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Accidents: Analysis From The White Mountains Of New Hampshire And Occasionally Elsewhere, 2024 Dartmouth College

Accidents: Analysis From The White Mountains Of New Hampshire And Occasionally Elsewhere

Appalachia

Reports of rescues and accidents in New Hampshire’s White Mountains from spring and fall 2023. A long-distance hiker on the Appalachian Trail was knocked unconscious after one her trekking poles snapped crossing a brook on the Rattle River Trail. A woman tries and fails to hike down from Mount Washingtron after taking the Cog Railway up. A hiker falls into a stream, soaking all of her gear, and calls for help below Mount Passaconaway. A couple battles hypothermia after starting up Little Haystack Mountain late on a cold June day. A 21-year-old falls 30 feet off a ledge on Cannon …


Letters, 2024 Dartmouth College

Letters

Appalachia

Responses to William Geller’s Winter/Spring 2023 article on bushwhacking in the Mahoosuc range in Maine.


Skyline Sketches: The Last Backpack, Gordon DuBois 2024 Dartmouth College

Skyline Sketches: The Last Backpack, Gordon Dubois

Appalachia

Memories of Rufus the trail dog.


Skyline Sketches: The Yellow Lily, Gregory L. Norris 2024 Dartmouth College

Skyline Sketches: The Yellow Lily, Gregory L. Norris

Appalachia

A boy picks a yellow pond lily and regrets it.


Pilgrimage: A Journey To Witness Climate Change In The National Parks, Elise Wallace 2024 Dartmouth College

Pilgrimage: A Journey To Witness Climate Change In The National Parks, Elise Wallace

Appalachia

A writing teacher considers climate change in New Hampshire, where she lives, and in Acadia National Park and Yellowstone National Park, which she visited in a van. A runner-up in the 2023 Waterman Fund Essay Contest.


Chocorua—Tomorrua: Three Generations Of Women On Mount Chocorua, 1903–1974, Jane English 2024 Dartmouth College

Chocorua—Tomorrua: Three Generations Of Women On Mount Chocorua, 1903–1974, Jane English

Appalachia

The author tracks three generations of strong women in her family climbing Mount Chocorua in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.


Caught In A Vortex: Two Hikers Stumble Upon A Private Ceremony, Elissa Ely 2024 Dartmouth College

Caught In A Vortex: Two Hikers Stumble Upon A Private Ceremony, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

A mother and daughter hike past a wedding in progress in Sedona, Arizona.


The Stranger On Moosilauke: A Hiker Revits The Haunting Tragedy Of A Frigid Day, Jeannie Oliver 2024 Dartmouth College

The Stranger On Moosilauke: A Hiker Revits The Haunting Tragedy Of A Frigid Day, Jeannie Oliver

Appalachia

A hiker recounts meeting Roy Sanford on the slopes of Mount Moosilauke in the western White Mountains of New Hampshire, later learning that he died trying to summit in bad weather.


Nebraska, Anyone? An Avid Hiker Navigates Around Jeep Tracks And High Prairie, Lisa Ballard 2024 Dartmouth College

Nebraska, Anyone? An Avid Hiker Navigates Around Jeep Tracks And High Prairie, Lisa Ballard

Appalachia

An avid adventurer tries hiking around Jeep tracks in Fort Robinson State Park and through high prairie to Toadstool Geologic Park.


An Ocean Walk In The Ocean State: A Couple Covers The Full Width Of Rhode Island, Stephen S. Hale 2024 Dartmouth College

An Ocean Walk In The Ocean State: A Couple Covers The Full Width Of Rhode Island, Stephen S. Hale

Appalachia

A couple walked most of the Rhode Island coast over 29 day trips, including a road race on the Jamestown Bridge.


Moths To A Flame: The Light And Dark Of Reading Accidents In North American Mountaineering, Leath Tonino 2024 Dartmouth College

Moths To A Flame: The Light And Dark Of Reading Accidents In North American Mountaineering, Leath Tonino

Appalachia

A climber finds two issues of the American Alpine Club’s annual accidents reports from 2013 and 2014 and ruminates on his obsessions.


Sky's The Limit: Seeing The Future In A Disturbing Summer Storm, Lela Stanley 2024 Dartmouth College

Sky's The Limit: Seeing The Future In A Disturbing Summer Storm, Lela Stanley

Appalachia

A disturbing electrical storm in July 2020 in Washington, D.C. demarcates a break with the past. A runner-up in the 2023 Waterman Fund Essay Contest.


More Than Meets The Eye: Step By Step, Exploring Connecticut's Great Mountain Forest, David K. Leff 2024 Dartmouth College

More Than Meets The Eye: Step By Step, Exploring Connecticut's Great Mountain Forest, David K. Leff

Appalachia

The 6,300-acre Great Mountain Forest in northwestern Connecticut, once an industrial landscape of charcoal making for iron ore smelting, today is one of the most wild and remote tracts in southern New England.


Why The World Needs The Night: A Visit To The Appalachian Mountain Club's International Dark Sky Park, Laura Poppick 2024 Dartmouth College

Why The World Needs The Night: A Visit To The Appalachian Mountain Club's International Dark Sky Park, Laura Poppick

Appalachia

A visit to Second Annual See the Dark Festival at the Appalachian Mountain Club’s International Dark Sky Park in the North Maine Woods.


The Long Way Home: A New Take On Wilderness: Hermits, Bears, And Opportunism, Christine Woodside 2024 Dartmouth College

The Long Way Home: A New Take On Wilderness: Hermits, Bears, And Opportunism, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

Christopher Knight, a notorious hermit, burglarized cottages and a camp in Maine for 27 years. Comparison of stealth camping to behavior of wild animals.


Appalachia Summer/Fall 2024: Complete Issue, 2024 Dartmouth College

Appalachia Summer/Fall 2024: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2024 - Volume LXXV, Number 2 - Issue #258. Dark Places: Exploring pitch black skies, a forest, and a storm.


The Dildo Question: When Sex Positivity And Patriarchy Clash In The Classroom, Kate Maddalena 2024 University of Toronto

The Dildo Question: When Sex Positivity And Patriarchy Clash In The Classroom, Kate Maddalena

Feminist Pedagogy

This Critical Commentary describes how sex positivity can be a Trojan Horse for uncritical and toxic behavior in the classroom and suggests a pedagogical approach to help avoid the co-opting of sex positive ideologies for patriarchal power.


English 101 Assignment: 9-Panel Comic Strip, Katherine Rubin 2024 CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College

English 101 Assignment: 9-Panel Comic Strip, Katherine Rubin

Open Educational Resources

A creative Composition 101 assignment that prompts students to draw a 9-panel comic strip reflecting on the chapter "How I Learned to Read and Write" from Frederick Douglass's autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave.


Great Games Need Great Leaders: From Masters To Publication, Matthew Dyet 2024 SAE Institute Australasia

Great Games Need Great Leaders: From Masters To Publication, Matthew Dyet

Staff Scholarship - Australia & Dubai

This talk was given to the SAE Graduate Seminar and looked at the whole process of writing the book Great Games Need Great Leaders. It covers the Masters research that informed the book, the process of interviewing experts from the games industry and other fields, and the writing of the book itself.


Promethia 2023-2024, 2024 Oral Roberts University

Promethia 2023-2024

Promethia

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