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Substance, Ben Corvo Apr 2026

Substance, Ben Corvo

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Los Quetzales, I, Marcyn Del Clements Apr 2026

Los Quetzales, I, Marcyn Del Clements

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


World Light, Robin Chapman Apr 2026

World Light, Robin Chapman

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Off The Back Shore, Elizabeth Bradfield Apr 2026

Off The Back Shore, Elizabeth Bradfield

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


A Peak Ahead, Christine Woodside Apr 2026

A Peak Ahead, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Books And Media Apr 2026

Books And Media

Appalachia

Reviews of: AMC Southern New Hampshire Trail Guide, 6th Edition; Long Trail Guide, 29th Edition; Letters from the Mountain, edited by Steve Chase and Brad Meiklejohn; In My Boots, by Amanda K. Jaros; White Pines, by Jane English


News And Notes Apr 2026

News And Notes

Appalachia

Lessons from the activism that prevented a four-lane highway in New Hampshire’s Franconia Notch. U.S. Forest Service staffers navigate job uncertainty amid federal government cuts.


Research Apr 2026

Research

Appalachia

Gabriella Gurney discusses fire in the ecosystems of the Northeast.


Alpina Apr 2026

Alpina

Appalachia

Reports of mountaineering in the greater ranges in 2025 include a new record climbing Everest from sea level to summit in just under four days. A commentary on a British team using xenon gas to acclimate before leaving the United Kingdom for Everest. A partial new route on the Diamir, one of Nanga Parbat’s three gigantic faces. A team of Canadian and Australian climbers reach the summit of Ultar Sar in the Karakoram Range. Czech mountaineers achieve the southeast face of Hunza Peak in the Karakoram. Kate Kelleghan and Laura Pineau complete the first all-female Triple Crown in Yosemite National …


Accidents Apr 2026

Accidents

Appalachia

Reports of rescues and accidents in the White Mountains of New Hampshire from the cold seasons of 2025 opens with thoughts on how fast one’s hands can freeze. An experienced man, age 75, describes getting too cold on Cannon Mountain; he evaluates his own accident, and the editors weigh in at the end of the column. Two well-equipped women lose the Jewell Trail in deep snow and call for help, later sharing a six-point list of how to be safer next time. A 28-year-old man navigating high winds and deep snow by Google in a quest to see the sunrise …


Letters Apr 2026

Letters

Appalachia

More musings on smartphones in the mountains. Praise for Katie Ives’s Appalachia Summer/Fall 2025 story, “Burning Solitudes.” Longtime Appalachian Mountain Club members share memories of former membership practices in response to Christine Woodside’s Appalachia Summer/Fall 2025 essay, “A Look Back at the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Long-Ago Membership Practices.”


Skyline Sketches: Captain Crunch, Douglass Teschner Apr 2026

Skyline Sketches: Captain Crunch, Douglass Teschner

Appalachia

The story of a scramble and technical climb in 1991 up the trailless peak called the Captain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.


Skyline Sketches: Wisdom From My Dad, Bill Murray, Lauren Murray Apr 2026

Skyline Sketches: Wisdom From My Dad, Bill Murray, Lauren Murray

Appalachia

A woman recounts the mountain lessons she learned from her father from 1969 to 2006, and the lessons she carried forward.


Skyline Sketches: The Encounter, Gordon Dubois Apr 2026

Skyline Sketches: The Encounter, Gordon Dubois

Appalachia

A bushwhacker meets a weasel on Vermont’s Ryegate Mountain.


Splinter Hill: Looking Into The Maws Of Pitcher Plants, Samantha Sapp Apr 2026

Splinter Hill: Looking Into The Maws Of Pitcher Plants, Samantha Sapp

Appalachia

A young woman discusses the environmental, regional, historic, and personal importance of Sarracenia pitcher plants.


Exploring Mount Mitchell: An Adventurer Searches For The Dispute That Named The Highest Peak East Of The Mississippi, Lisa Ballard Apr 2026

Exploring Mount Mitchell: An Adventurer Searches For The Dispute That Named The Highest Peak East Of The Mississippi, Lisa Ballard

Appalachia

Writer Lisa Ballard hikes the trails of North Carolina's 6,684-foot Mount Mitchell and researches the history behind the mountain's name.


Strathcona: Climbers Battle Paranoia Near Canada's Elk Pass, Leath Tonino Apr 2026

Strathcona: Climbers Battle Paranoia Near Canada's Elk Pass, Leath Tonino

Appalachia

A hiker reflects on memories of doubt and feeling mentally unstable experienced on a strenuous backpacking trip with friends in British Columbia.


Immersion: Learning To Share For The Sake Of Everything We Love, Shane Behler Apr 2026

Immersion: Learning To Share For The Sake Of Everything We Love, Shane Behler

Appalachia

The winner of this journal’s Waterman Fund Essay Contest describes a pivotal change in attitude watching children play in the water of Dupont State Forest in North Carolina.


West Rim, Zion: Where Impulse Can Lead Down A Different Incline, Elissa Ely Apr 2026

West Rim, Zion: Where Impulse Can Lead Down A Different Incline, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

A journey of the mind after the writer, trying to capture a spectacular vista above an exposed expanse of rock, drops her phone.


Chesuncook, Through The Life Of Addie: A Farm Village Evolves Into An Adventure Stopover, William Geller Apr 2026

Chesuncook, Through The Life Of Addie: A Farm Village Evolves Into An Adventure Stopover, William Geller

Appalachia

The latest in a series about the early economies of the Maine Woods.


An Anthology Of Snake Stories: Close Encounters From New Hampshire To Laos, Todd Swain Apr 2026

An Anthology Of Snake Stories: Close Encounters From New Hampshire To Laos, Todd Swain

Appalachia

Garter snakes, copperheads, rattlesnakes, a pursuit by a Moorish viper, and more.


The Freezing Point: In The Presidential Range, A Guide Copes With Winter's New Reality``, Michael Wejchert Apr 2026

The Freezing Point: In The Presidential Range, A Guide Copes With Winter's New Reality``, Michael Wejchert

Appalachia

After more than a decade guiding “Presi traverses” in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, the writer, also a mountain rescuer, explains why he stopped taking clients.


Where Drinking Water Begins: A Writer Embarks On A 100-Mile Paddling Mission Through Maine's Sebago Lake Watershed, Jenny O'Connell Apr 2026

Where Drinking Water Begins: A Writer Embarks On A 100-Mile Paddling Mission Through Maine's Sebago Lake Watershed, Jenny O'Connell

Appalachia

A kayaking trip for the Crooked River Project explored the vulnerability of drinking water, and a scientist for the Appalachian Mountain Club describes a restoration project on the West Branch of the Pleasant River.


The Toll Ticks Take: Strangest Reason Yet To Give Up Red Meat, James Mason Apr 2026

The Toll Ticks Take: Strangest Reason Yet To Give Up Red Meat, James Mason

Appalachia

A strange allergic reaction leads an experienced mountain climber back to the bite of a lone star tick.


Why Do We Hike? A Senior Hiking Group In Western Maine Thrives, Alan Crabtree Apr 2026

Why Do We Hike? A Senior Hiking Group In Western Maine Thrives, Alan Crabtree

Appalachia

The leader of a group for hikers ranging in age from their mid-60s to over 90 explains the benefits of Friday walks up mountains and around waterfalls.


Rewilding Teens: A Quartet Beyond Screens, Ian Ramsey Apr 2026

Rewilding Teens: A Quartet Beyond Screens, Ian Ramsey

Appalachia

A teacher takes high school students into backcountry environments and remote destinations from New Hampshire to Thailand, where he walks them through “the fire of challenge” without technology.


The Long Way Home: What The Crepuscular Birds Taught Me, Christine Woodside Apr 2026

The Long Way Home: What The Crepuscular Birds Taught Me, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

Lessons on how to pace life from a hermit thrush encountered on a trail.


Appalachia Winter/Spring 2026: Complete Issue Apr 2026

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2026: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Winter/Spring 2026 - Volume LXXVII, Number 1 - Issue #261. Healing and Hazards: Finding and Saving Health in Wild Places


Toward A Horizonal "I": The Infinite Subject In William Wordsworth's The Prelude, Gabriella Lee Schwartz Apr 2026

Toward A Horizonal "I": The Infinite Subject In William Wordsworth's The Prelude, Gabriella Lee Schwartz

Theses and Dissertations

In an 1805 letter to Sir George Beaumont describing his autobiographical poem The Prelude, William Wordsworth remarked that it was "a thing unprecedented in literary history that a man should talk so much about himself." Since then, critics have only affirmed Wordsworth's reputation as a poet, if not the poet, of selfhood and consciousness. Perhaps the most renowned scholarship on Wordsworthian subjectivity was produced by the so-called "Yale School" of the late twentieth century, as J. Hillis Miller, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, and Paul de Man all published influential works on the topic. The latter two staked out stances on …


Utah Secondary English Language Arts Teachers And The Use Of Body Diverse Young Adult Literature, Katy Johnson Bigham Apr 2026

Utah Secondary English Language Arts Teachers And The Use Of Body Diverse Young Adult Literature, Katy Johnson Bigham

Theses and Dissertations

Representation in young adult (YA) literature has expanded significantly in recent years, but body size diversity - specifically the inclusion of fat protagonists - is still minimal and understudied in secondary English language arts (ELA) classrooms. Research shows that diverse literature plays a crucial role in helping students see themselves and other reflected in the texts they read, as shown in the metaphor of literature as "windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors" (Bishop, 1990). So how does this apply to the representation of body size diversity in the ELA classroom? This study explores how secondary ELA teachers in Utah perceive …