Subscribe to Outside Magazine
advertisement
Survival Guru

Today's Question
How do you make primitive snowshoes? answer

What should you do if you get lost driving in a snow storm? answer

Eco Adventurer

Today's Question
What is the greenest ski and snowboard on the market? answer

Can I really damage a coral reef with sunscreen while snorkeling? answer

Videos Ask Dave
  • What kind of dog will make me look manlier? answer
  • Is there a sport that safely combines my twin passions for guns and kayaks? answer
  • How come most of the world's cultures enjoy eating goat, but Americans don't? answer

Online Favorites

Special Issues

Photo Galleries
save this page print this page email this page
  • share this page

Outside magazine, August 1996


Am I There Yet?

Over the previous five years, Australian Dean Gardiner had won surf kayaking's unofficial world championship-the 32-mile Molokai to Oahu Bankoh Kayak Challenge-three times, in conditions ranging from tempestuous to preternaturally calm. In this year's contest, held last May, the waters thankfully stuck to the latter end of the spectrum, but the 31-year-old Gardiner still had to overcome a major hurdle: his really poor sense of direction. In the first hour of the race, Gardiner strayed a whopping two miles off course. "I might've had a shot at the record,'' he says wistfully, "but Oahu was clouded over and I went too far north.'' Even so, he recovered to post a winning time of 3:38:27, three minutes ahead of countryman Brad Kane.