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Outside Magazine, October 2005

Worst Moments in the World Outside
Let the Bad Times Roll
Adventure, big and small, is all about risk. The risk that things may go terribly wrong. That danger will finally cut off your credit and hit you with a hefty bill. That luck will flee the scene as the dark tide rises. In the tales of calamity that follow, our 13 unlucky writers hold forth on their personal odysseys into the land of nightmares.


	(Photographs by Geoff Kern)

That Which Does Not Kill You…
You can run. You can hide. But into every life a little mayhem must descend.
By Peter Stark

Narc Passage
Warning: Conficts in mirror are closer than they appear
By Jane Smiley

Scared Sockless
Stupefied and frozen in a hornet's nest of hot lead
By Jon Lee Anderson

Surf or Die
Chewed up and spat out by the world's most ferocious wave
By Ken Collins

Pinto Mean!
The perils of raising a grumpy colt
By Bucky McMahon

Snowplowed
A guided tour through an avalanche, where fear and fascinating collide
By Skip Horner

Itch and Scratch
When nature calls in the woods, think before you reach
By Michael Perry

Struck!

Rod Liberal was climbing the Grand Tetons when the worst happened—a flash of lightning blasted him and a group of climbing friends, leaving one dead. What's life like after high voltage runs through your body? You don't want to know.

Cannery Woe
A salmon butchery goes from bloody routine to living hell
By Wells Tower

Belly Dance
Loose of bowels and out of luck in North Africa
By Michael Behar

Kamp Soggy Bottom
Atop storm-raked Mount Washington with a big, useless drip
By Ben Ryder Howe

Incoming!
On El Capitan, there's nowhere to hide when things fall from the sky
By Daniel Duane

Tour de Farce
Some mountains just want to be left alone
By Ace Kvale

Paddling Fool
On the dark waters of Brooklyn, only a nut goes out at night
By Joe Glickman

Bleak Streak
Trapped! On the tundra! And having a cold, hard time...
By Mark Levine

PLUS: Great Books About Bad Luck and the Ten Worst Adventure Disasters of the Past 200 Years

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