It often seems that there are more magazines, books, articles, and stores devoted to the adventurous traveler than there are adventurous travelers. That may be a specious remark, but it’s the first thing that comes to mind when purveying the cover of this, the latest travel mag to reach out to us crazy, upwardly mobile, young people. The cover shows a woman barely clinging to a cliff high above the world. “Risk,” it says under her sloping body, “you can avoid it…but where’s the fun in that?” Where indeed? The fun, this magazine says, is in the unexploded bombs of Laos, in chasing wars and ethnic conflicts across the globe (if you are a foreign correspondent), or, if you were just a little less crazy, in plunging off a sixty foot cliff in New Zealand (attached to a bungee, of course). All this proves to be an answer to my reservations about another travel magazine crowding up the racks — Outpost isn’t about us going places, so it isn’t really a travel magazine. Where this mag goes in one issue — Rwanda, for instance — most of us will never go, and certainly not with the hindsight and aplomb of beautiful layout and luscious pictorials. So, in the end, I forgive this magazine for tantalizing me with adventures I cannot dare afford. The only place I need to go is to the bookstore for my latest issue.
magazine / #4, 54 pages / main creators: Kisha Ferguson, Christopher Frey / $3.95, 4 for $12 / 490 Adelaide St W., #303, Toronto, ON, M5V 1T2