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The Journey Of Age, Katherine Hayes
At The End Of The Path, Jona Pedersen, Wyatt Atchley
At The End Of The Path, Jona Pedersen, Wyatt Atchley
Floodwall Magazine
No abstract provided.
Interview With Cathy Ulrich, Katherine Byers, Madelyn Gentile, Madison Knoll
Interview With Cathy Ulrich, Katherine Byers, Madelyn Gentile, Madison Knoll
Floodwall Magazine
This spring, the students in UND’s ENGL 414 workshop (The Art of Writing Fiction) read a collection of micro and flash fictions titled Ghosts of You, by Cathy Ulrich. With its use of second person and a penchant for turning tropes of crime fiction on their heads, this book is a must read. Three ENGL 414 students had the opportunity to interview the author via email to discuss Cathy Ulrich’s intentions in Ghosts of You, as well as her own personal writing techniques. To borrow from how each story in Ghosts of You begins, “The thing about being the [interviewer] …
All Of Life’S Answers Are Contained In This Story, Cassandra Gustafson
All Of Life’S Answers Are Contained In This Story, Cassandra Gustafson
Floodwall Magazine
No abstract provided.
Early Morning, Allee Mead
A Peak Ahead: Stories From The Albums, Christine Woodside
A Peak Ahead: Stories From The Albums, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
No abstract provided.
Books And Media
Appalachia
Along on the Wall by Alex Honnold with David Roberts. AMC’s Best Sea Kayaking in New England by Michael Daugherty. AMC’s Best Day Hikes in the White Mountains by Robert M. Buchsbaum. Living with Bears Handbook 2nd Edition by Linda Masterson. The Green Guide to Low-Impact Hiking and Camping by Laura and Guy Waterman. Deep Down Dark by Hector Tohar. The Man Who Built the Sierra Club by Robert Wyss. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman. Acadia National Park: A Centennial Celebration with photography by Tom Blagden Jr.
News And Notes
Appalachia
Appalachian Mountain Club will sell its headquarters at 5 Joy Street in Boston. Massachusetts paddlers get new campsites in Montague and Whateley, Massachusetts. Harriman Outdoor Center opens in New York. President Obama creates Katahdin Wood and Waters National Monument in Maine. Medawisla Lodge and Cabins are rebuilt and will reopen. James Edward Mills tells a story of dealing with bodily functions in the Arctic tundra.
Letters
Appalachia
Mount Whitney, fact-checking, and a note from AMC to readers acknowledging the work of Gene Daniell and Jon Burroughs in its White Mountain Guide.
Alpina
Appalachia
Nepal struggles to rebuild after the 2015 earthquake. Everest summiters numbered 456 in spring 2016. Three climbers make the first winter ascent of Nanga Parbat. Reflections on Tommy Caldwell, Keith Jorgeson, and Alex Honnold’s climbing in Yosemite. In Patagonia, Honnold and Colin Haley attempt the Torre Traverse and then climb it in reverse. In Memoriam: Nick Clinch. Jeffery Parrette resigns as Appalachia's Alpina editor after 29 years, and four who worked with him write tributes.
Accidents
Appalachia
Analysis of accidents in the White Mountains (and nearby) in New Hampshire during the mild winter and spring 2016 include: benighted climbers on Mount Paugus; a dog rescues a lost teenager in Rindge; an underprepared hiker gets stuck going down Mount Washington; climbers get help by phone; a December hiker bushwhacking to avoid Franconia Brook gets in trouble; an experienced hiker collapses and dies on Franconia Ridge; a professional guide is found dead on the Castle Ravine Trail; A man slips and breaks his leg on Mount Cardigan; a skier falls and is badly hurt and a hiker slips and …
Africa Mountain Journal 1971–2015, Douglass Teschner
Africa Mountain Journal 1971–2015, Douglass Teschner
Appalachia
New England native Douglass Teschner reflects on four decades of mountain climbing he fit around his work for the Peace Corps and the United States Agency for International Development. He climbed in Morocco, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Mali, Mauritania, Botswana, and Guinea.
Bob Proudman: An Appreciation Of A Groundbreaking Trails Career, Rebecca Oreskes
Bob Proudman: An Appreciation Of A Groundbreaking Trails Career, Rebecca Oreskes
Appalachia
Rebecca Oreskes writes an appreciation of the former Appalachian Mountain Club trail worker who build Garfield Ridge Campsite in the White Mountains and went on to direct trail projects on the Appalachian Trail.
Mountain Chatter: Can One Escape Gabbing On Welch-Dickey?, Elissa Ely
Mountain Chatter: Can One Escape Gabbing On Welch-Dickey?, Elissa Ely
Appalachia
Elissa Ely climbs Welch-Dickey in New Hampshire seeking images and silence but leaves with overheard cooking advice.
In The High Country: Following The Trail Of Burroughs And Thoreau, From The Catskills To Katahdin, Richard F. Fleck
In The High Country: Following The Trail Of Burroughs And Thoreau, From The Catskills To Katahdin, Richard F. Fleck
Appalachia
Richard F. Fleck traces the travels of John Burroughs and Henry David Thoreau from the Catskills to Katahdin.
The West Branch Drive: Moving Logs, 1830–1971, William Geller
The West Branch Drive: Moving Logs, 1830–1971, William Geller
Appalachia
Hundreds of river drivers moved logs and supplies along the West Branch of the Penobscot River for 141 years, until 1971. This story continues William Geller’s series about the lost ways of life in the Maine Woods south of Baxter State Park, in the 100-Mile Wilderness.
Dark Night On Whitewall: Neither Solace Nor Comfort, Will Kemeza
Dark Night On Whitewall: Neither Solace Nor Comfort, Will Kemeza
Appalachia
In this essay, the runner-up in the 2008 Waterman Fund essay contest co-sponsored by Appalachia, Will Kemeza narrates a terrible December night of sickness inside Zealand Falls Hut, and an epiphany on frigid Whitewall Mountain the next morning
My Only Rescue: The Chimney, Katahdin, 1951, Steven Jervis
My Only Rescue: The Chimney, Katahdin, 1951, Steven Jervis
Appalachia
A remembrance of a 1951 accident on Maine’s Chimney Peak, when Steven Jervis was called to help in the rescue of Marcia Doolittle, an experienced hiker who had fallen. This accident had earlier been covered in Appalachia 20 no. 5, pages 595–597.
Getting Lost In A Familiar Woods: A Brief Encounter With A Wild Place, Aaron Piccirillo
Getting Lost In A Familiar Woods: A Brief Encounter With A Wild Place, Aaron Piccirillo
Appalachia
Walking along on a Connecticut path he knows well, Aaron Piccirillo goes on “autopilot,” only to come to his senses a half hour later, realizing he’s now lost.
The Leap: Journalist Meets Goat In Glacier National Park, Lisa Densmore Ballard
The Leap: Journalist Meets Goat In Glacier National Park, Lisa Densmore Ballard
Appalachia
Photographer Lisa Densmore Ballard goes in search of mountain goats in Glacier National Park. The agile animals are a subfamily of hoofed animals, the sole members of their genus Oreamnos.
High-Altitude Melting: A Message For Civilization, Christopher Johnson
High-Altitude Melting: A Message For Civilization, Christopher Johnson
Appalachia
Christopher Johnson’s reported essay on the shrinking of Grinnell Glacier in Montana’s Glacier National Park.
The Long Way Home: The Death Of Geraldine Largay, Christine Woodside
The Long Way Home: The Death Of Geraldine Largay, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
Christine Woodside examines data from the search for Appalachian Trail hiker Geraldine Largay, whose body was found two years after she had gotten lost south of Stratton, Maine.
Appalachia Winter/Spring 2017: Complete Issue
Appalachia Winter/Spring 2017: Complete Issue
Appalachia
Winter/Spring 2017 - Volume LXVIII, Number 1 - Issue #243. Glaciers Melt, Mountain Goats Cope: Also, The Everyday Becomes Strange
A Peak Ahead: Mount Washington, Christine Woodside
Books And Media
Appalachia
Continental Divide by Maurice Isserman. East of the Himalaya Mountain Peak Maps: Alps of Tibet & Beyond by Tamotsu Nakamura. One Hundred Summers: The People of the Appalachian Mountain Club Professional White Mountain Trail Crew, Their Work and Adventures by Natalie Beittel and Kyle Peckham. Canoes: A Natural History in North America by Mark Neuzil and Norman Sims. On Trails by Robert Moor. On the Trails by Silas Chamberlin. Canoeing Maine’s Legendary Allagash: Thoreau, Romance, and the Survival of the Wild by David K. Leff.
News And Notes
Appalachia
Guyot Campsite renovations. Hiker center expands in Monson, Maine. Baxter State Park will limit Katahdin hikers. A New Hampshire woman, Sue Johnston, completes a peakbagging milestone, “the grid” (all of the 48 New Hampshire mountains above 4,000 feet in every month) in one calendar year. Memories of 5 Joy Street: a photo essay of several of the rooms in the Appalachian Mountain Club’s headquarters in the Beacon Hill section of Boston between 1923 and 2017.
Alpina
Appalachia
A quick summary of new routes on big mountains. Six climbers died and two lied about their summit success in spring 2016 on Everest. The first woman to ascend Everest (in 1970), Junko Tabei, has died of cancer. A British pair ascended the formerly unclimbed Gave Ding in 2015. Americans Kyle Dempster and Scott Adamson died attempting Pakistan’s Ogre I and Ogre II. Colin Haley climbed Mount Foraker solo. A solo climb of Mount Robson in Canada. New records on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Accidents and deaths mar the 2016 season in the Tetons. Michael Levy profiles Ken …
Accidents
Appalachia
Accidents in the White Mountains of New Hampshire from summer and fall 2016 include: a couple of Appalachian Trail thru-hikers become hypothermic on Franconia Ridge; a woman slips and fractures her ankle on Hancock Loop Trail; one of a hiking group slips and breaks a bone on Mount Jackson; a strange story about a lost hiker who had been tagging along with a group near Mount Madison; lost hikers on Madison Gulf Trail; no-fly weather and a “carry-up” rescue below Mount Washington; and a seventeen-day search around Mount Washington for a suicide victim’s body.
The Guides All Knew Each Other: The West Branch Of The Penobscot River, 1890–1935, William Geller
The Guides All Knew Each Other: The West Branch Of The Penobscot River, 1890–1935, William Geller
Appalachia
William Geller continues his series on the ways of life in Maine’s North Woods in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with this narrative of guiding families on the West Branch of the Penobscot River between 1890 and 1935.