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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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.