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Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing
In Memoriam
Appalachia
Samuel F. Pryor, III, former Appalachian Mountain Club board president.
Books Of Note
Appalachia
Maia Rauschenberg’s essay, “The Mom List: Books straight out of the box,” discusses Wild by Cheryl Strayed, The Emerald Mile by Ken Fedarko, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, and others. Reviews of The Geology of New Hampshire’s White Mountains by J. Dykstra Eusden et al. Along the Appalachian Trail: New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut by Leonard M. Adkins and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. Denali’s Howl by Andy Hall. Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods by Richard B. Primack. The Land Breakers by John Ehle. Hanging On: A Life Inside British Climbing’s Golden Age by Martin Boysen. …
News And Notes
Appalachia
The Appalachian Mountain Club, with assistance from The Nature Conservancy, protects Maine’s Baker Mountain. AMC will open a program center in New York’s Harriman State Park. Voluntary New Hampshire “HikeSafe” cards are available. Clay B. Cook narrates a trip to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. John Fox reports conservation efforts in the Hudson Highlands of New York and New Jersey.
Alpina
Appalachia
Denali’s 2014 season: 1,204 attempted the highest peak in North America in 2014. Six out of twelve who tried Mount Foraker reached the top. In the Nepal Himalaya’s post-monsoon 2013 season, 180 expeditions attempted 35 mountains; 260 team members summited with the aid of 185 hired supporters. An avalanche on Manaslu killed eleven. Five died: two on Baruntse and three on Himlung. Swiss climber Ueli Steck pioneered a new south-face route on Annapurna; two French climbers followed a few weeks later and were evacuated afterwards. In pre-monsoon 2014, an April 18 avalanche on Mount Everest killed sixteen Nepalese, mostly ethnic …
Accidents
Appalachia
Analysis by Sandy Stott of summer/fall 2014 accidents in the White Mountains of New Hampshire: four women get lost after sunset on Mount Watatic in Massachusetts. A man slips on the Falling Waters Trail and is carried out. Exhausted hikers on Mount Lafayette are assisted to Greenleaf Hut. New walkers who summit late on Mount Washington ask tourists for help and get in trouble walking down the Cog Railway. Two parties struggle after rock-climbing Cannon Cliff. A couple returning to the White Mountains after years cannot make time going down the Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail. On Mount Major, 37 people get …
Letters
Appalachia
A reader asks if a school group from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania should have been charged for its January 2014 rescue on Mount Washington. W. Kent Olson clarifies that the frontispiece photo of Philip Levin in Winter/Spring 2010 is a photo of technical climbing, not skiing. A retired earth sciences professor challenges discussion of dams’ effects on the Colorado River in an article in Winter/Spring 2015. Douglass Teschner shares a tale of the late New Hampshire hiker Chris Goetze.
Outage: An Adventure In Situ, Learning To Fear Storms In A More Funadmental Way Than Before, W. D. Wetherell
Outage: An Adventure In Situ, Learning To Fear Storms In A More Funadmental Way Than Before, W. D. Wetherell
Appalachia
Writer W.D. Wetherell lives in west central New Hampshire and has noticed that hundred-year storms have become more frequent. This story tells of a wretched night in the house experiencing climate change’s tempests.
The Big One: After Altitude Sickness Thwarts Her Mother, A Hiker Forges Alone Up Mount Whitney, Jia H. Jung
The Big One: After Altitude Sickness Thwarts Her Mother, A Hiker Forges Alone Up Mount Whitney, Jia H. Jung
Appalachia
A grueling hike up the highest point in the lower 48 states, in Sequoia National Park, energizes writer Jia H. Jung.
Where The Trail Ends: A Story Of Losing A Friend And Finding A Mountain, Wendy Ungar
Where The Trail Ends: A Story Of Losing A Friend And Finding A Mountain, Wendy Ungar
Appalachia
Wendy Ungar honors her late friend Jane Neale with the story of their bushwhack in 1995 up then-trailless Lookout Mountain, in the Adirondacks.
Rehabilitation With Cooper, Elissa Ely
Rehabilitation With Cooper, Elissa Ely
Appalachia
A golden retriever with a chaotic past learns to follow writer Elissa Ely up mountains, ending his solitude and hers.
Channeling Myron Avery: Following A 1929 Ramble In Maine, William Geller, Jim Logan
Channeling Myron Avery: Following A 1929 Ramble In Maine, William Geller, Jim Logan
Appalachia
William Geller and Jim Logan go back in time on Katahdin, following a route early trail blazer Avery took in the area of South Traveler and Traveler Gap in Baxter State Park.
What Happened To The Thoreau Spring Plaque? The Story Of A Maine Landmark's Two Names, Howard R. Whitcomb
What Happened To The Thoreau Spring Plaque? The Story Of A Maine Landmark's Two Names, Howard R. Whitcomb
Appalachia
Thoreau Spring lies at the convergence of two trails high on Katahdin, in Maine. Howard R. Whitcomb tells the story of the spring’s two names and vandalism of a plaque that marked it.
Emerson And The Environment: The Beginnings Of American Nationalism, Michael Popejoy
Emerson And The Environment: The Beginnings Of American Nationalism, Michael Popejoy
Appalachia
Ralph Waldo Emerson has been known as a transcendentalist and idealist, but he left no shortage of footprints on the landscape and also thought and wrote extensively about the natural world. Michael Popejoy examines Emerson’s “unified philosophy of nature.”
Master Of Path Grading: An Appreciation Of J. Rayner Edmands, Christine Woodside
Master Of Path Grading: An Appreciation Of J. Rayner Edmands, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
Christine Woodside’s profile and history of the engineer who spent twenty years making graded trails that followed the land’s contours in the White Mountains of New Hampshire: Edmands Path, Randolph Path, Gulfside Trail, Westside Trail, Valley Way, and others; the work may have hastened his death at 60.
The Rusty Pitons: In New Jersey, Evidence Of Rock Climbing 75 Years Ago, John Anderson
The Rusty Pitons: In New Jersey, Evidence Of Rock Climbing 75 Years Ago, John Anderson
Appalachia
John Anderson, a longtime climber, traces the signs of technical climbers on New Jersey’s cliffs in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. He shares evidence that Fritz Wiessner may have pioneered routes, and the Tenth Mountain Division used the rock for training. Routes scale Windbeam, Kanouse, Green Pond, and Copperas Mountains.
The Long Way Home: When We Can't Go, Christine Woodside
The Long Way Home: When We Can't Go, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
Christine Woodside’s column tells the story of her friend, Dan, whose age and medical problems had prevented him from going to his beloved wilderness landscape, the Second College Grant in New Hampshire.
Appalachia Summer/Fall 2015: Complete Issue
Appalachia Summer/Fall 2015: Complete Issue
Appalachia
Summer/Fall 2015 - Volume LXVI, Number 2 - Issue #240. Retelling History: Rusty Pions, Rock Highways, and Other Mysteries
Daylilies, Wally Swist
A Cold Front Settles In The Valley, John E. Smelcer
Evening Comes, Sarah Rehfeldt
Who Cometh Here?, Mary Oliver
Night Of The Owl, Lynn Martin
Winterkill, Todd Davis
Winterkill, Todd Davis
Appalachia
Note: The original issue misspelled Mr. Davis’s name. We apologize for the error.
March, Nadia Colburn
5 P.M. May 2, On The Way To The Wisconsin River, Robin Chapman
5 P.M. May 2, On The Way To The Wisconsin River, Robin Chapman
Appalachia
No abstract provided.
A Peak Ahead: Living With The Consequences, Christine Woodside
A Peak Ahead: Living With The Consequences, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
No abstract provided.
In Memoriam
Appalachia
Alpina Editor Steven Jervis and Editor-in-Chief Christine Woodside tell about the life of William Lowell Putnam III, a mountaineer, author of many books including The Worst Weather on Earth (American Alpine Club, 1991), former chair of AMC’s Mountain Leadership Committee, and founder of the first television station in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Books And Media
Appalachia
Maia Rauschenberg celebrates Mardy Murie, author of Two in the Far North (Alaska Northwest Books, 2003). Reviews of: Wilderness Ethics: Preserving the Spirit of Wildness by Laura and Guy Waterman. White Mountains Hiking History: Trailblazers of the Granite State by Mike Dickerman. New England Trail Map and Guide by the Appalachian Mountain Club and Connecticut Forest & Park Association. Trail Running Western Massachusetts by Ben Kimball. The Precipice by Paul Doiron. The Tower: A Chronicle of Climbing and Controversy on Cerro Torre by Kelly Cordes. Barren Grounds: The Story of the Tragic Moffat Canoe Trip by Skip Pessl. Savage …
News And Notes
Appalachia
Appalachian Mountain Club proposes new hut in Crawford Notch near the Arethusa-Ripley Falls Trail. AMC opposes Northern Pass electric power transmission project. Winooski River footbridge opens on the Long Trail in Vermont. Scott Jurek sets speed record on the Appalachian Trail. Bob Weekes laments, in a short essay, the exercise of taking old mountaineering gear to the local landfill.
Alpina
Appalachia
Jeffery Parrette writes of events in 2014 and 2015 in the Nepal Himalaya, with end notes listing numerous sources. The essay covers the 2014 cyclone Hudhud; Everest climbers in spring 2015; the April 25, 2015 earthquake in the Everest region; earlier earthquakes in Nepal; a comparison of the 1934 and 2015 earthquakes; and how the 2015 earthquake affected Nepal and its mountaineering and trekking.