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Contents: 100 Years Of Amazing Gear (You love your outdoor toys – your skis, your flyrod, your mountain bike, the Swiss Army knife Gramps gave you when you were a kid. But did you ever wonder where all this great stuff came from? Who made if first? And what were it’s clunky predecessors? Here, in 14 info-packed pages, are all the answers: 100 years’ worth of innovative outdoor gear, everything from the folding kayak to clipless pedals. We’ve profiled the innovators (Burton, Chouinard et al), cataloged the necessities (Pop Tarts, WD-40), and questioned some dubious “breakthroughs” (call ’em Homer Moments). We even got a few experts to fantasize about the gear of the future. (Are you ready for uncuttable rope?), Avalanche! (There are two things to know about avalanches – how to avoid them and how to get out of them alive. A survivor’s guide), Dancing Up The Devil’s Back (The biggest peak in Baja is called El Picacho del Diablo – the Devil’s Mountain. Which is a hell of a good name, considering the fiendish route up), The (Somewhat Cranky But Still Rippin’ It) Godfather Of Steep (Today’s extreme athletes look pretty rad in IMAX movies and on the X-Games. But Brooks Dodge beat ’em all to it. A life on the edge), Terrors! It’s A Tarpa-Cuda! (What grows to more than 100 pounds, can swim at speeds of 30 miles per hour, and can leap like a Tarpon when hooked on a fly? The same thing that can bite your friggin’ hand off) Departments – Editor’s Notes, Letters, Reports Afield (After the wrath of Floyd, is the North Carolina coast spoiled for sportsmen?), Cybersports (Take the weather with you. Digitally), Wild Hair (There’s Mississippi cold, then there’s Minnesota cold), Rock & Trail (Turn up your internal thermostat), Field Trips (Diving in a Mexican dreamland), Photography (Cheap ways to make shutterbugs happy), Skiing (Groomed or powder – a mid-fat is all you need), Memoir (When fishing is the only thing that makes sense), Mountain Biking (Saddle sore? Get your butt in a better seat), Off-Road (Driver’s ed: the torque, bore and stroke test), Mountain Life (A tale of two ski towns), Outdoor Fitness (What you should be thinking in lift lines), The Sporting Life (Man, moon and Moose meet at midnight), Food & Drink (The Hemingway diet: Pass the Lion, Papa), Backcountry (An explosive view of Mount St. Helens), The Outfitter (Best in the Field: Winter pants and parkas; backcountry skis and snowshoes) Almanac – News, Tips, Facts and Lore (Winter Survival: An ex-Navy SEAL tells all; Jellyfish: Brainless wonders of the sea world; Snowshoeing: Simple tricks to easy trekking) Field Sports – Ski Town Trouting; Electronic Essentials for Boats; The Scientific (Bass) Angler; Gamebirds: Draw, Skin or Pluck?; Ice Fishing’s Royal Rig; Shooting’s Female Star
Issue: Winter 1999
Condition: Very Good