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The Traveler: North Of Katahdin, David K. Leff Sep 2022

The Traveler: North Of Katahdin, David K. Leff

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Cormorant With Swimmers, Stephanie Kraft Sep 2022

Cormorant With Swimmers, Stephanie Kraft

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Liturgy Of Going To Water, Michael Garrigan Sep 2022

Liturgy Of Going To Water, Michael Garrigan

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Heresy, Todd Davis Sep 2022

Heresy, Todd Davis

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


A Peak Ahead: Hidden Surprises, Christine Woodside Sep 2022

A Peak Ahead: Hidden Surprises, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Books And Media Sep 2022

Books And Media

Appalachia

Reviews of: The American Alpine Journal 2021: The World's Most Significant Climbs and Accidents in North American Climbing, both by the American Alpine Club. Trail Running Illustrated, by Doug Mayer and Brian Metzler. To Be a Warrior, by Brandon Pullan. A Beautiful Work in Progress: A Memoir, by Mirna Valerio. Honouring High Places, by Junko Tabei and Helen Y. Rolfe. Overexposure, by Chad Sayers. The Third Pole, by Mark Synnott. NH Rocks that Rock: An Adventure Guide to Twenty-Five Famous Boulders of the Granite State, by Uma and Dan Szczesny. Edward Feuz …


Valley And Skyline Sketches, Steve Fagin, Liana Tsang Cohen Sep 2022

Valley And Skyline Sketches, Steve Fagin, Liana Tsang Cohen

Appalachia

The joys and pitfalls of dining outside, by Steve Fagin. Trail workers live fully in Tongass National Forest, by Liana Tsang Cohen.


News And Notes Sep 2022

News And Notes

Appalachia

Susan Arnold is named interim president of the Appalachian Mountain Club. The shelter at Imp Campsite near the Carter Range is renovated using historic techniques. Echo Lake Camp turns 100. AMC’s Maine Woods property is certified an International Dark Sky Park.


In Memoriam Sep 2022

In Memoriam

Appalachia

A remembrance of climber and writer David Roberts, by Michael Wejchert.


Research Sep 2022

Research

Appalachia

Climate change is causing complex impacts to ecosystems worldwide. Plants and animals face the necessity of migrating north. Kevin Berend reports on some of the species that seem destined to move and asks whether researchers and conservation agencies should take an active role in helping species move.


Alpina Sep 2022

Alpina

Appalachia

Climber Barry Blanchard suffers a head injury on some stairs in Saskatchewan. French climbers summit Sani Pakkush. British alpinists make it up the North Pillar of Tengkangpoche. In memoriam, Rick Allen (1954-2021). Mingma Gyalje Sherpa leads climbers to the true summit of Manaslu. A climber calls for a rescue on Denali, lying about his condition. Climbers are robbed at a base camp in the Caucasus. Ukrainian climbers summit Annapurna III.


Accidents Sep 2022

Accidents

Appalachia

Reports of rescues and accidents in New Hampshire’s White Mountains during the warm months of 2021. A group of men left two brothers behind on Garfield Ridge. A hiker dies when he sets up his hammock in an unstable tree. An experienced hiker takes the wrong trail near Mount Madison and spends an overnight wandering through the Great Gulf Wilderness while searchers look for her. A turned ankle and bad weather below Mount Washington cause trouble for two hikers. A man loses a signal while relying on a trail app and gets benighted on a headwall. Inexperienced hikers improvise and …


Letters Sep 2022

Letters

Appalachia

In response to “Light Snow in the Whites” (Appalachia Winter/Spring 2022), a reader asks why Mount Washington Observatory staffers would not assist hikers in bad weather. Memories of New Hampshire’s Mead Base in 1959. Origins of a knot called the diamond hitch.


Pondering Graceful Aging On Table Mountain, South Africa: A Septuagenarian Rock Climber Reflects On His Past And Future, Douglass P. Teschner Sep 2022

Pondering Graceful Aging On Table Mountain, South Africa: A Septuagenarian Rock Climber Reflects On His Past And Future, Douglass P. Teschner

Appalachia

Douglass P. Teschner, at age 65, decides to hire a guide to help him on a rock climb.


Debacle On The Salmon: A Rowdy River Humbles Two Foolhardy Canoeists, Michael Rouleau Sep 2022

Debacle On The Salmon: A Rowdy River Humbles Two Foolhardy Canoeists, Michael Rouleau

Appalachia

A fast-running spring river in Connecticut humbles paddler Michael Rouleau and his friend.


Leave A Message: A Beep And Expectant Silence. A Kind Ranger Returns The Call, Elissa Ely Sep 2022

Leave A Message: A Beep And Expectant Silence. A Kind Ranger Returns The Call, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

Staging for a climb up Mount Tom in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Elissa Ely encounters a kind ranger through voicemail.


A Change Of Plans On The Cohos Trail: After His Mother's Death, A Hiker Faces Why He Loves The Wild, Walt Mclaughlin Sep 2022

A Change Of Plans On The Cohos Trail: After His Mother's Death, A Hiker Faces Why He Loves The Wild, Walt Mclaughlin

Appalachia

After his mother’s death, Walt McLaughlin faces his grief as he struggles to hike a long section of New Hampshire’s Cohos Trail from the Kilkenny Ridge to the Nash Stream Forest.


Covid-19 Exposes A Wilderness Myth: A Long Trail Trek Is Not About Retreating From Towns And Community, Clare Dumont Sep 2022

Covid-19 Exposes A Wilderness Myth: A Long Trail Trek Is Not About Retreating From Towns And Community, Clare Dumont

Appalachia

Long Trail end-to-end hiker Claire Dumont learned during her pandemic-era hike that wilderness is not, nor should it be, separate from community.


A Life Lesson In Denali Park: A Grizzly Bear Follows A Camper, J. Robert Harris Sep 2022

A Life Lesson In Denali Park: A Grizzly Bear Follows A Camper, J. Robert Harris

Appalachia

A grizzly bear follows J. Robert Harris near the Toklat River in Alaska.


Why Does No One Climb The Palisades? Just North Of New York City, A Glacier-Exposed Cliff Tempts A Climber, Michael Levy Sep 2022

Why Does No One Climb The Palisades? Just North Of New York City, A Glacier-Exposed Cliff Tempts A Climber, Michael Levy

Appalachia

The 200-foot-high Palisades from Jersey City, New Jersey, to Nyack, New York, tempt a climber who’s moved back East to ask: “Is there climbing there?”


Backcountry Cell Phone Vignettes: Connected And Disconnected, Ian Ramsey, Douglas Balmain Sep 2022

Backcountry Cell Phone Vignettes: Connected And Disconnected, Ian Ramsey, Douglas Balmain

Appalachia

Ian Ramsey writes that while technology can make adventurers safer, it also corrupts people’s direct experience and attention; and how ten middle schoolers gradually disengage from technology in the New Hampshire mountains. Douglas Balmain has remained loyal to map and compass, so he finds it disorienting when a companion navigates using an app.


Never Lost: On The Pacific Crest Trail Before Smartphones, A Hiker Never Had To Choose, Dan White Sep 2022

Never Lost: On The Pacific Crest Trail Before Smartphones, A Hiker Never Had To Choose, Dan White

Appalachia

On the Pacific Crest Trail before smartphones, Dan White never had to choose between technology and quiet. Hikers left notes under dried cow droppings.


Do Cell Phones Belong In The Mountains? A 24-Mile Journey With A 1-Year-Old Suggests A Quieter Mountain Way, Stephen Kurczy Sep 2022

Do Cell Phones Belong In The Mountains? A 24-Mile Journey With A 1-Year-Old Suggests A Quieter Mountain Way, Stephen Kurczy

Appalachia

Stephen Kurczy examines the dangers and assumptions about cell phones in wilderness areas as he sets out on long remote hikes phoneless with his toddler.


The Long Way Home: Time As An Iron Hand Versus Time As A Shifting Wind, Christine Woodside Sep 2022

The Long Way Home: Time As An Iron Hand Versus Time As A Shifting Wind, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

Christine Woodside looks at anthropologist Edward T. Hall’s ideas about different cultures’ approaches to time as it applies to her and backpacking.


Appalachia Summer/Fall 2022: Complete Issue Sep 2022

Appalachia Summer/Fall 2022: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2022 - Volume LXXIII, Number 2 - Issue #254. The Ubiquitous Cell Phone: Do Cell Phones Help Adventurers or Hinder Them?


Thoughts, Feelings, Actions; The Brevity Of Being: A Haiku Method, Scott Medeiros Sep 2022

Thoughts, Feelings, Actions; The Brevity Of Being: A Haiku Method, Scott Medeiros

Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses

The difficulties of delivering clinical services during the pandemic showed that there was a need for interventions that were able to be adapted to virtual sessions. In addition, lack of training and expertise regarding specialized therapies require modern day clinicians to be able to synergize current theory with the reality of the mental health landscape. In this study, 19 individuals participated in a psychoeducation group that taught a therapeutic thought mapping technique that was then adapted towards the creation of a haiku. It was noticed that participants were able to learn a psychological concept, apply it towards their life, create …


Changing Stem To Steam: An Analyzation On The Effects Of Art Integration Up To The University Level, Elizabeth Richmond Sep 2022

Changing Stem To Steam: An Analyzation On The Effects Of Art Integration Up To The University Level, Elizabeth Richmond

Honors Projects

This Honors Project is a combination of an artistic, creative project and a research driven analysis. The focus of this project is to research and understand the effects the arts have on both general students and STEM students in particular, what benefits come from art education and art integration, and if STEM students benefit from art integration. This goal was accomplished through a literature review and annotated bibliography featuring 18 sources. Another goal of the project was to understand where I fit into the research. In my creative portion of the project, I explored and analyzed how the arts affected …


Creative Writing Introduction, Keith Gandal Sep 2022

Creative Writing Introduction, Keith Gandal

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.


Finding Your Inner Drag: How Drag Culture Helped Form Freedom Of Expression For The Lgbtq Community, Sylvia Zobel De Ayala Sep 2022

Finding Your Inner Drag: How Drag Culture Helped Form Freedom Of Expression For The Lgbtq Community, Sylvia Zobel De Ayala

Pop Culture Intersections

This research paper discusses the history of the LGBTQ community, the effects of the drag community and the comparison to the behaviors and attitudes from the past to the present. This article goes in depth to different scholarly articles that help understand the history of the LGBTQ community. This article will also discuss personal stories and experiences that describe the emotional aspect of the moments of history mentioned. The three main topics discussed in this paper are the Stonewall Riot, the AIDS epidemic and the uprising of the transgender community. After understanding the history and the present attitudes, they will …


Popular Culture’S Grip On The Lgbtq Community, Connor Grogan Sep 2022

Popular Culture’S Grip On The Lgbtq Community, Connor Grogan

Pop Culture Intersections

The purpose of this research is to identify the causes and consequences of forming groups within this cultural sphere, specifically focusing on the LGBTQ community. I would contend that the inclusion and exclusion of this marginalized group which exists within a larger community can be promoted or amplified by hegemonic forces through the use of popular culture and mass media. Firstly, with regards to this paper, I will identify what hegemonic power dynamics are within the context of the thesis, as well as what it means to be a marginalized group without much force within a power dynamic. Secondly, I …