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ArchiveFamily Vacations, Summer 1998 Cheap Thrills When bucks count (and when don’t they?) you need all the dollar-stretching strategies you can find. Try these ten. By Everett Potter Attempting to save money on your family holiday isn’t easy when…
ϳԹ magazine, Family Vacation Guide Brat Packing Hiking with kids doesn’t have to be one big whine fest. All you need is the right trail, the right gear, and a few time-tested tactics.
ϳԹ magazine, April 1992 Trout Fishing: Missouri Mayhem By Brad Wetzler Wade into the cool, steady current of south-central Missouri’s Bennett Spring on the first weekend in March and you’ll feel like you peeked into the wrong circus tent. All around you, 3,000…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 Windward Ho! The ocean is the source of all life. Get one By Melanie Neale Our Favorite Places | The Hysterical Parent | Inside Skinny |…
Family Vacations, Summer Australia’s new multisport playground Like Miami, Acapulco, and Waikiki, Australia’s sunny Gold Coast in Queensland’s southeast corner has been overrun by too many tourists and forests of high-rise resorts and condos. But now a much…
ϳԹ 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…
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…
News for Adventurous Travelers, December 1996 The Puddle-Jumper’s Reward: Carriacou By Bob Howells Laid-back, authentic, endearing, and mostly overlooked, Carriacou is Grenada’s smaller sister island, about 23 miles to the north. You can see most of its 13 square miles in a day,…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 ϳԹ’s Family Trip-Finder First pick your place Alaska Australia Belize Bolivia Canada — cycling Canada — hiking…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Fiji Paddling the Rainforest Outfitter Price Accommodations O.A.R.S. 800-346-6277, www.oars .com $1,100 camping, rustic lodging Destination Wilderness 800-423-8868, www.gorp.com/ destination wilderness $1,800 camping, rustic lodging The Route:…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Wyoming Climbing the Grant Teton Outfitter Price Accommodations Exum Mountain Guides 307-733-2297, www.exum guides.com $510 camping Jackson Hole Mountain Guides 800-239-7642, www.serious sports.com/ jacksonhole/ index.html $465-$700 camping…
ϳԹ magazine, January 1992 Windsurfing: Going Off to Boarding School By Bob Howells Learning to windsurf all too often comes down to not learning to windsurf. A friend gives you five minutes of the basics of balance, uphauling, and tacking and then, at…
ϳԹ magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Introduction By Alston Chase I was 12 when I discovered the magic of national parks. In 1947 our family was living in Fort Lewis, Washington. My father, an army officer, bought a small trailer, shaped like…
ϳԹ magazine, July 1995 Intake: An Herbal Handbook for the Training Table By Sara Corbett For those who dismiss herbal supplements as the stuff of Mia Farrow’s disappearing acts in Alice, there’s a small body of recent research showing that the athletic benefits…
Women ϳԹ, Fall 1998 Adeventure Classics: Fly-Fishing Casting with the Big Shots Welcome to Patagonia, where even the moguls feel blessed By Katie Arnold GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS |…
ϳԹ magazine, June 1995 Cruising: Name That Bay Playing pioneer on Canada’s Great Slave Lake By Carolyn Rice If you’re a sailor who secretly wishes you could have been there first–to slap your name on every bay, island, and headland in sight–you’ll…
ϳԹ magazine, July 1996 Review: Hardware and Software Pack Up, Head Out, Zoom In Camcorders, CD players, even boom boxes built for the wilds Review by Andrew Tillin Buying Right: Withstanding the…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 Walk Like An Amphibian Forget Tevas. Forget hiking boots. When you go trekking with locals on the muddier-than-a-landslide Kalalau Trail on Kauai, it’s more likely they’ll be wearing tabis, the reef walkers used by Japanese fishermen. “Tabis give you superior grip…
ϳԹ magazine, March 1997 Long Weekend: Far from the Madonna Crowd Florida’s Barrier Islands are worlds away from Miami and Disney By Thomas Lepisto B U L L E T I N S Eclipse…
Destinations, April 1997 City guide: Glissading? That’s on Level Two. San Franciscans have perfected the art of bringing the Great Outdoors in By Dana Sullivan San Franciscans tend to believe in looking sleek and in being outdoors. Unfortunately, springtime…
ϳԹ magazine, July 1996 Day Two: Sleight of Spatula Tavern on the Green’s Patrick Clark whips up classic Americana with a dash of deception Patrick Clark insists he didn’t turn down a chance in 1993 to become White House chef for fear of…
News for Adventurous Travelers, December 1996 Smart Traveler: A Europhile’s Ski Guide Some value-packed reasons to carve up the Alps By Lito Tejada-Flores It can become an addiction–all those long runs above timberline, the 6,000 feet of vertical, the sci-fi…
ϳԹ magazine, May 1995 North Country Hazards By Tom Kizzia You already know about keeping food away from camp and pumping drinking water through a filter. Here are a few other precautions to take in the Alaska backcountry. River crossings: Glacial rivers…
ϳԹ magazine, May 1995 Expeditioning: Spread Your Props and Fly! After 48 years in the Arctic, the Kee Bird readies for takeoff By Carl Hoffman After coming back empty-handed from his two previous missions to the Arctic, Darryl Greenamyer seems to have…
ϳԹ Magazine, October 1998 Sensation Breathing Under Ice The Arctic may howl, but deep down it sings By Andrea Barrett Two years into the writing of a novel about mid-19th-century naturalists exploring in the Canadian Arctic, I finally had…
ϳԹ’s Annual Travel Guide, 1999/2000 THE VALUE FILE Welcome to the Caribbean’s parallel universe, where you can have it all—and your savings account, too Southeast coast of St. John, U.S. V.I. It’s a toss-up as to…
ϳԹ 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…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Argentina Surveying Wildlife Along the Patagonian Coast Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Legendary Expeditions 403-678-3052 2 $3,250, includes airfare from U.S. camping The Route: A 14-day, 50-mile marine safari in expedition Kleppers,…
ϳԹ Found, January 1998 Value Added? Just what are you getting for your trip fee? By Anne Goodwin Sides A dirham here. Twenty thousand centimes there. Pretty soon you’re talking real money. Ever wonder where your 50 percent deposit…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 The Arctic Cruising Ellesmere and Greenland Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Quark Expeditions 800-258-8434 1 $4,495-$8,895 boat accommodations The Route: The 434-foot Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov takes an 11-day voyage out of Resolute…
ϳԹ magazine, March 1996 Cycling: Slingshot Folding Bike By P. Yuri Samer Maps fold. T-shirts too. So-called folding bikes, on the other hand, generally demand skills in the ancient art of origami. And, after all that “unfolding,” the bike generally gives a less than…
ϳԹ magazine, August 1991 Saved by the Thruway Rise up, ye subway riders, and grab the car keys. Ten quick trips for the city dweller. By David Noland Consider your life. You’re a working stiff, bound to the city, unable to spend…
Dog-Geared Cutting-edge essentials for the pup on the go 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.
Traveler’s Almanac, 1999 Annual Travel Guide Deals Frequent Freebies Skiing your brains out has its rewards By Peter Oliver Skiing is going corporate. In the past three years, large conglomerates have been swallowing up independent resorts at a dizzying…
Destinations, June 1998 Navigating the Frontier By Bill Sherwonit ‘The civilized imagination cannot cover such quantities of wild land,” John McPhee once wrote of Alaska. Indeed, the 49th state can be daunting, its 656,424 square miles supporting a population of less than…
ϳԹ magazine, July 1994 Surfing: Endless Tubers By Ken McAlpine Ordinary wave pools feature mushy, wave-like disturbances that are about as exciting as a choppy river. Tom Lochtefeld’s Flow Rider machine is different. It forms an eight-foot-tall tube that the 41-year-old La Jolla, California, inventor justifiably…
ϳԹ 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,…
Family Vacations, Summer Pedal with the Pros! Mountain-Bike racing for mini-riders It’s midsummer and the kids are tired of popping wheelies in the driveway — and you’re tired of watching them. You’ll all learn plenty of…
ϳԹ 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…
ϳԹ magazine, Travel Guide 1997-1998 Hut, Two, Three, Four… Bunk to bunk on backcountry skis By Lisa Jones EXTREME MEASURES | BUNK TO BUNK | DETAILS | THE…
 ϳԹ magazine, March 1995 Surge Time at the Bottom of the Earth Chasing deep history in Antarctica, Genesis in reverse By Edward Hoagland As our stubby, white, 2,000-ton ship, the Professor Molchanov, passed the Gibraltarlike bulk of Cape Horn, the…
Crossing the Australian outback, where epic vistas, charismatic wildlife, and time-forgotten outposts are matched only by the unique social opportunities
ϳԹ magazine, October 1991 Bicycling: Last-Chance Tours of Fall By Bob Howells October is the coolest month for bike touring–a last test for your summer-hardened legs amid lingering sunshine and the carotenoids of fall. These three tours offer all the right…
The Tenderfoot’s Almanac Backpack Time Line By Douglas Gantenbein Backpack Time Line Three- to five-year-olds can hike under their own power, albeit for maddeningly short intervals. A perfect kids’ knapsack is the Tough Traveler Ruffian ($63; 800-468-6844), a…
Waterworlds, Family Vacations 1998 Rafting How to turn your rug rats into river rats: five rides from tame to wild By Lisa Jones WATERWORLDS…
Family Vacations, Summer 1998 On the Road with Huggies and a Binkie Some might call it lunacy to drag toddlers on “vacation.” But we say, boldly go where no sane parent has gone before. By Hampton Sides…
ϳԹ magazine, Family Vacation Guide Alaska, One Humongous Zoo Where moose are on the loose, birds fly underwater, and otters pop up out of nowhere ALASKA…
ϳԹ magazine, April 1995 Wilderness Made Easy Ten campsites you can get to in mere hours, but feel light-years away from the workaday world By Larry Rice It’s early on a Friday afternoon, and claustrophobia has set in: You have to flee…
ϳԹ magazine, July 1995 Let’s Do Launch For the time-crunched athlete, the midday break is long enough to order up a good workout By Mark Jannot The problem with summer: It’s out there, and we’re in here. Five days a week, we…
ϳԹ magazine, Family Vacation Guide A Wheelie Good Time From coastal byways to high-altitude singletrack, four planned-to-the-mile family bike trips BIKING Gear to Go…
ϳԹ 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…
ϳԹ 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…
ϳԹ magazine, December 1995 The Hyperactive’s Caribbean Don’t even think of sitting on the beach all week–nine resorts where boredom is not an option By Bob Howells With apologies to sloth, a week in the Caribbean dedicated to beach-lounging and rum-sipping can…
Women ϳԹ, Fall 1998 Adeventure Classics: Rafting Wild Enough for You? It’s not easy to run the Selway. Be one of the happy few who do. By Christina Opdahl GEAR | TRAVEL…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Egypt Sailing the Nile Outfitters Price Accommodations ϳԹ Center 800-227-8747, www.adventure -center.com $515-$560 camping, tourist hotels, boat accommodations Himalayan Travel 800-225-2380, www.gorp.com/ himtravel.htm $655 camping, tourist hotels, boat accommodations…
The Trip-Finder, January 1999 Antarctica Ski Mountaineering in Queen Maud Land Outfitter Price Accommodations ϳԹ Network International 011-44-1494-671-808, www.adventure-network.com $25,000 camping Cascade Alpine Guides & ϳԹs 800-981-0381, www.cascade-alpine.com $30,000 camping Geographic Expeditions 800-777-8183, www.geoex.com…
News for Adventurous Travelers, February 1997 Inns & Lodges: Spider Lake Lodge Hayward, Wisconsin By Gretchen Reynolds Far northern Wisconsin is a land of deep forests, heavy snows, impressive facial hair, and taxidermy as a design motif. But above all, it’s…
ϳԹ magazine, June 1992 Our National Parks: Glacier National Park By Alston Chase and Debra Shore West Glacier, MT 59936 406-888-5441 Established 1910 1,013,598 Acres The Big Picture: Human beings have always played second fiddle in Glacier. It’s…
ϳԹ magazine, July 1995 Inns & Lodges: The Steamboat Inn, Steamboat, Oregon By Michael McRae Sometime during the 1930s, Zane Grey, western novelist and angler extraordinaire, wet a line in Oregon’s North Umpqua, just north of the Rogue, and never left. His summer camps…
Women ϳԹ, Fall 1998 Adeventure Classics: Skiing Ich Bin Ein Schusser The Austrian Way: downhill in sybaritic splendor By Stephanie Gregory GEAR | TRAVEL | FITNESS | HEALTH…
 ϳԹ magazine, April 1996 Bomb City, USA Before Fat Man and Little Boy, there was the Town That Never Was. Fifty years and generations of nuclear weapons later, it remains one of the most glorified and reviled places in our history. Deep in…
ϳԹ magazine, June 1995 One-Stop Sporting Resorts The gear, the guides, the mountains, the rivers–step out of your room and it’s all there By Bob Howells You may be imagining a plaid-shorts paradise with pastel-hued beverages served poolside, but we have something…
ϳԹ magazine, August 1999 EXTREMES Now Entering the Drop Zone Kayaking’s radical underground is about to hit it big The Latest Buzz “You can easily train bees,”…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 The Caribbean 20 An all-star list of island sporting resorts, from tented camps to posh plantations When you plan a vacation in the caribbean, choosing a resort is as important as choosing an island–the overall ambience, not to mention cost,…
ϳԹ magazine, March 1995 Hunting: Here’s Paint in Your Eye By Laura Billings You say you’ve always dreamed of shooting a bull elephant in the African bush, but you don’t want to kill it? Well, you’re pretty mixed-up, but two Zimbabwe-based entrepreneurs are ready…
 ϳԹ magazine, March 1995 Trouble in the Land of Muy Verde Deep in Mexico’s Sierra Madre, Tarahumara Indians are being murdered and their ancient forest destroyed by drug lords and loggers. A report from the Mother Range, where the pistoleros rule, the natives…
ϳԹ magazine, July 1996 Day Three: World Beat on a WhisperLite Mark Miller, impresario of fare from Southwestern to Asian, offers one-pot solutions for the peripatetic palate Spice packs, it seems, are extremely personal items. Southwestern cuisine authority Mark Miller calls his a…
News for Adventurous Travelers, December 1996 Soggy No More Getting soaked is a way of life in Grenada, so you’d be wise to throw a few quick-dry or waterproof items in your bag. Unfortunately, I didn’t. By Bob Howells Hiking on…
ϳԹ magazine, May 1994 Access & Resources: Honging Around in Southern Thailand By Kit Cody Phuket is renowned for its white beaches, turquoise waters, and abundant seafood, but after a few days of basking in mind-altered bliss, paddling around Phangnga Bay’s sea stacks…
Like the sheep-eaters before us, basking in the smudge-free, high-country luxury of the nation's longest free-flowing river
Cover, October 1998 When the Tough Get Going … They go to eastern Honduras, the wildest stretch of idyll that our hemisphere has to offer By Chris Humphrey Into the Interior How to cut your own path in the…
ϳԹ’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…
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…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Namibia Crossing the Desert on Horseback Outfitters Departures Price Accommodations Equitour-FITS Equestrian 800-545-0019 7 $2,275 camping The Route: Thirteen days and 217 miles of cantering among zebras, springboks, and ostriches, through starkly…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Croatia Cruising the Dalmatian Coast Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations Remote Odysseys Worldwide (ROW) 800-451-6034, 208-765-0841 1 $1,795-$1,995 boat accommodations, tourist hotels The Route: Yachting for 12 days in a 95-foot motor-powered…