Special Section Gift Guide No. 1-- gifts over $50, published Dec. 4, 2002 Gift Guide No. 2 -- winter fashions, published Dec. 11, 2002 contents Stocking Stuffers Toys Books and ...   More

Special Section contents Intro Toys Accessories Pampering Gadgets Pets Outdoors Home Furnishings Comestibles and Kitchen Stuff Sex Spirits Books and ...   More

Special Section contents Intro Toys Accessories Pampering Gadgets Pets Outdoors Home Furnishings Comestibles and Kitchen Stuff Sex Spirits Books and ...   More

Special Section gear & action table of contents HOW TO GET ACROSS THE STREET Foot Traffic | Pop Cycle Coolers | Auto-Erotica HOW TO GET UP THAT HILL Two Ways to Mount Hood | Backcountry Jammin'-boree | Mou ...   More

Outdoors On an electric Saturday morning in late September, when the sun was hot, the air was dry and Halloween seemed as far away as Christmas, pumpkins sailed through the cloudless, azure sky above North ...   More

Outdoors The doorbell rings. I spring down two flights of stairs, almost breaking a leg when my feet shoot out from under me on a frictionless edge of carpeting. Of course there's nobody at the door by the ...   More

Outdoors At the height of the fall hawk migration, I'm soaring like a raptor in a 40-year-old sailplane, silently corkscrewing through the sky 4,000 feet above the Sunset Highway just west of North Plains. ...   More

Outdoors I've been feeling hawkish. So I think I'll take Friday off and drive to Government Camp, to meet some hardcore birders with high-clearance vehicles. Together, we'll caravan north on Highway 35 and ...   More

Outdoors Self-awareness is a bitch. After all, according to Sartre, a self-reflective consciousness is what separates humans from animals. Truth be told, in the wake of Sept. 11's terrorist attacks, I'd gl ...   More

Outdoors On the afternoon Patagonia opens its first retail outlet in Oregon, I walk into the 8,000-square-foot store and find Yvon Chouinard standing at the top of the stairs, fondly stroking an anvil on d ...   More