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Outside magazine, July 1995


Review: Hardware and Software

Approach Shoes
Backcountry footwear that's part hiker, part running shoe, part Reinhold Messner
By Bob Howells

Cycling: The VisaLite VL530
By Hal Walter

Books: In Search of the Monster Slayer
Reviews by Andrea Barrett

  • Talking to the Ground: One Family's Journey on Horseback Across the Sacred Land of the Navajo, by Douglas Preston
  • Landscape and Memory, by Simon Schama
  • Giant Bluefin, by Douglas Whynott