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Letters Apr 2021

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 Apr 2021

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 Apr 2021

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 Apr 2021

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 Apr 2021

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 Apr 2021

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 Apr 2021

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 Apr 2021

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 Apr 2021

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 Apr 2021

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 Apr 2021

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.


The Long Way Home: The Last Few Steps, Christine Woodside Apr 2021

The Long Way Home: The Last Few Steps, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

Christine Woodside sees parallels between her aging mother’s struggles and climbing a mountain.


Appalachia Winter/Spring 2019: Complete Issue Apr 2021

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2019: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Winter/Spring 2019 - Volume LXX, Number 1 - Issue #247. Quests That Wouldn't Let Go: Chasing Persistent Dreams to Florida, Antarctica, and Labrador.


Differents: Essays About A Human (And Humans), Will Gerdes-Mcclain Apr 2021

Differents: Essays About A Human (And Humans), Will Gerdes-Mcclain

Creative Nonfiction MFA Theses

adult language and themes. :\


A Peak Ahead: Tributes To Mary Oliver, And Scotland, Christine Woodside Apr 2021

A Peak Ahead: Tributes To Mary Oliver, And Scotland, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Books And Media Apr 2021

Books And Media

Appalachia

Reviews of: AMC’s Maine Mountain Guide by Cary Michael Kish. Forest and Crag by Laura Waterman and Guy Waterman. A Naturalist at Large: The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich by Bernd Heinrich. Terranexus: Connection and Meaning in Ordinary Places by David K. Leff. A Sideways Look at Clouds by Maria Mudd Ruth. Saving Thoreau’s Birthplace by Lucille Stott. The Pacific Alone by Dave Shively. Yankee Rock and Ice by Laura and Guy Waterman with new chapters by Michael Wejchert.


News And Notes Apr 2021

News And Notes

Appalachia

Snow rangers worked in the White Mountain National Forest during the 2017 federal government shutdown for 35 days. A memoir from 1965, when a teenager climbed Mount Rainier “unauthorized.”


Alpina Apr 2021

Alpina

Appalachia

Climbs in 2017 include the South Ridge of Mount Huntington in Alaska, Cerro Kishtwar in India, Rungofarka in Kashmir, and more. Tributes to the late Tom Frost and Jeff Lowe. Discussion of films released in 2018 of the free climbs of Yosemite’s El Capitan.


Accidents Apr 2021

Accidents

Appalachia

Sandy Stott recommends a book by Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain. The column covers accidents in summer and fall 2018, including an icy May rescue on the Flume Slide Trail, missed turns on the popular Franconia loop route, and three accidents on the tough trail up Huntington Ravine.


In Memoriam Apr 2021

In Memoriam

Appalachia

Bob Proudman, 1948-2018.


Letters Apr 2021

Letters

Appalachia

David Sanderson recollects trying to save Alfred Whipple Jr. and Sidney Crouch on Cannon Mountain in 1959. Al Sanborn tells a story of surviving hypothermia. Bev Esson criticizes a story about a man who took his 60-year-old mother backpacking.


Night Visions: A 15-Year-Old Walks 31.5 Miles Around The Pemi Loop, Alone, Alexandra Herr Apr 2021

Night Visions: A 15-Year-Old Walks 31.5 Miles Around The Pemi Loop, Alone, Alexandra Herr

Appalachia

The narrative of a 15-year-old’s one-day, 31.5-mile, solo circuit around the Pemigewassett Wilderness in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.


Flying With Icarus: A Sunday Afternoon Church Hike Takes An Unexpected Course, Douglass Teschner Apr 2021

Flying With Icarus: A Sunday Afternoon Church Hike Takes An Unexpected Course, Douglass Teschner

Appalachia

A Sunday afternoon church hike takes an unexpected turn as one determined man inches his way up a small hill.


A Wrong Turn: Lost In The Dark, Step By Step, Benjamin Alva Polley Apr 2021

A Wrong Turn: Lost In The Dark, Step By Step, Benjamin Alva Polley

Appalachia

Lost in a remote area of Idaho, a hiker must find his way and ponder what it means to be lost.


Not Here, Not Now: The Epic Of Dan Mcginness, Mike Cherim Apr 2021

Not Here, Not Now: The Epic Of Dan Mcginness, Mike Cherim

Appalachia

A White Mountain guide retells the story of a hiker who saved himself following a scary mid-December overnight in a ravine north of Mount Eisenhower.


Searching For Arnica: A Yellow-Flowered Plant Goes Missing, Bob Zaino Apr 2021

Searching For Arnica: A Yellow-Flowered Plant Goes Missing, Bob Zaino

Appalachia

A rare flower in the aster family, Arnica Lanceolata, goes missing from many of its historic spots.


Could He Ascend Farther? What Will Alex Honnold Reach For After His Free Solo Of El Capitan?, Sarah Ruth Bates Apr 2021

Could He Ascend Farther? What Will Alex Honnold Reach For After His Free Solo Of El Capitan?, Sarah Ruth Bates

Appalachia

An interview with climber Alex Honnold, who free-soloed El Capitan and who discusses his future and that of climbing.


Friendship: A Pessimist Ponders Her Optimist Trail Partner, Elissa Ely Apr 2021

Friendship: A Pessimist Ponders Her Optimist Trail Partner, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

A community psychiatrist ponders her own pessimism and the optimism of her longtime hiking partner.


If I Ever Lose My Way: A Writer Shares What Has Made Crawford Path A Touchstone For Her, Bethany Taylor Apr 2021

If I Ever Lose My Way: A Writer Shares What Has Made Crawford Path A Touchstone For Her, Bethany Taylor

Appalachia

A writer pays tribute to the ways Crawford Path has become her touchstone.


Rebuilding, A Photo Essay: Volunteers Help Restore Parts Of The Oldest Trail In The United States, Paula Champagne, Joe Klementovich Apr 2021

Rebuilding, A Photo Essay: Volunteers Help Restore Parts Of The Oldest Trail In The United States, Paula Champagne, Joe Klementovich

Appalachia

Photos by Paula Champagne and Joe Klementovich celebrate the trail work that restores parts of the Crawford Path, the oldest recreational trail in the United States.