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Valley And Skyline Sketches, Steve Fagin, Liana Tsang Cohen
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
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
Appalachia
A remembrance of climber and writer David Roberts, by Michael Wejchert.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
A Peak Ahead: The Lure Of Alaska, Christine Woodside
Somebody Should Build A Bridge Over This River: A Young Trail Crew's Feat, 1953, Douglas W. Rankin
Somebody Should Build A Bridge Over This River: A Young Trail Crew's Feat, 1953, Douglas W. Rankin
Appalachia
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The Beat Generation In The Mountains: After The Famous San Francisco Reading, Fire Lookouts Became Literary Sites, Ron Dart
Appalachia
No abstract provided.
Crazy! A Writer's Quest To Find The Golden Trout In Montana, Lisa Densmore
Crazy! A Writer's Quest To Find The Golden Trout In Montana, Lisa Densmore
Appalachia
No abstract provided.
Waterman Fund Essay Contest Winner: On Being Lost, Blair Braverman
Waterman Fund Essay Contest Winner: On Being Lost, Blair Braverman
Appalachia
No abstract provided.
Waterman Fund Essay Contest Winner: The Warp And Weft, Bethany Taylor
Waterman Fund Essay Contest Winner: The Warp And Weft, Bethany Taylor
Appalachia
No abstract provided.