Adventure
Archive Outside magazine, May 1998 The Jungle Took Her Twenty-seven years ago a young Canadian woman went to Borneo seeking a sort of paradise, a place where she could study the mysterious red ape, gather science, garner respect…
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…
Outside magazine, December 1996 Stocking Stuffers PowergelAll three of this new rocket fuel’s flavors give a quick-hit, easy-down-the-gullet carbo boost, but the strawberry-banana adds extra bang with a blend of caffeine, ginseng, and kola nut extract. $1.29 per 1.4-ounce packet. From PowerBar, 800-587-6937.
Outside magazine, June 1994 Rowing: Enough’s Enough By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Eric Hagerman) In his second bid to row some 5,000 miles west to east across the Pacific, British adventurer Peter Bird called it quits in March after ten stormy…
Outside magazine, March 1996 Long Climb the Queen By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brian Alexander and Steve Law) In what may have been her finest and final performance, American expatriate Robyn Erbesfield captured the sport-climbing season finale in Aix-les-Bains, France, last December…
Outside magazine, July 1998 Review: The Small-Boat Revolution Single-handed sailing’s golden age is upon us, thanks to the wonders of plastic By Mike Steere SAILBOATS | SUNGLASSES | THE OTHER STUFF…
Outside magazine, August 1995 Mountain Biking: It Is Just Like the Other One, No? The off-road Tour de France is indeed a tour. And it is in France… By Martin Dugard We are going to bring an original touch to [the sport…
Outside Magazine, November 1994 Politics: How Green Was My Stump Speech An insider’s tout sheet to elections with environmental impact By Ned Martel Ah, election season. are environmental issues playing big at a poll site near you? If not, you could probably…
Winter Olympics Preview, February 1998 THE DREAMER My Snakebit Career The Hard Luck Kid of skiing takes another — and perhaps a final — run at the glory that’s long eluded him By Craig Vetter THE DOPE ON…
Outside magazine, October 1995 St. Lucia By Trish Reynales Sure, St. Lucia’s twin peaks make for great postcards. “Pitons soar a half-mile into the sky. Mist dripping from the vines. Parrots mocking me from the palms. Mud up to my knees.
Cycling Special, March 1997 Surviving the Mean Streets You can’t outrun all the obstacles you encounter in the city. You have to outsmart them. By Alan Coté Your Tutor: Mike Downey, 29, commutes three miles six days…
Outside magazine, May 1996 Acoustic Camping The summer’s best outdoor music festivals By Peter Nelson Kerrville Folk Festival May 23-June 16 at 50-plus-acre Quiet Valley Ranch, nine miles south of Kerrville, Texas. Tunes: Scheduled headliners this year include…
Outside magazine, May 1996 You Got the Beat? “I got my first heart-rate monitor last year,” Kelly McCown says. “It was revolutionary.” She may have come late to the party, but the reason seemingly every elite athlete is bleating about using a monitor is that it’s…
Outside magazine, June 1998 Letters: The Lagging Response Bill Bryson’s story about his woeful friend Katz and their Appalachian Trail misadventures (“You Gotta Have Friends. Which Is Damned Unfortunate,” April) reminded me of a hike in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. My partner constantly trailed…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Environment: Rainbow Worriers The Forest Service tries, again, to corral a happy hippie jamboree By Ned Martel A sprawling campsite. Lentils simmer in iron cauldrons. Bota-squeezing women twirl in batik skirts. A sunburned longhair yowls that a U.S. Forest Service…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Decathlon: Odds That… Dan O’Brien will win the gold medal……..1-5 He will top the mythic 9,000-point barrier…..5-1 He will once again bonk in the pole vault……50-1…
Dispatches, March 1998 SPORT Lights, Action, Cameras? On the eve of defending his unlikely title, world champion Rob Evans insists that ice surfing’s a surefire hit. Now if only the cable honchos would listen. Oh, would that he’d ridden to…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Postnuptial Agreements Four resorts where you and your new-to-the-sport partner can find downhill harmony By Ron C. Judd You share private moments, swap toothbrushes, even exchange vows. Big deal. Agree on the perfect ski vacation, and people will…
 Outside magazine, June 1996 Balloonatics They’re swashbuckling billionaires and absent-minded dreamers, all chasing one of the last great adventures: 25,000 miles around the globe by jet stream and Icarian wing. No stopping, no sploshing. By Daniel…
The trail to some sort of personal peace seemed to wend high into the Himalayas. But where it led was back to an old friend.
So, you have to ask, when it comes to the great outdoors, is anything OK anymore?
Outside Magazine, September 1999 OFF-ROADING Going Down? Brian Head’s 6,000-foot vertical red-rock relief should do the trick You can be forgiven for snubbing Brian Head during ski season. For while tiny Brian Head Resort does amass…
Outside magazine, September 1999 CONTENDERS The Wild Bunch, Cont. Why stop at 12? There’s plenty more where those came from. POLITICS | VIRGIN LAND: A HISTORY | FRONT…
Bulletins Grandparenting: Geriat-Tricks By Bob Howells Call it cross-generational bonding, old-fashioned mentoring, or just doing neat stuff with the grandkids–more and more outfits are bringing disparate generations together on outdoor jaunts. Not surprisingly, Elderhostel lurks behind many of them, such as Let’s…
Outside magazine, October 1995 You’re Looking a Little Ozoned-out When it comes to the air you breathe, what you can’t see will hurt you By Mark Jannot I have a friend who’s always complaining about the tribulations of running in his own…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Music: Wastin’ Away Again Down in Vacaville By Mike Steere And the award for the most shameless and unprecedentedly obscene use of the environment for marketing purposes goes to…White Devil Records of Seattle. Along with its recently released CD of…
Outside magazine, February 1996 She Who Laughs Last… By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Debra Shore) Two days before the short-course triathlon world championships in Cancún, Mexico, last November, newly crowned Ironman champion Karen Smyers was neither training nor relaxing nor touring Mayan…
Outside magazine, March 1999 And the Placebo Costs Less, Too The results ù such as they are ù have come in on the latest wonder herb By Michael Kessler Before bustling off to the…
Outside Magazine, November 1994 Ultra: No, Thank You By Todd Balf (with Jim Hage) Perhaps Kawika Spaulding of Hawaii would have been in the running for the Huntington Beach-to-New York City Trans America Footrace had he chosen to stay away from whiskey at rest…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Bringing Up Grandpa We pushed the family-vacation envelope last summer when we took a multigenerational clan rafting on Idaho’s North Fork of the Salmon. There were 21 of us in all, ranging from my six-year-old son to my 75-year-old father. My…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Women’s Sprints Here comes Gwen Torrence, America’s fastest loose cannon By Mark Jannot Gwen Torrence promises to be among the most hyped athletes of the Atlanta Games: a hometown girl who returns to accolades and–a good bet–Olympic gold…
Outside magazine, July 1994 Triathlon: Beware of Dave By Todd Balf (with Derek Rielly) As the season kicked off last April with the St. Croix International Triathlon, the buzz on the street was about the imminent return of Dave Scott, the six-time Hawaii Ironman champion turned…
Dispatches, May 1997 Sport: A Man, A Plan, and a Hell of a Tan With a patient approach and all the tools, José Loiola stands poised to become the new King of the Beach By Johnny Dodd “Right now,…
Outside magazine, August 1996 The Book On: Mountainbiking Will Tinker Juarez triumph–or psych himself out trying? By Alan Cote and Eric Hagerman Until last year, the word on Tinker Juarez was that were he ever to recognize just how strong…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Good-Bye 1996, Hello 2004 As the sun descends on Atlanta, an anxious world turns its eyes to…Puerto Rico? By Stephanie Gregory While Boston elbows into position in the race for the 2008 Summer Olympics, the dash for the…
 Outside magazine, October 1994 Welcome to Gun Camp In the sport of shooting, proficiency means not only winning, but getting good at killing. Welcome to Gun Camp, where the question is, Do I want to do this? and the answer is, a little sadly, You…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Cycling: A Race to Remember, Sadly By Todd Balf (with John Alderman) Miguel Indurain’s unprecedented fifth straight victory in the the Tour de France last July was indeed impressive, but the race probably won’t be remembered for Big…
 Outside magazine, November 1996 Peruvian Gothic Don Benigno Aazco carved his way 36 years deep into the green heart of the Andean forest, founded 14 settlements, abandoned his wife and many children, married his daughter, slew his son-in-law, fought drug peddlers, tamed…
Outside magazine, November 1997 Chin Up — There’s Always Next Year The latest on a not-so-successful expeditionary season By Andrew Tilin Since explorers typically utter “uncle” about as often as Jackie Chan, one has to wonder what dark cosmic forces…
Dispatches, December 1998 Sport Hey Bob, Can You Tie Me Off to That Pika? Climbing’s uphill battle against a proposed ban on fixed anchors By John Galvin Idaho’s Sawtooth Wilderness is a region of such overwhelming natural grace that…
Dispatches, April 1998 SPORT These Guys May Be on EPO, Does Anyone Care? Despite the promise of an effective new drug test, the USOC drags its heels By Paul Keegan At 53, Allen Murray swims five times a week,…
Fitness ’97, February 1997 Above All Else… Endurance Allen’s long-and-slow approach to endurance training won’t work if you violate its main tenet: Stay below your maximum aerobic heart rate at all times. If you find yourself impatient and compelled to cheat by doing…
Outside magazine, May 1998 Allow me to be the first to congratulate you on your stunning achievement (damn you) A few heartwarming tales from the annals of high-minded competition By Florence Williams Did. Did not. Did too. How rich…
Outside magazine, May 1999 Trends How Green Is My Mini-Bar? A reduced, recycled, reused sojourn at America’s most guilt-free upscale hotel Ever since its grand opening in late January, guests have been flocking to…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Mountaineering: Queen of Solo By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Eric Hagerman) French sport-climber-turned-mountaineer Catherine Destivelle, who has spent the last several years soloing some of Europe’s most venerated peaks, usually in spectacular fashion, knocked off another in…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Et Tu, Mr. Foreman? “The environmental movement is like a bunch of alpha dogs, always trying to establish dominance,” explains Victor Rozek of the Native Forest Council, an antilogging group based in Eugene, Oregon. “And some just can’t handle it when others…
Vacation Special, August 1997 C O T T A G I N G I N O N T A R I O A Piece of the Shore Skinny-dipping under the stars, and other reasons to go cottaging in Ontario.