The Week In Outdoors

Amazing. I've always thought National Geographic Adventure would remain in business because its target market -- people who have enough money to pay guides to take them everywhere -- bought a lot of other products that cost a lot of money, and thusly, NGA should have no trouble selling ads. Kind of the inverse of why a magazine about dirtbags will never survive, because dirtbags don't have much of a disposable income to buy products advertised in magazines. Anyway, rest in peace, NGA. Someone commented on the Adventure Blog, "Too bad it wasn't Outside instead." Well, maybe the lack of competition will allow Outside to return to its glory years and stop acting like the Men's Journal of road biking and surfing. OK then, let me get off this soapbox.

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I had subscribed to Outside for about 20 years (yeah, I'm old), but really got tired of it when they started talking about the thread count of sheets in adventure lodges. The final straw was seeing Jack Johnson on the cover.
Switched over to NGA 3-4 years ago, and didn't really get the vibe that you mentioned above. Granted, I guess I was their target audience, but I wasn't interested in the guide services. It was more the fact that Tim Cahill, David Quammens, and others had stopped writing for Outside and had gone over to NGA. In other words, it really was because of the quality of the writing.
I'll miss NGA (yeah, I know they have an ongoing online mag), whereas I just chuckle when I see Outside on the newstand.

#1 Michel (Homepage) on 2009-12-04 08:00 (Reply)

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