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国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1999 Stealing Home I found your recent article on dream towns (“Are You Where You Ought to Be?” May) quite interesting and wanted to raise two important issues everyone should consider before moving.
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1995 Conditioning: Preparing for 100 Miles in 11 Saturdays Flat By Douglas Gantenbein Training for a century ride, the 100-mile benchmark of road-cycling fitness, doesn’t mean sacrificing much more of your life than spending several Saturdays in the saddle. In fact,…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1991 Idling Through the Hill Country Flamethrowers, enchanted rocks, and Texas Nirvana By Stephen Harrigan The best way to drive through the Texas hill country is aimlessly. Knowing or caring where you’re headed shouldn’t be the first thing on…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1995 Prescriptions: The D.I.Y. Approach to Sport-Specific Massage By Nancy Prichard The full-body rubdown is to sports massage as the cross-training shoe is to training: It feels passably good, but if you concentrate on one activity, you’d be better served by…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1999 The Wheelie The Diving Dig | The Cartwheel | The Figure Four | Take the Stairs | The Crossover Dribble |…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1995 Curl When They Least Expect It Just when your muscles are getting the hang of a weight-lifting regimen, it’s time to shake things up By Ken McAlpine Three days a week for a year now, I’ve ducked into…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1992 Inns & Lodges: Lakeside Inn, Michigan By Lisa Chase Mention the Lakeside Inn to the residents of this placid bed-and-breakfast hamlet on the southeastern shore of Lake Michigan, and you’ll raise eyebrows. They all know the place–it’s hard to…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1991 Road Tours Because right about now you could use one If you include the return trip, we drove 2,800 miles. Four days. Three friends. A shoe box full of cassette tapes. We got in the car, with a vague…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1995 Regimens: Building Your Muscles by Surprise By Ken McAlpine With a nod to Nietzsche, that which wastes you makes you stronger. And the best way to thoroughly exhaust your muscles isn’t to do the same regimen over and over, but…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1999 Walk Softly, and Spoil Yourself Rotten Who says traveling light is right when it comes to car camping? By Donovan Webster Gimme Shelter |…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 Sport: Did Not. Did Too. Did Not… After a semi-successful Cuba–U.S. swim attempt, a feud is born By Paul Kvinta Susie Maroney has had better mornings. At 6 a.m. on June 8, just two hours after leaving Havana…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 I Spend, Therefore I Am Fresh off an aborted attempt to become the first person to pilot a hot-air balloon around the world (see “Balloonatics”), enormously wealthy Chicago commodities dealer Steve Fossett set his sights on the sea last June…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 Buying Right: The Backcountry Briefcase By Bob Howells AH, THE LAPTOP COMPUTER, EMBLEM OF freedom! Walls fall away as our definition of the workplace expands. But even in the age of the virtual office–anywhere from your airplane seat to…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 Parts Is Parts After years of unchecked growth in the hunting of Canadian polar, black, and grizzly bears, lawmakers in Quebec this month will consider what many say is a long-overdue ban on the sale of bear parts. An estimated 21,000…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 Altitude Sickness, From Bad to Worse By Katie Arnold In the dicey world of mountaineering, one thing is certain: Stay above 25,000 feet long enough and you will die. “The communication between your brain and your organs falters,” explains…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 Jong-yul of the Desert On Thursday, June 6–seven months, seven pairs of shoes, and innumerable sandstorms after leaving Nouakchott, Mauritania–38-year-old South Korean Choi Jong-yul strolled into Suakin, a Sudanese port on the Red Sea, to become the first person ever to walk…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 Up Next, Orange Vests Just when you thought TV home shopping had reached its saturation point–with channels hustling everything from Pete Rose autographed baseballs to plum-size cubic zircon–the Sportsmans’ Outdoor Network crackled to life this spring, hoping to capitalize on the untapped…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 Workaday Packs Expedition-grade features in bags for the short haul By Bob Howells I still have the old klettersack that as a mountaineering instructor I used to take on long day hikes, laden beyond the brim with the…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1995 Solitude on the High Seas By Lawrence Burke There are few sporting events on earth more taxing of mind and body than the BOC Challenge, the around-the-world solo sailing marathon that ended late last spring in Charleston, South Carolina. During…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 The Descent, Step By Step By John Alderman and Katie Arnold The Summit 1:12 p.m.: Under blue skies and bright sunshine, Krakauer summits with Harris and Boukreev, snaps a few photos on the 29,028 foot pinnacle, and…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1995 Mountain Biking: It Is Just Like the Other One, No? The off-road Tour de France is indeed a tour. And it is in France… By Martin Dugard We are going to bring an original touch to [the sport…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 Books: A Lyrical Turn to the Epic By Miles Harvey Accordion Crimes, by E. Annie Proulx (Scribner, $25). From Homer’s Odyssey to Dante’s Divine Comedy, perhaps the purest genre of literature is the travel…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1995 Environment: A Moment on the Goofs Rome is burning. So why are greens throwing water at a book? By Keith Schneider (with Margaret Kriz) Gregg Easterbrook looked happy enough, but for somebody who once wrote an article entitled…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 Goatsucker Sighted, Details to Follow Strange beast plunders Puerto Rico, Florida, Mexico Livestock drained of blood, entrails Citizens ignore authorities’ appeal for calm By Bucky McMahon CAN脴VANAS, PUERTO RICO–An unwelcome anniversary is being celebrated here, one…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1995 Milestones: Pesky No More By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) Lance Armstrong and Robyn Erbesfield, two of America’s best international athletes, had a lot in common last May. Both were pursuing majors titles that had so far eluded them and…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1995 Expeditions: Crampons and Spokes By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) This month, mountain guides Peter Bogardus and Shepard Kopp say, they’ll bring exploratory mountain biking to new extremes by pedaling to remote peaks in western China. They’re calling the expedition…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 Niagara, Eat Your Heart Out In yet another example of a Montana town’s unusual tourist attraction (see “As the Snake Did Away with the Geese,”), the 3,000 citizens of Columbia Falls this month will unveil a 40-foot-tall answer…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger John Stamstad is his own weird science project, a 135-pound, mountain-bike-based experiment in the limits of human endurance By Todd Balf A wintry sun is setting on the Kentucky…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 Out There: The Big Queasy Feeling a touch of seasickness? Try giving conventional wisdom a heave. By Randy Wayne White Recently I was forced to notify the Human Movement and Balance Unit of the United Kingdom’s Medical…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 Exploration: Gentlemen, Start Your Regulators In perhaps the most contentious race ever held beneath the earth’s surface, two teams rush to claim the world’s largest underwater cave system By Dave Plank On Saturday, June 15, the moment that…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 This Is Great! Drink a Little Beer, Play a Little Frisbee, and Save the World! All rise for Adam Werbach, the Sierra Club’s new 23-year-old president By Paul Keegan Adam has the munchies. “Oh yeah, sandwiches and soda…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 Peter Bird, 1947-1996 In the last message he sent to the world after leaving Russia, expedition rower Peter Bird exclaimed, “Hooray! Hooray!” After weeks of struggle in the Sea of Japan, the easterlies he’d been praying for had finally kicked in, setting…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 Innovation: Better Footware Through Perseverance Obstacles be damned. Molly Strong finally brings her toasty, grippy boots to her style-impaired public By Michael Parrish “Life for the small inventor is nothing less than brutal,” says Molly Strong with…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, August 1995 Endurance: Is That Legal? By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard) It’s not easy being an ecoathlete. (Not that we’re entirely clear on what an ecoathlete is.) Last May’s Eco Challenge 国产吃瓜黑料 Race, a seven-stage competition in the high desert of…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 Rx for Sick Gear By Glenn Randall “NO MAN EVER STOOD THE LOWER IN MY estimation for having a patch in his clothes,” wrote Thoreau in Walden. Our man’s ponderings have an especially practical ring in this age of…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, October 1999 I found your recent article about the creation of Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic a wonderful piece (“The Very Short History of Nunavut,” July). Like some, I’m sad to see the old ways fall away, but…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 No-Sweat Waders By Jerry Gibbs Simms Micro Fiber Chest High Guides No self-respecting outdoorsperson would be caught in the elements wearing one of those yellow vinyl slickers. Yet the waterproof-breathable fabrics that keep others cool and dry…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, September 1996 In-Line Roll Controller By Glenn Randall Cities aren’t designed with in-line skaters in mind. Hills, traffic, and stairs–not to mention prohibition in some establishments–can make your roll about town a rigmarole of switches from skates to shoes and back…
茂禄驴 国产吃瓜黑料 Magazine, November 1994 Radioactive and Here to Stay Say it loud and say it proud: Uranium City, Saskatchewan, boomtown, ghost town, antimecca of the atomic age, is still a great place to glow in. By Rebecca Lee From above, it’s…
国产吃瓜黑料 Magazine, November 1994 Final Exits: Ready, Aim, Rest in Peace By Hannah Holmes “Everybody thinks that you get cremated, then you get left in a shoe box, spilled, swept up, spilled, swept up. But you have many choices!” So says Jay W. “Canuck”…
国产吃瓜黑料 Magazine, November 1994 Citius, Altius, Picabo On her way to downhill glory and a country and western singing career, Picabo Street, force of nature, brakes for no one By Lynn Snowden Picabo Street, the 23-year-old downhill skier who won a silver…
国产吃瓜黑料 Magazine, November 1994 En Famille: Five Resorts in the Vanguard By Meg Lukens Noonan It’s hard enough, when you take the kids skiing, just to keep track of mittens. The last thing you need is more challenge –like a children’s rental shop that’s…
国产吃瓜黑料 Magazine, November 1994 Inns & Lodges: Rustler Lodge, Utah By Peter Shelton If you get lucky during your stay at Alta’s Rustler Lodge, the front desk will call your room before dawn to announce that you have been “interlodged.” This means that there’s…
国产吃瓜黑料 Magazine, November 1994 Intake: Food for the Fastest? By Elaine Appleton There’s a point in an afternoon of rock climbing or pool intervals when most athletes would resort to PowerBar by injection if it meant an instant surge of energy. But load carbos…
茂禄驴 国产吃瓜黑料 Magazine, November 1994 Welcome to Honduras. Beware the Laughing Fish. Tourism arrives in yet another Third World country. But out there beyond the fire, Wasa is still muy profundo. By Tim Cahill Once upon a time, in the past and…
国产吃瓜黑料 Magazine, November 1994 Strategies: Extracting Knowledge from Thin Air By Dorothy Foltz-Gray Even before you’re reunited with your luggage, the stress of altitude is undermining your ski vacation. The drop in atmospheric pressure between home and resort–the average flatlander lives at 500 feet,…
国产吃瓜黑料 Magazine, November 1994 Preparations: The Kick Divers Need By John L. Stein One item that you won’t find on the “before-you-dive” checklist is strong legs, but physiologists say that’s where scuba divers are often least prepared. Once you’re strapped in to a pair…
国产吃瓜黑料 Magazine, November 1994 Smart Traveler: Carving Out Some Bargains How to get on top of ski-industry discounting By Seth Masia With lift tickets at major resorts running about $45 a day and lodging at least twice that, skiing is justifiably considered…
国产吃瓜黑料 Magazine, November 1994 Politics: How Green Was My Stump Speech An insider’s tout sheet to elections with environmental impact By Ned Martel Ah, election season. are environmental issues playing big at a poll site near you? If not, you could probably…
October 1999 F E A T U R E S 国产吃瓜黑料 at the End of the Century The sight of George Leigh Mallory’s well-preserved body on Everest confirms that adventure, like life, is not always pretty. It means risking all on a mountain鈥攁s…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, October 1999 国产吃瓜黑料 at the End of the Century The sight of George Leigh Mallory’s well-preserved body on Everest confirms that adventure, like life, is not always pretty. It means risking all on a mountain鈥攁s Mallory did, with tragic…
国产吃瓜黑料 Magazine, November 1994 Broadcasting: Goooood Mooooorning, Ends of the Earth! For an elite corps of ham-radio buffs known as DXpeditioners, making small talk from nowheresville is serious business By Jonathan Weisman Everything about the expedition had been carried out according to…
国产吃瓜黑料 Magazine, November 1994 Access & Resources: Roaming Honduras By Dianna Delling Mention Honduras and the words tourist destination probably aren’t the first ones that spring to mind. But soon they may be. Central America’s second-largest country is home to lush cloud forests,…
国产吃瓜黑料 Magazine, November 1994 The Dry-Land Program of Champions By Dana Sullivan Basic training for the U.S. Ski Team isn’t all that basic. But closed kinetic-chain exercises and plyometrics, the team’s preseason staples, are easy to duplicate in any gym and provide the one-two…
国产吃瓜黑料 Magazine, November 1994 The Hex Factor On Cat Island you’ll find sun, sand, and just what the houngan ordered By Randy Wayne White Before explaining how I became the confidant of practitioners of obeah, a form of black magic, and before…
And other divinations from Tom Brown's Tracking, Nature, and Wilderness Survival School. As told by David Rakoff鈥擜colyte of the Standard Class, Master Bowdriller, Sweat Lodge Scaredy-Cat, and Friend to the Vole
Attempting Mount Fuji, where nature, religion, sport, and schlock form the most holy of alliances
Majoring in business administration, with graduate studies in the theory and practice of booty shaking
He rescued some of the West's hallowed lands. He became one of the most influential environmental leaders of the century. In the process, he sacrificed friends, family, and anyone who couldn't keep up. Now, alone in the twilight, how does the archdruid make peace with it all?
A mile beneath the churning Atlantic lay the Central America and in its rotting hold a cache of wealth unimaginable: thousands of priceless gold coins, bags of gold dust, bars of solid gold. A fortune for the taking, as Tommy Thompson saw it. His taking.
Dog-Geared Cutting-edge essentials for the pup on the go 聽 Your thinking: Pookie, being a dog after all, doesn’t really need a fancy-pants padded bed to sleep under the stars, or especially in the tent.
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, October 1996 It’s Just the Dog in Them Seven reasons why, the next time you venture outdoors, you might want to pack a pooch. Profiles in canine courage. WEELA Pit Bull, ten years old Mise-en-Sc艩neSpring 1993, in…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, July 1996 Culture: Yo, Dog Breath! You Call That a Charge ? Is your living room ready for Craig Bone’s in-your-muzzle wildlife art? By Todd Wilkinson Wildlife painter craig bone, 40, has been called “the craziest white man in…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, June 1997 Straw Dogs In northern Botswana, a campaign to save an unvalued resident By Elizabeth Royte A predator is loose in the villages. It comes out of the tall grasslands, from the savanna to the north, and…
国产吃瓜黑料 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…
国产吃瓜黑料’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 Page: 1 | 2 | WINTER SKI 2002鈥擭OW Salt Lake City鈥揳rea resorts are pumped for the Games. But for non-Olympians, this is the uncrowded time to go Park City, by…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Skiing with Laird Hamilton By Paul Kvinta Occupation: Big-Wave Kahuna Favorite Places to Ski: “Wherever they don’t have rules and regulations.” That means heli-skiing in places like the Chugach Mountains near Valdez, Alaska–“Seventy-five feet of base snow. Yeah,…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Skiing With Peter Jennings By Paul Kvinta Occupation: Living Room News Fixture Favorite Place to Ski: Whistler/Blackcomb. “That whole area is wonderful. One time I went salmon fishing in the morning, skiing in the afternoon, and then I…
Travel Guide, Winter 1995-1996 Euro-Ski Deals If you pick the right package, a trip from New York to the Alps can cost about the same as trip to the Rockies. The following prices are per person for one-week trips that include airfare from JFK, lodging, ground…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, December 1995 Skiing: Go, Cat, Go! How to get heli-skiing’s powder and vertical–for half the cost By Clifford D. May The ultimate in skiing is found not at Vail or Aspen, Whistler or Val d’Isere, but on backcountry peaks doused…
The Downhill Report, December 1996 Best Tree Skiing Ski Homewood, California For really memorable tree skiing, it helps to get in touch with your inner pooch. “You have to act like a bloodhound to find the perfect mix of snow, trees, and slope,”…
国产吃瓜黑料 Magazine, November 1994 Telemark Skiing: The Mountain Noodle By Ted Dean Telemark skis have evolved from vermicelli-narrow to lasagna-broad, giving telly skiers access to the arena of powder and crud that used to sink skinny skis in their tracks. The downside: On wide…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Skiing With Bruce Babbitt By Paul Kvinta Occupation: Head Tree-Hugger Favorite Place to Downhill: “When I’m traveling out West, I usually try to route my trip through Salt Lake City because the slopes are so accessible to the…
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, January 1994 Expeditions: Fly the Unhinged Skies Off on a “crazy” hopscotch of the Andes, it’s Didier Favre, sky pilot By Brad Wetzler “‘Crazy’ is better than ‘insane,'” says Swiss hang glider Didier Favre in his hyperactive French accent.
国产吃瓜黑料 magazine, January 1996 Skiing: Outta My Way, Girlfriend! Hilary Lindh is the most successful woman downhiller in U.S. history. So why is she trying so hard to play catch-up with Picabo? By Hal Clifford “I always wind up looking like a…