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Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing
Alpina
Appalachia
Climbers on Everest in 2018 verified that the rock formation called the Hillary Step is gone. Trash mars the world’s highest peak. A Polish team tried K2 in winter. Denali institutes a new human waste policy. Tribute to Jim "The Bird" Bridwell. Steven Jervis’s tribute to Leif-Norman Patterson.
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.
Letters
Appalachia
Julie Boardman clarifies the meaning of her book Death in the White Mountains: Hiker Fatalities and How to Avoid Being One, which had been reviewed in the previous issue, as a study in “what can be learned by studying White Mountain fatalities.”
Fear Of Rattlesnakes: On The Secret Trails Of Small-Time New England Poachers, Christine Woodside
Fear Of Rattlesnakes: On The Secret Trails Of Small-Time New England Poachers, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
Trying to understand the habits of smalltime poachers in the New England forest, a journalist follows two biologists who are trying to save the endangered timber rattlesnake.
Fall On Big Moose Mountain: A Self-Rescue On A Day Hike Drives Home Old Safety Lessons, Matt Chabe
Fall On Big Moose Mountain: A Self-Rescue On A Day Hike Drives Home Old Safety Lessons, Matt Chabe
Appalachia
A hiker falls through soft snow while climbing in central Maine. A tree makes a gash down the left side of his head, and he realizes he has left his emergency kit in the car.
The Struggle: An Injured Deer And A Dilemma, Benjamin Alva Polley
The Struggle: An Injured Deer And A Dilemma, Benjamin Alva Polley
Appalachia
A man struggles with a dilemma when a badly injured deer collapses in the Illinois forest.
My Time Is Short: A Woodsman Shares Hidden Treasures Of The Forest With His Stepdaughter, Judi Calhoun
My Time Is Short: A Woodsman Shares Hidden Treasures Of The Forest With His Stepdaughter, Judi Calhoun
Appalachia
A tribute to the stepfather who understood the lessons of abandoned settlements in New Hampshire’s forests.
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.”
Finding An Unforeseen Labrador: From The St. Lawrence To Ungava, David K. Leff
Finding An Unforeseen Labrador: From The St. Lawrence To Ungava, David K. Leff
Appalachia
A memoir of a 1988 trip to Labrador begins with a long train ride to Schefferville and proceeds to long days paddling two rivers north toward Ungava Bay.
Stubborn As A Mule: Distant Thunder Prompts Self-Reflection, Elissa Ely
Stubborn As A Mule: Distant Thunder Prompts Self-Reflection, Elissa Ely
Appalachia
Thunder rumbles while a hiker risks walking partway down the South Kaibab Trail in the Grand Canyon.
Wild Florida: A Woman Seeks What Lies Beyond Childhood Rv Vacations, Sally Manikian
Wild Florida: A Woman Seeks What Lies Beyond Childhood Rv Vacations, Sally Manikian
Appalachia
She has lived most of her life in New Hampshire and thought of Florida as a superficial place. Then she immerses herself in the smells, sights, and sounds around a cabin in Big Pine.
Never Too Late: How Not To Climb A Glaciated Peak, Nicholas Reynolds
Never Too Late: How Not To Climb A Glaciated Peak, Nicholas Reynolds
Appalachia
A historian in his early 60s revisits an old dream of climbing a glaciated peak in the Pacific Northwest: Mount Baker in North Cascades National Park in Washington state.
Working As A Mountaineer In Antarctica: 40 Years In The Making, Todd Swain, Donnette Swain
Working As A Mountaineer In Antarctica: 40 Years In The Making, Todd Swain, Donnette Swain
Appalachia
In the austral summer of 2017–2018, mountaineers Todd and Donette Swain work as safety staffers helping scientists avoid crevasses while conducting field research in Antarctica.
The Long Way Home: The Last Few Steps, Christine Woodside
The Long Way Home: The Last Few Steps, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
Christine Woodside sees parallels between her aging mother’s struggles and climbing a mountain.
Appalachia Winter/Spring 2019: Complete Issue
Appalachia Winter/Spring 2019: Complete Issue
Appalachia
Winter/Spring 2019 - Volume LXX, Number 1 - Issue #247. Quests That Wouldn't Let Go: Chasing Persistent Dreams to Florida, Antarctica, and Labrador.
Hawk Feathers, Wally Swist
The White Moose, John Smelcer
At The Dam, Sandra Sylvia Nelson
The Pond, Kay Mullen
Quartz Spines, Alice B. Fogel
Hexagonal, Todd Davis
Mogoté De La Guira: Bay Of Pigs, Cuba, Marcyn Del Clements
Mogoté De La Guira: Bay Of Pigs, Cuba, Marcyn Del Clements
Appalachia
No abstract provided.
Fox At 4 A.M., Robin Chapman
A Peak Ahead: Tributes To Mary Oliver, And Scotland, Christine Woodside
A Peak Ahead: Tributes To Mary Oliver, And Scotland, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
No abstract provided.
Books And Media
Appalachia
Reviews of: AMC’s Maine Mountain Guide by Cary Michael Kish. Forest and Crag by Laura Waterman and Guy Waterman. A Naturalist at Large: The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich by Bernd Heinrich. Terranexus: Connection and Meaning in Ordinary Places by David K. Leff. A Sideways Look at Clouds by Maria Mudd Ruth. Saving Thoreau’s Birthplace by Lucille Stott. The Pacific Alone by Dave Shively. Yankee Rock and Ice by Laura and Guy Waterman with new chapters by Michael Wejchert.
News And Notes
Appalachia
Snow rangers worked in the White Mountain National Forest during the 2017 federal government shutdown for 35 days. A memoir from 1965, when a teenager climbed Mount Rainier “unauthorized.”
Alpina
Appalachia
Climbs in 2017 include the South Ridge of Mount Huntington in Alaska, Cerro Kishtwar in India, Rungofarka in Kashmir, and more. Tributes to the late Tom Frost and Jeff Lowe. Discussion of films released in 2018 of the free climbs of Yosemite’s El Capitan.
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.
Letters
Appalachia
David Sanderson recollects trying to save Alfred Whipple Jr. and Sidney Crouch on Cannon Mountain in 1959. Al Sanborn tells a story of surviving hypothermia. Bev Esson criticizes a story about a man who took his 60-year-old mother backpacking.