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ArchiveWinter Olympics Preview, February 1998 THE UP-AND-COMERS Hold the Ice Now that America’s top lugers have proven they can match the Europeans drink for drink, they have something to prove on the track By Julian Rubinstein THE DOPE ON…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Monkey See, Monkey Shoot? By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brooke DeNisco, Martin Forstenzer, and Eileen Hansen) “You can’t go shooting someone’s monkey, just like you can’t shoot someone’s cow,” argues Robert Trimble, attorney for the South Texas Primate…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: Road Bike Skills: Take It From Mr. Persistence Steve Bauer’s tips from a lifetime on the road By Scott Sutherland In a tip of the helmet to cycling Darwinism, Motorola Cycling Team’s Steve Bauer, 35,…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: Shop Talk: A Phrase Book for the Bike Bazaar By Scott Sutherland CNC: Computer numerical control, as applied to hunks of raw aluminum, is the hot way to machine weight from components — and to put…
Outside magazine, April 1997 The Horse-Eater, I Presume? In the blue holes of the Bahamas, a hungry leviathan lurks. Our man aimed to find it. By Randy Wayne White Having lived most of his life on Cat Island in the…
Outside magazine, September 1995 Mountaineering: Get Thee Back to Thy Sloop By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) In mountaineering’s answer to professional golf’s seniors tour, legendary American climbers John Roskelley, Jim Wickwire, and Charlie Porter, ages hovering around 50, joined last spring to attempt…
Destinations, October 1996 Smart Traveler: Where to Sweat Like an Olympian A guide to gold-medal workouts in Atlanta Paul Kvinta The good news about post-Olympics Atlanta is that you, Joe Public, can actually work out at some of those sparkling facilities you…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Can’t We All Just Shred Along By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta At the first world snowboarding championships–or at least the first to be recognized by the International Olympic Committee–last January, it was clear the sport had come a long…
Outside magazine, January 1997 Alone Again, Naturally Bingeing on butter and propelled by acid rock, B°rge Ousland nears the end of his second (and hopefully more successful) attempt to cross Antarctica By Jack Barth A year…
Outside magazine, March 1996 Books: Fire and Brimstone Reviews by Miles Harvey Archangel, by Paul Watkins (Random House, $24), and Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse, by Martha F. Lee (Syracuse University Press, $34.95). Edward Abbey’s 1975 novel The…
Outside magazine, June 1996 In Search of the Beaver Within Plunging through the nation’s most civilized wilderness, even the staunchest of urbanites can J-stroke back to the Pleistocene By Philip Weiss My life as an outdoorsman began when my wife bought an…
Dispatches, July 1998 Bear Essentials Pepper Spray: Oooh, Hit Me Again, Baby! By Paul Scott Pepper spray, which sprang from research conducted by Carrie Hunt, has become the defense of choice in bear country. Recently, however, a U.S. Geological Survey researcher…
 Outside magazine, October 1997 Where the Deer and the Zillionaires Play A little door-to-door canvassing among America’s modern homesteaders By Jack Hitt Lewis and Shepherd, Sotheby’s hired guns Chad Budge is driving as cautiously as…
Outside magazine, October 1998 Moments Past Then he saw the bear. It did not emerge, appear: it was just there, immobile, fixed in the green and windless noon’s hot dappling, not as big as he had dreamed it but as big as he had…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Best Spot to View the Carnage Bear Mountain Lodge, Killington, Vermont Located at the base of Outer Limits, one of the East’s most challenging mogul runs, the deck at Bear Mountain Lodge can be like a front-row seat…
 Outside magazine, June 1994 Richard Leakey’s Fall from Grace His will and ego made him the most powerful, respected man in African conservation. In the end, they’re what brought him down. By Joshua Hammer At half past nine in the…
Outside magazine, January 1998 Science: Check It Out, Beavis: They Said “Appendage” Because one man’s harbinger of doom is another’s prurient thrill By Sarah Horowitz Certainly, what with an entire episode of Nightline and untold column inches devoted…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Elegy for the Tiger By Larry Burke One of the ironies brought to light by the crumbling of the Soviet Union was that, in its own way, totalitarianism could be unexpectedly kind to wildlife. Over the past few years, broad…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Well, if Nice Guys Finish Last… A late-night incident in Florence last March put the close on Alberto Tomba’s remarkable statline for the ’95-’96 ski season: three World Cup slalom victories, two world championship gold medals, and two clobbered photographers. This time,…
Outside magazine, July 1999 So You Want to be a Superstar? With a touch of hard work and a whole lot of pizzazz, you can master the ten coolest moves of the season. Dive right into the…
Outside magazine, July 1999 Walk Softly, and Spoil Yourself Rotten Who says traveling light is right when it comes to car camping? By Donovan Webster Gimme Shelter |…
Outside magazine, September 1996 That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger John Stamstad is his own weird science project, a 135-pound, mountain-bike-based experiment in the limits of human endurance By Todd Balf A wintry sun is setting on the Kentucky…
Majoring in business administration, with graduate studies in the theory and practice of booty shaking
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Islands You’ve Never Heard Of By Jonathan Runge Culebra Just 17 miles off the coast of Puerto Rico, Culebra has been bypassed by the tourists crowding its parent island. This 11-square-mile, wishbone-shaped islet is defined as much by what…
 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…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 XOXO Bitch! An homage to those of us fortunate enough to have the upper hand By Mike Grudowski Everyone has heard of nature’s most notorious femmes fatales, the black widow and the praying mantis. Their habit of…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Dolores: Whole Lotta Illin’ Comin’ On Prognostications ’96 Dolores Cannon, a 64-year-old, Huntsville, Arkansas-based occultist whose friendly face is at odds with her terrifying predictions, is the author of the three-volume Conversations with Nostradamus. The books…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: Apologizing Toward Bethlehem A few blocks from where the LAPD showed Rodney King that we can’t all get along, John Dawson is trying to prove that we can–if we say we’re sorry. A native New Zealander, Dawson, 43, is…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Skills: Getting an Early Hold on Climbing Season By Nancy Prichard An early-season climb can be a humbling experience: No matter how many moguls you mastered over the winter, that first afternoon at the crag can make you feel like…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Environment: Thank You, Sirs, May I Have Another? Bruce Babbitt braces for another whipping By Florence Williams Jayne Belnap spent much of last year watching a ten-foot-long plastic tube suck air in the Utah desert. Hitched to a…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Do Unto Smelt Thumpers The six commandments of fly-fishing humility By Randy Wayne White Fly-fishing, at its best, is a craft and so affords a studied, even serious approach, though that doesn’t mean that those who approach…
Outside magazine, August 1999 True Crimes While I bemoan changes in the Huichol Indians’ traditional way of life, I do not believe the murder of journalist Philip True last spring can be justified by the fact…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Triathlon: The Fugitives By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and John Alderman) In true hardball style, the International Triathlon Union flexed its muscle last May, and the result was a season-long suspension of the sport’s top stars, Americans Mark Allen, Scott Tinley,…
Outside magazine, December 1995 The Queen Has Left the Building By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta It wasn’t how Paula Newby-Fraser had envisioned her au revoir at the Hawaii Ironman. And for those packing the sidelines, it was hard to watch. But with just…
Outside magazine, January 1997 He’s Not Worthy A portrait of a millionaire at a crux. By Craig Vetter CONSIDER YVON CHOUINARD. To the world that once made him happy, he says: YOU’RE DOOMED. To the…
Outside magazine, March 1998 Darwin, Darwin, He’s our Man! Same old story: New guy moves into your ecosystem, invites a few buddies over, and the next thing you know they’ve naturally selected you out of house and home. Introducing your Invasive Species All-Stars.
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: On Your Mark…Get Set…Strike A Pose Ever notice how many outdoor athletes are spiking their hair, piercing their noses, getting mad, getting whimsical, or otherwise trademarking a “unique” attitude? Below, a sampler of gimmicks that work, circa 1996. Because…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: The Dirt Dictionary BOING: A suspension fork or stem; a dual-suspension bike is a boing-boing. “Mark’s not going to feel much pain with his new boing-boing.” BONK: Cycling’s classic term for blowing up, hitting the…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Big Weather: The Gale Riding a thousand-ton surge of furious Pacific, waiting…waiting…for the ship to roll back over By Robert Stone For weeks we had been heading south through azure tropical waters a thousand miles west of South…
Outside magazine, June 1995 Tomato Wars High noon in the garden of good and evil By Randy Wayne White I don’t need a newspaper to tell me that life is a predicament. I can look out my back door and suffer the…