Birds Versus Buzz Saws in Jungle Joust Panama's legendary Darien jungle has defeated the Pan-American Highway and numerous attempts to tame its pristine wilds. But, as loggers and settlers close in, one of the world's richest wildlife habitats is headed for the buzz saw, reports a DEET-slathered Scott Doggett. Full story
From the Waves Up Lake Tahoe is known for hiking and skiing, but paddling part of a newly mapped 'water trail,' Scott Doggett learns, adds an unexpected intimacy — and danger. Full story
After Dark, No One Can See You Sweat From Griffith Park to Irvine to the Westside, cadres of hikers ritually answer a call to withdraw from a sea of twinkling white lights and streaking red taillights and enter black voids blanketed with chaparral and scrub, oaks and sycamores. Full story
Sticking With It Even though it's called Stealth, the sticky rubber sole that Charles Cole developed — and the climbing world has been clinging to — is no secret. Full story
In the Heat of Boiling Waters Tangle with albacore and be ready for long waits and furious battles — if the fickle fish bite. Full story
