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How I Died Hiking: An Imagined Story That Could Happen To Anyone, Mike Cherim Jun 2021

How I Died Hiking: An Imagined Story That Could Happen To Anyone, Mike Cherim

Appalachia

Mountain guide Mike Cherim’s imagined story of how danger can creep up on anyone.


See One, Do One, Teach One: The Path Branches A Lot, Elissa Ely Jun 2021

See One, Do One, Teach One: The Path Branches A Lot, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

Navigating up the branching trails of Prairie Mountain in Alberta.


Supporting A Mountain As It Changes: People, Climate, And The Absence Of Trees, Caroline Ailanthus Jun 2021

Supporting A Mountain As It Changes: People, Climate, And The Absence Of Trees, Caroline Ailanthus

Appalachia

A science writer shows how Monadnock’s landscape tells the story of climate change and calamity.


I'Ll Have The Usual: Mount Monadnock Always Delivers, Marty Carlock Jun 2021

I'Ll Have The Usual: Mount Monadnock Always Delivers, Marty Carlock

Appalachia

A woman who knows Mount Monadnock as well as her own shoes celebrates the familiar.


The First Women On Katahdin: Was It A Race Or Merely An Exciting Phase?, William Geller Jun 2021

The First Women On Katahdin: Was It A Race Or Merely An Exciting Phase?, William Geller

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Weakness In Numbers: How A Hiking Partner Can Be Dangerous, Ty Gagne Jun 2021

Weakness In Numbers: How A Hiking Partner Can Be Dangerous, Ty Gagne

Appalachia

group dynamics, risk management, group hike, winter hiking, White Mountains, Franconia Ridge, team psychology, team behavior


Climbers Who Volunteer: Everest Climber And White Mountains Fixture Rick Wilcox Reflects, Erik Eisele, Joe Klementovich Jun 2021

Climbers Who Volunteer: Everest Climber And White Mountains Fixture Rick Wilcox Reflects, Erik Eisele, Joe Klementovich

Appalachia

Everest climber and White Mountain fixture Rick Wilcox reflects on his commitment to search-and-rescue in this tribute by Erik Eisele.


Tragedy At Skyline—September 17, 1967: One Who Was There Investigates, David Govatski Jun 2021

Tragedy At Skyline—September 17, 1967: One Who Was There Investigates, David Govatski

Appalachia

Fifty years after the worst accident in the history of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, David Govatski, who was there, went looking for the reason it happened.


Mount Washington's Quirky Record Holder: A Writer Follows The Intensity Of Alton Weagle, Dan Szczesny Jun 2021

Mount Washington's Quirky Record Holder: A Writer Follows The Intensity Of Alton Weagle, Dan Szczesny

Appalachia

Dan Szczesny chronicles the intensity of Alton Weagle, who invented many strange ways to break records on New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, like pushing a wheelbarrow of sugar up the auto road.


The Long Way Home: Straight Up, Christine Woodside Jun 2021

The Long Way Home: Straight Up, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

Hikers fail to save a man’s life on the Tuckerman Ravine Trail.


Appalachia Winter/Spring 2018: Complete Issue Jun 2021

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2018: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Winter/Spring 2018 - Volume LXIX, Number 1 - Issue #245. Mount Washington: Summit of Extremes: Alton Weagle, the Record Maker; Revisiting a Tragic Accident


Deer Park, Wally Swist Jun 2021

Deer Park, Wally Swist

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Inky Cap Mushroom, Max Stephan Jun 2021

Inky Cap Mushroom, Max Stephan

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Poem For The Season, John Smelcer Jun 2021

Poem For The Season, John Smelcer

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Among Inlet Waters, Kay Mullen Jun 2021

Among Inlet Waters, Kay Mullen

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Elegy For What Hasn't Passed Yet, Todd Davis Jun 2021

Elegy For What Hasn't Passed Yet, Todd Davis

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Hiking The Florida Panhandle In March, Robin Chapman Jun 2021

Hiking The Florida Panhandle In March, Robin Chapman

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Brief History On The Black River, Russ Capaldi Jun 2021

Brief History On The Black River, Russ Capaldi

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Herons At Sapsucker Woods, Polly Brown Jun 2021

Herons At Sapsucker Woods, Polly Brown

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Ordinary Time, Paula Bohince Jun 2021

Ordinary Time, Paula Bohince

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


A Peak Ahead: Going Far Away To Find Something, Christine Woodside Jun 2021

A Peak Ahead: Going Far Away To Find Something, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Books And Media Jun 2021

Books And Media

Appalachia

“Life in the Big Meh,” in which Sandy Stott reviews John Branch’s long, illustrated piece about Everest in the December 19, 2017 issue of the New York Times. White Mountain Guide by Steven D. Smith. Mount Washington: Narratives and Perspectives by Mike Dickerman (editor). Death in the White Mountains by Julie Boardman. Critical Hours by Sandy Stott. In Wild Trust by Jeff Fair. Adventures of a Deaf-Mute and Other Short Pieces by William B. Swett. Where You’ll Find Me by Ty Gagne.


In Memoriam Jun 2021

In Memoriam

Appalachia

Bruce P. Sloat, an influential Appalachian Mountain Club hut system manager. Joseph Brooks Dodge Jr., an Olympic skier and son of AMC institution Joe Dodge. Green Mountain Club trails director David Hardy. Frank Carlson, age 97, who had written for Appalachia in 2017 of his 1936 bicycle expedition.


News And Notes Jun 2021

News And Notes

Appalachia

The Cog Railway on Mount Washington pushes ahead with hotel plans. Remembrance of a hike in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Controversial Northern Pass powerline project is halted.


Alpina Jun 2021

Alpina

Appalachia

The strange science of grading climbs is explained. Tributes to the late Norman Dyhrenfurth and Fred Beckey. After an avalanche in Montana kills young skier Inge Perkins, her surviving companion Hayden Kennedy ends his life. Female Sherpas and several women climbers achieve many feats in the Nepal Himalaya. Journalist and Himalayan Database creator Elizabeth Hawley dies.


Accidents Jun 2021

Accidents

Appalachia

Mishaps and rescues from summer/fall 2017 include: a dramatic rescue of several people in a school group on Mount Lafayette; a wandering backpacker in early May who triggers the season’s largest search; and a swimmer who drowns below Franconia Falls.


Early Logging In The Southern Maine Woods: The Woods Produced Shoe Blocks, Spruce Gum, And More, William Geller Jun 2021

Early Logging In The Southern Maine Woods: The Woods Produced Shoe Blocks, Spruce Gum, And More, William Geller

Appalachia

William Geller’s history of nineteenth-century enterprises around the Pleasant River in Maine.


The Last Gift: Months Before A Father's Death, He Encourages His Son To Seek Challenges, Douglass P. Teschner Jun 2021

The Last Gift: Months Before A Father's Death, He Encourages His Son To Seek Challenges, Douglass P. Teschner

Appalachia

Months before his tragic death, a man encourages his yuoung son to seek challenges.


An Injury Changes The Story: Encounter With A Baby Stroller, Elissa Ely Jun 2021

An Injury Changes The Story: Encounter With A Baby Stroller, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

Elissa Ely encounters a baby stroller on the Ptarmigan Cirque loop trail in the Canadian Rockies.


Sequoias And Redwoods In A Hotter World: When Trees As High As 30-Story Buildings "Die On Their Feet," Something's Wrong, Christopher Johnson Jun 2021

Sequoias And Redwoods In A Hotter World: When Trees As High As 30-Story Buildings "Die On Their Feet," Something's Wrong, Christopher Johnson

Appalachia

Scientists in two pioneering research projects are examining how climate change affects the iconic ancient trees of California, by Christopher Johnson.