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Old Hutmen And Hutwomen Honor Betsy Byrd, W. Kent Olson 2024 Dartmouth College

Old Hutmen And Hutwomen Honor Betsy Byrd, W. Kent Olson

Appalachia

Old Hutmen and Hutwomen, the OHA, honor Betsy Byrd, who spent decades as a secretary to hut managers and Appalachian Mountain Club leaders.


Research: Gorillas On Visoke And Pandas In The House: A Conservation With Wildlife Biologist And Conservationist George Schaller, Douglass Teschner 2024 Dartmouth College

Research: Gorillas On Visoke And Pandas In The House: A Conservation With Wildlife Biologist And Conservationist George Schaller, Douglass Teschner

Appalachia

A conversation with wildlife biologist and conservationist George Schaller.


Research: The Little Insects That Could: New Hampshire's Arctic Butterflies, Gabriella Gurney 2024 Dartmouth College

Research: The Little Insects That Could: New Hampshire's Arctic Butterflies, Gabriella Gurney

Appalachia

New Hampshire’s arctic butterflies, the White Mountain fritillaries.


Alpina: A Semiannual Review Of Mountaineering In The Greater Ranges, 2024 Dartmouth College

Alpina: A Semiannual Review Of Mountaineering In The Greater Ranges

Appalachia

Among the many updates on mountaineering in the greater ranges in summer and fall 2023: Samson Zebturiah Barner is arrested near Smith Rock in central Oregon for taking several weapons to a climbing event. Three climbers open a new route on Pik Alpinist in Kyrgyzstan. A brief review of the New York Times article on the discovery of Janet Johnson’s camera on Aconcagua 50 years after she and John Cooper died there. On Everest, 3,600 climbers attempted the peak in 2023; eighteen died, 100 years after the biggest Everest mystery of all: the disappearance of Mallory and Irvine. Three Americans …


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.


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