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Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing
Eastern Timber Wolf—Ely, Minnesota, Gina Marie Bernard
Eastern Timber Wolf—Ely, Minnesota, Gina Marie Bernard
Appalachia
No abstract provided.
Heath Hen: Tympanuchus Cupido Cupido, Francis Blessington
Heath Hen: Tympanuchus Cupido Cupido, Francis Blessington
Appalachia
No abstract provided.
A Peak Ahead: Retelling History, Christine Woodside
Books Of Note
Appalachia
Lost on a Mountain in Maine by Donn Fendler, as told to Joseph B. Egan. Catskill Mountain Guide 3rd Edition by Peter W. Kick. AMC’s Best Backpacking in New England 2nd Edition by Matt Heid. Quiet Water Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island 3rd Edition by Alex Wilson and John Hayes. Inscriptions by Cammy Thomas. The Mountain: My Time on Everest by Ed Viesturs with David Roberts. Logging Railroads of New Hampshire’s North Country by Bill Gove.
Research
Appalachia
Richard Primack’s work compares climate conditions Henry David Thoreau reported 150 years before to the current conditions, reports Jennifer Weeks. In western North America, the Sitka spruce struggles, writes Lisa Densmore Ballard.
News And Notes
Appalachia
The year 2014 marked the 50th anniversaries of the Wilderness Act and the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act. AMC and partners develop an outdoor recreation management certificate program with White Mountains Community College. Federal government issues new accessibility guidelines for outdoor areas. A task force works to control parties at Bulls Bridge in Connecticut. AMC receives a large grant to improve trails in the Moosehead Lake region. Memories of summer 2014 near Mount Moriah by that season’s Imp Shelter and Tentsite caretaker.
Alpina
Appalachia
The 2013 pre-monsoon season in the Nepal Himalaya included first ascents of Jagdula, Dragmorpa Ri, and others, and a record number of deaths on several peaks, including eight on Everest. Briton Kenton Cool and Sherpa Dorje Gyalzen traversed three peaks in the Everest group. Sixteen Nepalese died in the Khumbu Icefall below Everest on April 18, 2014.
Accidents
Appalachia
Analysis of accidents in the White Mountains (and nearby) in New Hampshire during winter and spring 2013–14 begins with a note about an unusual avalanche on Mount Washington’s southeast-facing summit snowfield on March 29, 2014; no one was hurt. A man backtracks on a poorly marked trail in the Kilkenny Range. A solo hiker avoiding dangerous wind and blowing snow descends onto the Dry River Trail. Six hikers call for help while sliding down the Mount Washington Auto Road. A pair of hikers lose a trail, and a skier slides out of King Ravine. Four hikers in a school group …
Letters
Appalachia
A letter comments on the Summer/Fall 2014 interview of Peter Landres. The man who organized AMC Boston Chapter’s first music weekend in 1976, called Mountains and Music, reminisces.
The Great Gulf: Evolution Of A Wilderness, David Govatski
The Great Gulf: Evolution Of A Wilderness, David Govatski
Appalachia
A history of the naming of and exploration in the Great Gulf, the glacial cirque complex between Mount Washington and Mount Adams in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Huts As Classrooms: A Memoir By Two Who Inhabited The Puckerbrush, John B. Nutter, W. Kent Olson
Huts As Classrooms: A Memoir By Two Who Inhabited The Puckerbrush, John B. Nutter, W. Kent Olson
Appalachia
The origins of the Appalachian Mountain Club’s educational programs at its huts in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, told by AMC’s first education director, John Nutter, and a former hut system manager, W. Kent Olson.
"Old Man" Thompson, White Mountain Guide: A Mountain Was Named After Him—And Then Unnamed, Julie Boardman
"Old Man" Thompson, White Mountain Guide: A Mountain Was Named After Him—And Then Unnamed, Julie Boardman
Appalachia
Julie Boardman’s story of Allen Thompson, a nineteenth-century White Mountain guide who had many excellent qualities and one failing: he focused on his own needs more than those of his clients.
118 Deer Went By...: Reminscing About The Old Sporting Camps Deep In The Maine Backcountry, William Geller
118 Deer Went By...: Reminscing About The Old Sporting Camps Deep In The Maine Backcountry, William Geller
Appalachia
Part 2 of William Geller’s story of a vanished way of life in Maine, between Rainbow Lake and Yoke Pond just west of Millinocket and south of Baxter State Park. The story is told through the eyes of a caretaker looking back on the 1890s-1950s.
Finding Courage In The Mountains' Shadows: Recovering A Climber's Body, Ryan J. Harvey
Finding Courage In The Mountains' Shadows: Recovering A Climber's Body, Ryan J. Harvey
Appalachia
A crew member at the Mount Washington Observatory is called on to recover a body on the eastern slope of Mount Clay.
Breakup At 4,800 Feet: He Hiked Out, And She Didnt, Elissa Ely
Breakup At 4,800 Feet: He Hiked Out, And She Didnt, Elissa Ely
Appalachia
Elissa Ely overhears a heartbreaking interaction inside Greenleaf Hut on the slopes of New Hampshire’s Mount Lafayette.
Waterman Fund Essay Winner: The Cage Canyon: "I Am Holding A Piece Of The Wild In My Hands, And She Wants Nothing To Do With Me", Jenny Kelly Wagner
Waterman Fund Essay Winner: The Cage Canyon: "I Am Holding A Piece Of The Wild In My Hands, And She Wants Nothing To Do With Me", Jenny Kelly Wagner
Appalachia
The winner of the seventh Waterman Fund Essay Contest shows what has happened to wolves in the West: most wolves alive today have never learned to hunt because they were bred in captivity. They are a species that has lost its wildness but can never be tamed.
A Wild Ride: Down A Beautiful And Stressed Western Waterway, Lisa Densmore Ballard
A Wild Ride: Down A Beautiful And Stressed Western Waterway, Lisa Densmore Ballard
Appalachia
Lisa Densmore Ballard’s story of a 187-mile rafting trip through the Grand Canyon.
Save The Colorado: Can Recreation Rescue A Preservation Ethic?, John Gioia
Save The Colorado: Can Recreation Rescue A Preservation Ethic?, John Gioia
Appalachia
An environmental management scholar takes a trip down the Colorado River and considers the long history of abuse that has threatened its water.
The Long Way Home: Trout Fishing In The Carters, Christine Woodside
The Long Way Home: Trout Fishing In The Carters, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
Editor-in-chief Christine Woodside narrates a backpacking trip with an old friend through the Carter Range. They are reading and puzzling over Richard Brautigan’s cryptic novel Trout Fishing in America.
Appalachia Winter/Spring 2015: Complete Issue
Resilience, Paul Weidknecht
A Way Of Seeing, Wally Swist
Blue Heron Morning, Laura Sweeney
The Poem That Hibernates In The Hills Above My Cabin, John E. Smelcer
The Poem That Hibernates In The Hills Above My Cabin, John E. Smelcer
Appalachia
No abstract provided.
Roses, Mary Oliver
Path, Midge Goldberg
What I Know About Death And Resurrection (For K.A. Hayes), Todd Davis
What I Know About Death And Resurrection (For K.A. Hayes), Todd Davis
Appalachia
No abstract provided.
The Poem You're Carrying With You, Robin Chapman
The Swift River, Francis Blessington
A Peak Ahead: Commitment, Christine Woodside