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ArchiveDestinations, March 1999 Milestones Auld Lang Climb Celebrating Mount Rainier’s centennial one step at a time By Claire Martin “I did not mean to climb it, but got excited and soon was on top,”…
Outside magazine, December 1998 Manifest Destiny How to track your days in the quest for that elusive “zone” By Paul Keegan Jim Loehr wants you to be a control freak. Not the kind who…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Summer 101 They call these trips learning vacations. But don’t let the name scare you By Caitlin Maynard Our Favorite Places The very idea of a learning vacation is enough…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Marathon: Salazar’s Back (With A Smile) By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and John Alderman) In the long, strange trip that is Alberto Salazar’s life, another chapter: Mired in the proverbial road-race desert for 12 winless years, the former victor in both…
Outside magazine, September 1997 S M A R T T R A V E L E R Lariam’s Sting Is the world’s top antimalarial drug safe? By Eric Ransdell B U L…
Destinations, May 1997 Honk If You Voted for El Loco Ecuador’s volcanoes seem too tame for you? Try its politics. By Joshua Hammer Middle-American tourists on the hunt for Andean woolens and Panama hats don’t usually expect to find themselves…
Outside magazine, August 1996 The Book On: Marathon Do look back. Ladies: underdog Jenny Spangler may be gaining By Gretchen Reynolds Jenny Spangler, the unsponsored, unheralded, and extremely unlikely winner of the 1996 Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials, goes into the…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Sasquatch Phone Home By Andrew Rice The Northern California mountains have long been known as bigfoot country. Sightings date back to the 1880s, but it was Roger Patterson’s now famous (and never discredited) 1967 film of a female bigfoot…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Protests: Greenpeace Posts a Route By John Galvin “Hey, it’s the dude that was on TV!” Thus was John Mallett greeted by fellow jailbirds at New York City’s central lockup on July 11, after getting busted for climbing halfway up Time’s…
 Outside magazine, November 1995 The Wayward West: With Liberty and Firepower for All Like a lot of westerners, the gun-waving citizens of Catron County, New Mexico, are clinging to a way of life that may be outdated. But some of them would sooner…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 The Way from San José Navigating the Osa By Bob Payne For easiest access to most of the Osa Peninsula, start in the Golfo Dulce town of Puerto Jim‹nez, 50 miles south of San…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Beginner Angst By John Galvin ADVENTURES IN SNOWPLOWING | DETAILS, DETAILS | BEGINNER ANGST It’s true. I’ve tried it: You can’t teach an old dog…
Outside magazine, December 1997 My Name is Bill. I’m an Aquamaid. There, shimmering brightly in the deep end of the pool, treads a pioneer. A soggy Billie Jean King, a Speedo-clad Shannon Faulkner. A brave beacon to…
Outside magazine, January 1999 Down, but Not Out No-nonsense rehab to get you back on the slopes By Kevin Foley The season’s finally under way, with rocks covered and bumps taking shape, when an injury…
News from the Field, February 1997 Running: Fleet-Footed Foreigners Need Not Apply A million-dollar purse for besting the American marathon mark begs a question: Why reward mediocrity? By Bill Donahue Maybe it was after African men took the top 13 spots…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Return of the Hunted After 70 years, phantom has become fact. But the story has just begun. By Hampton Sides It was over in less than an hour. Twenty years of debate would culminate in a prosaic…
Outside magazine, May 1999 BOOKS Hard Places Buy this book! Close Range: Wyoming Stories, by Annie Proulx (Scribner, $25). The author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Entertainment: We Use Live Bullets! By John Galvin We Use Live Bullets! If you go to tombstone, arizona, this summer, be sure to take along your loaded six-shooter. and don’t be surprised if some of the biggest,…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Proudly Sponsored by Your Local Gastroenterologist Some triathletes will do anything to qualify for Hawaii’s Ironman-but unfortunately, this seems to include plunging into water choked with fecal coliform bacteria and gut-twisting pathogens like Giardia lamblia. Indeed, it is these components of raw…
Vacation Special, August 1997 D I V I N G T H E C H A N N E L I S L A N D S Flipper … Is That You? North mixes with tropics in the…
Destinations, August 1998 Other Choices, Other Flumes Can’t make it to Temagami? Here are five great waterways closer to home. By Jonathan Hanson The Gila River, Arizona Nothing heightens the glories of a river quite so much as drought.
Outside magazine, November 1998 But They Dig Me In São Paulo! Meet Guilherme. He’s a very famous athlete. In Brazil. Although not in America. Poor Guilherme. By Mike Grudowski On a perfect Saturday, off…
Out Front, Fall 1998 Law Go Directly to Jail — By Way of the Appalachian Trail Tracking Eric Rudolph, outdoorsman-cum-outlaw-cum-outdoorsman By Bill Donahue He was out there, somewhere, and in the oak-specked hills of North Carolina, 200 federal…
Outside magazine, December 1995 But I Do Get an Extra Lei, Don’t I? By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta “The guy who wins, wins,” says Jim Barahal, president of next month’s Honolulu Marathon. “It’s anti-athletic to award prize money based on who you are.”…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Chronicle of a Year Foretold By Larry Burke After you’ve uncorked the Dom Perignon and yowled a few obligatory bars of “Auld Lang Syne,” dig into this month’s cover story for a revealing and decidedly effervescent sneak preview of the…
Outside magazine, February 1998 Lost in Space Australia’s huge and haunted Kimberley might just be the last frontier By Tony Perrottet Is the Water Fine? In croc country, how to look before you leap Out in…
Destinations, February 1999 And for a Little Human Diversity … Don’t miss Bisbee, the funky desert oasis where left and right have agreed to meet in the middle The contrast between the sprawling concrete of…
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 Go Ahead, Dis My Kumquat “Someone suddenly says dried apricots give you cancer, you stop eating dried apricots, and the farmer loses his shirt,” huffs John Keeling of the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re tired of people playing loose with the facts.”…
Outside magazine, October 1996 Philately: And Now, a Word From Our Sponsors By Michael Kessler This month, as chemicals heir John du Pont stands trial for the January 26 murder of former Olympic wrestling gold medalist Dave Schultz, at least one noteworthy detail from…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Law: Who’s to Blame for Kolob Creek? Survivors of a fatal Utah canyon trip point the finger at “the people who were supposed to know” By Clint Willis Mark Brewer still has nightmares about Kolob Creek, but…
Review: Hardware and Software, January 1997 Books: The Haunting of Open Spaces By Miles Harvey Bad Land: An American Romance, by Jonathan Raban (Pantheon, $25). When Ismay, Montana, became Joe, Montana, in 1993–a short-lived attempt to cash in on the name…
Outside magazine, April 1999 Review: All Play, No Work The latest whitewater kayaks put the emphasis where it belongs By Bob Woodward KAYAKS | BUYING RIGHT |…
Dispatches, July 1997 E V E N T S The Race Is On At the start of a less-predictable new era, a look at the crˆme of the Tour de France field By Alan Coté With the retirement of…
Outside magazine, July 1997 Noriega Sat Here Our man in Panama works the strange case of the generalisimo’s purloined bar stools By Randy Wayne White Because the Panama Canal will be officially transferred to its host republic at noon on…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Film: Remember, Mr. Daniels, You Love the Geese Crackpot no more, a biology buff’s passion goes Hollywood By Florence Williams When we last met Canadian ultralight pilot and amateur biologist William Lishman, he had finally turned the corner…
Outside Magazine, October 1998 Premonition X-Acto Vision There in the palm of my had lay my future By David James Duncan I was struck in boyhood by a suspicion that rivers and mountains are myself turned inside out.
Outside magazine, October 1998 The Basics, Done Right By Paul Keegan The beauty of Newton’s resistance-training program is that you need only master 12 exercises to follow it. How much weight to use is difficult to estimate,…
 Outside magazine, December 1997 Hello, I Must Be Going Dire forecasts predict the end of the all-u-can-eat seafood buffet, as the world’s fisheries fall victim to big fleets and a fragile nature. But if the waters are really emptying, why is your…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Guide to Summer: There’s Nothing Like Dining Alfresco Don’t fight the urge to be social–we’re genetically programmed to picnic By Pete Nelson Most of my favorite outdoor parties have been interrupted by visits from the police, but these…
Outside magazine, May 1995 Running: Never Mind the Skull Tattoos Ben Hian says he’ll whip everyone at this year’s Western States 100 By Martin Dugard From a distance, ultramarathoner Ben Hian looks something like an ancient Celtic manuscript with skinny legs, his…
Outside magazine, June 1996 The Great White Philharmonic Amidst the thundering crescendos of calving ice, a beer-ad guy can find symphonic enightenment By Tim Cahill You know how guys in beer ads are always pictured doing stuff you wouldn’t do–or shouldn’t do–when…
Outside magazine, July 1998 Review: A Little Bright Out? Think Polarized. By Bob Howells SAILBOATS | SUNGLASSES | THE OTHER STUFF | BOOKS Those who work…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Up Next, Orange Vests Just when you thought TV home shopping had reached its saturation point–with channels hustling everything from Pete Rose autographed baseballs to plum-size cubic zircon–the Sportsmans’ Outdoor Network crackled to life this spring, hoping to capitalize on the untapped…
Outside Magazine, November 1994 Final Exits: Ready, Aim, Rest in Peace By Hannah Holmes “Everybody thinks that you get cremated, then you get left in a shoe box, spilled, swept up, spilled, swept up. But you have many choices!” So says Jay W. “Canuck”…
Review: Hardware and Software, January 1997 Classics: The Wool Ski Sweater By Scott Sutherland Chemicals do make our lives better. Hexamethyldisilazane, chlorinated phenyl methyl polysiloxane, polypropylene–wonderful stuff all. But sometimes you want to snuggle up against something other than abandoned plastic soda bottles…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Marathon: Chariots of Permafrost By Ken McAlpine Whiteout. Headwinds that set your cheeks to slapping the back of your neck. Then a starting pistol fires and a hundred fleecy distance runners peel out across the permafrost, taking baby steps lest…
Outside magazine, March 1997 Lean, Green, and Amazingly Serene An ode to Moss Man, who after 28 days in a hot spring emerged a changed person By Randy Wayne White The reason I was reluctant to participate in the bizarre…
Outside magazine, May 1996 Walking the Walk By Brad Wetzler Veteran through-hikers like to answer the question, “How do you go about hiking the Appalachian Trail?” with the chest-thumping response, “Drive to Springer Mountain and start walking.” Don’t believe them. Most undergo a Kennedy-Space-Center-style…
Outside magazine, June 1998 Out There: Getting Up Again What you do when the bottom drops out of your world By Tim Cahill Televised baseball. October play-offs. Someone hit the ball and there it went out into center field,…
Outside magazine, June 1999 Music Concerto for Cricket and Frog in B Minor Maestro and mayor, Phillip Bimstein goes wild in search of harmonic convergence Unlike most musical composers, Phillip Bimstein has little…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Beach Volleyball: Odds That… Reno and McPeak will garner gold……..1-1 The American duo will hug after the match……..75-1 Sinjin Smith and Carl Henkel will medal…..100-1…
Outside magazine, September 1997 Bet My Bentley Can Smoke Your Rolls From the Great Wall to the Eiffel Tower, would-be Andrettis put their classics to the test By Carl Hoffman Why Is This Woman…Still Standing? Ultradistance…
Dispatches, February 1998 EVENTS Have Corpulence, Will Hurtle Think there’s no sport too absurd for the X Games? Get a load of shovel racing. By Gretchen Reynold True, the cold season’s competitive-sports options for big-boned fellows with a fondness…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Mountaineering: Tragedy at the Top of the World What really happened that fateful day? By Jeff Herr When you’ve just climbed to the top of Mount Everest, you want to linger there a few minutes, snapping photographs…
Long after Ken Burns inspired a nation to sniffle, Civil War hobbyists are reenacting America's deadliest conflict—over and over and over. Live from the ersatz killing fields of Gettysburg, our man asks: Is this any way for adults to behave?
Outside magazine, September 1999 Straight Up, No Cheating Professional advice for topping 14,000 feet? Don’t sprint. YOUR INNER ARNOLD Talk of personal-best bench presses may be the stuff of locker-room preening rituals, but it’s…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Virgin Land: A History POLITICS | VIRGIN LAND: A HISTORY | FRONT LINES | CONTENDERS Two millennia before President Lyndon Johnson signed the Wilderness…
Outside magazine, Februrary 2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Fresh Breath Modern snorkels may…
Dispatches, September 1998 Climbing Hi, My Name is Hans. Now Gimme My Check Lessons in gold-digging from America’s speediest wall rat By Bill Donahue Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s…
Outside magazine, November 1995 The Seein’ Red Blues “Cowboys are always depicted as easygoing. Not me,” says 56-year-old Weatherford, Texas, songwriter Don Edwards. Meaning? “I’m the cowboy from hell. Good Lord, in the old days, if you weren’t pissed, you weren’t a singer at all.” Edwards…
Outside magazine, February 1996 Mr. Armani, Meet the King of Beers By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Debra Shore) This month, John Tesh will pose for an ad sporting a tie splattered with Budweiser; in April, Sugar Ray Leonard will do the same…
Destinations, March 1999 A Green Lining? Ten years after the tragic spill, Exxon’s loss is Kachemak’s gain By Doug Fine A decade ago this month, when the Exxon Valdez hemorrhaged 11 million gallons of crude…
Dispatches, December 1998 Exploration Calamari for Everyone! A pack of researchers pursues the elusive giant squid By Michael Menduno “A vast pulpy mass,” wrote Herman Melville in Moby-Dick, ” lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Independence Days Mom’s gone rafting, dad’s on a hike–at a multisport resort, you do what you want By Kate and David Butwin Our Favorite Places My dad, David, is a…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Sailing: Liberte, Fraternite, Butt-Whuppin’ Why French skippers are–again–likely to bop the competition in the world’s longest race By Dan Dickison Every four years French sailors make the competition eat spray in the BOC Challenge–a four-stage around-the-world solo rip across 27,000…
Outside magazine, August 1996 The Book On: Men’s Sprints Can anyone beat Donovan Bailey, track-god-come-lately? By Mark Jannot It must be hard for other sprinters not to pigeonhole Donovan Bailey, 28, as just another track-world dilettante. A native Jamaican who immigrated…
Destinations, May 1997 Follow Me. I Have a Mule. The right outfitter can keep a highlands trip low-stress By Bob Payne While it’s possible to plan and outfit a trip through the Ecuadorian highlands on your own, the logistics of…