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ArchiveϳԹ’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,…
The Trip-Finder, January 1998 United States Mountain-Biking the Continental Divide Outfitter Departures Price Accommodations ϳԹ Cycling 800-755-2453, 406-721-1776 1 $2,800 camping, rustic lodging The Route: An epic 75-day, 2,500-mile self-supported border-to-border dirt ride from Canada to…
Sin in the Wild Outdoors, June 1997 Covetousness How much is that bivy sack in the window? And can I get it in all three sizes By Bill McKibben At a recent mammoth outdoor-equipment show, I stopped by a seminar…
ϳԹ 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…
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…
ϳԹ magazine, March 1997 Destinations: News for Adventurous Travelers Paradise Leased Borrowing a million-dollar boat. Cruise the Caribbean. Grin. A beginner’s guide to sailboat charters. By Dan Dickison Long Weekend: Far from the Madonna Crowd…
Shwoosh! Bike Camps By Michael Kessler t h e f u n f i l e: Outback Boredom Busters Organize A Treasure Hunt Let older kids…
 ϳԹ magazine, September 1997 The Twilight Expedition It’s a bitter time to be a serious explorer. After all, Magellan circled the world centuries ago. Stanley hacked a path deep into the Congo back in the 1800s. And Tenzing and Hillary knocked off…
Winter Travel Guide 1996 ϳԹ’s Slope Finder We’re all looking for the ski area that has everything, and most of the resorts listed here could easily qualify under all the following categories. But when we took an informal poll, this was the consensus that emerged:…
Family Vacations, Summer 1997 Fishing! No…Sailing! No…Biking! At a multisport resort, deciding how to play is the hardest thing you’ll do all day I t may be the best of all worlds: a camplike array of things to do,…
ϳԹ’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…
There, in the forgotten corner of the subcontinent, nosed up between contentious Myanmar and hoar-rimed Tibet, lay the brocaded splendor of Arunachal Pradesh. A void in the national map, but not in the individual imagination.
Give us deep pleasure or give us death! A summer road trip with purpose.
The Big Dig hits pay dirt—in the shape of a new island playground in Boston Harbor
Skip the well-trodden tourist routes and join this trek through a pristine mountainous area virtually unknown to Westerners.
Go straight to the source and taste the good life at these organic farm getaways
Steve Galster and his comrades at WildAid do–and they're taking drastic action: going undercover, busting the traffickers, and poaching the poachers. It's high time wildlife conservation started fighting mean and dirty. Can you handle that?
It's climbing season again on Everest. And as hundreds of summit hopefuls converge at Base Camp, the great debate persists: Has the Big E become the Big Easy? Alpinists Greg Child and Dave Hahn take sides.
06.12–19 GIRAGLIA ROLEX CUP ST.-TROPEZ, FRANCE A 243-mile sailing race from St.-Tropez to Genoa, Italy, around the island of Giraglia. The shoreside scene in St.-Tropez is peppered with the Bain de Soleil beautiful. 07.03–11 ALLIANZ SUSSE OPEN GSTAAD, SWITZERLAND At 3,000 feet,…
Living well is a European tradition, but playing hard is the continent's secret passion. We discover five towns where you'll be both challenged and charmed.
Combine your next visit to a national park with a bonus raid on a great state park or national forest—and get twice the escape
Our word-of-mouth report: adventure lodges that belong on your radar screen
Savor our top 20 wild Canadian adventures (including 5 new parks) for heaping helpings of glacial lakes, alpine meadows, swift rivers, and snowcapped peaks
Witness a singletrack revolution on the fresh trails of a land in transition
From secret surf stashes on the Pacific to untouched Caribbean isles—plus all the volcanoes and colonial plazas in between—Nicaragua has the makings of a sporting paradise. Come discover Central America's red-hot center.
Let one of America’s best sport camps propel you toward a bigger, richer life. Because nothing beats the buzz of learning something new.
Keep the GPS handy, fly rod at the ready, and don't forget your rubber boots
The highest points in heartland states like Kansas and Iowa aren't much to look at, but when you knock off seven of them in a four-day, 3,000-mile blitz . . . well, let's just say the little bastards have a way of kicking back.
Chase your travel dreams with 48 handpicked adventures guaranteed to satisfy every type of wandering soul
With eleven time zones' worth of Tiaga, tundra, virgin peaks, and off-the-dial whitewater, Mother Russia is beginning to open her doors to adventure travelers. If you're brave enough to take her on, the next frontier beckons in the wild, wild East.
Ten handpicked resorts that are rich in sun-drenched beauty, high on adventure, and fine-tuned for luxury.
As the brutal battle over proposed drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge grinds on, a former oil worker returns to the North Slope in search of the truth about the pro-exploration argument. His conclusion? (Brace yourself.) The unthinkable is the right thing to do.
Sex. Danger. Family values. This backyard soap opera has it all—plus feathers, razor-sharp talons, and a neighborhood obsessed.
ϳԹ Adviser, Colorado Sunset near Cripple Creek, Colorado Q: Where are the best mountain bike rides in the Royal Gorge and Colorado Springs area? I will be there in early June and wish to see some beautiful scenery while off-road biking in the mountains.
Ronni heard it first: the softly insistent, slightly descendant keloo-keloo of the quetzal, strobing from the cloud forest around us. We were hiking the five-mile Sendero de los Quetzales (“Path of the Quetzals”), a trail that winds through the 35,390 lush acres of Panama's Volcán Barú National Park in UNESCO's…
Ready to bask in the warmth of endless summer? Our online resource is your key to the Caribbean’s most idyllic getaways. Here, you’ll find great travel deals, gorgeous places to stay, and active adventures guaranteed to get your heart racing. Dive in, the water’s warm! Nevis: Unhurried and unsung hero…
It seems like all God's creatures have lost their way in the Holy Land. But a few hopeful Israeli and Palestinian conservationists are tracing a new path along the flyways and wildlife corridors of the Jordan Valley—and rediscovering an ancient road map that leads from terror to peace.
Ten North American spas that will recharge your mind, body, and soul
An overview of ϳԹ articles that made the cut and were included in The Best American Travel Writing 2003
Twelve value-packed Caribbean resorts where your room comes with a view—and killer perks, too
Trekking hut to hut along South Africa’s shore is just what the witch doctor ordered
9. Ancient Crumbles in the Jungle Tikal, Guatemala Why I’m bounding up the steps of Tikal’s Temple of the Masks predawn on a chilly March morning is still not clear to me—let’s chalk it up to barroom advice that sounded completely rational after a few beers. But I…
To maximize the return on your investment in wanderlust, you need know-how and solid advice. We’re here to help. From saving on destination packages and high-value gear to insider trips and the bet reasons to blow a bundle, we’ve got the lowdown on affordable, rip-roaring, full-value adventure travel.
We stopped at a boulder below the saddle of 10,229-foot Heyburn Mountain as early-May sunshine broke past the ridge and washed over us: three backcountry skiers on a mission to schuss the wild peaks of central Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, and me, a snowshoe loafer in search of serenity. As my…
As a teenage Jack London fan, I fantasized about mushing a dogsled. Grown-up city life derailed my Iditarod dreams until I came across a photograph of someone skijoring: two large, smiling malamutes towing a cross-country skier down a forested trail at breakneck speed. It appeared I could live out my…
View from the California Riding and Hiking Trail Q: Now that fall is here we’re thinking of taking a backpacking trip through the desert. Any hints on where we should go? What about day hikes? — Nicole Frisbee, Denver, Colorado ϳԹ Advisor:…
Winding a thousand miles from India to China, the Burma Road was built to defend China in World War II, but the atomic bomb made it irrelevant and the jungle reclaimed it. Mark Jenkins vowed to do what no one had done for nearly 60 years—travel the entire Burma Road—and discovered the madness of present-day Myanmar.
The gray wolf may lose federal protection. Will killing it become the law of the land?
Escape urban gridlock in West Virginia, where country roads and mountain mamas are only a fraction of the attraction
Eileen and Tom Lonergan went out for a day of scuba diving, and never came back. The story behind the movie Open Water.
Could you please recommend a comfortable backpack/travel pack that meets the maximum airline carry-on requirements? Maybe with an internal fre? I need something that could also be used for trekking. John W. Jones Johnston Island, APO AP
What are you looking at? Q: How can I take a safari in Africa without being a millionaire? — Gudrun Nalitla, Reykjavik, Iceland ϳԹ Advisor: A: At first it seems hard to believe that a little drive through a…
Today's topic: We rank the Top 40 schools where you can hit the books AND the backcountry. Your assignment: Rappel off that ivory tower and take our cram course on America's most adrenaline-friendly colleges. You'll come for your B.A. (Bachelor of ϳԹ) and want to stay for life.
If it's Riviera glitter you're after, head to Monaco. But for endless climbing, epic singletrack, and wild seacoast adventure, set a course for Finale Ligure.
A modern speed demon breathes new life into an ancient Hawaiian sport
He grew up poaching alligators, he sells Cadillacs, and his friends run oil companies. But saving the bayous of Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin is Harold Schoeffler's number-one deal.
Everybody loves the Klamath. Everybody wants a piece of it. And they're willing to go to war to get it. Editor's Note/Correction
1. Havasu Falls, Supai, Arizona Hike two miles to this perfect turquoise pool, with year-round 72-degree water, in Havasu Canyon. All About H2O The wet stuff is always there for us—it grows our food, puts splash and spirit in our adventure, and (by the way) keeps us alive.
A plan to save Guatemala's Mayan cities with a park and a posh eco-lodge has enviros and locals boiling
