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Articles 481 - 510 of 594
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News And Notes
Appalachia
The year 2014 marked the 50th anniversaries of the Wilderness Act and the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act. AMC and partners develop an outdoor recreation management certificate program with White Mountains Community College. Federal government issues new accessibility guidelines for outdoor areas. A task force works to control parties at Bulls Bridge in Connecticut. AMC receives a large grant to improve trails in the Moosehead Lake region. Memories of summer 2014 near Mount Moriah by that season’s Imp Shelter and Tentsite caretaker.
Alpina
Appalachia
The 2013 pre-monsoon season in the Nepal Himalaya included first ascents of Jagdula, Dragmorpa Ri, and others, and a record number of deaths on several peaks, including eight on Everest. Briton Kenton Cool and Sherpa Dorje Gyalzen traversed three peaks in the Everest group. Sixteen Nepalese died in the Khumbu Icefall below Everest on April 18, 2014.
Accidents
Appalachia
Analysis of accidents in the White Mountains (and nearby) in New Hampshire during winter and spring 2013–14 begins with a note about an unusual avalanche on Mount Washington’s southeast-facing summit snowfield on March 29, 2014; no one was hurt. A man backtracks on a poorly marked trail in the Kilkenny Range. A solo hiker avoiding dangerous wind and blowing snow descends onto the Dry River Trail. Six hikers call for help while sliding down the Mount Washington Auto Road. A pair of hikers lose a trail, and a skier slides out of King Ravine. Four hikers in a school group …
Letters
Appalachia
A letter comments on the Summer/Fall 2014 interview of Peter Landres. The man who organized AMC Boston Chapter’s first music weekend in 1976, called Mountains and Music, reminisces.
The Great Gulf: Evolution Of A Wilderness, David Govatski
The Great Gulf: Evolution Of A Wilderness, David Govatski
Appalachia
A history of the naming of and exploration in the Great Gulf, the glacial cirque complex between Mount Washington and Mount Adams in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Huts As Classrooms: A Memoir By Two Who Inhabited The Puckerbrush, John B. Nutter, W. Kent Olson
Huts As Classrooms: A Memoir By Two Who Inhabited The Puckerbrush, John B. Nutter, W. Kent Olson
Appalachia
The origins of the Appalachian Mountain Club’s educational programs at its huts in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, told by AMC’s first education director, John Nutter, and a former hut system manager, W. Kent Olson.
"Old Man" Thompson, White Mountain Guide: A Mountain Was Named After Him—And Then Unnamed, Julie Boardman
"Old Man" Thompson, White Mountain Guide: A Mountain Was Named After Him—And Then Unnamed, Julie Boardman
Appalachia
Julie Boardman’s story of Allen Thompson, a nineteenth-century White Mountain guide who had many excellent qualities and one failing: he focused on his own needs more than those of his clients.
118 Deer Went By...: Reminscing About The Old Sporting Camps Deep In The Maine Backcountry, William Geller
118 Deer Went By...: Reminscing About The Old Sporting Camps Deep In The Maine Backcountry, William Geller
Appalachia
Part 2 of William Geller’s story of a vanished way of life in Maine, between Rainbow Lake and Yoke Pond just west of Millinocket and south of Baxter State Park. The story is told through the eyes of a caretaker looking back on the 1890s-1950s.
Finding Courage In The Mountains' Shadows: Recovering A Climber's Body, Ryan J. Harvey
Finding Courage In The Mountains' Shadows: Recovering A Climber's Body, Ryan J. Harvey
Appalachia
A crew member at the Mount Washington Observatory is called on to recover a body on the eastern slope of Mount Clay.
Breakup At 4,800 Feet: He Hiked Out, And She Didnt, Elissa Ely
Breakup At 4,800 Feet: He Hiked Out, And She Didnt, Elissa Ely
Appalachia
Elissa Ely overhears a heartbreaking interaction inside Greenleaf Hut on the slopes of New Hampshire’s Mount Lafayette.
Waterman Fund Essay Winner: The Cage Canyon: "I Am Holding A Piece Of The Wild In My Hands, And She Wants Nothing To Do With Me", Jenny Kelly Wagner
Waterman Fund Essay Winner: The Cage Canyon: "I Am Holding A Piece Of The Wild In My Hands, And She Wants Nothing To Do With Me", Jenny Kelly Wagner
Appalachia
The winner of the seventh Waterman Fund Essay Contest shows what has happened to wolves in the West: most wolves alive today have never learned to hunt because they were bred in captivity. They are a species that has lost its wildness but can never be tamed.
A Wild Ride: Down A Beautiful And Stressed Western Waterway, Lisa Densmore Ballard
A Wild Ride: Down A Beautiful And Stressed Western Waterway, Lisa Densmore Ballard
Appalachia
Lisa Densmore Ballard’s story of a 187-mile rafting trip through the Grand Canyon.
Save The Colorado: Can Recreation Rescue A Preservation Ethic?, John Gioia
Save The Colorado: Can Recreation Rescue A Preservation Ethic?, John Gioia
Appalachia
An environmental management scholar takes a trip down the Colorado River and considers the long history of abuse that has threatened its water.
The Long Way Home: Trout Fishing In The Carters, Christine Woodside
The Long Way Home: Trout Fishing In The Carters, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
Editor-in-chief Christine Woodside narrates a backpacking trip with an old friend through the Carter Range. They are reading and puzzling over Richard Brautigan’s cryptic novel Trout Fishing in America.
Appalachia Winter/Spring 2015: Complete Issue
A Peak Ahead: Commitment, Christine Woodside
In Memoriam
Appalachia
Samuel F. Pryor, III, former Appalachian Mountain Club board president.
Books Of Note
Appalachia
Maia Rauschenberg’s essay, “The Mom List: Books straight out of the box,” discusses Wild by Cheryl Strayed, The Emerald Mile by Ken Fedarko, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, and others. Reviews of The Geology of New Hampshire’s White Mountains by J. Dykstra Eusden et al. Along the Appalachian Trail: New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut by Leonard M. Adkins and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. Denali’s Howl by Andy Hall. Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods by Richard B. Primack. The Land Breakers by John Ehle. Hanging On: A Life Inside British Climbing’s Golden Age by Martin Boysen. …
News And Notes
Appalachia
The Appalachian Mountain Club, with assistance from The Nature Conservancy, protects Maine’s Baker Mountain. AMC will open a program center in New York’s Harriman State Park. Voluntary New Hampshire “HikeSafe” cards are available. Clay B. Cook narrates a trip to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. John Fox reports conservation efforts in the Hudson Highlands of New York and New Jersey.
Alpina
Appalachia
Denali’s 2014 season: 1,204 attempted the highest peak in North America in 2014. Six out of twelve who tried Mount Foraker reached the top. In the Nepal Himalaya’s post-monsoon 2013 season, 180 expeditions attempted 35 mountains; 260 team members summited with the aid of 185 hired supporters. An avalanche on Manaslu killed eleven. Five died: two on Baruntse and three on Himlung. Swiss climber Ueli Steck pioneered a new south-face route on Annapurna; two French climbers followed a few weeks later and were evacuated afterwards. In pre-monsoon 2014, an April 18 avalanche on Mount Everest killed sixteen Nepalese, mostly ethnic …
Accidents
Appalachia
Analysis by Sandy Stott of summer/fall 2014 accidents in the White Mountains of New Hampshire: four women get lost after sunset on Mount Watatic in Massachusetts. A man slips on the Falling Waters Trail and is carried out. Exhausted hikers on Mount Lafayette are assisted to Greenleaf Hut. New walkers who summit late on Mount Washington ask tourists for help and get in trouble walking down the Cog Railway. Two parties struggle after rock-climbing Cannon Cliff. A couple returning to the White Mountains after years cannot make time going down the Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail. On Mount Major, 37 people get …
Letters
Appalachia
A reader asks if a school group from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania should have been charged for its January 2014 rescue on Mount Washington. W. Kent Olson clarifies that the frontispiece photo of Philip Levin in Winter/Spring 2010 is a photo of technical climbing, not skiing. A retired earth sciences professor challenges discussion of dams’ effects on the Colorado River in an article in Winter/Spring 2015. Douglass Teschner shares a tale of the late New Hampshire hiker Chris Goetze.
Outage: An Adventure In Situ, Learning To Fear Storms In A More Funadmental Way Than Before, W. D. Wetherell
Outage: An Adventure In Situ, Learning To Fear Storms In A More Funadmental Way Than Before, W. D. Wetherell
Appalachia
Writer W.D. Wetherell lives in west central New Hampshire and has noticed that hundred-year storms have become more frequent. This story tells of a wretched night in the house experiencing climate change’s tempests.
The Big One: After Altitude Sickness Thwarts Her Mother, A Hiker Forges Alone Up Mount Whitney, Jia H. Jung
The Big One: After Altitude Sickness Thwarts Her Mother, A Hiker Forges Alone Up Mount Whitney, Jia H. Jung
Appalachia
A grueling hike up the highest point in the lower 48 states, in Sequoia National Park, energizes writer Jia H. Jung.
Where The Trail Ends: A Story Of Losing A Friend And Finding A Mountain, Wendy Ungar
Where The Trail Ends: A Story Of Losing A Friend And Finding A Mountain, Wendy Ungar
Appalachia
Wendy Ungar honors her late friend Jane Neale with the story of their bushwhack in 1995 up then-trailless Lookout Mountain, in the Adirondacks.
Rehabilitation With Cooper, Elissa Ely
Rehabilitation With Cooper, Elissa Ely
Appalachia
A golden retriever with a chaotic past learns to follow writer Elissa Ely up mountains, ending his solitude and hers.
Channeling Myron Avery: Following A 1929 Ramble In Maine, William Geller, Jim Logan
Channeling Myron Avery: Following A 1929 Ramble In Maine, William Geller, Jim Logan
Appalachia
William Geller and Jim Logan go back in time on Katahdin, following a route early trail blazer Avery took in the area of South Traveler and Traveler Gap in Baxter State Park.
What Happened To The Thoreau Spring Plaque? The Story Of A Maine Landmark's Two Names, Howard R. Whitcomb
What Happened To The Thoreau Spring Plaque? The Story Of A Maine Landmark's Two Names, Howard R. Whitcomb
Appalachia
Thoreau Spring lies at the convergence of two trails high on Katahdin, in Maine. Howard R. Whitcomb tells the story of the spring’s two names and vandalism of a plaque that marked it.
Emerson And The Environment: The Beginnings Of American Nationalism, Michael Popejoy
Emerson And The Environment: The Beginnings Of American Nationalism, Michael Popejoy
Appalachia
Ralph Waldo Emerson has been known as a transcendentalist and idealist, but he left no shortage of footprints on the landscape and also thought and wrote extensively about the natural world. Michael Popejoy examines Emerson’s “unified philosophy of nature.”
Master Of Path Grading: An Appreciation Of J. Rayner Edmands, Christine Woodside
Master Of Path Grading: An Appreciation Of J. Rayner Edmands, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
Christine Woodside’s profile and history of the engineer who spent twenty years making graded trails that followed the land’s contours in the White Mountains of New Hampshire: Edmands Path, Randolph Path, Gulfside Trail, Westside Trail, Valley Way, and others; the work may have hastened his death at 60.