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Outside magazine, October 1994 Triathlon: Dave Scott, The Imperishable Hulk At 40, the six-time Ironman champ asks: Can an old guy win the sport’s toughest race? By Ken McAlpine Last May, spectators at the Gulf Coast Triathlon in Panama City, Florida, witnessed a curious…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Wildlife: Lead Us Not Into Power Lines An ultralight pilot teaches birds to deliver themselves south By Williams. Florence Last fall, Canadian pilot William Lishman landed a rickety ultralight aircraft near Warrenton, Virginia, with 18 Canada geese tailing him like…
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, October 1994 Scouting Reports: Wheeler Geologic Area, Colorado By Jeff Spurrier Pulitzer prize-Winning photographer Jack Dykinga lives in the southwestern United States, and much of his work has showcased that region’s deserts. His affinity for the landscape is clear–as witnessed by his ability to…
 Outside magazine, October 1994 Bruce Babbitt, Alone in the Wilderness He was hailed as the Secretary of the Interior who would finally make a difference. Now his friends are abandoning him, his enemies are outmaneuvering him, and the president is nowhere to be found. Will…
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 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 1994 Welcome to Gun Camp In the sport of shooting, proficiency means not only winning, but getting good at killing. Welcome to Gun Camp, where the question is, Do I want to do this? and the answer is, a little sadly, You…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Paddling: What? You Prefer Natural Rapids? By Todd Balf (with Greg Child and Dan Dickison) After a trying World Cup start in Nottingham, England, American kayaker Scott Shipley put himself back in the running for the overall championship with a gold-medal performance…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Access & Resources: Where the Truchas Roam By Dianna Delling Mythologized by Magellan, Darwin, and Bruce Chatwin, among others, the barren grasslands, wild rivers, and towering glaciers of Tierra del Fuego represent some of the planet’s most unforgiving and ferociously beautiful real…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Sailing: Incoming! By Todd Balf (with Greg Child and Dan Dickison) Last July, 24 hours after a surprise opening-day drubbing by millionaire skipper and fellow trash-talker Bill Koch, Dennis Conner did what he does best: He got even. When officials at the…
Outside magazine, October 1994 While Foursomes in Funny Pants Sleep… Fortunes, and alligators, lie waiting. Tales of a golf-course pirate. By Randy Wayne White Florida treasure hunters are as common as Kansas wheat, so it is not surprising that I, because of my specialized…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Wilderness Education Gone Brutally Wrong By Larry Burke The idea that nature forges sound character is one of man’s oldest convictions. It was this basic belief that gave rise to, among other things, the philosophy of John Muir, this magazine,…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Speed: Step Aside, Carl Lewis By Todd Balf (with Greg Child and Dan Dickison) If Leroy Burrell had business cards inscribed with the words “World’s Fastest Man,” would anyone argue? Burrell, who briefly held the world record for the 100-meter sprint four…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Classics: The Dutch Oven By Donovan Webster These days, camp fashion demands equipment that glitters like NASA nuggets and weighs less than helium. Which is important if you’re making a very classy through-hike of the Appalachian Trail, but not so for lesser…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Essentials: Dry-Land Precautions By John L Stein It’s not the wear that usually ruins dive gear–it’s the care, or rather the lack thereof. Some precautionary tips to keep things in good working order above the surface, so you’ll encounter no surprises below:…
Outside magazine, October 1994 Mountaineering: Down by Law A judge gives the boot to a team of Park Service-approved Mount McKinley guides By Douglas Gantenbein It’s a long hike in to the Enchantment Lakes, a gorgeous bowl of ice-carved granite high in Washington’s Cascades,…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Trends: How to Get Low-Level-Pollutant Clean By Mark Jannot Capitalism at its best: ozone, the same pollutant that can singe our lungs, is now being marketed as the key to a crop of new air-purification systems. “Ozone is nature’s cleansing…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Conditions: Where the Air Is Unfair By Mark Jannot Ventura, home of lemon groves, California surf, and Patagonia Inc. headquarters, is also on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s air-quality hit list. Ever since amendments to the Clean Air Act were…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Hang Gliding: Thermal Letdown By Todd Balf (with John Alderman) For drama, it wasn’t bad: on the final day of the World Hang Gliding Championships last July near Ager, Spain, Thomas Suchanek of Czechoslovakia and Manfred Ruhmer of Austria, the…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Running: Let My People Burn Rubber As controversy swirls about their gringo coach, have we seen the last of the Tarahumara? By John Tayman After negotiating unseasonable snowdrifts and equally unseasonable 105-degree heat–not to mention 100 miles of…
 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…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Mountaineering: Someone Get the Bouncers By Todd Balf (with John Alderman) For better or for worse, 12-year-old Merrick Johnston is the youngest person ever to have reached the summit of Mount McKinley. The Anchorage sixth-grader and her mother, Jennifer Johnston,…
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…
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…
Outside magazine, October 1995 Cycling: A Race to Remember, Sadly By Todd Balf (with John Alderman) Miguel Indurain’s unprecedented fifth straight victory in the the Tour de France last July was indeed impressive, but the race probably won’t be remembered for Big…
Outside magazine, November 1995 My Gelding, Myself How passion crosses the line into not-quite-respectable obsession: The complicated joys of horse ownership By Jane Smiley THE WORK Last weekend, when I went away for a two-night horse trials with my elderly…
Outside magazine, November 1995 The Wayward West: Browning up the Neighborhood Ten Wise Use outfits that are moving in–fast–to a dispute near you By Jon Christensen When the wise use movement emerged in the late eighties, environmentalists mocked it as an industry-funded…
 Outside magazine, November 1995 Born Again by the Schussmeter If you can get the turns down on the slopes, they say, you can get the turns down elsewhere. In the cradle of alpine skiing, a fool can always hope. By Chip…
 Outside magazine, November 1995 A Darkness on the River What the son found in the Peruvian jungle was a terrible truth. What his father found there months later was a way to begin again. By Tim Cahill The Marañón River drops…
Outside magazine, November 1995 The Wayward West: It Came from the Outback And then the best growled, snacked, and was sent to bed for being bad. But Congressman Don Young and his minions, eager to gobble up the nation’s environmental laws, aren’t sated yet.
Outside magazine, November 1995 Embraced by the Strangler Fig Cut loose with the world’s most maddeningly optimistic adventurer By Randy Wayne White After surviving a hideous car crash in 1980, my friend Tucker Comstock experienced a spiritual refurbishment that helped her shed…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Books: War of the Green Soothsayers By Miles Harvey In a Dark Wood: The Fight over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology, by Alston Chase (Houghton Mifflin Co., $29.95); The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless…
Outside magazine, November 1995 The New World Border “What we have here is an incredibly devious plan,” says Don Kehoe, a Monroe, Washington, landscaper with a trained eye for conspiracy. “If we allow this to happen, we’re not going to have life as we presently know…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Camp Miz “I want the inmates to hate my jails so much they never want to come back,” growls Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The bearlike 62-year-old, chief badge-holder of Maricopa County, Arizona, is called “the meanest sheriff in America,” thanks partly to his…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Update: Beyond-Basic Bindings By Glenn Randall Every major brand of bindings performs just fine these days–and has for years. So, having mastered the basics, the manufacturers have been busy tweaking their latest bindings to improve edge grip, help carve a…
Bodywork: Fitness for the Outside Athlete, November 1996 The Symmetrical Solution Correcting your natural imbalances may just be the secret to superior fitness By Cory Johnson At first it was merely a blister on her left foot. Lynn Doering had just…
Bodywork: Fitness for the Outside Athlete, November 1996 Equipment: Striking a Balance By John Alderman Chances are, you’ll never try to pull off a 720-degree spin with a tail grab on your snowboard. But if you do want to, or if you…
Bodywork: Fitness for the Outside Athlete, November 1996 Essentials: Another Form of Pain Prevention By Sarah Bowen Shea Although a rigorous preseason training regimen may take care of your muscular woes, it won’t prevent another kind of pain–that which comes from impact. Thus…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 The Animals March, Two by Ten Thousand A winter’s worth of the continent’s most spectacular migrations As season’s change, many animals have to move, and when they move en masse, it can be spectacular. Here’s’ a…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 All Creatures Fanged and Swine In the most biologically diverse area on Earth, watch your feet. By Bob Payne On the Osa Peninsula, wildlife is abundant, exotic, and striking–sometimes too striking. Snakes of all…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 The Last Best Peninsula The Costa Rica of legend still exists. But you have to crash through breakers and fight off pigs to find it. By Bob Payne At dawn, after pushing to the…
Outside magazine, November 1996 And in This Corner, the Ghost of Ernest Hemingway Battling history, or at least history’s 80-year-old sparring partner By Randy Wayne White Considering the tragic possibilities, Lorian Hemingway might now be reluctant to admit that it…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 Inns & Lodges: Home Hill Country Inn Plainfield, New Hampshire By Anne Goodwin Sides A young couple from Squaw Valley–Stephan Duroure, a French ski instructor, and Victoria Gordon, an American nouvelle chef–recently bought the…
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…
Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers, November 1996 Long Weekends: Yosemite, Unplugged In winter, see the park as the Miwok did: in solitude By Andrew Rice When the bumper-to-bumper traffic of summer disappears and the snow begins to fly, tranquility settles over…
Dispatches: News from the Field, November 1996 Technology: Flop, Flop, Fizzle, Fizzle Think $5 million can buy cycling gold? Guess again. By Eric Hagerman It was, of course, high comedy, a refreshing respite from hours of jingoistic cooing and Macarena-dancing…
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…
Dispatches: News from the Field, November 1996 Travel: And To Think We Almost Opted For Bora Bora By Sarah Horowitz Now that the first flakes are about to start falling, it’s time for those of us planning winter getaways to get serious. And…
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, November 1996 Peruvian Gothic Don Benigno Aazco carved his way 36 years deep into the green heart of the Andean forest, founded 14 settlements, abandoned his wife and many children, married his daughter, slew his son-in-law, fought drug peddlers, tamed…
Features: Election Preview ’96, November 1996 The Nature of the Beast In defense of the dandelion-pickin’, tree-lovin’ side of that environmental bogeyman, Bob Dole By Brad Wetzler Little-known fact: Bob Dole was once a demon on roller skates –the steel-wheeled, strap-on,…
Features: Election Preview ’96, November 1996 Something Toxic This Way Comes A teardrop-by-teardrop look at how close Newt Gingrich’s dream legislation is to becoming law. And who, if elected, might spoil his plans. By Lolly Merrell THE BILL: Unbeknownst to…
 Outside magazine, November 1996 The Volcano Runners No elite runners train at higher altitude, or suffer more, than the human lungs who roam these oxygen-starved slopes. And yet Mexico’s great marathoners still labor under a faint cloud,…
Review: Hardware and Software, November 1996 Dynabee Hand and Arm Exerciser By Bob Howells A 4,000-pound nautilus machine will work the big muscle groups, but if it’s your forearms and hands you want to strengthen, there’s a piece of equipment that’s considerably more…
Review: Hardware and Software, November 1996 Buying Right: Bombproof Duds for the Backcountry By Andrew Tilin Devoted backcountry skiers and snowboarders searching for new togs work from a different priority list than the rest of the downhilling populace. Features that add convenience…
Outside magazine, November 1996 Cross-Country Nation A report from the tracks in Oslo, capital of the land where to be Nordic is to ski nordic By Bill McKibben Warning! as you read this article, remember that Norway is not the…
Review: Hardware and Software, November 1996 Books: Postcards from the front By Miles Harvey Aftermath: The Remnants of War, by Donovan Webster (Pantheon Books, $23). “All around us, human bones poke from the ground,” writes Webster. He is looking out over…
Review: Hardware and Software, November 1996 Audubon CD-ROM Bird Guide By Gregory McNamee Identifying the avian cackling in your campsite or the little brown jobs swarming around the feeder on your deck–often a befuddling endeavor–just got easier. The tower of ratty field guides…
Review: Hardware and Software, November 1996 Other Stuff: Cat Eye Stadium Light By Alan Coté Monday Night Football and a Monday night bike ride don’t have much in common except the same time slot–and now the same lighting system. The new…
Review: Hardware and Software, November 1996 Merrell Millennium M2 Boot By Glenn Randall What shape will hiking boots take in the twenty-first century? Merrell’s answer, the Millennium M2 Superlight ($150, 800-869-3348), doesn’t look as radical as you might expect. Instead, the new…
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According to legend, New Zealand’s South Island was formed when the dawn froze 150 shipwrecked gods into mountains. There are worse places to spend eternity. By Patrick Symmes Geoff Spearpoint/Hedgehog House Escapism 101: Mount Aspiring, Mount Aspiring National Park…
Outside magazine, May 2000 The White Death I’ve always been impressed by the quality of Outside‘s photographs, but I have to say that your avalanche shot on the cover of February’s issue is in a category all its…
Outside magazine, June 2000 I really enjoyed reading the tree-climbing story, “They’re Not Just for Monkeys Anymore” (March), by Fred Haefele. I can remember spending many summer days in my childhood perching with friends up in the Douglas fir in my…
Family Vacations, Summer Holy Rollers! ‘Blading through Amish country On Zephyr Inline Skate Tours’ roll through Pennsylvania Amish country, your guide might be an Amish 18-year-old who’ll show kids some wicked skate moves while filling them…
Family Vacations, Summer An Eco-School in Vail? Summer classes your kids will want to attend Happily, Colorado’s Vail Valley isn’t entirely consumed by golf courses — yet. And residents are doing their best to preserve…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Dollar by Dollar Vacation fantasies may be fueled by travel magazines and brochures, but vacation reality is driven by your bank account. By Everett Potter Whether you’re dreaming of a palm-lined Caribbean beach or a…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Adventures in Snowplowing Not your average family ski trips By Thurston Clarke ADVENTURES IN SNOWPLOWING | DETAILS, DETAILS | BEGINNER ANGST Choosing a…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Light-Tackle Fishing NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA Fishing with fly rod or light conventional tackle on the rivers and billabongs and seacoast off Darwin, Australia, is, in the lexicon of guides and other facilitators of sport, “A bastard of…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Scuba Diving THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, ECUADOR On Darwin, the northernmost of the Galßpagos’s 13 major islands, every precarious niche of its black, volcanic cliffs has been colonized by blue-footed boobies. The air above is so thick with…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 When the world seems a little FLAT, you need Vertical Strategies Whatever your style — milking the steeps, laid-back cruising, schussing en famille, or single-board carving — repeat after us: location, location, location. Extreme Hills The Snow-Finder…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Multisport Resorts AGUILA DE OSA INN, COSTA RICA At Drake Bay, on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, I could have passed my days pleasantly enough at the E-MAIL FROM: MYSORE, INDIA "Who are you?" barks Astanga…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Island-to-Island Sailing THE WHITSUNDAY ISLANDS, AUSTRALIA In the Antipodes, even the yachting scene feels upside-down. Instead of places like Newport, Rhode Island, where stiffly coiffed Republicans sip Dewar’s in members-only clubs, Australia has Shute Harbour: Deep in…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Extreme Measures Wherein steep becomes the mantra By Peter Shelton EXTREME MEASURES | BUNK TO BUNK | DETAILS | THE SNOW FINDER |…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Gearing Up For the Backcountry By Sean O’Brien BORED? BOARD! | DETAILS, DETAILS | GEARING UP | ESSENTIAL GEAR The siren…