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Outside Magazine, June 2005

The Spirit of Summer 2005: The Hottest Land Art
Who Needs Cristo?

By Granville Greene

Intro | The Best Surf Towns | Perfect Pickup Games | In Praise of the Rope Swing | The Ultimate Road Trip | Beach Bike Cruiser | Amarillo, Texas | Best Shorefront Lodges | Great Outdoor Eats | Our Favorite Barbecue | Summer Style, PT I | The Island Life | The Coolest Crags | Summer's Best Car | The Perfect Beach Party | Cheap Date | The Best Float | Summer Style, PT II | Epic Fat-Tire Adventure | 4th of July Celebrations | Randy Wayne White's Favorite Beach | Whitewater Fix | Summer Style, PT III

Missed out on the saffron Gates? Head to Amarillo, Texas, where the public art is as large as the 72-ounce steaks dished up at I-40's Big Texan Steak Ranch. Natural-gas tycoon Stanley Marsh 3 started funding big art back in 1974 with Cadillac Ranch, ten vintage Caddies buried nose first in the
Summer My Way
"The Patagonia Houdini is my choice for bombproof summer gear: Biking, hiking, climbing, running, skiing, or as a backup in your car, it's the ultimate lightweight jacket for the minimalist who still wants to cover all her bases." —Leslie Ross, director of Babes in the Backcountry, a series of adventure workshops for women
Panhandle. Over the years he's painted a mesa blue; built Giant Phantom Soft Pool Table, a 180-by-90-foot patch of dyed-green grass with 42-inch canvas balls; and commissioned a pair of gigantic sawed-off legs in a field south of town. "Art is a legalized form of insanity," Marsh has said. "And I do it very well." Go crazy yourself scoping out Amarillo's thousands of Marsh-funded street signs, with slogans like I'LL BE RIGHT OUT MA! FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! and LUBBOCK IS A GREASY SPOON! Summer here is frying-pan hot, so when yer bod heats up faster than a Texas cheerleader, dive into 6,251-acre Lake Meredith, 38 miles north of town on Texas 136. Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, 806-857-3151, www.nps.gov/lamr


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Intro | The Best Surf Towns | Perfect Pickup Games | In Praise of the Rope Swing | The Ultimate Road Trip | Beach Bike Cruiser | Amarillo, Texas | Best Shorefront Lodges | Great Outdoor Eats | Our Favorite Barbecue | Summer Style, PT I | The Island Life | The Coolest Crags | Summer's Best Car | The Perfect Beach Party | Cheap Date | The Best Float | Summer Style, PT II | Epic Fat-Tire Adventure | 4th of July Celebrations | Randy Wayne White's Favorite Beach | Whitewater Fix | Summer Style, PT III


Granville Greene is a Santa Fe, NM-based freelance writer, and frequent contributor to Outside.
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