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Outside Magazine August 2001

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Outside Essentials, To Go
BASE Jumping | Mountaineering | Rising Star | Loot | Environment | Passages | Fire Fighting

Gear: The Kestrel 4000 Pocket Weather Tracker from Nielsen-Kellerman keeps you dialed in to ten meteorological must-knows, including temperature, wind speed and windchill, barometric pressure, humidity, and heat index. It's like having Willard Scott in your pocket--minus all the babble. $329; www.nkhome.com

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Video: From the boys who brought you the outrageous Kranked series comes the latest fat-tire masterpiece, Search for the Holey Trail. Watch as ballsy mountain bikers huck their way off buildings and cliffs in Morocco, Switzerland, Australia, Mexico, Spain, France, and Canada. $25; www.radical-films.com

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Book: Alpinist Ed Webster chronicles his five-year tangle with the Goddess Mother in Snow in the Kingdom: My Storm Years on Everest. The self-published book includes an account of his oxygenless, unsupported ascent of the Kangshung Face in 1988. $30; www.amazon.com

Web site: Readers of the newly minted Mtb Journal nominate for coverage news and gossip tidbits from across the singletrack universe. Though "reader-generated content"is a dotcom cliche, in this case it actually works. www.mtbjournal.com


Next Page: A dam-happy federal agency begins undoing its own legacy

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