Out with Your Hands Up On a hotly contested piece of southern California, the feds move in By Michael Parrish On a drizzly, cold January morning at a rustic…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Marathon: Odds That … Jenny Spangler will win a medal……..16-1 Uta Pippig will fail to medal……..50-1 At least one runner will succumb to heat prostration…..2-1…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Is Everything to Your Liking Mr. Samaranch? Landing the greatest sporting event on earth requires a dash of seduction, a pinch of politics, and shameless quantities of palm grease. A recipe for bringing the Games to your hometown.
Outside magazine, October 1994 Parachuting: Help! I Need Attention! By Todd Balf (with Greg Child and Dan Dickison) When and if the law catches up with BASE jumping’s most wanted man, John Vincent, it won’t be pretty. Unrepentant and obviously unrehabilitated, Vincent last June walked out…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Wildlife: I Am Cat Bait–Hear Me Roar Tired of being prey, Californians target the protected mountain lion By Laura Hilgers Nanse Browne pulls the parchment-colored skull of an adult male cougar from her briefcase and proceeds to hold…
Dispatches: News from the Field, November 1996 Environment: And Foul Is Fair After years of progress in the war on smog, L.A.’s air-quality board cuddles up with the spewers By Bill Donahue Though he’s one of the leading experts on the…
Outside magazine, November 1996 Fat Men Can’t Jump He’s scaled back on Big Macs–a bit–and poured on the training. Can Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards be serious? By Todd Balf Eddie wants respect. as…
Outside magazine, December 1997 Power Plays: Hold It Right There, Officer It’s cop-versus-cop as embittered westerners look to further tweak the feds By Tristram Korten Who Cares If It Works — We’ve…
Outside magazine, April 1998 Unfrozen Caveman Camper Tells All In the beginning, there was fire. And it was good. Later came KOAs and solar showers and freeze-dried. And they were bad. So let’s go back. Way back. By Hampton Sides…
Fitness ’97, February 1997 The Guru Speaks. You Should Listen. How to get from chump to champ in a few measly months. It took more than a decade for Mark Allen to perfect the routines that made him the fittest man on earth.
Outside magazine, April 1995 Books: Evils of the Junket By Miles Harvey Errant Journeys: Adventure Travel in a Modern Age, by David Zurick (University of Texas Press, $30). Everywhere David Zurick looks, he finds the world “on a path toward conformity.” Yet it…
Outside magazine, May 1999 Epitaph for a Crusader Terry Freitas lived for a cause, a place, a people, but he died for no good reason at all. When Terence Freitas returned to the United States on…
 Outside magazine, June 1994 The Hydroponic Dreams of Laird Hamilton He was born in a bathysphere, baptized in surfboard resin, raised in the rainforest in Hawaii. Who else is ready to ride the biggest wave on earth? By Bucky McMahon…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Windfishing: Call Me…Dude By John Galvin Though catching air off the lip of big waves is Jeff Olson’s first love, he’s also been known to tell a pretty good fish story. “When this one hit, he pulled my board backward,”…
Vacation Special, August 1997 R A F T I N G T H E G A U L E Y The Hillbilly Autobahn The best swimming in Mexico: Ocean? By Stephanie Gregory…
Outside magazine, October 1995 A Spin Around the Gab Galaxy By Sara Corbett “America loves a female athlete with a big personality,” says Kathy Dasilva, a producer of MTV Sports. “Someone who’s a force field unto herself, who’s all-around big.” Of course, the…
Dispatches, November 1998 Breakthroughs So Can I file a Patent on My Wife’s Panty Hose? And other modest proposals from the cutting edge of science By Denis Faye Once, there was a world without velcro, devoid of Gore-Tex, and…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Toys Sharp Objects The best ways to slice, carve, chop, whittle, and otherwise be a cutup By Michael Kessler GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS |…
Dispatches, April 1998 ENVIRONMENT When We Say Roadless, We (Kinda) Mean It The Clinton administration’s latest bold move could spell the end of subsidized logging … or not By Alan Freedman It’s the timber industry’s oldest maxim: If you…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Ma Sparker By Bill Donahue The story seemed almost biblical: 60-year-old Charmian Glassman so loved her prodigal, forest-fire-fighting son, Jason Robertson, that she ventured into the dry, manzanita-specked hills near her Mount Shasta home and reportedly set the forest ablaze,…
Outside magazine, February 1998 Out There: OK Gorillas, No Belching During the Pledge of Allegiance Bringing a little jungle indoors, to a fresh generation of primatologists By Tim Cahill LISTEN UP! Tim Cahill speaks on Outside Radio…
Outside magazine, April 1996 The Town That the A-Bomb Built By Lawrence Burke Last summer’s 50th anniversary observances of the trinity blast, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki understandably focused on the world-historical transformation brought about by the atomic bomb. Considerably less was said about the here…
Outside magazine, April 1996 The Case for Speed By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta Will mountaineering’s next era be all about linking the premier routes of yesteryear in nonstop climb-a-thons? Marc Twight thinks so. Best known for his ice-climbing prowess and tortured poetry (see…
Outside magazine, August 1999 Thicker Than Blood It takes some good old boys to show you the primo secret woods By Larry Brown Two years before my father died, when I was 14, my…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Rack It Up Who says you can’t take it with you? By John Lehrer What to look for in a car rack? Ease of use (for example, can you open the ski/ snowboard holder with frozen fingers?), durability…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Introducing the Particle-Accelerating Bohunk Next Door By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta Uh, meet Brian Scottoline. Stanford biochemist. HIV researcher. Sweaty pinup boy in the 1996 Studmuffins of Science calendar, on sale now in most university bookstores. Really. “I’m…
News from the Field, January 1997 Marketing: Salty, Salty, He’s Our Man… Some free advice for the organizers of the 2002 Winter Games By Bruce Mccall The Utah Winter Olympic Games are still five years away, but to sell those millions…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: Well, It Won’t Fix Itself: Part 1 How to straighten a bum rim By Scott Sutherland As disheartening as it looks, a wheel that’s been banged into a shape that’s slightly suggestive of a taco…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Wooood-y! Wooood-y! We’re drinking bottled water, We’ll soon be drinking bottled air… In 1991 he caught our ear by warbling these earnest lyrics. In 1996, as Outside names Woody Harrelson the Embarrassing Enviro Celeb of His…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Swimming: In our ongoing search for masochists… By Todd Balf (with Jim Kelly, Martin Dugard, and Alison Osius) Call Guy Delage a dreamer, but on December 16 the 42-year-old Frenchman left the Cape Verde Islands in a heroic bid to…
Outside magazine, April 1999 Near to the Ground It hasn’t been a bad decade for the environment, all things considered. But before you send those huzzahs ù and your checks ù to those far-off groups in Washington,…
Outside magazine, September 1995 Duathlon: Stop Your Whining By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) Heinous weather was just about the only thing in hot pursuit of top-ranked duathlete Maddy Tormoen at the season-opening Powerman Duathlon in Zofingen, Switzerland, on May 14. Tormoen clobbered the…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Self-Reliance: Shopping on Location By Doug Peacock I cook (like everyone else) for therapy, and when out on the land, where you have to make do with what’s at hand, one of the best antidotes to an impending disaster…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Transcendental Perspiration The road to the Little People starts with near-suffocation in a sweat lodge By Randy Wayne White Even though it implies a spiritual linkage that I’m reluctant to acknowledge, any explanation of why I attended a…
Outside magazine, May 1995 Buying Right: Off-Road Clipless Pedals By Alan Cote If you’ve never ridden on clipless pedals, know that they’re not a way to ensure that you’ll fall over in an embarrassed heap with your feet trapped. Clipless pedals are about control,…
Outside magazine, March 1996 Adventure: Nicotine Wishes and Cabernet Dreams Greetings from the Raid Gauloises, where we think you’d agree, it’s very good to be French By Martin Dugard With a liter bottle of Coca-Cola in one hand and a mayonnaise-slathered salami…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Mountain Biking: Red Carpet Rides By Bob Howells MOUNTAIN BIKING Red-Carpet Rides Mountain bikers who are still wearing themselves out haggling over access to new territory are simply not looking for love in all the right…
 Outside magazine, July 1997 Dark Behind It Rose the Forest … Into the beautiful Angeles we go, into the most dangerous national forest in America By Randall Sullivan Arrests are common in Angeles National Forest I‘m barely…
Gone Summering, July 1998 Make Mine Raw Mama’s boys, beware: Portsmouth Island is nature untethered By Bob Shacochis North Carolina’s Outer Realm Twenty-three miles long, Portsmouth Island, part of Cape Lookout National Seashore, is…
Dispatches, July 1998 Dubious Ventures Das Ghost Boot: Around the World with a Silicon Crew No skipper, no navigator, no mate? Hey, no problem — Captain Computer’s at the helm. By Tim Zimmermann Reiner Schmid, of Germany’s Furtwangen University…
Dispatches, October 1998 Sport We Are Shocked. Shocked. Now Pass the Hypodermic Needle. Unmasked and besieged, international cycling still refuses to break off its incorrigible affair with drugs. By Russ Spenser An American in Paris “I’ve always believed…