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Outside
April 2010
Steven Rinella |
Go Big or Go Home Cruise ships and wildlife buses? The tourist staples miss the point of Alaska: It's the last real place to find an epic, crowd-free adventure on American soil.   |
Outside
June 2004
Annette McGivney |
National Park Secret Trips Locals' no-tell favorites, from Acadia to Yellowstone to wildest Alaska--along with a roundup of dream towns nearby, the places to eat, drink, and dance after a day or three in backcountry heaven. |
High on Adventure
April 2002
Lee Juillerat |
Coming to My Senses in Glacier Bay -- Travels in Southeast Alaska Blame John Muir. His Travels in Alaska piqued the interest of millions to the fascinations of Glacier Bay... |
Outside
December 2004
Mark Jenkins |
Freezer Burn How do you go native on an island made of ice? Scale glaciers, strip down, and steam it off. |
Real Travel Adventures
September 2005
Hendson Quan |
Bears At Your Feet Recommendations for accommodations and activities in Wrangell, Alaska. |
Real Travel Adventures
February 2007
Linda Ballou |
Slow Blowing Dream Coming home to Alaska's unrivaled beauty |
Real Travel Adventures
February 2005
Nell Raun-Linde |
Swiss Alpine Interlude After 2 days of gray skies and intermittent rain in Bern, Switzerland, this sunny day would be the perfect one to see the peaks of the Eiger, the Monch and the Jungfrau mountains. |
Outside
December 2007 |
Kayaking Chile California-whitewater pioneer Reg Lake has paddled and guided more of Chile's 4,000-mile coastline than anyone. His latest adventure takes him into the North Arm's inner reaches and the Grey Glacier. |
Real Travel Adventures
April 2007
Linda Ballou |
The More it Changes, the More it Stays the Same Alaska is austere, rugged and moody, yet thrilling in its unrelenting beauty. Haines, in the Southeast corner of Alaska, has become a jumping off point for a myriad of outdoor adventures. |
Outside
May 2003
Tim Neville |
Latitude Adjustment Ten more ways to frolic in the far north's summer sun |
Geotimes
July 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
Highway to Portage Despite the disappearing glaciers and quicksand-like mud, a trip down Alaska's Seward Highway is refreshing; you can still visit pristine landscapes and potentially dangerous natural phenomena without being fenced out. |
AskMen.com
January 6, 2004
Harry Marks |
Alaskan Adventure With an abundance of natural attractions and adventurous activities, Alaska deserves any traveler's attention. Already a popular cruise destination, America's Last Frontier has established several excellent sights on terra firma that draw in 1.1 million visitors per year. |
Real Travel Adventures
April 2007
Bonnie & Bill Neely |
Alberta's Wonder Landscape Enjoy the multiple beautiful landscapes, people, mountains, rivers, National and Provencial Parks in Canada. |
Geotimes
August 2006 |
Summer Roadtrip: Ferrying Through the Inside Passage In case you think "boat" and "roadtrip" don't mix, you should learn about the Alaska Marine Highway. Glaciers are one of the first things to notice along your trek southward along Alaska's Inside Passage. |
Outside
October 2002
Ian Frazier |
Terminal Ice Hot enough for you? Go to the bottom of the planet -- or the top -- and you can't miss the warning signs of a warm apocalypse. And at the heart of the mystery, like broken shards of a colder climate, float the icebergs, ghost-white messengers trying to tell us something we can't fathom. |
Outside
April 2010 |
The Best Adventure Trips of 2010 Our mission: Sort through 763 of the world's most spectacular new outfitted adventures and choose 20 that will blow your mind, but not your savings. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2009
T. Edward Nickens |
New Zipline Tour Helps Protect Trees (With Video!) The New River Gorge TreeTops Canopy Tour opened in May. Operated by Class VI -- Mountain River, the tour uses five sky bridges and two short hikes to link 10 twin-cable ziplines that offer more than a mile of high-wire flying. |
Outside
February 2004
Natasha Singer |
Break On Through The dream of a Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic to the riches of Asia has driven explorers and visionary adventurers for centuries. With climate change in the air, The author braves the frigid 900-mile journey to find out if the old, mythic dream is becoming an epic new reality. |
Geotimes
September 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
Around Mount Rainier The stratovolcano has not erupted since a few small events were recorded in the early 1800s. But numerous lahars -- mudflows triggered by various events -- continue to reshape the landscape, and the effects are visible throughout the park today. |
Adventure
October 2006
Andrea Minarcek |
Alaska Road Trip: The Kenai Circuit The road through southeast Alaska leads to groaning glaciers, mugs of microbrew, and the most stunning river trip anywhere. |
BusinessWeek
January 15, 2007
Stanley Holmes |
Thrills And Chills Scaling frozen walls isn't for the fainthearted. But once you find your footing, ice climbing can become addictive. |
Smithsonian
July 2007
J. Madeleine Nash |
Chronicling the Ice Long before global warming became a cause celebre, Lonnie Thompson was extracting climate secrets from ancient glaciers. He finds the problem is even more profound than you might have thought. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2007
Margo Pfeiff |
Voyage to the Top of the Earth (Almost) To reach the High Arctic, a Canadian coast guard icebreaker needs 17,000 horsepower, six diesel/electric engines and one slippery coat of paint. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2007
Jeff Wise |
Building Canada's Epic Ice Road The truckers who haul 70-ton rigs hundreds of miles across Canada's frozen lakes aren't afraid of much except warm weather. |
Outside
November 2003
Mark Jenkins |
Head Trip Sometimes the toughest climb is out of your mind and into your own animal skin: knowing how, as an alpine climber, to turn off your head sometimes. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2005
Erico Guizzo |
Into Deep Ice What does the future hold for Earth's ice? A group of British researchers seeks answers in the bowels of a glacier. |
Real Travel Adventures
February 2005
Robert Painter |
Across Canada on American Orient Express The legendary Grand Trans-Canada Rail Journey begins at the Pacific coast in Vancouver, British Columbia, traverses the Canadian Rockies, across the vast prairies and ends in the wonderfully European city of Montreal. |
Fast Company
April 2001
Paul Cabana |
The Iceman Melteth Just how tough is it to sell ice cubes to Eskimos? The Consultant Debunking Unit goes polar in search of the cold, hard truth... |
Smithsonian
October 2006
Anne Bolen |
Life in the Field - Frozen in Time Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest have recorded hundreds of years of climate history, helping researchers plot how quickly the planet is warming. |
Smithsonian
August 2005
Laura Helmuth |
Phenomena and Curiosities: Baked Alaska A unique study documents the disappearance of Alaska's glaciers, blamed on global warming. |
Outside
March 2002
Steven Threndyle |
Rising Star Sean Isaac competes at the Ice World Cup Final, the first ice-climbing world-cup event to be held in North America... |
Popular Mechanics
March 18, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Mars Researchers Take an Arctic Road Trip This trip is meant to be a dry run for an even more extreme environment -- the surface of Mars. |
Geotimes
February 2005
Megan Sever |
Glacier: Crown of the Continent Established as a national park in 1910, Glacier National Park's geologic and ecologic significance is internationally recognized. |
Popular Mechanics
March 15, 2010
Trevor Williams |
Iceberg Forensics: Predicting the Planet's Future With Antarctic Ice Something new is happening with the ice streams and glaciers. They are getting thinner, and they are getting thinner because they are speeding up. |
High on Adventure
December 2006
Les Furnanz |
Norway in a Nutshell Oslo, Bergen, and the Fjords Shine in Early Spring |
Adventure
August 2005 |
Alaska Fly-In: Kake Sea kayaking Alaska's ultra-remote Inside Passage. |
