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Accidents
Appalachia
Analysis of accidents in the White Mountains (and nearby) in New Hampshire during winter and spring 2015—other than the Kate Matrosova death, which is covered in this issue’s feature, “Too Cold,”—include stories of getting lost near Crawford Notch; a 50-year-old woman’s death after falling from the top of Purgatory Falls in Mount Vernon, New Hampshire; six stories of ill-prepared hikers who were billed for their rescue costs; wisdom from snow rangers on the dangers of inexperienced people putting too much responsibility on others; and more.
Harriet E. Freeman, White Mountain Conservationist: A Secret Romance Obscured Her Legacy, Sara Day
Harriet E. Freeman, White Mountain Conservationist: A Secret Romance Obscured Her Legacy, Sara Day
Appalachia
A researcher and writer unearths the secret affair between the married minister Edward Everett Hale (after whom Mount Hale in the White Mountains is named) and a Boston conservationist who fell in love with him.
Accidents
Appalachia
Analysis of summer/fall 2015 accidents in the White Mountains of New Hampshire found many slips on cool, damp rocks. Accidents included: Hikers seeking Owls Head turned back at swollen Franconia Brook on May. On August 11, a teenager died after being swept under Franconia Brook, which was rising fast following heavy rain. In October, an experienced hiker was swept away by the swollen Gale River and died. Bad weather on August 11 trapped a hiking group on Mount Madison. Mishaps on Mount Monadnock in southwestern New Hampshire. A helicopter rescued a man who collapsed on the Falling Waters Trail and …
The Randolph Glacier Inventory: Scientists Gatheres In The White Mountains To Count The World's Glaciers, W. Tad Pfeffer
The Randolph Glacier Inventory: Scientists Gatheres In The White Mountains To Count The World's Glaciers, W. Tad Pfeffer
Appalachia
A glaciologist describes a meeting in Randolph, New Hampshire, in the White Mountains, of international scientists charged with creating a glacier inventory for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Accidents
Appalachia
Analysis of accidents in the White Mountains (and nearby) in New Hampshire during the mild winter and spring 2016 include: benighted climbers on Mount Paugus; a dog rescues a lost teenager in Rindge; an underprepared hiker gets stuck going down Mount Washington; climbers get help by phone; a December hiker bushwhacking to avoid Franconia Brook gets in trouble; an experienced hiker collapses and dies on Franconia Ridge; a professional guide is found dead on the Castle Ravine Trail; A man slips and breaks his leg on Mount Cardigan; a skier falls and is badly hurt and a hiker slips and …
Mountain Chatter: Can One Escape Gabbing On Welch-Dickey?, Elissa Ely
Mountain Chatter: Can One Escape Gabbing On Welch-Dickey?, Elissa Ely
Appalachia
Elissa Ely climbs Welch-Dickey in New Hampshire seeking images and silence but leaves with overheard cooking advice.
Accidents
Appalachia
Accidents in the White Mountains of New Hampshire from summer and fall 2016 include: a couple of Appalachian Trail thru-hikers become hypothermic on Franconia Ridge; a woman slips and fractures her ankle on Hancock Loop Trail; one of a hiking group slips and breaks a bone on Mount Jackson; a strange story about a lost hiker who had been tagging along with a group near Mount Madison; lost hikers on Madison Gulf Trail; no-fly weather and a “carry-up” rescue below Mount Washington; and a seventeen-day search around Mount Washington for a suicide victim’s body.
The Old Bridle Path: "It Is Solved By Walking", Caroline Santinelli
The Old Bridle Path: "It Is Solved By Walking", Caroline Santinelli
Appalachia
A member of the Greenleaf Hut crew, or “croo,” below the summit of Mount Lafayette in the White Mountains of New Hampshire connects to the natural history of the mountain through frequent foot trips on the Old Bridle Path.
News And Notes
Appalachia
A COVID-19 timeline of how backcountry groups served the public during summer and fall 2020. AMC’s shelter caretaker program reaches the half-century mark. Appalachia archives now hosted on Dartmouth Library’s Digital Commons three months after publication.
In Memoriam
Appalachia
Michael Micucci, an outfitter, rescuer, caretaker, and Appalachian Mountain Club employee.
Accidents
Appalachia
Analysis of accidents in and around the White Mountains of New Hampshire in summer/fall 2020 include: Novice hikers get stranded on Mount Jackson; teenagers spend the night near Moat Mountain after a late start; the snow arch in Tuckerman Ravine buries a man taking a photo; a woman fractures her ankle on the Watson Path; a man trying to carry his friend’s pack on the Castle Ravine Trail slips; four accidents kill climbers and hikers in September; Appalachian Mountain Club kept its high huts open as stopover and rescue coordination sites; a trail steward reflects on the COVID-19 summer; risk …
Letters
Appalachia
An Earl Shaffer memory, a memory of history writer William Geller when he was “Ranger Bill,” and Laura Waterman tells how her husband Guy Waterman built a remote cairn on the Hancock slide in 1982.
Accidents
Appalachia
Incidents include: a 26-year-old experienced hiker dies on Bondcliff on Christmas Eve; a new hiker struggles with his gear and calls for rescue; a man loses his way on icy Mount Lafayette. An excerpt from Accidents Editor Sandy Stott’s book Critical Hours: Search and Rescue in the White Mountains.
Accidents
Appalachia
Mishaps and rescues from summer/fall 2017 include: a dramatic rescue of several people in a school group on Mount Lafayette; a wandering backpacker in early May who triggers the season’s largest search; and a swimmer who drowns below Franconia Falls.
The Last Gift: Months Before A Father's Death, He Encourages His Son To Seek Challenges, Douglass P. Teschner
The Last Gift: Months Before A Father's Death, He Encourages His Son To Seek Challenges, Douglass P. Teschner
Appalachia
Months before his tragic death, a man encourages his yuoung son to seek challenges.
Emotional Rescue: A Hiker Becomes A Benefactor As She Follows A Set Of Sneaker Prints, Ty Gagne
Emotional Rescue: A Hiker Becomes A Benefactor As She Follows A Set Of Sneaker Prints, Ty Gagne
Appalachia
Ty Gagne’s riveting story of a hiker who followed a set of sneaker prints in foul weather and saved a man from suicide.
Care For The Caregiver: His Mother Had Never Backpacked; He Took Her To The Presidentials For Her 60th Birthday, Stephen Kurczy
Care For The Caregiver: His Mother Had Never Backpacked; He Took Her To The Presidentials For Her 60th Birthday, Stephen Kurczy
Appalachia
His mother had never backpacked; Stephen Kurczy took her to the Presidentials in the White Mountains of New Hampshire for her 60th birthday.
Encounters On Mount Willard: A Subway Seeker Meets A Mountain Man, Elissa Ely
Encounters On Mount Willard: A Subway Seeker Meets A Mountain Man, Elissa Ely
Appalachia
A hiker overhears a man from the city and two boys with their grandfather on a popular trail above Crawford Notch.
Accidents
Appalachia
Analysis of selected accidents in winter and spring 2018 in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Mishaps include a hiker whom rescuers search for after he’d checked into a hotel, a phone-guided rescue during a whiteout, hikers trapped by two rain-swollen streams, and more.
Waterman Fund Essay Winner: On Ceding Control: Motherhood In A Pathless Landscape, Emily Mitchell Heidenreich
Waterman Fund Essay Winner: On Ceding Control: Motherhood In A Pathless Landscape, Emily Mitchell Heidenreich
Appalachia
At her new home base of eastern Vermont, a young mother gives over her mountain energy to her children’s needs. “I wander these pathless woods, my baby strapped to my chest, as an attempt to reassert control over my body after the violence of pregnancy, of motherhood. This wandering is body work.”
Accidents
Appalachia
Sandy Stott recommends a book by Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain. The column covers accidents in summer and fall 2018, including an icy May rescue on the Flume Slide Trail, missed turns on the popular Franconia loop route, and three accidents on the tough trail up Huntington Ravine.
Not Here, Not Now: The Epic Of Dan Mcginness, Mike Cherim
Not Here, Not Now: The Epic Of Dan Mcginness, Mike Cherim
Appalachia
A White Mountain guide retells the story of a hiker who saved himself following a scary mid-December overnight in a ravine north of Mount Eisenhower.
Rebuilding, A Photo Essay: Volunteers Help Restore Parts Of The Oldest Trail In The United States, Paula Champagne, Joe Klementovich
Rebuilding, A Photo Essay: Volunteers Help Restore Parts Of The Oldest Trail In The United States, Paula Champagne, Joe Klementovich
Appalachia
Photos by Paula Champagne and Joe Klementovich celebrate the trail work that restores parts of the Crawford Path, the oldest recreational trail in the United States.
Closing The Circle: Fatherhood Rekindles In Franconia Notch, Christopher Johnson
Closing The Circle: Fatherhood Rekindles In Franconia Notch, Christopher Johnson
Appalachia
A father suffering anxiety from his work rekindles the connection to life and his family in New Hampshire’s Franconia Notch.
Accidents
Appalachia
Analysis of the winter of 2018–2019 covers skiers off the regular routes, a hiker lost in a morning whiteout, a hiker stranded by a raging brook, an injury when a hiker didn’t change to crampons on an icy stretch, and more.
Accidents
Appalachia
Late spring and summer 2019 came slowly; hikers got in trouble on old snow (“monorails”) throughout the White Mountains of New Hampshire in May. Also tales of June’s cold and mishaps on the Franconia Ridge.
Accidents
Appalachia
Reports of rescues and accidents in the winter of 2020. Ho-hum weather yielded to the emergency of COVID-19, which put rescue groups at risk. In late March, the U.S. Forest Service closed the Cutler River drainage and the Mount Washington Avalanche Center suspended avalanche forecasting.
The Crawford Path In The News: White Mountain History And The Communications Revolutions, Susan Schibanoff
The Crawford Path In The News: White Mountain History And The Communications Revolutions, Susan Schibanoff
Appalachia
By 1820, at least 50 newspapers were being published in New Hampshire, and that number doubled within a few decades. The communications revolution and the rapid expansion of newspapers in the White Mountains of New Hampshire has been an underused resource for historians. The 21st-century digital revolution has made those paper accessible, and they tell the story of the oldest continually maintained footpath in America, the Crawford Path.
The Hancock Loop Trail, Then And Now: Reflections From One Who Helped Build The Trail, Douglass P. Teschner
The Hancock Loop Trail, Then And Now: Reflections From One Who Helped Build The Trail, Douglass P. Teschner
Appalachia
A hiker who helped build the first trail up North Hancock and South Hancock in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the 1960s, tells the story.
Eight Weeks On Scudder: Writing From The Pandemic At The Fringes Of The White Mountain National Forest, Sally Manikian
Eight Weeks On Scudder: Writing From The Pandemic At The Fringes Of The White Mountain National Forest, Sally Manikian
Appalachia
On the fringes of the White Mountain National Forest, in Shelburne, New Hampshire, a dog musher forges a close-to-home walking route where she can feel safe, both physically and spiritually.