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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
A Peak Ahead: The Humanity Of Machines, Christine Woodside
A Peak Ahead: The Humanity Of Machines, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
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Books And Media
Appalachia
Reviews of: AMC's Best Day Hikes in Connecticut and Rhode Island, by Steve Fagin, Rene Laubach, and Charles W. G. Smith; AMC's Best Day Hikes in New Jersey, 2nd Edition, by Priscilla Estes and Michael McCormick; The 4,000-Footers of the White Mountains, 3rd Edition, by Steven D. Smith and Mike Dickerman; Arctic Traverse: A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range, by Michael Engelhard; Calling Wild Places Home: A Memoir in Essays, by Laura Waterman; Accidents in North American Climbing, by the American Alpine Club
Old Hutmen And Hutwomen Honor Betsy Byrd, W. Kent Olson
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
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
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
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
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
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
Skyline Sketches: The Last Backpack, Gordon Dubois
Appalachia
Memories of Rufus the trail dog.
Skyline Sketches: The Yellow Lily, Gregory L. Norris
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
A Peak Ahead: Dark Places, Christine Woodside
Books And Media
Appalachia
Reviews of: The Race that Changed Running: The Inside Story of the UTMB, by Doug Mayer; Been Outside: Adventures of Black Women, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming People in Nature, edited by Amber Wendler and Shaz Zamore; AMC's Best Day Hikes in the White Mountains, by Robert N. Buchsbaum; AMC's Best Day Hikes Near Boston, by Michael Tougias, John S. Burk, and Alison O'Leary; AMC's Best Day Hikes Near Washington, D.C., by Jennifer Adach and Beth Homicz; Campfire Stories: Tales from America's National Parks and Trails, Volume II, edited by Dave Kyu and Ilyssa Kyu; …
Skyline Sketches: The Dog Bell, Michael Keck
Skyline Sketches: The Dog Bell, Michael Keck
Appalachia
A bear bell evokes bittersweet memories of a hiker’s deceased dog, Rufus.
Skyline Sketches: Their First Mountain At Ages 75 And 83, Julie Midura
Skyline Sketches: Their First Mountain At Ages 75 And 83, Julie Midura
Appalachia
A woman, 75, and her fiancé, 83, climb their first mountain.
Skyline Sketches: A Hiker Called Taps Plays "Taps", William Barrett
Skyline Sketches: A Hiker Called Taps Plays "Taps", William Barrett
Appalachia
A thru-hiker plays “Taps” on his bugle at Lakes of the Clouds Hut in the White Mountains.
News And Notes
Appalachia
A video promoting the Appalachian Mountain Club’s efforts to preserve the night sky wins an Emmy Award from the Boston/New England Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in June 2023. AMC and the Conservation Fund join in purchase of the Barnard Forest in Piscataquis County, Maine.
In Memoriam
Appalachia
Tributes to: John Edward Mullens, who died December 3, 2022, just after receiving the Distinguished Service Award from the Appalachian Mountain Club, which he served as a volunteer in many roles over many years; George DeWolfe, who died July 2, 2023 after a long career as a photographer that included many contributions to AMC projects; and Douglas W. and Mary Louise Backus Rankin, geologist and China historian who’d met working for AMC in the 1950s and who did mountain research together for years before their deaths in 2015 and 2020.
Alpina
Appalachia
Among the many updates on mountaineering in the greater ranges in late 2022 and early 2023 is a report of a record 479 permits issued for Mount Everest in spring 2023; seventeen died. In May 2023, climbers establish a new route on India’s Meru. Updates on Kristin Harila’s record time of completing all fourteen 8,000-meter peaks in 2023. Three climbers establish a new route, Technicolour Superdream, on Alaska’s Mount Huntington. A new route on the East Face of Mount Dickey. German Jost Kobusch tackles a hard route up Denali. A new route by Czechs up Suru Peak in Nepal. An …