NEW YORK, November 14, 2000 - GORP.com (Great Outdoor Recreation Pages) today announced a broad agreement with America Online, Inc. (NYSE: AOL), the world's leading interactive services company, under which GORP.com will provide adventure travel options and innovative online content and programs to help the users of several America Online brands make adventure and active travel plans.

Under the alliance, customized co-branded GORP.com sites will be available across America Online, Inc. brands, including AOL, CompuServe, Netscape.com and AOL Digital City, making it easier and more convenient for the more than 28 million AOL and CompuServe members and the tens of millions of additional visitors to AOL's other Web-based brands to research adventure travel options and access all of the world's top outfitters.

The co-branded GORP sites will offer the same encyclopedic content now available on the GORP.com Web site, as well as access to all of GORP's adventure and active travel packages. In addition, GORP content and applications, such as the popular Trail Finder, Park Finder, Event Finder and Trip Finder Tools, will be integrated and linked within AOL's Parks & Camping and Adventure/Outdoors areas. The America Online brands also will feature GORP's highly acclaimed Top Ten features, and Getting Started sections for outdoor activities.

"This alliance is a very gratifying acknowledgment of the value and quality of our content and presents an exciting growth opportunity for the adventure travel industry," said Jon Guttenberg, Chief Executive Officer of GORP.com. "We're looking forward to expanding our reach to a broader audience and developing marketing initiatives with the power of the top interactive services company behind us."

GORPtravel packages will be accessible from the America Online brands and will provide users with access to all of the world's top outfitters and the tools to research trips and vacation packages from among the 4,000 GORPtravel active and adventure travel, dude ranch and wilderness vacations.

"GORP.com has a wide selection of outdoor recreation packages, as well as great vacation planning tools, and I believe they will be a great addition to our travel offerings," said Mayo Stuntz, Chief Operating Officer, AOL Interactive Services. "More people make their travel plans online every day, and this agreement will make it easier and more convenient for AOL members and visitors to our other brands to research vacation options and access adventure outfitters."

GORP (a.k.a. Great Outdoor Recreation Pages) is the largest and most trafficked Web site dedicated to outdoor recreation and adventure travel. With more than 200,000 pages of content, GORP offers a complete package of authoritative, award-winning content; a large, active community of outdoor enthusiasts; and a full-range of e-commerce offerings drawing nearly 14 million page views per month. Started in 1995, GORP offers a full-service adventure travel booking feature with more than 4,000 trips, accessible via the Web or telephone, in addition to a gear store with 180 brands of clothing, footwear and equipment. GORP has been cited by Conde Nast Traveler, US News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and many others, as the leader in this category and a "Best of the Web" site.

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