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Anticipation Is Half The Problem: Navigating 6,649 Reviews Of One Trail In Bryce Canyon, Elissa Ely 2024 Dartmouth College

Anticipation Is Half The Problem: Navigating 6,649 Reviews Of One Trail In Bryce Canyon, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

A hiker describes the evenly split opinions of thousands of people who’d posted online that they knew the best direction to travel the Fairyland Loop in Bryce Canyon.


Bushwhacking In The Mahoosucs: With A Compass And Laminated Map, A Patient Hiker Finds Magic, William Geller 2024 Dartmouth College

Bushwhacking In The Mahoosucs: With A Compass And Laminated Map, A Patient Hiker Finds Magic, William Geller

Appalachia

An experienced backcountry adventurer describes the highlights of 22 trailless trips in New Hampshire and Maine from 1992 to 1994.


Early Encounters With The Underhills: Did They Know The Young Climber Was Jewish?, Steven Jervis 2024 Dartmouth College

Early Encounters With The Underhills: Did They Know The Young Climber Was Jewish?, Steven Jervis

Appalachia

The latest in a series of climbing memoirs by the editor of Appalachia’s Alpina section gives a firsthand look at his experiences meeting climbers Robert and Miriam Underhill in the 1950s, and asks whether Robert Underhill, who had written several anti-Semitic letters in the 1930s and 1940s, knew the author was Jewish.


Waterman Fund Essay Winner: Smoke Report: Lamenting Fire, And The Behaviors That Help Cause It, Austin Hagwood 2024 Dartmouth College

Waterman Fund Essay Winner: Smoke Report: Lamenting Fire, And The Behaviors That Help Cause It, Austin Hagwood

Appalachia

The winner of Appalachia’s annual essay contest for emerging writers narrates his experience as a fire lookout in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho four years after the Gold Pan Fire burned 42,000 acres.


Finding Brave Blood Above A Raging River: A Via Ferrata Climb Vanquishes Fears In Colorado, Lisa Ballard 2024 Dartmouth College

Finding Brave Blood Above A Raging River: A Via Ferrata Climb Vanquishes Fears In Colorado, Lisa Ballard

Appalachia

An adventurer confronts her fears in Royal Gorge’s rapids and on the cliffs above.


A Long Faller's Reverie: A Climber Investigates Why He Wasn't Scared On A Dangerous 1987 Fall, John Thackray 2024 Dartmouth College

A Long Faller's Reverie: A Climber Investigates Why He Wasn't Scared On A Dangerous 1987 Fall, John Thackray

Appalachia

Now age 89, a climber examines narratives of those who survived dangerous falls as he reconsiders his own bad fall in 1987 in the Mohonk Preserve of New Paltz, New York.


The Exploder: A Miserable Trek Lives Up To An Ecuadoran Volcano's Name, Todd Swain 2024 Dartmouth College

The Exploder: A Miserable Trek Lives Up To An Ecuadoran Volcano's Name, Todd Swain

Appalachia

Flashback to 1991: a climber’s story of a miserable attempt to summit an active volcano.


Broken Pieces: An Accident That Felt Destined, Despite Every Effort To Avoid Complacency, Stacy Boone 2024 Dartmouth College

Broken Pieces: An Accident That Felt Destined, Despite Every Effort To Avoid Complacency, Stacy Boone

Appalachia

An experienced guide’s solo thru-hike of the Oregon Desert Trail ends suddenly with a broken knee and a courageous self-rescue.


Dragonsky Is Born: Coming Out Of A Crisis, Long-Distance Hiking Saves Her Life, Shilletha Curtis 2024 Dartmouth College

Dragonsky Is Born: Coming Out Of A Crisis, Long-Distance Hiking Saves Her Life, Shilletha Curtis

Appalachia

Learning of the Appalachian Trail from a stranger, a woman decides to hike it, realizing that few people of color have explored long trails.


The Long Way Home: The Winds Of Randomness, Christine Woodside 2024 Dartmouth College

The Long Way Home: The Winds Of Randomness, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

A sudden, random injury clarifies how greatly luck figures in mountain walking.


Appalachia Winter/Spring 2024: Complete Issue, 2024 Dartmouth College

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2024: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Winter/Spring 2024 - Volume LXXV, Number 1 - Issue #257. Engines of Extremes: Stories of pushing beyond previous limits.


A Peak Ahead: Up From Devastation, Christine Woodside 2024 Dartmouth College

A Peak Ahead: Up From Devastation, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Letters, 2024 Dartmouth College

Letters

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Books Of Note, 2024 Dartmouth College

Books Of Note

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Research, 2024 Dartmouth College

Research

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


In Memoriam, 2024 Dartmouth College

In Memoriam

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


News And Notes, 2024 Dartmouth College

News And Notes

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Alpina, 2024 Dartmouth College

Alpina

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Accidents, 2024 Dartmouth College

Accidents

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Ren Zhong Feng And The 1932 American Sikong Expedition: An Exercise In Armchair Mountaineering, Jeffery Parrette 2024 Dartmouth College

Ren Zhong Feng And The 1932 American Sikong Expedition: An Exercise In Armchair Mountaineering, Jeffery Parrette

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


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