Adventure
ArchiveOutside magazine, May 1995 Politics: …And Drilling Rights for All Can you blame Senator Ted Stevens for putting our land to good use? By Ned Martel Effigy manufacturers should expect brisk sales during this summer’s bonanza of species-protection hearings on Capitol Hill.
Outside magazine, July 1996 A Not-So-Sweet Threepeat “What do athletes do when nature calls,” probed USA Today a week after Uta Pippig’s dramatic victory at the 100th Boston Marathon last April, her third-straight triumph. The reference, of course, was to Pippig’s embarrassing predicament: She spent the…
Camping Special, April 1997 What’s in Paul’s Pack? If it’s good enough for him, it’s good enough for you By Brad Wetzler Here it is from on high: Paul Petzoldt’s time-tested backcountry musts, altered and updated for the nineties backpacker.
Outside magazine, January 1997 Dispatches: News from the Field Adventure: Around the World on an IOU With momentum, if not sponsors, firmly on their side, a team of female sailors tacks toward the record books By Lolly Merrell…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Recreation: Divot Derby By Ken McAlpine A pastoral fairway. Sunshine lacquering a relaxed, plaid-pantsed foursome as they wait for the green to clear. Suddenly, wasp-waisted runners in wraparound shades play through, slashing turf like Chi-Chi Rodriguez on amphetamines. Make…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Rick of Arc Though Alaskan Jeff King captured the 1996 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race last March with the second-fastest time ever recorded, the rowdiest cheer at the postrace banquet was reserved for disqualified five-time winner Rick Swenson, who was chosen by…
Dispatches, July 1997 F I L M A Star Is Reborn Marty Stouffer gets a makeover, Hollywood-style By Johnny Dodd Take heart, fans of wildlife filmmaker Marty Stouffer: This month, just half a year after being removed from his PBS…
Outside magazine, September 1996 Crime: Trail of Fears A muddled Park Service murder probe leaves Appalachian hikers on edge Late last May, a distraught Thomas Williams called Shenandoah National Park to report that his 24-year-old daughter, Julianne, had not returned on time from a…
Outside magazine, October 1997 Robert Redford The anti-Woody. Proof that an enviro-celeb needn’t be a nut. By Jim Fergus Robert Redford may be one of the more durable leading men of our times, but off…
Outside Magazine, October 1998 Books: Field Tripping By James Zug JACKETS | BUYING RIGHT | THE OTHER STUFF | BOOKS Shadows in the Sun: Travels…
Outside 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 The Low-Tech, High-Speed, Retro-Manic Simple Life Join us, friends, for the epic buggy adventure of Eustace Conway, world’s fastest postmodern mountain man By Florence Williams Photographs by Daniel Peebles Eustace…
 Outside magazine, September 1999 Into Kosovo A Reporter’s Diary of Two Months on the Road Across a Ruined Landscape, Over the Accursed Mountains, and Down to a Place Where Nightmares Come True By Joshua Hammer I. La Vikinga, the hydrofoil that…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Running:…But Radionucleotides Can Never Hurt Me The worrisome world of Matt Carpenter, skymarathonman By Martin Dugard “I have a social life,” proclaims Matt Carpenter, king of the fledgling sport known as skymarathoning, which basically entails running 26.2-mile races…
Outside magazine, September 1997 Didn’t You Used to Be Scott Tinley? With a dearth of stars and an anemic purse, the Legends of Triathlon series starts with a wimper By Andrew Tilin Not Your…
Dispatches, October 1998 Deep Thoughts Oprah, That Carabiner Won’t Hold Paul Stoltz explains by anybody who isn’t a climber is, well, a loser. By David Rakoff So you think fending off that grizzly attack with your portable cappuccino-maker last…
Outside magazine, February 1996 An Organ-Grinder with Star Power By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Debra Shore) Last month in these pages we reported on a brewing battle in south Texas, where trigger-happy ranchers were taking aim at 600 Japanese snow monkeys running…
Outside magazine, March 1999 Remember, Fear Is Your Friend And other strategies gleaned from a hike through Yellowstone’s grizzly alley By Patrick Symmes There’s no bear in this story ù I want to make…
Forget space aliens and serial killers—the latest movie monster is global warming
Stacy Peralta, the director of "Dogtown and Z-Boys," is about to drop his next boarding epic, "Riding Giants," into a theatre near you—and now the Hollywood big time is calling. Josh McHugh rolls up on the auteur of the stoked set.
For decades, no one has dared to run the treacherous lengths of the waters that helped launch the modern age of exploration. Civil war, freelance rebels, capricious bandits, irascible hippos, surly crocs, billions of malarial mosquitoes, and scores of rapids so deadly they're rated a suicidal Class VI—all have conspired…
For champion cyclist and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, yellow is more than just the color of the Tour de France’s leader jersey. It’s a symbol for hope, courage, and perseverance. Today, more than 47.5 million LIVESTRONG wristbands have been sold since they were first made available in May of 2004…
An innovative dive outfitter lays plans to build a futuristic platform resort—right next to the reef
Don't let Lance hog the fun. Here's how to ride your own epic stage of the world's greatest cycling race.
Pilot an ultralight and what do you get? A bird's-eye view of the world and a dose of the maverick spirit of flying.
The growing pains of a man-child and world champion
THE FANTASY DIVE-TRIP COCKTAIL...Take 1,190 coral outposts in the Indian Ocean, add one deluxe catamaran, one dive dhoni, a large splash of sapphire-blue water, and stir.
You'll hit more surf than pavement on this 250-mile pleasure drive around the Big Island
April 14, 2004 conservation, animal rights Paris Hilton models one of Danny Seo’s seal-protest fashions Canadian wildlife officials are currently tallying the number of seals harvested in this year’s Atlantic seal hunt—one of the largest seal culls to occur in decades. The hunt is part of a…
World Champion surfer Andy Irons—our May coverboy—has a pre-season workout that proves pro-surfing's not for slackers. See if you can keep up.
Can a monster swell be tracked down and hunted like some great beast? That's the mad mission of the $3 million Billabong Odyssey, surfing's rapid-response quest to find and ride the biggest wave in history?
Over the past few months, Outside readers submitted their tails of adventure and altruism to be considered for our “Volunteer Vacations” project in partnership with USA Weekend magazine. We’re glad to say we’ve received some great, heartwarming stories from people who gave back to the communities they visited.
Help Wanted: Exum Mountain Guides, the country's premier climbing service, is looking for supremely talented alpinists with world-class résumés for seasonal work in the Tetons. Must be willing to follow in the footsteps of legends. If qualified, don't bother calling. We'll find you.
The hottest transgender talent in professional sports is making the competition see pink
In adventure as in life, wisdom is passed down from father to son. Or not.
Timmy O’Neill’s adventurous spirit was fostered in the urban open spaces surrounding his childhood home in Philadelphia. He learned to kayak at the age of five, and later explored the boundaries of Fernwood cemetery and the banks of Cob’s Creek in search of excitement—which usually involved burned-out cars and run…
Over 170 of the world’s best—and craziest—athletes tested their mettle at Crested Butte’s 2004 Saab U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Championships last month (February 25 through 28), each hoping to beat the competition with hair-raising runs down the mountain’s steep and technical Extreme Limits terrain. extreme skiing, Colorado Airborne at the…
Outside‘s March 2004 article “Facing the Fall Line” chronicles big-mountain snowboarder Steven Koch’s quest to become the first to summit Everest and then set a never-before-attempted line down its treacherous North Face. Accompanying Koch on the Everest expedition was mountaineer-photographer Jimmy Chin, who captured the powerful images that accompanied…
Good! Let's talk about what our experience of the wilderness has lost now that it's cheap and easy to stay connected—no matter how far out there you go. Ted Kerasote explores the new wired wild.
Eco-stylist Danny Seo has charisma, a fabulous new line of hipster clothing, a reality-TV show in development, and a posse of hot young actors swooning over his righteous aura. Meet the guru who's transforming America one earth-friendly Hollywood makeover at a time.
When Stephen Koch set out to snowboard the insanely steep Hornbein Couloir on Everest, he knew he might die trying. He chose life.
Welcome to Ghana, where commuting is a nightmare—and optimism is a bright-yellow bike of one's own
Freeskier Seth Morrison, 30, thinks nothing of hucking off 60-foot mountain ledges. Snowboarder Keir Dillon, 26, routinely performs McTwists 15 feet above halfpipe lips. Speed skater Derek Parra, 33, powers around an ice oval at 25 miles per hour. All three are superb athletes, but which of them is the…
What happens when a veteran mountain guide has to follow someone else's lead for a day of heli-skiing? Heads swell, powder flies, and somebody gets handed a big slice of humble pie. Dave Hahn confesses.
Seeking enlightenment and risking death, an American Muslim takes on the pilgrimage to Mecca—the world's greatest and toughest spiritual adventure
Five-time Tour champ Lance Armstrong talks about cancer, EPO, and the prospect of making cycling history.
When Outside editor-at-large Hampton Sides interviewed Lance Armstrong for the July 2004 issue, the five-time Tour champion was being kneaded—buck naked—on a massage table in the Hollywood home of his rock-star girlfriend, Sheryl Crow. Here, read the complete, unabridged transcript of their discussion. OUTSIDE: Did you ever imagine that…
The Tour's new scandal: Elite cyclists are mysteriously dropping dead
Lose the contacts and get visionary with the first prescription sunglasses designed for a multisport lifestyle
So you think it's legal to yak on that walkie-talkie? Check the owner's manual, bub.