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The Downhill Report, December 1996 Flash! Bumps Are Actually Good For You! Not sure it’s time to return to moguls? Remember, you used to hate broccoli, too. By Michael Finkel Jonny Moseley can empathize. Although he’s a two-time World Cup overall…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 No Pain…No Pain Speed, spray, and an intact bone structure! Cruising is where it’s at. By Adam Horowitz They’re but four syllables. Three, really, if you account for redundancy. They form a pedantic, infantile schoolyard taunt,…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Best Hot Tub The Resort at Squaw Creek “It’s great for business,” says six-time world speed-skiing champion Franz Weber. “I got a speaking engagement just by hanging out in that tub.” Weber, who is the director of skiing…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 One Giant Leap for Grommetkind Snowboarding’s new step-in bindings make getting on a snap. By Susanna Levin It was the last bastion of skier superiority, the ability to smugly glide from chair to slope while the…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Best Spot to View the Carnage Bear Mountain Lodge, Killington, Vermont Located at the base of Outer Limits, one of the East’s most challenging mogul runs, the deck at Bear Mountain Lodge can be like a front-row seat…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 My Type of Gomorrah, Aspen Is Yes, all you naysayers, skiing and caviar do mix By Craig Vetter Aspen Mountain, the red-hot center of schuss-n-glitz, celebrates the golden anniversary of Lift 1 this year, and despite…
News from the Field, December 1996 Wildlife: Hasta la Vista, Poultry Celebrities share their favorite recipes to aid a carnivorous friend By Mike Steere If the gray wolf knew of the bathos perpetrated in its name, the species might have boycotted…
News from the Field, December 1996 Environment: Pssst, Mr. President, Have I Got a Parcel for You With wilderness to be saved and the coffers closed, the feds start swapping By John Brinkley After country-rock crooner Bonnie Raitt and more than…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, December 1997 国产吃瓜黑料: To the Pole … the One-Brick-Short-of-a-Load Way A group of fearless “expeditioners” rings in the new year with an aerial assault on Antarctica By Susan Enfield Next Time You Feel Like Whining…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, December 1997 Field Notes: Boneheads A tale of big money, prison, Disney World, and the world’s foremost dinosaur-hunting twins By John Tayman On the morning when the fair-market value for the world’s finest unassembled real-bone Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton was…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, December 1997 Smart Traveler: www.getmeoutofhere.com Or how I went geek-friendly on the Web before my trip, saved cash, and avoided crisis By Everett Potter The World Wide Web is loaded with travel-related sites, from the savvy (the Association for…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, December 1997 Captain Cook Never Sailed Here It’s a long line from the old salt to the swarms at Waikiki. So real Hawaiians head for the far sides of paradise. By Rick Carroll Bone Fishing The supernatural…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, December 2000 聽 Perfect Pitch I HAVE TO TELL YOU that the article on El Capitan by Dan Duane (“Up on the Big Stone,” October) was quite simply one of the best pieces…
茂禄驴 国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, December 1997 Hello, I Must Be Going Dire forecasts predict the end of the all-u-can-eat seafood buffet, as the world’s fisheries fall victim to big fleets and a fragile nature. But if the waters are really emptying, why is your…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, December 1997 Sport: From Tabula Rasa to Pipeline Masters Shaping a few winning boards with the North Shore’s humble Picasso-of-the-planer By William Finnegan E A R T O 聽T H E G R O U N…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, December 1996 Stocking Stuffers PowergelAll three of this new rocket fuel’s flavors give a quick-hit, easy-down-the-gullet carbo boost, but the strawberry-banana adds extra bang with a blend of caffeine, ginseng, and kola nut extract. $1.29 per 1.4-ounce packet. From PowerBar, 800-587-6937.
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, December 1997 Enterprise: Eureka? Above the din of doubters, a prospector swears a filthy Canadian river will make him filthy rich By Trevor Curwin ‘Oh, it’s down there, all right. that gold is definitely there, as we speak,”…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, December 1997 Travel: Footloose and Cholesterol-Free In the midst of its epic ride, a chat with history’s nuttiest cycling tandem John Galvin If you find yourself driving a lonely country road, only to spy a monocled, seven-foot legume…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, December 1997 Philanthropy: Do-Gooders Rule! In this age of mounting apathy, an unlikely subculture steps up to the plate By Paul Kvinta And the Moral Is, Never Underestimate the Home-River Advantage…
茂禄驴 国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, December 1997 Humbly Goes the Mountain Man A decidedly unheroic trip up Kilimanjaro By Chip Brown Access & Resources From the Savanna to the Snowfields This way to…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, December 1997 Out There: Taking the Red-Eye For our misty frequent flier, what a long, strange 100 months it’s been By Randy Wayne White More by Randy Wayne White Croco%#@! Dundee…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, December 1996 Hide, and Go Seek NecroSearch’s charter: Head into the woods, use nature skills, find murder victims By Mike Grudowski In the somber days after she vanished, no one had reason to suspect it would take so long…
茂禄驴 国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, December 1997 Mourning in the Land of Magic Rampant in the island nation of Indonesia is the idea that everyday life is governed by forces unseen, administered by the true leaders of the country, sorcerers known as dukuns. Among the…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 WINTER SUBEQUATORIAL BLISS South America, Australia, New Zealand: The adventurous best of the other hemisphere SOUTH AMERICA Fly-Fishing Jun铆n de los Andes Patagonia Patagonia is trout…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 WINTER DESOLATION! TEMPTATION! STEWED FROG! Hiking Dominica can get a little damp, but culinary surprises await at slog’s end When European colonizers swept through the West Indies, one of the islands that…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Mileage Madness Judging by what I’ve been reading of late, we seem to…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 LIVING LIGHTLY IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS Seven discrete retreats in Guatemala and Belize where the adventures range from underground paddles to lost-city forays GUATEMALA…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 DOWN UNDER Blackwater Rafting Waitomo, New Zealand I have a theory that brain cells are sucked from our heads when we cross the equator. There’s…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 SPRING HAWAII OFF THE BROCHURE-BEATEN PATH From a tropical treehouse to a funky little beach cottage, six hostelries in paradise that your travel agent never heard of Tranquil Kee Lagoon at Haena…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 THE VALUE FILE Welcome to the Caribbean’s parallel universe, where you can have it all鈥攁nd your savings account, too Southeast coast of St. John, U.S. V.I. It’s a toss-up as to…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 SPRING THESE RIVERS ROCK! When the five freshets here hit meltdown mode, you’re in for a wild ride Into the Rhyolite on the Owyhee Lochsa River, Idaho Remember that robotic B-52’s tune…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 GEAR TO GO ANYWHERE FOOTWEAR Footloose and blister-free There I was, packing for a trip to British Columbia that I knew would entail some floatplane flying, and hence, weight- and bulk-fussy pilots.
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 FALL STEALTH SAFARIS When it comes to critter spotting, the quiet approach is the way to go On Foot As the low, rumbling growl reverberated from…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, May 1999 He’s Big, He’s Bad, He’s…Japanese? Running wild with C. W. Nicol, proud citizen, silly celebrity, and stubborn environmentalist By Jeffrey Bartholet We’re in basho territory, yet nothing seems quite right. It’s not…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 Close-Encounter Camps Moholoholo Forest Camp and Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Hoedspruit, South Africa Though the African wild is rife with carnivorous creatures, the Moholoholo Forest Camp,…
茂禄驴 国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1994 Richard Leakey’s Fall from Grace His will and ego made him the most powerful, respected man in African conservation. In the end, they’re what brought him down. By Joshua Hammer At half past nine in the…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 SPRING BAJA ROAD TRIP Leave Cabo and Ensenada to the party animals鈥攃rowd-free Bah铆a de los 脕ngeles is the place to go The garden that is Baja teems with card贸n cactus and…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 1999/2000 Annual Travel Guide Traveler’s Almanac Space Camp for Amateur Astronauts; Name and Claim a Virgin Island; Where to Be on 12/31/99; 国产吃瓜黑料s in Veracruz; Millennium Blowouts; New Ways…
Dispatches, May 1997 Art: Let’s Just Say It’s Not Whistler’s Mother By Peter Von Ziegesar “You can compare his work to the grueling physicality of climbing a mountain or negotiating a whitewater stream,” enthuses Robert Riley, curator of media arts at the…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 GEAR TO GO SOFT WEAR FOR HARD TRAVELS Durable but softer-than-you-realize synthetics and blends rendered in travel-specific configurations (like neat-o hidden pockets) are the key to packing light and looking earnestly presentable when…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 GEAR TO GO LIGHT…ACTION…CAMERAS! Sure shooters for gear abusers Rule number one about travel-friendly cameras: The camera that captures the most memories is the one that’s easiest to use and easiest…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 FALL DESERT ESCAPES Ride a sudden whim or a sturdy steed to arid expanses where solitude reigns HORSEPACKING IN NAVAJOLAND Drop over the South Rim and ride along the sandy…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Summer MAY THE HORSE BE WITH YOU No songfests. No hayrides. No dudes! Our kind of guest ranches Rankin Ranch, California Despite the recent hipification of the word dude, I’ve never…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 CAMERA EXPEDITIONS Focus on Myanmar This mystical Buddhist country (formerly called Burma) of gold-covered temples, streets lined with colorful markets, and a countryside marked by hill-tribe…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1994 Wildlife: Who’s Afraid of a Little Blood and Guts? One entrepreneur’s sticky plan to bring man and shark closer together By Brian Alexander Jon Cappella still believes his idea is a blue-chipper: Dump bucketfuls of fish innards…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 GEAR TO GO PACK IT UP, MOVE IT OUT CONVERTIBLES There’s really just one reason to get a convertible鈥攁 bag that morphs from suitcase to backpack: to save your body on long-haul carries.
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 FALL ASIA ABOVE THE FRAY Where noise means impudent monkeys, your bivy’s a bungalow, and trail snacks drip with oyster sauce. Dynamic-moving up the Phra Nang cliffs, Thailand GUNUNG RINJANI VOLCANO LOMBOK,…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 SUMMER CANADA WILD From Newfoundland to B.C. to the great in-between, four adventures in the unfrozen north Grey Islands, Newfoundland The concept may be appealing鈥攅xploring an uninhabited island off the northeast Newfoundland…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1992 While You’re Out There… Eight unsung parks also worth a visit By Debra Shore The crown jewels are wondrous sights, but they’re by no means the be-all and end-all of American parks. In fact, only 50 of…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 SUMMER WAVESIDE SITES East and west, beachfront campgrounds where the breakers roar you to sleep There’s nothing more peaceful than the sound of waves breaking against the beach, rhythmically transporting you…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 HOW THEY DO IT Tips from the pros Wu: Coral grouper in the Red Sea Macduff Everton is a Santa Barbara鈥揵ased photo documentarian and…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 FALL DEEP BLUE SOUTH Dive the undived, paddle the unvisited, and otherwise indulge your Pacific island fantasies Traditions die hard in Vanuatu SOLOMON ISLANDS DIVING After the recently launched Solomon Islands…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 GEAR TO GO GEARING UP FOR THE SLIPPERY SLOPE The state of the alpine art continues to bring once-exotic concepts to the fore: Witness short trick skis, racy boots and bindings, and smart…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 GEAR TO GO BACKCOUNTRY WARES For the snowy yonder APPAREL Learn this name: Schoeller. This fabric company’s blends are water-repellent, quick-drying, breathable, wind-resistant, and amazingly durable. Built from Schoeller’s Dryskin Extreme, a…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1994 Technology: It’s a Bike and You Row It. RowBike. Get it? By Laura Billings “You can see the countryside on a regular bike, but you can’t get a total-body workout,” shouts inventor Scott Olson, 35, as he loads…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Aviation: It’s a Bird’s Life Hang-gliding legend Larry Tudor’s 400-mile dreams By Joe Bower It must be nerve-racking being a bird. The unexpected downdrafts. The bullying jet aircraft. Those disgusting contrails. “I’m as comfortable in the air as…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1996 Please Don’t Eat the Shrubbery In what amounts to the most revolutionary breakthrough in waste disposal since indoor plumbing, Americans in the dusty Southwest and elsewhere are flooding their backyards, stocking them with snails, hibiscuses, and bamboo, and letting these “wetlands” decompose…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1996 They’re Back Twelve gold medals, 21 world titles. But for four of this century’s finest athletes, the road to Atlanta begins in Atlanta with this month’s U.S. Olympic Trials. Where, as at least one of them knows, anything can happen.
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Expeditioning: A Man, a Plan, a Whoppin’ Long Rope Sliding–literally–into an odd place in history By Brooke DeNisco Ken Fuller is hoping to avoid sweaty palms this June 18. At about noon, a crowd that locals predict will…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1994 Running: Rabbit’s Revenge By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Eric Hagerman) Wen Paul Pilkington reached the halfway point at last February’s Los Angeles Marathon, he glanced over his shoulder, glanced again, and then estimated he had a quarter-mile…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Guide to Summer: There’s Nothing Like Dining Alfresco Don’t fight the urge to be social–we’re genetically programmed to picnic By Pete Nelson Most of my favorite outdoor parties have been interrupted by visits from the police, but these…
Dispatches, June 1997 Diversions: Because It’s…Absurd and Illegal The latest sport to take London by storm: sewer canoeing By Denise Dowling Given that most British celebrities 鈥 David Bowie, Brenda Blethyn, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales 鈥 tend…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1994 Rowing: Enough’s Enough By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Eric Hagerman) In his second bid to row some 5,000 miles west to east across the Pacific, British adventurer Peter Bird called it quits in March after ten stormy…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1996 Wildlife: Marty Stouffer’s Apocryphal America After a raft of allegations, his peers ask: Has the popular PBS filmmaker gone too far? By John Tayman When 50 filmmakers settled into missoula, Montana, last March for the 19th annual International…
Destinations, June 1997 Smart Traveler: Albania Just Wouldn’t Be Prudent How carefully should you listen when Uncle Sam says don’t go? By Everett Potter Here’s what you can learn from current U.S. State Department travel advisories: Albania is not the…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Mushing: Locals–Who Needs ‘Em? By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Alison Osius) As the first non-Alaskan to win the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Doug Swingley didn’t go out of his way to empathize with the grieving hometowners…
Destinations, June 1997 Inns & Lodges: Jake’s Village Treasure Beach, Jamaica By John Robson Despite its reputation as a celebrity magnet, Jake’s Village, on the south coast of Jamaica, sports no line of limos, no velvet ropes, and no VIP…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1995 Paleontology: Don’t Touch the Femurs By Chris Dray “Finally, I can get back to work.” That’s about all Peter Larson had to say after a jury last March acquitted him of the major charges in a rare case involving dinosaurs…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1996 Don’t Shoot, or We’ll Shoot Don’t Shoot, or We’ll Shoot Supporters of a California ballot initiative to manage the state’s growing cougar population through sport hunting not only suffered a crushing defeat in the March referendum–they’ve become targeted game themselves. State…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, January 1998 Out There: I Have a Scheme Attention charlatans, con men, mountebanks, and swindlers: Here’s Tim! By Tim Cahill It was a money-laundering scheme for rapacious dimwits and hoggish simpletons. There was $2 million in it,…
国产吃瓜黑料 Travel Special, January 1997 Remember, It Never Hurts to Interrogate Questions to ask those outfitters before sending your deposit By David Noland Do you run this trip yourself, or do you use a local…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, January 1998 Review Essentials Strength Through Simplicity By Patrick Leyland THE STREAMLINED HOME GYM | ESSENTIALS | THE OTHER STUFF | BOOKS…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Cameroon Mountain-biking the Western Highlands Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Bicycle Africa 206-767-0848 1 $1,090 rustic lodging The Route: Self-supported mountain-biking across the shoulders of 13,541-foot Mount Cameroon and the Bamileke Highlands. Trip…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Tanzania Tracking Wildlife in Mahale and Katavi Mountain Parks Outfitters Departures Price Accommodations The Africa 国产吃瓜黑料 Company 800-882-9453, 954-491-8877 On demand $5,450 rustic lodging The Route: Two weeks of trekking through completely…