July 2000
F E A T U R E S
 Marla Streb's Mind-Body Problem
What is Marla Streb trying to prove? First, that abandoning a lab job for a smash-bone career as a pro downhill biker was a no-brainer. Second, that excruciating training and ultracalibrated gear will make her world champion. Third, that she can fly.
By Andrew Tilin
Fly-Fishing 2000
Don't be cowed by gear fetishists and country squires. Take our clean and commonsense advice on tools, technique, and cagey quarry, and launch your superfly into the fray.
 Lighten Up: It's the cast, stupid. By Ian Frazier
Fishville: Ten fly-friendly towns on the banks of waters frothing with trout. By Nate Hoogeveen
A Trout's Innermost Desires: It's all about finding his comfort zone, baby. By Nick Lyons
How to Eat a Fish: If you don't release it, cook it. Simply. With the head still on. By Bob Shacochis
The Only Fly You Need: Chernobyl Ant or Double Bunny, ma'am? By Florence Williams
What Burns My Ass: Judge not, dry-fly snob, lest ye suffer the ire of my rod. By Angus Cameron
Your Best Angles: Top guides' tips for stalking paranoid fish. By Kent Black and Nate Hoogeveen
A Manifesto for Ignorance: Ah, cluelessness! Or, just do it yourself. By David James Duncan
The Wild File
Do foods and beverages determine how ripe you smell after a workout? Are flowers part of animals' regular diets? Do roaring waterfalls purify contaminated rivers? Can moose dive deep underwater?
By Stephanie Gregory
The Hard Way
The past is never past, as Faulkner was fond of saying. But sometimes—like in the middle of a canoe trip across the drowned cypress graveyard that is Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin—you get the feeling it wishes it was.
By Mark Jenkins
Destinations
Steppe by steppe: Fat tires follow in Genghis Khan's tracks as a herd of hardy souls braves wind, snow, and the beautiful emptiness of Upper Mongolia to make the first guided mountain bike trek through Lake Khovsgal National Park.
Bodywork
How's your boof? Learn the gateway moves that unveil the deeper pleasures of boardsailing, steep-creek kayaking, shortboarding (that's surfing to you inlanders), open-water swimming, whitewater canoeing.
Review
"Hey, man, check out those prismatic crystal carbonates..." We bypass the technobabble and don the best sport sunglasses from Zeal, Pan Optx, Carrera, Maui Jim, Climb High, and Cebe.
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Water shoes that suck (but in a good way). |
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The lightest and sharpest binoculars ever. |
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The ultimate in summit chic: Storage boxes to keep the ocean at bay. |
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Lighterliners for mountain bike tires. |
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PLUS: Roads, by Larry McMurtry; View from the Summit, by Sir Edmund Hillary; The Eighth
Continent, by Peter Tyson; and Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource, by Marq De Villiers. |
Letters
Between the Lines
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