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Moose Gives Birth, Max L. Stephan

Appalachia

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Cormorants At Chambers Bay, Kay Mullen

Appalachia

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Hutchins Island, Grace Mattern

Appalachia

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Monarchs, Todd Davis

Appalachia

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Gomantong Caves, Sabah, Borneo, Marcyn Del Clements

Appalachia

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The Lake At The Pass (Arapahoe Pass, Co), Chris Hoffman

Appalachia

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Screech Owl, Francis Blessington

Appalachia

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A Peak Ahead, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

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Books And Media

Appalachia

Maia Rauschenberg writes a tribute to Canadian artist Emily Carr in an essay about three books: The Art of Emily Carr by Doris Shadbolt, Growing Pains: the Autobiography of Emily Carr by Emily Carr, and The Forest Lover: A Novel by Susan Vreeland. Reviews of: Desperate Steps: Life, Death and Choices Made in the Mountains of the Northeast by Peter W. Kick. The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs by Tristan Gooley. The Airman’s Arctic Survival Guide by Belmore Browne. 59 Illustrated National Parks by Joel Anderson and Nathan Anderson. Art of Katahdin by David Little.

News And Notes

Appalachia

Reports on: A new bridge for the Nineteen-Mile Brook Trail. Adventurer Kaitlyn Bernard reflects on the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Great Maine Outdoor Weekend. Molly Higgins writes about the Bay Circuit Trail near Boston. The late former governor of New Hampshire, Sherman Adams, received a posthumous trail work award.

Alpina

Appalachia

Jeffery Parrette, the longtime editor of this section, retired in winter 2016. During the transition to a new editor of this section, Steven Jervis gives a report on Denali.

Accidents

Appalachia

Analysis of summer/fall 2015 accidents in the White Mountains of New Hampshire found many slips on cool, damp rocks. Accidents included: Hikers seeking Owls Head turned back at swollen Franconia Brook on May. On August 11, a teenager died after being swept under Franconia Brook, which was rising fast following heavy rain. In October, an experienced hiker was swept away by the swollen Gale River and died. Bad weather on August 11 trapped a hiking group on Mount Madison. Mishaps on Mount Monadnock in southwestern New Hampshire. A helicopter rescued a man who collapsed on the Falling Waters Trail and …

Letters

Appalachia

A letter from Jack Reilly comments on the contrasting approaches to mountains by Kate Matrosova and William Putnam as chronicled in the Winter/Spring 2016 issue of Appalachia.

A Maple For The Ages: Discovering A 250-Year-Old Tree Hidden In An Overgrown Nature Preserve, Christopher Johnson

Appalachia

A writer explores Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary in Massachusetts, coming upon a very old maple tree that once stood alone.

The Randolph Glacier Inventory: Scientists Gatheres In The White Mountains To Count The World's Glaciers, W. Tad Pfeffer

Appalachia

A glaciologist describes a meeting in Randolph, New Hampshire, in the White Mountains, of international scientists charged with creating a glacier inventory for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Catching A Fish: Girls Find Food And Water, Leah Titcomb

Appalachia

A registered Maine guide shares tales of teaching girls outdoor skills on three-week-long canoe expeditions.

The Geography Of Philanthropy: With Three Meditations On Humility, W. Kent Olson

Appalachia

A former Appalachia editor considers the motivations behind the creation of Maine’s Acadia National Park on its centennial.

Steepness Ends: Considering The Will To Live, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

Preoccupations run through Elissa Ely’s mind on the way to Galehead Hut and South Twin Mountain.

Looking For Kate: Searchers' Stories, Sandy Stott

Appalachia

The story of Kate Matrosova’s tragic death near Mount Adams on February 15, 2015, told by those who searched for her.

A Scoutmaster's Fall: Three Witnesses Will Never Forget It, Crawford Coates

Appalachia

Looking back on the 1952 fatal fall of Charles Bays Locker, a dynamic guide, in the Sierras.

Wild Katahdin?: Will Growing Numbers Of Thru-Hikers And Disruptive Behavior Remove "Maine's Greatest Mountain" From The At?, Lucille Stott

Appalachia

As growing numbers of long-distance hikers hold public celebrations at the northern terminus of the famed Appalachian Trail, some fear that Baxter State Park may push to move the AT off the mountain.

"All A Question Of Luck": Hope Deteriorated Into A Survival Game In The A. W. Greely Expedition, Laura Waterman

Appalachia

An expedition to the Arctic from 1881–1884 deteriorates into a grim survival game.

The Long Way Home: With Magic Like This, Who Needs Routine?, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

Christine Woodside offers a critic’s view of “trail magic” on the Appalachian Trail.

Appalachia Summer/Fall 2016: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2016 - Volume LXVII, Number 2 - Issue #242. Living with the Consequences: Six of These Men Survived

Summer Of Love, Ronald Grossi

The Tuxedo Archives

In 1967, with the news full of body counts from Vietnam and Sgt. Pepper playing on the radio, I got a call from my friend Larry saying “We gotta go see what’s happening in San Francisco.” It was the Summer of Love.

How To Bring Up Your Brother: An Authoritarian Guide For Older Sisters, Mary Morrison

The Tuxedo Archives

My troubles first began when he arrived. I was 14 months old and my first look at my new baby brother told me he couldn't be real. I had to find out, so quietly, I moved my index finger to his face and into his eye, to see if he was real!

April, Stephanie Hendricks

The Tuxedo Archives

You might not know it by looking at her ­with her luxurious black curly fur, rust colored stockings and eyebrows, white paws, broad regal white chest, white muzzle and blaze and crowning tip of white fur on the tail, a tail that seems to be perpetual wagging, in a medium slow relaxed way, in an “I’m just hanging out and loving every moment of life,” an easy way kind of wag ­for most people not in the know would just look at her and say, she’s a dog, or she’s “just” a dog, or, in a rather frightened, anxious, way, …

7 Things You Learn As A First Semester Senior In College, Melanie Carlson

The Tuxedo Archives

1. Going out is fun! And exhausting.

You probably turned 21 within a year of starting senior year, and you probably took advantage of all of your newfound freedom. This was really exciting and fun at first, but after a while you just want a nap (and also to never see a vodka redbull again. Seriously, who thought those were a good idea?).

Mom's Gone, Peter Richmond

The Tuxedo Archives

The date is August 7, 1957. It’s hard to believe that almost six decades have passed, but a look at the calendar, not to mention the event’s subsequent loneliness, make it easy to confirm. A shrink would have a field day with this one! Actually, he did! You see, the date is the day my mother left this world—died, to be blunt. She was a victim of breast cancer. She lasted barely a year after a radical mastectomy was performed that was, only to the surgeon and my father, a sham waste of time performed mainly to make my mother …

Solve For X, Yvonne Bamba

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“But I’m not good at math,” I tell my calculus teacher, hoping this explanation is enough for the big, red X splattered across the top of the pop quiz he hands back to me.