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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
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
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
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
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.
Problembär: Germany's First Bear In 170 Years, Brendan Curtin
Problembär: Germany's First Bear In 170 Years, Brendan Curtin
Appalachia
The strange story, by Brendan Curtin, of a bear that wandered through the Alps into Germany in 2006.
The Resourceful Teen: A Broken Stove Awakens Ingenuity, Lisa Densmore Ballard
The Resourceful Teen: A Broken Stove Awakens Ingenuity, Lisa Densmore Ballard
Appalachia
Parker Densmore, age 15, makes dinner following the breakdown of a stove.
Emotional Rescue: A Hiker Becomes A Benefactor As She Follows A Set Of Sneaker Prints, Ty Gagne
Emotional Rescue: A Hiker Becomes A Benefactor As She Follows A Set Of Sneaker Prints, Ty Gagne
Appalachia
Ty Gagne’s riveting story of a hiker who followed a set of sneaker prints in foul weather and saved a man from suicide.
The Continuing Adventures Of Buffalo And Tough Cookie: Sometimes A Family Goes Deeper Than Blood, Janelle Mylott, Dan Szczesny
The Continuing Adventures Of Buffalo And Tough Cookie: Sometimes A Family Goes Deeper Than Blood, Janelle Mylott, Dan Szczesny
Appalachia
Dan Szczesny and Janelle Mylott together tell the story of their hiking partnership after the death of Janelle’s grandmother and guardian who made Janelle’s participation possible.
Climbers As Humanitarians: Helping Injured Migrants In Mexico, Lisa Densmore Ballard
Climbers As Humanitarians: Helping Injured Migrants In Mexico, Lisa Densmore Ballard
Appalachia
A group buys an ambulance and helps injured migrants in Mexico.
Care For The Caregiver: His Mother Had Never Backpacked; He Took Her To The Presidentials For Her 60th Birthday, Stephen Kurczy
Care For The Caregiver: His Mother Had Never Backpacked; He Took Her To The Presidentials For Her 60th Birthday, Stephen Kurczy
Appalachia
His mother had never backpacked; Stephen Kurczy took her to the Presidentials in the White Mountains of New Hampshire for her 60th birthday.
The Long Way Home: Encounter With A Hare, Christine Woodside
The Long Way Home: Encounter With A Hare, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
Christine Woodside encounters a hare in the wilderness.
Appalachia Summer/Fall 2018: Complete Issue
Appalachia Summer/Fall 2018: Complete Issue
Appalachia
Summer/Fall 2018 - Volume LXIX, Number 2 - Issue #246. Role Reversal in the Mountains: New Perspectives, New Circumstances
Encounters On Mount Willard: A Subway Seeker Meets A Mountain Man, Elissa Ely
Encounters On Mount Willard: A Subway Seeker Meets A Mountain Man, Elissa Ely
Appalachia
A hiker overhears a man from the city and two boys with their grandfather on a popular trail above Crawford Notch.
A Peak Ahead: "Reset" In Wild Lands, And The Crawford Path Turns 200, Christine Woodside
A Peak Ahead: "Reset" In Wild Lands, And The Crawford Path Turns 200, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
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Books And Media
Appalachia
Reviews of: AMC’s Best Day Hikes in Connecticut by Rene Laubach and Charles W.G. Smith. AMC’s Best Day Hikes Near Boston by Michael Tougias, John S. Burk, and Alison O’Leary. AMC’s Best Day Hikes in Vermont by Jen Lamphere Roberts. Trails or Timber? The Creation, Destruction, & Rebuilding of Paths on the Northern Presidential Range, 1857–1914 by Judith Maddock Hudson. Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul, a film by Huey Coleman. Sky Runner: Finding Strength, Happiness and Balance in Your Running by Emelie Forsberg and Kilian Jornet. A Mountaineer’s Life by Allen Steck. Way Out There: Adventures …
News And Notes
Appalachia
Ken Kimball, the Appalachian Mountain Club’s research director, retires. AMC delays decision about selling a cabin on Fire Island, New York. Tribute to the former New Hampshire landmark Old Man of the Mountain. A hiker recalls climbing the New Hampshire 4,000-footers in 1971.
Alpina
Appalachia
Climbers on Everest in 2018 verified that the rock formation called the Hillary Step is gone. Trash mars the world’s highest peak. A Polish team tried K2 in winter. Denali institutes a new human waste policy. Tribute to Jim "The Bird" Bridwell. Steven Jervis’s tribute to Leif-Norman Patterson.
Accidents
Appalachia
Analysis of selected accidents in winter and spring 2018 in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Mishaps include a hiker whom rescuers search for after he’d checked into a hotel, a phone-guided rescue during a whiteout, hikers trapped by two rain-swollen streams, and more.
Letters
Appalachia
Julie Boardman clarifies the meaning of her book Death in the White Mountains: Hiker Fatalities and How to Avoid Being One, which had been reviewed in the previous issue, as a study in “what can be learned by studying White Mountain fatalities.”
Fear Of Rattlesnakes: On The Secret Trails Of Small-Time New England Poachers, Christine Woodside
Fear Of Rattlesnakes: On The Secret Trails Of Small-Time New England Poachers, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
Trying to understand the habits of smalltime poachers in the New England forest, a journalist follows two biologists who are trying to save the endangered timber rattlesnake.
Fall On Big Moose Mountain: A Self-Rescue On A Day Hike Drives Home Old Safety Lessons, Matt Chabe
Fall On Big Moose Mountain: A Self-Rescue On A Day Hike Drives Home Old Safety Lessons, Matt Chabe
Appalachia
A hiker falls through soft snow while climbing in central Maine. A tree makes a gash down the left side of his head, and he realizes he has left his emergency kit in the car.
The Struggle: An Injured Deer And A Dilemma, Benjamin Alva Polley
The Struggle: An Injured Deer And A Dilemma, Benjamin Alva Polley
Appalachia
A man struggles with a dilemma when a badly injured deer collapses in the Illinois forest.
My Time Is Short: A Woodsman Shares Hidden Treasures Of The Forest With His Stepdaughter, Judi Calhoun
My Time Is Short: A Woodsman Shares Hidden Treasures Of The Forest With His Stepdaughter, Judi Calhoun
Appalachia
A tribute to the stepfather who understood the lessons of abandoned settlements in New Hampshire’s forests.
Waterman Fund Essay Winner: On Ceding Control: Motherhood In A Pathless Landscape, Emily Mitchell Heidenreich
Waterman Fund Essay Winner: On Ceding Control: Motherhood In A Pathless Landscape, Emily Mitchell Heidenreich
Appalachia
At her new home base of eastern Vermont, a young mother gives over her mountain energy to her children’s needs. “I wander these pathless woods, my baby strapped to my chest, as an attempt to reassert control over my body after the violence of pregnancy, of motherhood. This wandering is body work.”
Finding An Unforeseen Labrador: From The St. Lawrence To Ungava, David K. Leff
Finding An Unforeseen Labrador: From The St. Lawrence To Ungava, David K. Leff
Appalachia
A memoir of a 1988 trip to Labrador begins with a long train ride to Schefferville and proceeds to long days paddling two rivers north toward Ungava Bay.
Stubborn As A Mule: Distant Thunder Prompts Self-Reflection, Elissa Ely
Stubborn As A Mule: Distant Thunder Prompts Self-Reflection, Elissa Ely
Appalachia
Thunder rumbles while a hiker risks walking partway down the South Kaibab Trail in the Grand Canyon.
Wild Florida: A Woman Seeks What Lies Beyond Childhood Rv Vacations, Sally Manikian
Wild Florida: A Woman Seeks What Lies Beyond Childhood Rv Vacations, Sally Manikian
Appalachia
She has lived most of her life in New Hampshire and thought of Florida as a superficial place. Then she immerses herself in the smells, sights, and sounds around a cabin in Big Pine.
Never Too Late: How Not To Climb A Glaciated Peak, Nicholas Reynolds
Never Too Late: How Not To Climb A Glaciated Peak, Nicholas Reynolds
Appalachia
A historian in his early 60s revisits an old dream of climbing a glaciated peak in the Pacific Northwest: Mount Baker in North Cascades National Park in Washington state.
Working As A Mountaineer In Antarctica: 40 Years In The Making, Todd Swain, Donnette Swain
Working As A Mountaineer In Antarctica: 40 Years In The Making, Todd Swain, Donnette Swain
Appalachia
In the austral summer of 2017–2018, mountaineers Todd and Donette Swain work as safety staffers helping scientists avoid crevasses while conducting field research in Antarctica.