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Skyline Sketches: The Yellow Lily, Gregory L. Norris Sep 2024

Skyline Sketches: The Yellow Lily, Gregory L. Norris

Appalachia

A boy picks a yellow pond lily and regrets it.


Pilgrimage: A Journey To Witness Climate Change In The National Parks, Elise Wallace Sep 2024

Pilgrimage: A Journey To Witness Climate Change In The National Parks, Elise Wallace

Appalachia

A writing teacher considers climate change in New Hampshire, where she lives, and in Acadia National Park and Yellowstone National Park, which she visited in a van. A runner-up in the 2023 Waterman Fund Essay Contest.


Chocorua—Tomorrua: Three Generations Of Women On Mount Chocorua, 1903–1974, Jane English Sep 2024

Chocorua—Tomorrua: Three Generations Of Women On Mount Chocorua, 1903–1974, Jane English

Appalachia

The author tracks three generations of strong women in her family climbing Mount Chocorua in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.


Caught In A Vortex: Two Hikers Stumble Upon A Private Ceremony, Elissa Ely Sep 2024

Caught In A Vortex: Two Hikers Stumble Upon A Private Ceremony, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

A mother and daughter hike past a wedding in progress in Sedona, Arizona.


The Stranger On Moosilauke: A Hiker Revits The Haunting Tragedy Of A Frigid Day, Jeannie Oliver Sep 2024

The Stranger On Moosilauke: A Hiker Revits The Haunting Tragedy Of A Frigid Day, Jeannie Oliver

Appalachia

A hiker recounts meeting Roy Sanford on the slopes of Mount Moosilauke in the western White Mountains of New Hampshire, later learning that he died trying to summit in bad weather.


Nebraska, Anyone? An Avid Hiker Navigates Around Jeep Tracks And High Prairie, Lisa Ballard Sep 2024

Nebraska, Anyone? An Avid Hiker Navigates Around Jeep Tracks And High Prairie, Lisa Ballard

Appalachia

An avid adventurer tries hiking around Jeep tracks in Fort Robinson State Park and through high prairie to Toadstool Geologic Park.


An Ocean Walk In The Ocean State: A Couple Covers The Full Width Of Rhode Island, Stephen S. Hale Sep 2024

An Ocean Walk In The Ocean State: A Couple Covers The Full Width Of Rhode Island, Stephen S. Hale

Appalachia

A couple walked most of the Rhode Island coast over 29 day trips, including a road race on the Jamestown Bridge.


Moths To A Flame: The Light And Dark Of Reading Accidents In North American Mountaineering, Leath Tonino Sep 2024

Moths To A Flame: The Light And Dark Of Reading Accidents In North American Mountaineering, Leath Tonino

Appalachia

A climber finds two issues of the American Alpine Club’s annual accidents reports from 2013 and 2014 and ruminates on his obsessions.


Sky's The Limit: Seeing The Future In A Disturbing Summer Storm, Lela Stanley Sep 2024

Sky's The Limit: Seeing The Future In A Disturbing Summer Storm, Lela Stanley

Appalachia

A disturbing electrical storm in July 2020 in Washington, D.C. demarcates a break with the past. A runner-up in the 2023 Waterman Fund Essay Contest.


More Than Meets The Eye: Step By Step, Exploring Connecticut's Great Mountain Forest, David K. Leff Sep 2024

More Than Meets The Eye: Step By Step, Exploring Connecticut's Great Mountain Forest, David K. Leff

Appalachia

The 6,300-acre Great Mountain Forest in northwestern Connecticut, once an industrial landscape of charcoal making for iron ore smelting, today is one of the most wild and remote tracts in southern New England.


Why The World Needs The Night: A Visit To The Appalachian Mountain Club's International Dark Sky Park, Laura Poppick Sep 2024

Why The World Needs The Night: A Visit To The Appalachian Mountain Club's International Dark Sky Park, Laura Poppick

Appalachia

A visit to Second Annual See the Dark Festival at the Appalachian Mountain Club’s International Dark Sky Park in the North Maine Woods.


The Long Way Home: A New Take On Wilderness: Hermits, Bears, And Opportunism, Christine Woodside Sep 2024

The Long Way Home: A New Take On Wilderness: Hermits, Bears, And Opportunism, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

Christopher Knight, a notorious hermit, burglarized cottages and a camp in Maine for 27 years. Comparison of stealth camping to behavior of wild animals.


Appalachia Summer/Fall 2024: Complete Issue Sep 2024

Appalachia Summer/Fall 2024: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2024 - Volume LXXV, Number 2 - Issue #258. Dark Places: Exploring pitch black skies, a forest, and a storm.


Me And Ms Jones - The Androgyny Of Black Women, Lethokuhle Msimang Jun 2024

Me And Ms Jones - The Androgyny Of Black Women, Lethokuhle Msimang

Comparative Literature M.A. Essays

Despite the progression of contemporary discourses around gender, the African woman's body remains in a categorical conundrum shaped by post-colonial legacies. This paper explores how prevailing notions of femininity and its intrinsic relationship to delicateness, exclude black women from the female category. Given the significance gender plays in participation in the occident, black women's preclusion from the female category can result in what may appear on the surface as a posturing of whiteness, but which, on further interrogation, reflects a performance of fragility. On the other extreme is the embrace of androgyny as both an internalization and a way to …


A Peak Ahead: Dark Places, Christine Woodside Mar 2024

A Peak Ahead: Dark Places, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Books And Media Mar 2024

Books And Media

Appalachia

Reviews of: The Race that Changed Running: The Inside Story of the UTMB, by Doug Mayer; Been Outside: Adventures of Black Women, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming People in Nature, edited by Amber Wendler and Shaz Zamore; AMC's Best Day Hikes in the White Mountains, by Robert N. Buchsbaum; AMC's Best Day Hikes Near Boston, by Michael Tougias, John S. Burk, and Alison O'Leary; AMC's Best Day Hikes Near Washington, D.C., by Jennifer Adach and Beth Homicz; Campfire Stories: Tales from America's National Parks and Trails, Volume II, edited by Dave Kyu and Ilyssa Kyu; …


Skyline Sketches: The Dog Bell, Michael Keck Mar 2024

Skyline Sketches: The Dog Bell, Michael Keck

Appalachia

A bear bell evokes bittersweet memories of a hiker’s deceased dog, Rufus.


Skyline Sketches: Their First Mountain At Ages 75 And 83, Julie Midura Mar 2024

Skyline Sketches: Their First Mountain At Ages 75 And 83, Julie Midura

Appalachia

A woman, 75, and her fiancé, 83, climb their first mountain.


Skyline Sketches: A Hiker Called Taps Plays "Taps", William Barrett Mar 2024

Skyline Sketches: A Hiker Called Taps Plays "Taps", William Barrett

Appalachia

A thru-hiker plays “Taps” on his bugle at Lakes of the Clouds Hut in the White Mountains.


News And Notes Mar 2024

News And Notes

Appalachia

A video promoting the Appalachian Mountain Club’s efforts to preserve the night sky wins an Emmy Award from the Boston/New England Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in June 2023. AMC and the Conservation Fund join in purchase of the Barnard Forest in Piscataquis County, Maine.


In Memoriam Mar 2024

In Memoriam

Appalachia

Tributes to: John Edward Mullens, who died December 3, 2022, just after receiving the Distinguished Service Award from the Appalachian Mountain Club, which he served as a volunteer in many roles over many years; George DeWolfe, who died July 2, 2023 after a long career as a photographer that included many contributions to AMC projects; and Douglas W. and Mary Louise Backus Rankin, geologist and China historian who’d met working for AMC in the 1950s and who did mountain research together for years before their deaths in 2015 and 2020.


Alpina Mar 2024

Alpina

Appalachia

Among the many updates on mountaineering in the greater ranges in late 2022 and early 2023 is a report of a record 479 permits issued for Mount Everest in spring 2023; seventeen died. In May 2023, climbers establish a new route on India’s Meru. Updates on Kristin Harila’s record time of completing all fourteen 8,000-meter peaks in 2023. Three climbers establish a new route, Technicolour Superdream, on Alaska’s Mount Huntington. A new route on the East Face of Mount Dickey. German Jost Kobusch tackles a hard route up Denali. A new route by Czechs up Suru Peak in Nepal. An …


Accidents Mar 2024

Accidents

Appalachia

Reports of rescues and accidents in New Hampshire’s White Mountains from the start of winter weather in November 2022 until mid-April 2023. A detailed analysis of the events of Emily Sotelo’s solo trail-run of the Franconia Ridge, which ended in tragedy. A longtime engineer on the Mount Washington Cog Railway, Joseph Eggleson, died in a fall while taking a photo on Mount Willard. A man succumbs to hypothermia below Mount Lincoln. Two skiers triggered an avalanche on Wildcat Mountain that buried one of them for long minutes. Hikers get in trouble on Mount Chocorua relying on a trail app.


Letters Mar 2024

Letters

Appalachia

An appeal for old documents related to the history of ice-climbing, especially back issues of the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Boston Chapter Mountaineering Committee newsletter, The Crux, and documents related to AMC’s New York Chapter Mountaineering Committee and notes from an AMC rock- and ice-climbing guidebook project in the 1960s.


The First Kinship: The Native American Relationship With Katahdin, John W. Neff Mar 2024

The First Kinship: The Native American Relationship With Katahdin, John W. Neff

Appalachia

An excerpt of the book Katahdin: An Historic Journey: Legends, Explorations, and Preservation of Maine’s Highest Peak, first published in 2006 by Appalachian Mountain Club Books.


Anticipation Is Half The Problem: Navigating 6,649 Reviews Of One Trail In Bryce Canyon, Elissa Ely Mar 2024

Anticipation Is Half The Problem: Navigating 6,649 Reviews Of One Trail In Bryce Canyon, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

A hiker describes the evenly split opinions of thousands of people who’d posted online that they knew the best direction to travel the Fairyland Loop in Bryce Canyon.


Bushwhacking In The Mahoosucs: With A Compass And Laminated Map, A Patient Hiker Finds Magic, William Geller Mar 2024

Bushwhacking In The Mahoosucs: With A Compass And Laminated Map, A Patient Hiker Finds Magic, William Geller

Appalachia

An experienced backcountry adventurer describes the highlights of 22 trailless trips in New Hampshire and Maine from 1992 to 1994.


Early Encounters With The Underhills: Did They Know The Young Climber Was Jewish?, Steven Jervis Mar 2024

Early Encounters With The Underhills: Did They Know The Young Climber Was Jewish?, Steven Jervis

Appalachia

The latest in a series of climbing memoirs by the editor of Appalachia’s Alpina section gives a firsthand look at his experiences meeting climbers Robert and Miriam Underhill in the 1950s, and asks whether Robert Underhill, who had written several anti-Semitic letters in the 1930s and 1940s, knew the author was Jewish.


Waterman Fund Essay Winner: Smoke Report: Lamenting Fire, And The Behaviors That Help Cause It, Austin Hagwood Mar 2024

Waterman Fund Essay Winner: Smoke Report: Lamenting Fire, And The Behaviors That Help Cause It, Austin Hagwood

Appalachia

The winner of Appalachia’s annual essay contest for emerging writers narrates his experience as a fire lookout in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho four years after the Gold Pan Fire burned 42,000 acres.


Finding Brave Blood Above A Raging River: A Via Ferrata Climb Vanquishes Fears In Colorado, Lisa Ballard Mar 2024

Finding Brave Blood Above A Raging River: A Via Ferrata Climb Vanquishes Fears In Colorado, Lisa Ballard

Appalachia

An adventurer confronts her fears in Royal Gorge’s rapids and on the cliffs above.