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Archive Outside magazine, December 1997 The Downhill Report: Hot Hot Hot When you’ve got it, you’ve got it, an illustrious fashion tout once said. Here are 17 ways to make sure you keep it. The Hot State It’s chic! It’s…
Outside magazine, January 1998 Review: Go Directly to Go The modern snowshoe is light, versatile, and ready for action the moment you are By Andrew Tilin SNOWSHOES |…
Fitness ’97, February 1997 Finding the Right Beat Before you begin endurance work, a little math is in order. The key is to keep your heart rate below the point at which your metabolism changes from efficient burning of fat to gluttonous…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Milestones: Walt Stack, 1908-1995 By John Brant “I’m a real bag a hell today,” Walt Stack would joke as he ran along in a dogged shuffle, “but tomorrow I may be a dead mackerel.” On January 19, after a long…
Outside magazine, May 1999 Environment Your Tax Dollars at Work. Sort Of. A bold plan may save the Okefenokee. But is the price too high? When itinerant silversmith steve Knight and his wife, Jo, decided…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Sport: One Small Tack for Womankind At last, a women-only America’s Cup team. But can it survive Bill Koch? By Dan Dickison Don’t like to be a pawn in anybody’s game,” says Betsy Alison, an American sailor…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Am I There Yet? Over the previous five years, Australian Dean Gardiner had won surf kayaking’s unofficial world championship-the 32-mile Molokai to Oahu Bankoh Kayak Challenge-three times, in conditions ranging from tempestuous to preternaturally calm. In this year’s contest, held last May,…
Vacation Special, August 1997 R O A M I N G L A G U N A M I R A M A R To the Inland Sea The best swimming in Mexico: Ocean? By Christopher Shaw…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Triathlon: Hey, You Got Cottage Cheese Fat on My Prayer Flags What it takes to be the next King of Kona. A Hawaii Ironman Preview. By Martin Dugard Like so many in the once booming sport of triathlon,…
 Outside magazine, November 1998 Are You Trying to Seduce Me, Mrs. Chenoweth? To fall under the spell of the conservative right’s dusky siren, to entertain her environmentally suspect vision, well, nothing seemed more unlikely. Then she —…
Women Outside, Fall 1998 Errata The Wrong Stuff Attention shoppers: All sales are final. Especially on the Freshettes. By C.O. GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS | HEALTH |…
Outside magazine, December 1995 It’s a French Thing. You Wouldn’t Understand. By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta Twenty-four hours before concluding his solo transatlantic trip, French rower Joseph LeGuen slid into a deep funk. “I thought, It’s not possible that this could end,” he…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Water Sports: The Baywatch Conundrum All Craig Hummer wants is someone to take his lifeguarding seriously By Martin Dugard “Hummer Mania,” jokes professional lifeguard Craig Hummer, a Californian by way of Ohio who’s currently turning the Australian sport…
Dispatches, February 1998 THRILLS Call Me “Flyboy” A precarious new contraption lets us get our fighter-pilot ya-yas out By Paul Kvinta ‘Normally, if you were flying 80 miles per hour at six feet off the ground, you wouldn’t be…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Intake: The Bar Exam By Dana Sullivan First there was PowerBar. Now nearly two dozen sports energy bars are contending for a place in your pack. They’re all portable; the trick is to find one that’s palatable, too. Beyond taste,…
Outside magazine, April 1996 Culture: Warhol Favored a Sloping Down Tube A traveling exhibit makes us ponder: Is that art you’re pedaling? By Alex Frankel “The design of this bicycle makes you think of all the ways in which the object…
Outside magazine, July 1995 Books: In Search of the Monster Slayer By Andrea Barrett Talking to the Ground: One Family’s Journey on Horseback Across the Sacred Land of the Navajo, by Douglas Preston (Simon & Schuster, $24). Preston’s long-standing interest in the…
Outside magazine, July 1996 Thou Shalt Not Chum Jon Cappella’s dream of making a fortune by lowering thrill-seeking scuba divers into sharky waters is about to be thwarted for good. Next month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will likely approve regulations that would prohibit chumming…
Outside magazine, December 1995 Will the Real Adults Please Stand Up? By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta On the drama meter, it didn’t rank with Tommy Smith and John Carlos raising Black Power fists at the 1968 Olympic Games. But Anne-Caroline Chausson’s bit of…
Outside Magazine, February 1995 Swimming: She’s No Slug By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) Taking advantage of unusually fine conditions, last November Karen Burton of Monument, Colorado, broke both the men’s and women’s records for the 22-mile Catalina Channel crossing, American open-water swimming’s most…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: Well, It Won’t Fix Itself: Part 3 The ego-inflating way to fix a flat… By Scott Sutherland When I’m in the middle of a race and I get a flat, I have to fix it…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: First, You Need a Bike That Fits By Dana Sullivan The last time you bought a bike, the guy at the shop probably had you straddle the top tube to determine the fit. If there were a…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Dr. Pavlov, I Presume? In a world that’s going to the hogs, this little Piggy will have none of it. By Randy Wayne White There was much to recommend the rainforest coast of northeastern Australia, many curios and…
Dispatches, April 1999 Media Next Year We’ll Be Hosting the Downhill in Bosnia! Are the X Games sacrificing safety on the altar of “good” television? By Kimberly Lisagor (with John Bresee) “We’re still trying to figure out how to…
Outside magazine, June 1995 House Hunting: Seek the Unheralded By Sara Corbett Blissfully removed from Jersey shore speedboats and the swank of Hilton Head Island, these five out-of-the-way places promise summer rentals with not a Dairy Queen in sight. Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts. Cuttyhunk’s…
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 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 One Giant Leap for Dudette Kind By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Debra Shore) Lisa Andersen is no suffragette, but events last November, when she clinched a second-straight world surfing title at the Roxy Hawaiian Pro, elevated the Floridian…
Destinations, March 1999 Right Time, Right Place, Right Now Fifty-odd years ago, a young guy’s visit to Vanuatu inspired the legend of Bali Hai. Thankfully, the good life’s still here. Why aren’t you? By Bob Payne…
Outside Magazine, November 1994 Volleyball: One of Those Stages By Todd Balf (with Jim Hage) Having been to the winner’s podium as often as he has, you might think Karch Kiraly would have the hang of it by now. However, Kiraly took a scary…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Gunwale Up With a canoe as your Sherpa, camping gets a five-star rating By David Dunbar Our Favorite Places | Inside Skinny | Staying Safe |…
Vacation Special, August 1997 S W I M M I N G T H E L O W E R A M M O N O O S U C God’s Own Plunge Pool A grotto behind the…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Good Thing He Didn’t Try Sky Diving Nobody expects world-class athletes to compete forever, but Tom Mason has probably just set a record for career brevity. Before it was all over, however, the controversial 34-year-old street luger made quite an impression in…
Dispatches, May 1997 Law Enforcement: This Is the Park Service: Come Out with Your Hands Up On a hotly contested piece of southern California, the feds move in By Michael Parrish On a drizzly, cold January morning at a rustic…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Marathon: Odds That … Jenny Spangler will win a medal……..16-1 Uta Pippig will fail to medal……..50-1 At least one runner will succumb to heat prostration…..2-1…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Is Everything to Your Liking Mr. Samaranch? Landing the greatest sporting event on earth requires a dash of seduction, a pinch of politics, and shameless quantities of palm grease. A recipe for bringing the Games to your hometown.
Outside magazine, October 1994 Parachuting: Help! I Need Attention! By Todd Balf (with Greg Child and Dan Dickison) When and if the law catches up with BASE jumping’s most wanted man, John Vincent, it won’t be pretty. Unrepentant and obviously unrehabilitated, Vincent last June walked out…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Wildlife: I Am Cat Bait–Hear Me Roar Tired of being prey, Californians target the protected mountain lion By Laura Hilgers Nanse Browne pulls the parchment-colored skull of an adult male cougar from her briefcase and proceeds to hold…
Dispatches: News from the Field, November 1996 Environment: And Foul Is Fair After years of progress in the war on smog, L.A.’s air-quality board cuddles up with the spewers By Bill Donahue Though he’s one of the leading experts on the…
Outside magazine, November 1996 Fat Men Can’t Jump He’s scaled back on Big Macs–a bit–and poured on the training. Can Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards be serious? By Todd Balf Eddie wants respect. as…
Outside magazine, December 1997 Power Plays: Hold It Right There, Officer It’s cop-versus-cop as embittered westerners look to further tweak the feds By Tristram Korten Who Cares If It Works — We’ve…
Outside magazine, April 1998 Unfrozen Caveman Camper Tells All In the beginning, there was fire. And it was good. Later came KOAs and solar showers and freeze-dried. And they were bad. So let’s go back. Way back. By Hampton Sides…
Fitness ’97, February 1997 The Guru Speaks. You Should Listen. How to get from chump to champ in a few measly months. It took more than a decade for Mark Allen to perfect the routines that made him the fittest man on earth.
Outside magazine, April 1995 Books: Evils of the Junket By Miles Harvey Errant Journeys: Adventure Travel in a Modern Age, by David Zurick (University of Texas Press, $30). Everywhere David Zurick looks, he finds the world “on a path toward conformity.” Yet it…
Outside magazine, May 1999 LONG WEEKENDS Just Like Clockwork Celebrating Canada’s Swiss-guide centennial with an efficient assault of your own If you fancy yourself an old-school mountaineer, this summer is an especially good time to honor…