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Splinter Hill: Looking Into The Maws Of Pitcher Plants, Samantha Sapp 2026 Dartmouth College

Splinter Hill: Looking Into The Maws Of Pitcher Plants, Samantha Sapp

Appalachia

A young woman discusses the environmental, regional, historic, and personal importance of Sarracenia pitcher plants.


Exploring Mount Mitchell: An Adventurer Searches For The Dispute That Named The Highest Peak East Of The Mississippi, Lisa Ballard 2026 Dartmouth College

Exploring Mount Mitchell: An Adventurer Searches For The Dispute That Named The Highest Peak East Of The Mississippi, Lisa Ballard

Appalachia

Writer Lisa Ballard hikes the trails of North Carolina's 6,684-foot Mount Mitchell and researches the history behind the mountain's name.


Strathcona: Climbers Battle Paranoia Near Canada's Elk Pass, Leath Tonino 2026 Dartmouth College

Strathcona: Climbers Battle Paranoia Near Canada's Elk Pass, Leath Tonino

Appalachia

A hiker reflects on memories of doubt and feeling mentally unstable experienced on a strenuous backpacking trip with friends in British Columbia.


Immersion: Learning To Share For The Sake Of Everything We Love, Shane Behler 2026 Dartmouth College

Immersion: Learning To Share For The Sake Of Everything We Love, Shane Behler

Appalachia

The winner of this journal’s Waterman Fund Essay Contest describes a pivotal change in attitude watching children play in the water of Dupont State Forest in North Carolina.


West Rim, Zion: Where Impulse Can Lead Down A Different Incline, Elissa Ely 2026 Dartmouth College

West Rim, Zion: Where Impulse Can Lead Down A Different Incline, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

A journey of the mind after the writer, trying to capture a spectacular vista above an exposed expanse of rock, drops her phone.


Chesuncook, Through The Life Of Addie: A Farm Village Evolves Into An Adventure Stopover, William Geller 2026 Dartmouth College

Chesuncook, Through The Life Of Addie: A Farm Village Evolves Into An Adventure Stopover, William Geller

Appalachia

The latest in a series about the early economies of the Maine Woods.


An Anthology Of Snake Stories: Close Encounters From New Hampshire To Laos, Todd Swain 2026 Dartmouth College

An Anthology Of Snake Stories: Close Encounters From New Hampshire To Laos, Todd Swain

Appalachia

Garter snakes, copperheads, rattlesnakes, a pursuit by a Moorish viper, and more.


The Freezing Point: In The Presidential Range, A Guide Copes With Winter's New Reality``, Michael Wejchert 2026 Dartmouth College

The Freezing Point: In The Presidential Range, A Guide Copes With Winter's New Reality``, Michael Wejchert

Appalachia

After more than a decade guiding “Presi traverses” in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, the writer, also a mountain rescuer, explains why he stopped taking clients.


Where Drinking Water Begins: A Writer Embarks On A 100-Mile Paddling Mission Through Maine's Sebago Lake Watershed, Jenny O'Connell 2026 Dartmouth College

Where Drinking Water Begins: A Writer Embarks On A 100-Mile Paddling Mission Through Maine's Sebago Lake Watershed, Jenny O'Connell

Appalachia

A kayaking trip for the Crooked River Project explored the vulnerability of drinking water, and a scientist for the Appalachian Mountain Club describes a restoration project on the West Branch of the Pleasant River.


The Toll Ticks Take: Strangest Reason Yet To Give Up Red Meat, James Mason 2026 Dartmouth College

The Toll Ticks Take: Strangest Reason Yet To Give Up Red Meat, James Mason

Appalachia

A strange allergic reaction leads an experienced mountain climber back to the bite of a lone star tick.


Why Do We Hike? A Senior Hiking Group In Western Maine Thrives, Alan Crabtree 2026 Dartmouth College

Why Do We Hike? A Senior Hiking Group In Western Maine Thrives, Alan Crabtree

Appalachia

The leader of a group for hikers ranging in age from their mid-60s to over 90 explains the benefits of Friday walks up mountains and around waterfalls.


Rewilding Teens: A Quartet Beyond Screens, Ian Ramsey 2026 Dartmouth College

Rewilding Teens: A Quartet Beyond Screens, Ian Ramsey

Appalachia

A teacher takes high school students into backcountry environments and remote destinations from New Hampshire to Thailand, where he walks them through “the fire of challenge” without technology.


The Long Way Home: What The Crepuscular Birds Taught Me, Christine Woodside 2026 Dartmouth College

The Long Way Home: What The Crepuscular Birds Taught Me, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

Lessons on how to pace life from a hermit thrush encountered on a trail.


Appalachia Winter/Spring 2026: Complete Issue, 2026 Dartmouth College

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2026: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Winter/Spring 2026 - Volume LXXVII, Number 1 - Issue #261. Healing and Hazards: Finding and Saving Health in Wild Places


Original Creative Nonfiction Work, Kylee Ludwig 2026 $Maverick586!

Original Creative Nonfiction Work, Kylee Ludwig

SPARK Symposium Presentations

I will be reading an original piece of creative nonfiction that discusses themes of estrangement and guilt through the life of a starfish.


My Old Dog, Jordan Ludwig 2026 Belmont University

My Old Dog, Jordan Ludwig

SPARK Symposium Presentations

An essay about growing up in the aftermath of 9-11 and the impact of unarticulated grief on childhood memories.


Letter From The Editors, Simran Malhotra COM 28, Tanya Baiju COM 28 2026 Kansas City University

Letter From The Editors, Simran Malhotra Com 28, Tanya Baiju Com 28

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

No abstract provided.


Letter From The Designers, Nathan Ngo COM 28, Aadhya Subhash COM 29, Sophia Lee COM 29, Parker Knight COM 28 2026 Kansas City University

Letter From The Designers, Nathan Ngo Com 28, Aadhya Subhash Com 29, Sophia Lee Com 29, Parker Knight Com 28

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

No abstract provided.


Dedication, 2026 Kansas City University

Dedication

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

No abstract provided.


Meet The Pulse Editorial Board, 2026 Kansas City University

Meet The Pulse Editorial Board

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

No abstract provided.


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