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Going To Tent Rocks: An Encounter With The Edge Of Understanding, Sally Manikian 2021 Dartmouth College

Going To Tent Rocks: An Encounter With The Edge Of Understanding, Sally Manikian

Appalachia

In Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, a surprise encounter with light and beauty at the end of a day surprises Sally Manikian.


A Bear Ponders My Edibility: The Too-Old-And-Stringy Hypothesis, Richard LeBlond 2021 Dartmouth College

A Bear Ponders My Edibility: The Too-Old-And-Stringy Hypothesis, Richard Leblond

Appalachia

On the shore of a remote Labrador pond, a biologist encounters a hungry black bear.


Too Cold: The Death Of Kate Matrosova, Sandy Stott 2021 Dartmouth College

Too Cold: The Death Of Kate Matrosova, Sandy Stott

Appalachia

Appalachia’s Accidents editor tells the story of a young woman whose passion for winter mountains led her to take a fatal risk.


The Long Way Home: Back On The Ramsey Trail—The Boys Are There, Christine Woodside 2021 Dartmouth College

The Long Way Home: Back On The Ramsey Trail—The Boys Are There, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

Editor-in-chief Christine Woodside looks back at a mountain origin story, climbing Rattlesnake Mountain in central New Hampshire with her three older brothers.


Appalachia Winter/Spring 2016: Complete Issue, 2021 Dartmouth College

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2016: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Winter/Spring 2016 - Volume LXVII, Number 1 - Issue #241. Commitment: One Time, Many Times, Over a Lifetime


A Peak Ahead, Christine Woodside 2021 Dartmouth College

A Peak Ahead, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

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Books And Media, 2021 Dartmouth College

Books And Media

Appalachia

Maia Rauschenberg writes a tribute to Canadian artist Emily Carr in an essay about three books: The Art of Emily Carr by Doris Shadbolt, Growing Pains: the Autobiography of Emily Carr by Emily Carr, and The Forest Lover: A Novel by Susan Vreeland. Reviews of: Desperate Steps: Life, Death and Choices Made in the Mountains of the Northeast by Peter W. Kick. The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs by Tristan Gooley. The Airman’s Arctic Survival Guide by Belmore Browne. 59 Illustrated National Parks by Joel Anderson and Nathan Anderson. Art of Katahdin by David Little.


News And Notes, 2021 Dartmouth College

News And Notes

Appalachia

Reports on: A new bridge for the Nineteen-Mile Brook Trail. Adventurer Kaitlyn Bernard reflects on the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Great Maine Outdoor Weekend. Molly Higgins writes about the Bay Circuit Trail near Boston. The late former governor of New Hampshire, Sherman Adams, received a posthumous trail work award.


Alpina, 2021 Dartmouth College

Alpina

Appalachia

Jeffery Parrette, the longtime editor of this section, retired in winter 2016. During the transition to a new editor of this section, Steven Jervis gives a report on Denali.


Accidents, 2021 Dartmouth College

Accidents

Appalachia

Analysis of summer/fall 2015 accidents in the White Mountains of New Hampshire found many slips on cool, damp rocks. Accidents included: Hikers seeking Owls Head turned back at swollen Franconia Brook on May. On August 11, a teenager died after being swept under Franconia Brook, which was rising fast following heavy rain. In October, an experienced hiker was swept away by the swollen Gale River and died. Bad weather on August 11 trapped a hiking group on Mount Madison. Mishaps on Mount Monadnock in southwestern New Hampshire. A helicopter rescued a man who collapsed on the Falling Waters Trail and …


Letters, 2021 Dartmouth College

Letters

Appalachia

A letter from Jack Reilly comments on the contrasting approaches to mountains by Kate Matrosova and William Putnam as chronicled in the Winter/Spring 2016 issue of Appalachia.


A Maple For The Ages: Discovering A 250-Year-Old Tree Hidden In An Overgrown Nature Preserve, Christopher Johnson 2021 Dartmouth College

A Maple For The Ages: Discovering A 250-Year-Old Tree Hidden In An Overgrown Nature Preserve, Christopher Johnson

Appalachia

A writer explores Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary in Massachusetts, coming upon a very old maple tree that once stood alone.


The Randolph Glacier Inventory: Scientists Gatheres In The White Mountains To Count The World's Glaciers, W. Tad Pfeffer 2021 Dartmouth College

The Randolph Glacier Inventory: Scientists Gatheres In The White Mountains To Count The World's Glaciers, W. Tad Pfeffer

Appalachia

A glaciologist describes a meeting in Randolph, New Hampshire, in the White Mountains, of international scientists charged with creating a glacier inventory for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.


Catching A Fish: Girls Find Food And Water, Leah Titcomb 2021 Dartmouth College

Catching A Fish: Girls Find Food And Water, Leah Titcomb

Appalachia

A registered Maine guide shares tales of teaching girls outdoor skills on three-week-long canoe expeditions.


The Geography Of Philanthropy: With Three Meditations On Humility, W. Kent Olson 2021 Dartmouth College

The Geography Of Philanthropy: With Three Meditations On Humility, W. Kent Olson

Appalachia

A former Appalachia editor considers the motivations behind the creation of Maine’s Acadia National Park on its centennial.


Steepness Ends: Considering The Will To Live, Elissa Ely 2021 Dartmouth College

Steepness Ends: Considering The Will To Live, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

Preoccupations run through Elissa Ely’s mind on the way to Galehead Hut and South Twin Mountain.


Looking For Kate: Searchers' Stories, Sandy Stott 2021 Dartmouth College

Looking For Kate: Searchers' Stories, Sandy Stott

Appalachia

The story of Kate Matrosova’s tragic death near Mount Adams on February 15, 2015, told by those who searched for her.


A Scoutmaster's Fall: Three Witnesses Will Never Forget It, Crawford Coates 2021 Dartmouth College

A Scoutmaster's Fall: Three Witnesses Will Never Forget It, Crawford Coates

Appalachia

Looking back on the 1952 fatal fall of Charles Bays Locker, a dynamic guide, in the Sierras.


Wild Katahdin?: Will Growing Numbers Of Thru-Hikers And Disruptive Behavior Remove "Maine's Greatest Mountain" From The At?, Lucille Stott 2021 Dartmouth College

Wild Katahdin?: Will Growing Numbers Of Thru-Hikers And Disruptive Behavior Remove "Maine's Greatest Mountain" From The At?, Lucille Stott

Appalachia

As growing numbers of long-distance hikers hold public celebrations at the northern terminus of the famed Appalachian Trail, some fear that Baxter State Park may push to move the AT off the mountain.


"All A Question Of Luck": Hope Deteriorated Into A Survival Game In The A. W. Greely Expedition, Laura Waterman 2021 Dartmouth College

"All A Question Of Luck": Hope Deteriorated Into A Survival Game In The A. W. Greely Expedition, Laura Waterman

Appalachia

An expedition to the Arctic from 1881–1884 deteriorates into a grim survival game.


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