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High on Adventure February 2010 Yvette Cardozo |
Swiss Winter My friends and I didn't really do much skiing last winter in Switzerland. We were too busy soaking in hot water pools, riding funny little snowbikes down mountains, and deciding whether to buy a Swiss watch in an ice palace at the "top of the world." |
High on Adventure February 2010 Sylvia Blishak |
Five Weeks and 7,400 Miles -- Circling the USA on Amtrak We made our plans for a five-week sentimental rail journey with stops in California, Arizona, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania. |
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. |
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. |
AskMen.com Salvatore Mann |
Top 10: Cities For The Snow Lover Not every winter getaway has to have palm trees. Snow and ice can be just as exciting and relaxing, and these ten cities offer the best of both. |
Outside March 2007 John Harlin III |
Rising Son Can a reluctant climber avoid his fate? In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, The Eiger Obsession, John Harlin III faces his legacy and the mountain that killed his Father. |
AskMen.com Nick Clarke |
Top 10: Train Trips Yes, train journeys are making an unexpected comeback -- thanks in large part to delayed planes, seasickness and dodgy road trips. |
High on Adventure August 2006 Lee Juillerat |
Capitalizing on the outdoors Juneau is more than just a place to pass through while traveling the Inland Passage or making your way to Glacier Bay. It's also a place where residents, and travelers with insight, capitalize on the outdoors. |
Real Travel Adventures March 2006 Linda Ballou |
The Good of Going to the Mountains The White Mountains of New Hampshire have over 600 miles of well-marked paths that seduce the hiker into shady glens through lacy fern forests and to alpine climbs pocked with turquoise glacier cirques. |
Real Travel Adventures March 2005 Nell Raun-Linde |
Bears, Bells, and Banners in Bern Visiting Bern, Switzerland for a few days in late August - what one family found interesting. |
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. |
Real Travel Adventures November 2006 Sheila O'Connor |
Chill Out at the Ice Hotel and Have an "Ice Stay" "Beautiful. And frigid". That's the comment left by one brave guest at Canada's famed Ice Hotel on the shores of beautiful Lac St.-Joseph, a mere 20 minutes west of Quebec. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
DailyCandy January 14, 2006 |
Travel: The Thrill Ain't Gone Several suggestions for travel destinations that include adventurous activities. |
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
Adventure May 2004 James Vlahos |
The Glacial Gallery Montana's Glacier National Park is one of the world's premier showcases of glaciation, a land of deep valleys separated by spiny aretes, cirques that shelter turquoise tarns, and summits in every conceivable shape, from layer cake to Egyptian pyramid. |
HBS Working Knowledge September 1, 2003 Seaburg & Paterson |
Frederic Tudor, the Ice King Frederic Tudor had a bold idea: Cut winter ice from the ponds of New England and transport it by ship for sale in far away lands including India and Singapore. Stranger still, it worked. |
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. |
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. |
Geotimes October 2003 Sara Pratt |
New model for glacial erosion Understanding what controls glacial erosion may have important implications for understanding glaciated mountain belts and modeling both ancient and current ice sheets. |
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... |