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Articles 31 - 60 of 1613
Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing
Off The Back Shore, Elizabeth Bradfield
A Peak Ahead, Christine Woodside
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
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
Appalachia
Gabriella Gurney discusses fire in the ecosystems of the Northeast.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Keepers' Shadow, Julietta Thron
The Keepers' Shadow, Julietta Thron
Dartmouth College Master’s Theses
"The Keepers' Shadow" is a 350-page fantasy novel. The project's base concept/idea is one I've always had, however, the in-depth world-building that brings that story to life is what I researched and expanded on during my independent study and thesis. The agriculture, economics, architecture and government systems are heavily influenced by Renaissance Italy, Spain, and Ireland. Moreover, I heavily researched and implemented themes/issues such as colonization, tyrannical governments, religious restriction/conflict, erasure of history, slave labor, and the successful use of fear mongering. These concepts are not ones unlike what we see in our own political and social climate today, hence …
Dark Wave - Comics And Transgender Studies In Practice, Mieke Vanderveen
Dark Wave - Comics And Transgender Studies In Practice, Mieke Vanderveen
Dartmouth College Master’s Theses
This is a thesis in two parts. Its goal is to provoke the intersection of superhero comics and transgender studies in order to interrogate the parallels between those two identities and explore ways in which pairing them together can strengthen each other narratively and academically. Rather than seeking an answer to a question, the project as a whole serves as a way of communicating trans internalities from a transfeminine perspective in a format that brings the issues to the forefront of the narrative in an in-depth and entertaining way. The result is hopefully a coherent artistic work that achieves those …
Unnatural Language, Cosima Pellis
Going Back To The Ruins, Zuhura -
White List, Reng Zhao