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国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1994 Not As Bad, But Still Not Nice Seven other places where you can expect the unexpected By Debra Shore Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee This is a drive-through park, so it’s not surprising that…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1994 A Guide to the Guide By Debra Shore Mug Shot: What’s the nature of the criminal behavior? Why do deviants like this place so much? The Facts: Some numbers you should know, including how many acres each ranger must cover,…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1994 Marathon: Ahhhhhhhhhh! By Todd Balf (with Derek Rielly) “We were screaming,” said American Bob Kempainen in the aftermath of April’s Boston Marathon, where perfect weather conditions helped 11 runners crack the vaunted 2:10 mark–the most in marathon history. Especially screaming was defending…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1994 Service With a Stickup Are your chambermaid and mule guide friendly? Courteous? Under indictment? By Debra Shore Ironically, the biggest threats to your safety and property in several of our most popular national parks may be the very people hired…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 A Hip New Twist to Swimming Technique The secret to the perfect workout, say Olympic coaches, is all in the midsection By Laura Hilgers To become a more powerful and efficient swimmer, practice this simple dry-land exercise:…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1994 Utah Five-O What Ranger Rick does between nature talks By Debra Shore From the Bullfrog subdistrict dispatch log, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah, May 28-30, 1993. FRIDAY 9:16 A.M. Large group of underage youths drinking at…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1994 Books: Polar Sagas By Andrea Barrett Mind Over Matter: The Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent, by Ranulph Fiennes (Delacorte Press, $21.95). Shadows on the Wasteland: Crossing Antarctica with Ranulph Fiennes, by Mike Stroud (Overlook Press, $21.95). The fun of…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Regimens: A No-Drag Pool Session By Laura Hilgers If anyone could swim on strength alone, it would be Amy Van Dyken, America’s fastest female 50-meter freestyler. At six feet and 155 pounds, the 23-year-old Olympian is all power. “But even…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1994 Buying Right: No-Hands Hydrators By John Lehrer Drinking plenty of fluids during prolonged exercise is essential to performance and safety, but toting a sufficient supply can be inconvenient: Scout canteens or a couple of water bottles just don’t carry well on an…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 The Book On: Marathon Do look back. Ladies: underdog Jenny Spangler may be gaining By Gretchen Reynolds Jenny Spangler, the unsponsored, unheralded, and extremely unlikely winner of the 1996 Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials, goes into the…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 The Book On: Middle Distance It is written in the sod: two golds for Haile Gebrselassie By Martin Dugard Haile Gebrselassie doesn’t just run: he redefines the perceived boundaries of human performance. Last June, the 23-year-old, 5-foot-3…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Rowing: Odds That… The U.S. women’s eight will break six minutes…..3-1 The U.S. men’s eight will win a gold medal……..10-1 Redgrave and Pinsent will remain undefeated…….1-1…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 The Book On: Mountainbiking Will Tinker Juarez triumph–or psych himself out trying? By Alan Cote and Eric Hagerman Until last year, the word on Tinker Juarez was that were he ever to recognize just how strong…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Mountain Biking: Odds That… Alison Sydor will capture the gold medal……3-2 Tinker Juarez will medal……..3-1 Thomas Frischknecht will break something…….8-1…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 The Book On: Rowing The Peskiest foe for the U.S. women’s eight? Overconfidence. By Lisa Twyman Bessone “It’s great that everyone will be gunning for us,” says Yaz Farooq, coxswain of the U.S. women’s eight crew…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Middle Distance: Odds That African runners will claim every gold……..9-1 Gebrselassie will set at least one world record………10-1 An American will medal……….15-1…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Whitewater: Odds That… Americans will sweep the solo events……..10-1 The dam will burst during David Hearn’s run…..20-1 Scott Shipley will fail to win the gold medal……..100-1…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 The Book On: Swimming A skeptical world can’t help but ask: will the Chinese women come clean? By Gretchen Reynolds In the history of competitive aquatics, no team has ever been so reviled as China’s female swimmers. Arriving…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Are you Ready for the Bubbalympics? With a skybox rife with sponsors and a slate of flashy new events–plus 10,000 supremely gifted athletes–the pinnacle of sports breaks from its past. By Paul Kvinta There’s a reason they…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 The Book On: Whitewater Yes, Scott Shipley’s laid back–but he’s still too good to beat By Julian Rubinstein By the time the evacuation order was announced at tennessee’s Ocoee Whitewater Center on April 21, the afternoon sky…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Swimming: Odds That A Chinese swimmer will test positive for steroids……..1-1 Brooke Bennett will beat Janet Evans……..2-1 Caterpillar fungus will be America’s next health-food craze…..100-1…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Welcome to the Power Vortex Way up in the wilds of northern California, a harmonic convergence of high peaks, spires, whitewater, and singletrack By Andrew Rice When seemingly all of urban California is heading for Sierra Nevada retreats…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 国产吃瓜黑料: Blisters R Us By John Alderman On July 24, two single-engine floatplanes will drop six explorers onto the icy chop of Summit Lake, deep in Alaska’s Brooks Range. Once ashore, the team will begin a 20-mile trek through scree…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Culture: More Powerful Than a Chunk of Tofu Live from Washington, a new breed of bleeding heart By John Galvin A new comic-book hero boldly invades the nation’s newsstands this month: Liberal Man, a tree-hugging crusader out to…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Long Weekends: Whistler While You Play By Bob Howells When you’re sipping your first morning latte at Moguls and you hear one Whistler local tell another, “Saw a bear on the Valley Trail this morning,” your ears perk up. The…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Conquering the Other Mount Shasta By Andrew Rice Mount Shasta’s influence over northernmost California is more than just vertical. Almost everything you need–food, places to stay, equipment rental–is clustered in or around the tiny city of Mount Shasta, at the…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Inns & Lodges: Tall Ship Malabar Floating Bed & Breakfast Travers City, Michigan By Kathy Martin In Great Lakes maritime lore, passage on a Lake Michigan steamer or yacht demanded a healthy tolerance for mischance–the lake chalked up…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Jurisprudence: All the Vanishing Horses Is the BLM running roughshod over America’s fabled wild steeds? By Anne Goodwin Sides One of the bureau of land management’s better efforts in recent years has been the promotion of its…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Sasquatch Phone Home By Andrew Rice The Northern California mountains have long been known as bigfoot country. Sightings date back to the 1880s, but it was Roger Patterson’s now famous (and never discredited) 1967 film of a female bigfoot…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 The Minutiae: Of Medal Dreams and Collard Greens Behind the scenes, actuarially speaking, at Atlanta’s shining moment By Katie Arnold and Cory Johnson Established “quiet time” for athletes at the Olympic Village: 10 p.m. Closing time…
国产吃瓜黑料 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.
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Politics: Eat Your Heart Out, Al Gore Meet Sherry Boehlert, the man environmentalists can’t do without By John Galvin “He may well save the republicans in spite of themselves,” intones Mark Childress, vice-president of the Environmental Working Group,…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Good-Bye 1996, Hello 2004 As the sun descends on Atlanta, an anxious world turns its eyes to…Puerto Rico? By Stephanie Gregory While Boston elbows into position in the race for the 2008 Summer Olympics, the dash for the…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Field Notes: The Last Wilderness Few places are left like British Columbia’s rainforest. But for how long? By Doug Peacock Early July on the central coast of British Columbia was cold and wet. Clouds hovered over indistinct shorelines.
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, October 1994 Long Weekends: Survival of the Sespe An honest-to-God wild river two hours from Los Angeles By Andrew Rice Sespe Creek has miraculously survived the hell-bent development of the last half-century and is now the last river in southern California not…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Your Enemy Is Our Enemy “Well, they do like to shoot birds,” figures Maureen Hinkle, a lobbyist for the National Audubon Society. Hinkle is speculating on the motivations of the newest member of the green movement, the National Rifle Association. Last…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Promise Kept Natascha Badmann served notice on the multisport community last November, first winning the Duathlon World Championships and then finishing a respectable sixth in the short-course triathlon worlds a week later. This May, she followed through in impressive fashion, annihilating the…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, October 1994 At Play in the Fields of the Maya The condo-free Yucatan is still out there. All you have to do is look for it. By Jeff Spurrier The bad news is you’re landing in Canc煤n. The good news is you…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Is This Any Way to Travel, the Sequel How, you may wonder, could self-proclaimed Father of Freefalling Dan Osman (“Is This Any Way to Travel,” January) one-up his earlier stunts of falling–deliberately–from 600-plus-foot cliffs and arresting himself with only climbing rope? “I…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Presumed Redundant Concluding a chain of events that resembles something out of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, U.S. marshals have finally located fugitive river guide William Stoner in Sydney, Australia, and are now pressing for his extradition. Stoner, you may recall,…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1996 Will Work for…Several Million Bucks With Lance Armstrong dominating the Tour DuPont last May, many wondered why his team’s sponsor, Motorola, chose the occasion to declare that it wouldn’t be backing the squad in ’97. Actually, the timing for the announcement…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, October 1994 Mountaineering: Himalayan Hat Trick By Todd Balf (with Greg Child and Dan Dickison) As climbing seasons go, New Zealander Rob Hall had a phenomenal summer. On May 9, with Seattle’s Ed Viesturs, he led an 11-member team, including six guided clients, to…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, October 1994 Mountaineering: Grivel Grippers By Douglas Gantenbein It’s really tough fighting the government,” says Anchorage attorney Neil O’Donnell. “They’re presumed to be right–unless you can show they acted arbitrarily, capriciously, or irrationally.” Last summer, in a case that O’Donnell helped bring, a federal…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, October 1994 Bobsledding: What a Great Idea for a Movie By Todd Balf (with Greg Child and Dan Dickison) The U.S. bobsled team can’t seem to buy a win. First, they bombed at the Olympics in Lillehammer. Then, on a novel summer tour, they…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
茂禄驴 国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
茂禄驴 国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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,…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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:…
国产吃瓜黑料 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,…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
茂禄驴 国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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,…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
茂禄驴 国产吃瓜黑料 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…
茂禄驴 国产吃瓜黑料 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 Mara帽贸n River drops…
国产吃瓜黑料 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.
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…