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Contents: America’s Best Outdoor Sports Towns (Looking for a weekend getaway spot that isn’t overrun by tourists> Grab your flyrod and mountain bike, and don’t forget the dog – these outposts are the country’s best-kept sporting secrets), Drop On Into Kernville (Kayakers, rock clilmbers and mountain bikers beware. Spending seven days in this recreation haven is not just fun, it’s addictive), The Winners: State By State (Our mission: to identify the places that every ardent sportsmen wants to be (but few know about). Herewith, the best places to play), Getting Started: Flyfishing (It’s the pastime with the simplest requirements: Find water and wave your arm. But before you take to the river, best take a few pointers from the sport’s undisputed master), Buffalo Joe And His Amazing Frozen Flying Machines (It’s minus 20 at the Yellowknife Airport and the taildigger you’re boarding was built 50 years ago…just another frigid day on the job for a few rugged Artic bush pilots), All Cast, No Blast, Not Even A Splash! (At the Texas long-distance casting competition, obsessive sportsmen fish for glory. Well, braggin’ rights, anyway), The Pied Half-Piper (Olympic snowboarder and extreme-sport movie star Adam Hostetter cruises the country teaching kids there’s more to life than shredding), A War Of The Woods (Southern forests are under attack, and one man laments the woods that are being lost) Departments – Letters, Reports Afield (Yellowstone of the East? A proposed National Park has Mainers divided), Angling (Winter in Montana – perfect weather for a brisk round of golf or a good day on the river), Rock & Trail (Follow your nose where the green grass grows – these five spots will put your hiking boots back in motion), Skiing (Think the backcountry is difficult to find? Think again. Long spring days make the out-of-bounds accessible), Outdoor Skills (Skiing crud – in can be nature’s greatest obstacle course. Know what the techniques and gear will get you through), Survival (A river – giardia runs through it. And that’s not all. What you can do to detox your water), Wild Hair (Beauty’s in the eye of the beholder? Not so when one man gives “drag racing” a new downhill spin), The Sporting Life (Love is in the air – and on the lake – when the sage Grouse cry Wa-um-poo), Backcountry (What can survive in the California desert? Sand, cacti and Marta Becket, the diva of Death Valley), The Outfitter (Backcountry dog gear; sport-specific pants, mountain bikes) Almanac – News, Tips, Facts and Lore (Single track Nation: Six great (hidden) trails; Snowboarding: Fall down, don’t break down; Survival: Know your wilderness) Field Sports – Roadster of Riverboats, Saltwater X-flies, Big Boys: Inland Stripers; Ice-Out’s Titanic Trout; Try A Trap At Home
Issue: March 2000
Condition: Very Good