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Outside magazine, March 2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Hut, Hut, Hike If you’re still feeling guilty about Y2K extravagances, repent by ensconcing yourself…
Outside magazine, March 2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 DO THE OSCILLATION MENTAL STAMINA TEST |…
Outside magazine, March 2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 REALITY CHECK MENTAL STAMINA TEST | HEALTHY…
Gear Up: All the right stuff for biking If you’ve considered trading in that 1972 Schwinn Collegiate for something a bit more…modern?, now’s a great time to do it. Visit any cycling shop and you’ll find…
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…
Gear Up: All the right stuff for taking photos With cameras becoming easier to use and ever more compact, you no longer need to sport the flopping-camera-on-the-belly tourist look, or beg the kids to hold still…
Top Family Finds These ain’t no roadside motels: Sleep in a tented camp in California, a secret hideout in Belize, a former lime mill on St. Lucia. . . EARLY WINTERS CABINS | WASHINGTON…
The Fab Five They may have paved paradise and put up a parking lot, but you don’t have to languish in the exhaust fumes–here’s how to keep some adventure in the blockbuster parks…
 The Road Less Minivan-ed When it comes to four-wheeling it, don’t go with the flow. Take to the byways on these three departures from the ordinary. VALLEY OF FIRE | BIGHORN…
Gear Up: All the right stuff for camping MED KITS | WATER FILTERS | TENTS | BAGS AND PADS | BACKPACKS | KIDS’ BOOTS | STOVES | …
Islands We Love Slip on the flip-flops, pack up the frisbee: It’s not really summer till the ferry pulls away and you leave the mainland behind MADELINE ISLAND | APOSTLE ISLANDS, WISCONSIN During the 20-minute ferry ride from Bayfield, on…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Wet as You Wanna Be Six great family rivers, from tame to tumultuous by Peter Shelton Inflatable Journeys The Fun File: What to do when the water’s calm…
The Teens are Alright Just keep it simple: Give them space, and lots of it We have taken our son on the road with us all his life, to Tuscany, Bali, both coasts of Canada, the island of…
 Hey, Take a Hike! A tenderfoot’s guide to making tracks: Tents and trails, packs and boots, gadgets and grub, and everything else your family will need CAR CAMPING | BACKPACKING…
Five Trips You Never Thought Of We’re doing what this summer? How about chasing a few tornadoes, training like an Olympian, and learning to hang glide? The Hogan Way CANYON DE CHELLY, ARIZONA…
The Tenderfoot’s Almanac Essential Backpack Recipes By Lorien Warner Cooking up menus that the kids won’t wrinkle their noses at is difficult enough; it can seem next to impossible when camping. But follow advice from the experts–from outfitters…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Family Adventure Camps On belay, Mom! Eight learning centers where it’s recess all day long By David Noland Tell any red-blooded American kids that they’re going to spend their cherished summer vacation learning stuff instead…
The Tenderfoot’s Almanac Gear: All the Right Stuff for Backpacking By Douglas Gantenbein Sleeping bags and pads When buying a sleeping bag, your main choice is whether to go with down or synthetic insulation. Down is generally warmer for its weight and…
The Tenderfoot’s Almanac Backpack Time Line By Douglas Gantenbein Backpack Time Line Three- to five-year-olds can hike under their own power, albeit for maddeningly short intervals. A perfect kids’ knapsack is the Tough Traveler Ruffian ($63; 800-468-6844), a…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 The Tenderfoot’s Almanac Tents and trails, guides and grub, and everything else you need to put one foot in front of the other by Peter Shelton Walk This Way Backpack…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Shwoosh! To put some joie into your trail riding, just let the children take the lead by Jeff Spurrier All You Need is Dirt Bike Camps By Michael…
Wet as You Wanna Be Inflatable Journeys The Hysterical Parent Falling out of the raft Never go out on the water without a personal flotation device (PFD), helmet, and sports sandals or tennis shoes. Your guide will school you…
Horse Sense Cowboy vs. Dude By Ryan Underwood t h e f u n f i l e: Outback Boredom Busters Watch Birds Pack binoculars…
Wet as You Wanna Be Gear: All the Right Stuff for Rafting By Steve Shimek Waterproof bags Everyone and everything gets totally drenched on any self-respecting whitewater trip. If you want to keep the snacks and the wallet dry, a waterproof bag…
Bulletins Boating: Home, Home on the Lake By Debra Shore You take your kids out of one house and plunk them down in another that just happens to be mobile. What could be simpler? The best part about houseboating is that even…
Bulletins Resorts: Glorified Babysitting? Hardly. By Everett Potter Summer Calendar Milbridge Days Celebration July 26-27 Milbridge, Maine Teams practice for years to perfect their technique in the Great Greased Codfish Relay Race, the…
Bulletins Grandparenting: Geriat-Tricks By Bob Howells Call it cross-generational bonding, old-fashioned mentoring, or just doing neat stuff with the grandkids–more and more outfits are bringing disparate generations together on outdoor jaunts. Not surprisingly, Elderhostel lurks behind many of them, such as Let’s…
The Magnificent Seven Gear: Optics By Douglas Gantenbein When you’re standing atop Glacier Point looking out over Yosemite Valley, you’re going to wish you had the best optics to enjoy and take home the view. Canon’s new ES6000 ($1,699) is…
 The Magnificent Seven Our Favorite Parks t h e f u n f i l e: Outback Boredom Busters Uno It takes up almost no room…
The Magnificent Seven Make Family Vacation Shots a Snap By Bob Krist For some families, taking vacation photos is a painful duty, like taking the kids for flu shots or having a root canal. Following are a few suggestions to take the…
Horse Sense I Wanna Be a Cowboy The Hysterical Parent The horse will buck or run off Wranglers look for horses to put in their lines that are “bomb-proof” (their description, not ours) because they don’t underestimate their clients’…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Who Loves Ya, Keiki? No place celebrates the family quite like Hawaii Resorting to Perfection Say Aloha to Kids’ Camps By Bob Krist Short of Disneyland, families have it best in…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Horse Sense They may not be the smartest beasts, but a stint aboard a four-legged friend is a required ride of passage by Randy Wayne White I Wanna Be a Cowboy Cowboy…
Are We There Yet? Getting There in Style By Lisa Twyman Bessone From the 1950s right up through the 1980s, the quintessential family car was the venerable, if un-hip, station wagon. Fast-forward to 1997. Station wagons, like the Suburu Outback, now…
Who Loves Ya, Keiki? Resorting to Perfection By Jim Gullo Hired Hands Ocean Voyages (800-299-4444) offers customized seven-day island-to-island all-inclusive sailing trips aboard a 50-foot sloop; you decide when to go and where to stop. Rates start at…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Are We There Yet? Four Planned-to-the-Mile Road Trips by Stephan Wilkinson On the Road Again Getting There in Style By Lisa Twyman Bessone Games People Play…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Stroke, Stroke, Stroke Canoe-camping sets your kids in motion and lets them earn their keep Hired Hands The Chewonki Foundation (207-882-7323) leads a six-day Down East canoe trip on the St. Croix River…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Come Along, Little Doggie All you need to know before bringing your best friend to the backcountry By Ron C. Judd A sk any good trail dog: When slopes get steep and…
Are We There Yet? Gear: All the Right Stuff for Car-Camping By Douglas Gantenbein Cots and sleeping bags Forget sleeping on the ground: set up a couple of L.L. Bean’s Allagash folding cots ($42), made by Byer of Maine. These have…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Family Vacation Quiz Every clan has its own definition of vacation bliss. One group’s getaway to a pristine, leafy wilderness is another’s descent into a mosquito-plagued, showerless netherworld. Some families thrive on organized activities; others bolt at the first syllable…
Are We There Yet? Games People Play (in cars) By Lisa Twyman Bessone Getting there is half the fun. Whoever coined that phrase obviously wasn’t traveling with a carload of kids. Here are a few items from our bag of…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 The Adventures The Tenderfoot’s Almanac Tents and trails, guides and grub, and everything else you’ll need for the finest family backpacking trips Family Adventure Camps From sailing school to digging for artifacts, eight learning…
 Family Vacations, Summer 1997 The LowDown Chart Whitewater Rafting | Mountain Biking | Kayaking | Backpacking/Hiking | Boardsailing | Snorkeling | Rock Climbing…
Waterworlds, Family Vacations 1998 Sailing Wind in your spinnaker, a harbor ahead, and a ready-made crew to swab the decks By Dan Dickison WATERWORLDS…
Waterworlds, Family Vacations 1998 Rafting How to turn your rug rats into river rats: five rides from tame to wild By Lisa Jones WATERWORLDS…
Camp Outs, Family Vacations 1998 Backpacks To Grow On By Jonathan Hanson 1. Little hikers from three to six can walk farther if they feel they’re part of the team. Give them an L.L. Bear rucksack…
Camp Outs, Family Vacations 1998 Happy Trails From an all-day jaunt to a weeklong trek, seven kid-tested routes to the wilderness CAMP OUTS Happy Trails…
Waterworlds, Family Vacations 1998 Sea Kayaking To follow the straight and narrow, just secure your spray skirt and grab a paddle By Jonathan Hanson WATERWORLDS…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Waterworlds Whatever your vessel, it wouldn’t be summer without a big splash of H20 By Thurston Clarke WATERWORLDS Rafting How to turn your…
Waterworlds, Family Vacations 1998 Houseboating If staying home is what floats your boat, pull up a deck chair on one of these By Lisa Jones WATERWORLDS…
Camp Outs, Family Vacations 1998 These Boots Were Made For Mileage By Jonathan Hanson CAMP OUTS Happy Trails From an all-day jaunt to a weeklong…
Camp Outs, Summer 1998 Campsite-Finder Ten drive-up campsites with a backcountry feel Which campground sounds good? Fern Hammock Loop, Florida Sage Creek,…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Park Places Room with a view: How to find your own space in North America’s premier national parks By Peter Shelton PARK PLACES National Pastimes…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Home Bases A cottage, a dude-ranch cabin, a multisport resort — just unpack and call it your own By Meg Lukens Noonan HOME BASES Why…
Camp Outs, Family Vacations 1998 Leave No Trace CAMP OUTS Happy Trails From an all-day jaunt to a weeklong trek, seven kid-tested routes to the wilderness…
Open Roads, Summer 1998 Baby, You Can Rate My Car By Lisa Twyman Bessone OPEN ROADS Oh, the Places You’ll Go Day-by-day itineraries for four…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Open Roads Throw some juice boxes in the cooler, toss your tent in the trunk — it’s high time to hit the highway By Ron C. Judd OPEN ROADS…
 Park Places, Summer 1998 National Pastimes A visit to these parks is right up there with baseball, hot dogs, and the Fourth of July PARK PLACES…
Park Places, Summer 1998 Six Great Unsung Parks By Bob Howells PARK PLACES National Pastimes A visit to these parks is right up there with…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Bring on the Weekend! Quick relief for city-dwellers: ten all-natural getaways close to home Boston: Carter Notch Hut, White Mountains It’s not exactly a half-pipe in the sky, but even the surliest pre-teen will have to admit…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Far-Flung Adventures Sure, the flights can be long and the fares high — but how else can your kids come face-to-bill with a blue-footed booby? By Mike Harrelson The Hysterical Parent…
Pedal On, Summer 1998 Road Cycling Freewheeling it along a canal-side towpath, country lanes, and converted rail beds By Peter Oliver PEDAL ON Mountain…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Cheap Thrills When bucks count (and when don’t they?) you need all the dollar-stretching strategies you can find. Try these ten. By Everett Potter Attempting to save money on your family holiday isn’t easy when…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 On the Road with Huggies and a Binkie Some might call it lunacy to drag toddlers on “vacation.” But we say, boldly go where no sane parent has gone before. By Hampton Sides…
On the Road with Huggies and a Binkie, Summer 1998 Tips from the Trenches By Anne Goodwin Sides ON THE ROAD Tips from the Trenches…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 Back to Summer Camp en Famille Learn to rock climb, track critters in the wild, paddle a kayak — seven family adventure outposts where school becomes play By Lisa Twyman Bessone Island Institute Orcas…
On the Road with Huggies and a Binkie, Summer 1998 Toddler Towns Six prime destinations that actually welcome the preschool set By Anne Goodwin Sides ON THE ROAD…
Vacation Bulletins, Summer 1998 Solutions for Single Parents By Beth Johnson BULLETINS The Summer Calendar The fun begins June 4! Solutions for…
Vacation Bulletins, Summer 1998 The Summer Calendar By Stephanie Gregory BULLETINS The Summer Calendar The fun begins June 4! Solutions for Single…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Alaska, One Humongous Zoo Ten Perfect Days Day 1: After your arrival in Anchorage, settle in downtown at the Copper Whale Inn (877-267-7371), an old-fashioned-looking clapboard house with 15 rooms overlooking the ocean. Kids…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Don’t Spare the Bubbly Seven Rivers, from Wimpy to Wild Green River, Lodore Canyon, Utah Back in 1869, one-armed explorer John Wesley Powell lost a boat along the Lodore Canyon stretch of the…
1999 Family Vacation Guide All the Right Stuff for Family Camping By Douglas Gantenbein Tents A sturdy, packable tent is your family’s home on the trail. For summer camping, look for something light and well-ventilated.
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Brat Packing One, Two, Three Four … Hike! Ten Great Family Backpacking Trails Chattooga River/Bartram Trail Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, Georgia Made famous by Deliverance, that 1970s canoe-combat film, the Chattooga National…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Don’t Spare the Bubbly All the Right Stuff for Whitewater By Steve Shimek Rule number one of river travel: Rafters have more fun if they’re toasty warm. On a scenic Class…
1999 Family Vacation Guide, Unsung Heroes I Want to be Alone! How to find solitude in America’s most crowded national parks They’re the blockbusters: Great Smoky Mountain, Grand Canyon, Banff, Yellowstone, and Yosemite, the five most…