Snow Sports
ArchiveOutside magazine, May 1995 Skiing: Earth to Cloud Nine. Do You Read? By Todd Balf In explaining his hard-fought victory in the combined moguls-ballet-aerials event last February at the World Freestyle Ski Championships in La Clusaz, France, Minnesotan Trace Worthington noted that he’d chosen…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Frost -Free and Easy Seven sunny escapes in the Lower 48 Anza-Borrego Desert State Park | Grapevine Canyon Ranch | Big Bend National Park | Banning House |…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Essential Gear: In-Line Skates What better way to work out the kinks of a road trip than by taking a spin on some black ice far from home? Here are some of the newest models on the market. The K2 Spinner…
Outside magazine, May 1994 Skiing: Thanks Coach By Todd Balf Apparently those most astonished by the U.S. alpine team’s performance in the Winter Olympics last February were the coaches. Case in point: After Diann Roffe-Steinrotter won the gold in the super G, Paul…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Resort Report: Part One When it comes to this year’s hard-earned ski trip, you need a mountain that fits just right By Ron C. Judd No matter who you are, whom you know, or how liberally you…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Free Skiing! And a slew of other ways to hang on to your cash By Meg Lukens Noonan The next time you hear someone gripe about the high cost of skiing, speak up. You could say,…
Outside magazine, August 1999 HIGH POINTS Still the One: The 1999 Everest Almanac Mountaineering’s main attraction is bigger than ever This year’s May climbing season on Mount Everest saw record fan participation, a bevy of Everest-inspired products, and—lest…
Outside magazine, May 1995 Mountaineering: Alison Hargreaves Wants to Know… Why shouldn’t the world’s best climbing mom leave home for Everest? By Nancy Prichard “I think I was being quite conservative,” says British alpinist Alison Hargreaves, defending a climb of the Eiger…
Outside magazine, February 2001 A Long, Brave Trip I FIRST RAN INTO Rick Ridgeway (“Below Another Sky,” December) some years ago when he was giving a talk about his K2 adventures. Halfway through the…
Adventure man. Freedom fighter. Brat. Meet Jack Wheeler, the Indiana Jones of the Right
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 1996 Skiing: Give Me Liberty…and a Lot of Monster Air Kasha Rigby’s free-heeled assault on extreme skiing By Michael Finkel “Alpine skiers,” says Kasha Rigby, pioneer of extreme telemarking, wrinkling her nose in a gesture of nordic disapproval at…
Dispatches, March 1998 SPORT Lights, Action, Cameras? On the eve of defending his unlikely title, world champion Rob Evans insists that ice surfing’s a surefire hit. Now if only the cable honchos would listen. Oh, would that he’d ridden to…
Bodywork: Fitness for the Outside Athlete, November 1996 Training: The Prepared Snowboarder Tiptoeing past soreness this season By Sarah Bowen Shea Don’t be fooled by snowboarding’s carefree image. It is a sport, and you should train for it. “When I first…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Hey, That’s My Coast By Peter Oliver CRUISE-O-MATIC | DETAILS, DETAILS | HEY, THAT’S MY COAST | ESSENTIAL GEAR What’s in…
Dispatches, February 1998 EVENTS Have Corpulence, Will Hurtle Think there’s no sport too absurd for the X Games? Get a load of shovel racing. By Gretchen Reynold True, the cold season’s competitive-sports options for big-boned fellows with a fondness…
Outside magazine, April 1992 Mountain Biking: Full-Blown Fat-Tire Tours By Bob Howells Mountain bikers and other “user groups” might still be duking it out in certain congested recreational areas, but there are other places where bikers aren’t just accepted–they’re embraced. It’s taken years…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 THE SNOW FINDER SKI AREA: Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, Colorado Information: 888-272-7246; Reservations: same THE DRAW: A-Basin is a purist’s dream come…
Outside magazine, May 1995 On Everest, with Fewer Socks By Paul Kvinta When and if Tom Whittaker reaches 27,000 feet on his Everest expedition this month, he won’t be worrying about oxygen supply. “I’ll be too busy trying to keep my stump healthy,” he…
Outside magazine, February 1996 The Outside Trip-Finder: Central and South America By Kathy Martin ANTARCTICA: Cruising the Peninsula The Route: An epic ten-day to four-week ship voyage along the Antarctic Peninsula, with…
Two men, a continent, and the mother of all polar duels
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Review: Hardware and Software, January 1997 Buying Right: Wraparound Ski Shades By Andrew Tilin No ski sunglasses will liberate you from wearing goggles, but wraparounds get close. Now it really has to be dumping before I exchange a pair of cool specs for…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Skis That Take a Turn for the Better Between hourglass, fat, and all-mountain boards, there’s an easy way down every run By Glenn Randall I’m not sure whether you can peg it to a dip on the growth…
Destinations, September 1998 There’s Something in the Rocks Beyond the top ropes and chalk stains, Joshua Tree’s famous granite reveals its more mysterious faces By Robert Earle Howells Hang a Left at the Cholla How to find your way…
Destinations, May 1998 Snowboarding Soaring Id, Grounded Ego By Zev Borow I don’t think it’s until after lunch on the third day that I start to need the patronizing, to … well, not beg, but silently plead for it. I…
Dispatches: News from the Field, November 1996 Business: Steeper, Deeper, Higher Profit Margins Merger mania sweeps the ski industry, raising the stakes, the expectations, and the specter of monopoly By Andrew Tilin One of the worst purchases Les Otten ever made…
 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, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Don’t Be a Lard Puppy* *N: an out-of-shape, weekend leisure rider By Lisa Twyman Bessone Whitewater Kayaking The School: Sundance Kayak School and Expeditions, Merlin, Oregon The Drill: In the wilderness alongside…
 Outside Magazine, November 1994 The Resort Report: Monster Resorts: From mega to mini, ten ski areas that’ll fit just right By Meg Lukens Noonan Every winter, it’s the same dilemma: Do you head for a massive, all-encompassing resort where you’ll have…
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, July 1994 Expeditions: The Not-Quite-As-Terrible Burgess Twins Reformed, sort of, the boys hit K2 with grit, desire, and beer By Clint Willis It’s not so we can have big drunks down at base camp,” insists British mountaineer Adrian Burgess. “The reason, apart…
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 |…
Review, June 1997 Books: The Woods Divided By Miles Harvey Mason & Dixon, by Thomas Pynchon (Henry Holt, $28). In 1763, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two British surveyors, embarked on a perilous trek through Indian-controlled wilderness to establish a…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 The Ski Shrink Is In … “I was a world-ranked skier,” says Jim Taylor, “and I was a head case.” Then Taylor discovered the miracle of sports psychology, became a top-20 U.S. slalomer, went back to school, and set up…
 Outside magazine, February 1999 Cross-Country Ski Your Way to Shining Health, Renewed Vigor, and Everlasting Happiness! Life got you down? Feeling morose, slaggardly, low on essence? Ah, dear friend, you need the curative powers contained within a…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Holidays on Ice Skate and glide your way through the season at five snowbound lodges Mirror Lake Inn, New York Walk into Lake Placid’s Mirror Lake Inn, and it’s possible for all of your lofty…
Outside magazine, January 1996 Snowboarding: Nitro Tour By Eric Blehm If there’s one thing guaranteed to blow a snowboarder’s good time, it’s a stretch of flat terrain. Snowboards can handle any steeps that skis can, but once gravity stops pulling, even the most advanced…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Bored? Board! The time has come to ride wide By Rob Story BORED? BOARD! | DETAILS, DETAILS | GEARING UP | ESSENTIAL GEAR…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 WINTER NORTHWEST SKIING FIRES UP “Give us amenities to match our mountains,” they cried. They’ve been heard First-class snowfall, coach-class resorts. From the day organized skiing first hit the slopes of Mount…
Outside magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Sea Kayaking LONG CAYE, BELIZE There’s a certain queasy feeling that comes from bobbing up and down in three-foot swells while ensconced in a slightly wobbly sea kayak. It’s not quite seasickness, but it’s close enough to…
Outside magazine, November 1991 Let’s Ski: Says Who? Enough with the one-note wonders. Here’s a case for the I’ve-only-got-a-week-to-ski monster resort. By Donovan Webster In the preceding pages you’ve read about midsize ski areas, the precious little places whose personalities–when you get right down…
Out Front, Fall 1998 Mountaineering Whither the Big One? Climbing Everest can be a ho-hum affair — unless, that is, you have a gimmick By Mike Grudowski There was a time — 23 years ago, to be precise —…
Brad Pitt's in Tibet. Steven Seagal's flacking his lama creds on Letterman. Dharma's rampant at the local U and Buddha has settled in the East Village. With America sweatily grasping all things Shangri-La, it's a virtual Lamapalooza out there. But will the true cause benefit?
 Outside magazine, May 1997 Everest a Year Later: False Summit After a lifetime of wanting, Jon Krakauer made it to the world’s highest point. What he and the other survivors would discover in the months to come, however, is that it’s even…
Outside magazine, July 1999 SCIENCE Two Minutes to a Savage Tan Check your elevation—”well done” may be closer than you think BAKED, NOT FRIED Location Minutes to Crisp* Summit of Mount Whitney, CA. Elevation,…
Outside magazine, January 1994 Skiing: Dynamite Powder By Michael Kiefer In southern Oregon’s Cascade Range, powder is not the dry and feathery stuff that floats down over Utah. Here, it’s a bit wetter, a bit heavier. It makes you work harder. And on…
Winter Olympics Preview, February 1998 THE DREAMER My Snakebit Career The Hard Luck Kid of skiing takes another — and perhaps a final — run at the glory that’s long eluded him By Craig Vetter THE DOPE ON…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Expeditions: Yet More Souls On Ice By Todd Balf Late last December, Liv Arnesen, a former schoolteacher from Oslo, Norway, became the first woman to reach the South Pole alone. Beginning at Hercules Inlet, near Patriot Hills, she skied 745…
Dispatches, December 1998 Expeditions Everest? No Problem. Except for This Damn Full-Body Cast. An avalanche-battered snowboarder resumes his climb-and-carve assault on the world’s highest peaks. By Tim Zimmermann “I remember this sudden rush…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Alps: The Poor Man’s Zermatt By Lorien Warner Olympic skiing gold medalist Mateja Svet was born here. Elan, a worldwide staple in ski equipment, is based here. This is a country that’s steeped in ski culture. Austria? No. Try…
Outside’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 THE SNOW FINDER, cont. SKI AREA: Steamboat, Colorado Information: 970-879-6111 Reservations: 800-922-2722 THE DRAW: A terrific resort for the family. Mom and…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Crashing the High Life Because sometimes only a tri-level condo and saut‰ed elk medallions will do By Ron C. Judd Don’t be fooled by the first impressions when you hook up with the…
Outside magazine, February 1996 The Fast Track to Dharma: 60 Degrees Straight Down, Mind the Boulders and Avalanches A postcard from La Grave, France–alpinism’s new lost horizon By Michael Paterniti The journey starts at a car rental agency in Grenoble.
News from the Field, January 1997 Sport: I’ll Have Mine on the Rocks and Straight Up Jeff Lowe’s towering plan to bring ice climbing to the masses By Julian Rubinstein Jeff Lowe is an idea man. when he’s not scaling mammoth,…
Outside magazine, August 1996 Mountaineering: Tragedy at the Top of the World What really happened that fateful day? By Jeff Herr When you’ve just climbed to the top of Mount Everest, you want to linger there a few minutes, snapping photographs…
Outside Magazine, November 1994 The Shape of Ski Gear to Come High-performance skis, boots, and bindings that set a new precedent By Seth Masia Skiers seem to buy their gear in some sort of time warp. Consider what can happen in five…
Outside magazine, April 1995 Skiing: It’s Good To Be Alberto…Once Again By Todd Balf Several years ago, Italy’s Alberto Tomba said that his dream slalom run included a glass of wine at the start, a cigarette on the way down, and a first-place finish…
Outside magazine, June 1994 The Perfect Summer: Crank the AC, Man the VCR Summer viewing for the discriminating sloth By Alex Heard Cut the self-delusional “I’m active. I won’t rent movies this summer.” Yes, you will. And when the urge…
News from the Field, February 1997 Snowboarding: No, Seriously…I Am the World Champ Jeff Greenwood’s Olympic-size struggle to prove he’s the best By Mike Finkel It was snowy mayhem: a pack of boisterous, red-cheeked boys, Jeff Greenwood’s teammates on the U.S.
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Outside Prognosticator: For You, I Get It Wholesale Want to buy a chunck of Jackson Hole, Taos, or 38 other Forest Service-owned mountain tracts that are now leased to ski-resort operations? If Republicans in Congress have their way, you may get…
Outside magazine, December 1996 He’s Still The Coolest A few moments with Old Man Winter, on his life, his loves, and the prospect of being phased out by a thing called global warming By Bruce McCall Old Man Winter is one…
Outside Magazine, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Bring on the Mac ‘n’ Cheese … and the Nintendo and Snowboarder Barbie and … By Meg Lukens Noonan If I didn’t already ski or snowboard, I think I would have started as…
Outside magazine, February 1996 Trekking: Buried at the Top of the World In the wake of Nepal’s deadliest disaster, a search for answers By Adam Horowitz (with Peter Stewart) It was easily the worst calamity to strike the Himalayas in decades: a…
Outside magazine, January 1998 Sport: That’s Gunther to You, Pal How we can all live out our Olympic fringe-event fantasies By Bill Donahue James Owen Merion Roberts, 1916-1997 “Sherpas give trekking agents in Nepal a most unfair…
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’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 | WINTER SKI 2002—NOW Salt Lake City–area resorts are pumped for the Games. But for non-Olympians, this is the uncrowded time to go Park City, by…
Outside magazine, November 1993 Maybe It’s Time for Ski School Got a problem subject? Bumps? Powder? Steeps? You name it, there’s a place that can help. By Peter Shelton A teenage kid who joined my class one afternoon in Telluride said he wanted to…
Outside magazine, January 1996 The Three-Minute, Star-Studded, Fix-It-by-the-Fireside Ski Lesson A midwinter review of the essentials of the game By Michel Beaudry THE CARVED TURN Go ahead, says Olympic gold medalist Tommy Moe. Listen to what those skis are…
Outside magazine, March 1995 Expeditions: Many, Many Souls on Ice Who’s who in 1995’s ambitious–and crowded–North Pole season By Laura Billings Will Steger called it the biggest coincidence of his life when, during his historic 1986 dogsled expedition to the North Pole,…
Dispatches, May 1998 SPORT Some Kind of Hero After bringing new meaning to “Olympic Gold,” Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati returns to a festive welcome By Bill Donahue On a blustery, gray day in Whistler, British Columbia, we gather shoulder-to-shoulder…
Destinations, June 1997 Off Season: Kiwi Ski Where else can you get snow and cheap digs in June? By Eric Blehm It starts so innocently. As the mechanic at your bike shop finishes tweaking your crash-mangled GripShift, you limp over…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Plug In and Turn On Electronics that will add some serious voltage to your summer vacation By Lisa Twyman Bessone You’ve packed the sportsgear. Sunscreen and bug goo? Check. So what’s missing? Well, cameras that capture those…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 The Alps–Because Bigger is Better You can’t ski out of bounds where there are no boundaries By Lito Tejada-Flores American skiers living happily with the myth that the world’s best snow and best skiing are found in the…
Outside magazine, October 1995 The Exhaust-Free, Self-Propelled Foliage Tour Let the motorized leaf peepers have their New England. It’ll keep them far away from ours. By Todd Balf Migrationally speaking, almost everything leaves New England in autumn. The exception?…
Outside magazine, April 1992 Himalayan Travel: Upping the Trekker’s Ante By David Noland The litany I heard on a Kathmandu street last November was all too familiar: “Hey, man, change dollars? I give you black-market rate.” Less familiar, though, was the young man…