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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…
Outside magazine, October 1996 Deeper To the peerless Moles, practitioners of the gloomily claustrophobic sport of freshwater spelunking, the ultimate accomplishment is finding a virgin cave By Bucky McMahon It’s a horror hole, just a depression full of springwater with a…
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 Books: The Feral Sons By Miles Harvey Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer (Villard, $23). In the January 1993 issue of Outside, in an article that was nominated for a National Magazine Award, contributing editor Krakauer…
Outside magazine, March 1999 Review: Always in Touch (if, That Is, You Want to Be) The latest mobile electronics put the backcountry online By Brent Hurtig ELECTRONICS |…
Outside Magazine, December 1998 Winter? These Guys Made Winter. Seven Olympic venues, one charming Main Street, and a host of High Peaks — it all adds up to Lake Placid, America’s original snowbound resort By Bill McKibben Lake Not-So-Placid All…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Howdy, Dude Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys–but it’s okay to pretend By Nancy Debevoise Our Favorite Places | The Hysterical Parent | Inside…
Dispatches, July 1998 Rodent Rights Why Is Everybody Always Pickin’ on Me? They’re cute and furry, yet they get no respect. A look at the star-crossed plight of the American sod poodle. Yes, it’s now official: prairie dogs have become…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Sloth: Then Again, There’s Always Pop-Tarts By Adam Horowitz With apologies, I ask all you connoisseurs of fine food to hold the outrage. Blasphemous though it may be, someone has to stand up for the more practical-minded among us.
Dispatches, May 1997 Physics: Bloody Idiotic, As You Chaps Might Say The (possibly apocryphal) tale of British Rail’s chicken cannon misadventure By Shane Dubow By now, anyone who’s gone on-line knows the Internet is great at hatching all manner of…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Rowing: Odds That… The U.S. women’s eight will break six minutes…..3-1 The U.S. men’s eight will win a gold medal……..10-1 Redgrave and Pinsent will remain undefeated…….1-1…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Politics: Eat Your Heart Out, Al Gore Meet Sherry Boehlert, the man environmentalists can’t do without By John Galvin “He may well save the republicans in spite of themselves,” intones Mark Childress, vice-president of the Environmental Working Group,…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Endurance: Get With it, Guys By Todd Balf (with Greg Child and Dan Dickison) Last July, Ann Trason won her sixth straight Western States 100 women’s title, beat all but one of the men, and bettered her own course record by 37…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Mountain Biking: Eyes for Mammoth By Todd Balf (with John Alderman) Mountain-bike professionals are no strangers to tough conditions, but July’s World Cup stop on California’s Mammoth Mountain was in another realm: The course was buried in ten feet of…
Features: Election Preview ’96, November 1996 The Boy Scouts Find A Compass In the shrink-wrapped politics of the environment, it’s not how far you go, but in what direction By The Editors “Clinton knows that if he wins in ’92, he’ll…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Doing the Wild Thing Eight bush camps and jungle lodges where the floor show is fierce Temple Tiger Jungle Lodge, Nepal Milk and musk: That’s what a Royal Bengal tiger smells like. So said…
T H E H O L I D A Y G I F T G U I D E Shop for THE JOCK Shop for THE WANDERER Shop for…
Dispatches, April 1998 RETAIL One Giant Leap for Suckerkind How to buy lunar real estate, and other “bargains” on the World Wide Web By Katie Arnold As though there weren’t already enough distractions on the Internet, virtual malls are…
News from the Field, February 1997 Tinseltown: Alas, Mr. Speilberg has declined to direct By Adam Horowitz OK, here’s the plot: A dream team of Hollywood titans–one an avowed environmentalist–announces plans to build a 1,000-acre studio atop some of L.A.’s last wetlands. Unbowed…
 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…
Outside magazine, May 1998 Access & Resources Montserrat, minus the lava By Katie Arnold Another Day Under the Black Volcano Once you get over the fact that two-thirds of Montserrat is now buried under a thick…
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…