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Features

The Joy of Fear
You can dissect it. Confront it. Maybe even conquer it. But learning to embrace fear—that’s the performance-enhancing secret of adventure psychology. JIM THORNTON reports on the brave new science of scared, the uses and abuses of adrenaline, and the love of life on the edge.
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The Monster Tour
The idea was grand: to pedal the spine of the Rockies from America to Canada, five national parks in 600 glorious miles [966 kilometers]. The idea was poetic: two friends, a sweeping landscape, a journey of both body and soul. The idea, in short, was perfect—so why worry about little details like training? By CHARLES GRAEBER

Summer Escape Plan
Hit the road running with this guide to 32 of America’s best spur-of-the-moment adventures: Sierra scrambling, southern white water, Colorado climbing, fat-tire B&Bs, and more. Plus: time-savers for travelers, payoffs for procrastinators, and the fine art of the instant escape. By ROBERT EARLE HOWELLS
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Race to the Bottom of the World
To map one of the world’s deepest caves—Huautla, in Mexico—they would need to rappel down 36-story shafts, swim frigid rivers, and squeeze through miles of treacherous passages. The challenge was enormous, and the smallest mistake—a dropped headlamp, a misplaced step, a lost line—could be fatal. By WILLIAM STONE and BARBARA ANNE AM ENDE

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Departments

TRIPS

Frontiers
Them: 200,000-ton floating, frozen mountains. You: one tiny kayaker. Welcome to Newfoundland’s thrilling Iceberg Alley. By BYRON RICKS
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Fast Breaks
Before Columbus had even discovered his own toes, America’s grandest trees were growing. Herewith, our guide to walking among the ancients, from Oregon to Maine.

World on the Cheap
Alps for you: Among the jagged limestone peaks and undammed rivers of Slovenia, you can raft, bike, and trek—far from the crowds.

Where Next
Alaska’s wildest park, Cuba travel sanctioned by Uncle Sam, and the future of high-altitude, um, evacuation.

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JOURNAL

Need to Know
Drink up, says researcher Robert Rockwell—reports of giardia in the wild have been greatly exaggerated. By KALEE THOMPSON

Then & There
For some would-be astronauts, Mars is closer than ever: Wayne County, Utah, to be precise. Exploring the stand-in red planet at the Mars Society Desert Research Station.

Tribute
Remembering Thor Heyerdahl, that famous journey aboard a raft called Kon-Tiki, and a lifetime of anthropology on the edge.

Potentially Huge
Just when you thought there weren’t enough ways to leap off a cliff, here comes the facedown thrill sport of rap jumping.

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COLUMNS

Books
A portrait of the 21st century’s Daniel Boone—Eustace Conway—in Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Last American Man; Scotland’s beautiful and haunted Shiant Islands in Adam Nicolson’s Sea Room; and more. By ANTHONY BRANDT

The Life
It was an extraordinary sight: a white cliff soaring skyward from the remotest jungles of Mexico. So why hadn’t any outsider ever seen it? By GARY MOORE
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GEAR

Watches
From café to crag, timepieces that marry cutting-edge features—altimeters, GPS readers, training-time recorders—with common sense.
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Footwear
You can’t walk on water with these aqua shoes. But for everything else—hiking, kayaking, kicking back—you’re covered.

What They Carry
Professional underwater photographer Tim Calver on the art and technology of capturing the life of the sea.
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Also in the July 2002 Issue

From the Editor
Contributors
Letters
The Society Page
Travel Directory
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