ϳԹ Magazine, Nov 2001
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THIS MONTH, READERS will note the return of a familiar voice: Tim Cahill, a founding editor of ϳԹ, stages a welcome comeback after an extended hiatus devoted mainly to sipping fine scotch and exploring the mountains around his home in Missoula, Montana. An inveterate vagabond whose wanderings have yielded seven…
North American resorts have expanded boundaries, opened gates, and liberated skiers to revel in ungroomed wildness. Our guide to the great stuff you won't find on the trail map.
And deliver us pronto to these 44 island Edens—if they were any more perfect we'd be in heaven
As the Last Cool Place becomes an adventure-travel magnet, the scientists and bureaucrats who run the show are feeling crowded. Is this big, beautiful continent big enough for everybody?
Your well-tailored fitness program may be missing something important—a regular massage. Here's our hands-on guide to the right rub.
She's pinching, you're flinching—just in time, professional advice for DIY massage
A Flotilla of Stouthearted Men and Women Confronts Hissing Snakes, Weird Rocks, Flat Water, and the Greatest Mud in the West; or, What I did on My Summer Vacation
For intrepid sailor Ellen MacArthur, round-the-world records are meant to be shattered
For a bargain price of $1.7 million, Doug Tompkins and his wife Kristine have sewn up a vast Patagonian wonderland. Who says cranky visionaries can't close a deal?
Going core with Yvon Chouinard—leery capitalist, walking contradiction
F E A T U R E S
For decades, the Last Continent has been a private preserve for governments, scientists, and top-shelf explorers. Now a horde of newcomers is crashing the party—expedition travelers offering big bucks for both high adventure and canned thrills. Their presence raises a touchy question: Who gets to play in the coolest wilderness on earth?
By Rob Buchanan
The Missouri River can get under your skin. Its waters flow through your dreams. Its canyons flood your imagination. And its greasy mud creeps between your toes, oozes into your car, and (somehow) turns up in your tub two months later. Notes on the finest, grimiest float you’ll ever take.
By Tim Cahill
Paradise Found
Every island is a world unto itself, whether it’s a stone’s throw from the mainland or a green jewel in the watery outback. Here are 44 of the best sun-soaked nirvanas where you can escape your cares and rediscover the slacker within.
On an Indian Ocean outpost, a lonely guy finds a sleek, dark, well-built object worthy of his love. By Rob Buchanan
You’re looking for indolence, the perfect beach, and the True Essence of Nowhere? This is the place. By Jay Stowe
No need to dress up for the mail boat to the Atlantic’s most unapologetically unscrubbed isle—the folks on Cat like you just the way you are. By Elizabeth Hightower
When Carnival comes to the Caribbean, drive slowly and surrender to the psychedelic fever dreams. By Mike Grudowski
PLUS: The best islands to paddle a kayak, dive a reef, troll for lunkers, watch wildlife, pilot a mountain bike, surf the wind, launch a paraglider, and more.
When 25-year-old Ellen MacArthur posted the fastest time by a woman in the history of the Vendée;e Globe, solo sailing’s toughest around-the-world sprint, she became the sport’s newest prodigy. A conversation with the skipper who is taking the high seas by storm. By Tim Zimmermann
D E P A R T M E N T S
Stymied in Chile by red tape and xenophobia, Doug Tompkins takes his conservation crusade to Argentina, securing 240 square miles of for a breathtaking new national park.
On the Great Barrier Reef, divers wage holy war against coral-gobbling starfish..
Fleece that’s good enough to eat! A corn-based, hits the marketplace. sounds off on his adrenaline addiction.
Meet Sarah Schleper, the U.S. Ski Team’s bad-girl in Salt Lake City.
Plus: Customized med kits let travelers strap an Palm Pilot inspires a new pocketknife; and surfers at the Vans Triple Crown in Hawaii.
Does the early bird really get the worm? Is it possible to survive by eating snow and (gulp) drinking your own pee? Do lakes really die? Why do paragliders’ shadows look like they’re glowing? By Brad Wetzler
Ditch the fancy clothes! Notching a light-and-fast first ascent in the Wind River Range alongside Yvon Chouinard, the writer taps into the pared-down philosophy driving this pioneering climber, activist, and entrepreneur. By Mark Jenkins
Ski and Snow Report 2002
SPECIAL PACKAGE
From the chest-deep powder stashes of Vermont’s Jay Peak to the steep chutes on California’s Mammoth Mountain, that are leading the off-piste revolution by throwing open forbidden terrain. Start your winter right with our trail map to the gnarliest runs on the continent.
PLUS: The first lift-served backcountry ski area opens in Silverton, Colorado; and a to keeping safe beyond the boundary lines.
After years of experimenting with hourglass shapes and radical widths, ski manufacturers have found the . We’ve tested the best planks made by Atomic, Dynastar, Fischer, K2, Rossignol, Salomon, Volant, and Völkl—for every condition from fluff to slush.
PLUS: Cushy new , , and that take the pain out of carving; and and accessories built to withstand downhill thrills.
Good news for —sports massage can speed muscle recovery and prevent injury. If you want to stay competitive, it’s time to surrender to the first training regimen that actually feels good.
PLUS: Professional advice on DIY massage; and a look at designed for active rest.
How an exercise-and-sunlight cocktail will
This Cold Heaven, by Gretel Ehrlich; Above the Clouds , by Anatoli Boukreev; In This We Are Native , by Annick Smith; and The Coldest March , by Susan Solomon. Plus: John Muir’s Last Journey: Unpublished Journals and Selected Correspondence , edited by Michael P. Branch.