Accidents,
2026
Dartmouth College
Accidents
Appalachia
Reports of rescues and accidents in the White Mountains of New Hampshire from the cold seasons of 2025 opens with thoughts on how fast one’s hands can freeze. An experienced man, age 75, describes getting too cold on Cannon Mountain; he evaluates his own accident, and the editors weigh in at the end of the column. Two well-equipped women lose the Jewell Trail in deep snow and call for help, later sharing a six-point list of how to be safer next time. A 28-year-old man navigating high winds and deep snow by Google in a quest to see the sunrise …
Letters,
2026
Dartmouth College
Letters
Appalachia
More musings on smartphones in the mountains. Praise for Katie Ives’s Appalachia Summer/Fall 2025 story, “Burning Solitudes.” Longtime Appalachian Mountain Club members share memories of former membership practices in response to Christine Woodside’s Appalachia Summer/Fall 2025 essay, “A Look Back at the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Long-Ago Membership Practices.”
Skyline Sketches: Captain Crunch,
2026
Dartmouth College
Skyline Sketches: Captain Crunch, Douglass Teschner
Appalachia
The story of a scramble and technical climb in 1991 up the trailless peak called the Captain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Skyline Sketches: Wisdom From My Dad, Bill Murray,
2026
Dartmouth College
Skyline Sketches: Wisdom From My Dad, Bill Murray, Lauren Murray
Appalachia
A woman recounts the mountain lessons she learned from her father from 1969 to 2006, and the lessons she carried forward.
Skyline Sketches: The Encounter,
2026
Dartmouth College
Skyline Sketches: The Encounter, Gordon Dubois
Appalachia
A bushwhacker meets a weasel on Vermont’s Ryegate Mountain.
Splinter Hill: Looking Into The Maws Of Pitcher Plants,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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``,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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
My Old Dog,
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.
