Adventure
ArchiveOutside magazine, December 1996 The War of the Rosebuds Downwardly mobile at the U.S. National Toboggan Championships By Randy Wayne White Even though my arenas of expertise are canted toward tropical places, I was not surprised to receive a call last…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Further Proof that Size Doesn’t Matter After hearing the recent shocking news that the African elephant-nose fish possesses a “bigger” brain than we human beings-as determined by the percentage of the body’s total oxygen intake that is consumed by the gray matter-we…
Outside magazine, March 1996 The Artist: More Bike for Your Buck No matter what your budget, designer Scot Nicol offeres strategies for buying a solid machine By Andrew Tilin Scot Nicol, builder of high-end bike frames, pauses in the middle of…
Outside magazine, March 1996 The Man with the Iron Cast Live from the glory holes of Colorado, where the angling is well above par By Randy Wayne White In decades to come, when the Vail Ironman Fly-Fishing Championship of the World has…
Outside magazine, July 1999 ATHLETES Thorpedo Away! Ian Thorpe has really humongous feet, and he’s a damn good swimmer Say, Honey, What’s This Next to the Frozen Vegetables? “We do encourage the salvaging…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Parts Is Parts After years of unchecked growth in the hunting of Canadian polar, black, and grizzly bears, lawmakers in Quebec this month will consider what many say is a long-overdue ban on the sale of bear parts. An estimated 21,000…
Outside magazine, October 1999 I found your recent article about the creation of Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic a wonderful piece (“The Very Short History of Nunavut,” July). Like some, I’m sad to see the old ways fall away, but…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Endurance: Team American What? By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) Two days into the Raid Gauloises adventure race last October on Borneo, Mark Burnett, the captain of Team American Pride, wasn’t in what you might call a stars-and-stripes mood. “I…
Dispatches, March 1997 Sport: Hey, America, Remember Us? With sponsors and spectators vanishing and TV saying no thanks, a sinking USA Track & Field tosses its top man overboard By John Brant For The Record Mud Is Thicker Than…
Outside magazine, May 1996 Ten Books that Changed Our World Julie, or the New Eloise, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In his own lifetime, Rousseau was best known not for his philosophical tracts but for this lusty 1761 novel-set in the wilds of the Alps-that helped…
Dispatches, June 1998 Travel Welcome to Nowhere! An Idaho visionary peddles his grand dream. Is anyone buying? By Florence Williams Many people who stand atop Idaho’s Kellogg Peak see pretty much the same thing: a vast swatch of…
Outside magazine, June 1999 This Teeming Ark Expelled from their forested Eden, man and beast drift downriver under the spell of a charming, unreliable deity By Tim Cahill It was like trying to drink a beer…
Outside magazine, August 1995 Cinema: Thumbs Up for the Instinctive Disregard for Human Life By Paul Kvinta “They’re small creatures, there’s a lot of them, and they latch on to your brain,” says University of Illinois film instructor Richard Leskosky about the spongy little…
Outside magazine, March 2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Step Right Up All the guidance and gear you need for a…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Expeditions: More Daunting than Everest, More Technical than a Yosemite Wall With increasing regulation looming, climbers scramble to negotiate with the federal government By Douglas Gantenbein They could never do this with backpackers or handicapped people,” snarls…
Outside magazine, March 1999 Review: Just as Tough as They Look Beefy leather hiking boots to last you a lifetime By Kent Black ELECTRONICS | BUYING RIGHT |…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Swing Shift A simple routine that’ll take your hips from out of whack to in the groove “An athlete’s platform of strength, balance, and quickness needs to be based on good range of…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Look at All the Fire-Folk Sitting in the Air! In which two men of science, armed with flashlights, video cameras, and a 50-gallon garbage can, seek out the look of love in a fiery…
Outside magazine, February 2000 Did you notice that in only one of the five photos of Alex Lowe in your memorial feature (“The Man Who Matched Our Mountains,” December), he wasn’t smiling? This was a guy who lived life and…
Outside magazine, September 1998 It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Worrell One kind of lunatic sails the Indy 500 of catamran racing. Another dreams it up. By Brad Wetzler Daytona Beach, Florida. Day four. The Treasure Island Inn is…
Out Front, October 1997 Nice to See You. Hope You’ll Be Staying Awhile. Introducing the latest arrivals to the world as we know it By Elizabeth Royte Sadly, we’ve lost dozens of animal species over the last several decades, among…
Outside magazine, February 1996 Everyone Agreed–Nice Handling, Smooth Ride, Plenty of Headroom By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Debra Shore) “We call it a bailout,” explains U.S. Border Patrol spokeswoman Ann Summers. “A bunch of folks all jump out at the same time…
Destinations, 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…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Jamaica By Jonathan Runge From the 7,402-foot Blue Mountain Peak, one of the Caribbean’s loftiest vantage points, you can survey all of Jamaica’s undulating coast. And on a clear day, you’d swear you can just make out…
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 The Ultimate Hardware Camp stove (Coleman Peak 1 Apex II or MSR WhisperLite Shaker Jet) fuel bottle (MSR or Sigg). In summer, figure on one-third of a quart of fuel per stove per day. Small funnel for filling stove…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Books: Contrarian Carols By Miles Harvey The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean, by Paul Theroux (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, $27.50). You’re not likely to find a better holiday gift for armchair adventurers than this wild…
Outside magazine, April 1997 That’s a Lovely Fish. Is There a Scarf to Match? On the leisure coast of California, the locals display the secrets of dressing for fun–without looking like something that washed ashore. Spring Fashion By Vicky Mcgarry…
 Outside magazine, January 1997 Veni, Vidi, œre Og Berùmmelse! Was a wintery time when little Telemark, Norway, invented a sport. Then infidels from America snatched it away. But now the Norwegians have come to North America, and to skiing’s most punishingly brutal…
Outside magazine, April 1999 Scorching the Earth to Save It Conciliation may indeed be a trend in the new environmentalism, but if so, the folks at one firebrand group never got the memo. Which, to judge by…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Environment: A Man, a Plan, a Foursome of Kalahari Bushmen James Blanchard’s grandiose scheme for the mozambican coast By Bill Donahue James ulysses blanchard III has a new plan for Mozambique. In the late eighties, you’ll recall,…
Dispatches, July 1997 P R O T E S T Sympathy for the Rebel Celebs try to free the Sea Shepherds’ captain — and option the movie rights By John Galvin For The…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Environment: OK, Meet You at Eight on Super-Unleaded Loop Hard up for cash. California’s state parks reach out to the multinationals By Bill Donahue You’re wending through an alpine meadow, savoring the melodious twee-twee of the avifauna,…
Dispatches, October 1998 Endurance My Name is Don, and I’m Addicted to Skydiving Will someone please get this man some help? By Bill Donahue Don Kellner of Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania, recently became the first American sky diver to notch 25,000…
Outside magazine, December 2000 Perfect Pitch I HAVE TO TELL YOU that the article on El Capitan by Dan Duane (“Up on the Big Stone,” October) was quite simply one of the best pieces…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Running: Rabbit’s Revenge By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Eric Hagerman) Wen Paul Pilkington reached the halfway point at last February’s Los Angeles Marathon, he glanced over his shoulder, glanced again, and then estimated he had a quarter-mile…
Outside magazine, March 1996 Soaring Fortunes By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brian Alexander and Steve Law) Things are suddenly looking up for America’s long-woeful nordic skiing teams. Last December, Todd Lodwick won an early-season World Cup event in the nordic combined–which features…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Oops, Missed a Spot News that surveyors have been inaccurately marking the South Pole for years came as a surprise, even to Gordon Shupe of the U.S. Geological Survey, who concedes that the Survey’s recent adoption of global positioning system technology has…
Dispatches, June 1997 Sport: All the Guts, None of the Glory Tim Twietmeyer has won the Western States 100 Mile Run four times. Nuf said? Apparently not. By Brad Wetzler What draws a person to ultramarathoning is anyone’s guess.