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Anticipation Is Half The Problem: Navigating 6,649 Reviews Of One Trail In Bryce Canyon, Elissa Ely Mar 2024

Anticipation Is Half The Problem: Navigating 6,649 Reviews Of One Trail In Bryce Canyon, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

A hiker describes the evenly split opinions of thousands of people who’d posted online that they knew the best direction to travel the Fairyland Loop in Bryce Canyon.


Bushwhacking In The Mahoosucs: With A Compass And Laminated Map, A Patient Hiker Finds Magic, William Geller Mar 2024

Bushwhacking In The Mahoosucs: With A Compass And Laminated Map, A Patient Hiker Finds Magic, William Geller

Appalachia

An experienced backcountry adventurer describes the highlights of 22 trailless trips in New Hampshire and Maine from 1992 to 1994.


Early Encounters With The Underhills: Did They Know The Young Climber Was Jewish?, Steven Jervis Mar 2024

Early Encounters With The Underhills: Did They Know The Young Climber Was Jewish?, Steven Jervis

Appalachia

The latest in a series of climbing memoirs by the editor of Appalachia’s Alpina section gives a firsthand look at his experiences meeting climbers Robert and Miriam Underhill in the 1950s, and asks whether Robert Underhill, who had written several anti-Semitic letters in the 1930s and 1940s, knew the author was Jewish.


Waterman Fund Essay Winner: Smoke Report: Lamenting Fire, And The Behaviors That Help Cause It, Austin Hagwood Mar 2024

Waterman Fund Essay Winner: Smoke Report: Lamenting Fire, And The Behaviors That Help Cause It, Austin Hagwood

Appalachia

The winner of Appalachia’s annual essay contest for emerging writers narrates his experience as a fire lookout in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho four years after the Gold Pan Fire burned 42,000 acres.


Finding Brave Blood Above A Raging River: A Via Ferrata Climb Vanquishes Fears In Colorado, Lisa Ballard Mar 2024

Finding Brave Blood Above A Raging River: A Via Ferrata Climb Vanquishes Fears In Colorado, Lisa Ballard

Appalachia

An adventurer confronts her fears in Royal Gorge’s rapids and on the cliffs above.


A Long Faller's Reverie: A Climber Investigates Why He Wasn't Scared On A Dangerous 1987 Fall, John Thackray Mar 2024

A Long Faller's Reverie: A Climber Investigates Why He Wasn't Scared On A Dangerous 1987 Fall, John Thackray

Appalachia

Now age 89, a climber examines narratives of those who survived dangerous falls as he reconsiders his own bad fall in 1987 in the Mohonk Preserve of New Paltz, New York.


The Exploder: A Miserable Trek Lives Up To An Ecuadoran Volcano's Name, Todd Swain Mar 2024

The Exploder: A Miserable Trek Lives Up To An Ecuadoran Volcano's Name, Todd Swain

Appalachia

Flashback to 1991: a climber’s story of a miserable attempt to summit an active volcano.


Broken Pieces: An Accident That Felt Destined, Despite Every Effort To Avoid Complacency, Stacy Boone Mar 2024

Broken Pieces: An Accident That Felt Destined, Despite Every Effort To Avoid Complacency, Stacy Boone

Appalachia

An experienced guide’s solo thru-hike of the Oregon Desert Trail ends suddenly with a broken knee and a courageous self-rescue.


Dragonsky Is Born: Coming Out Of A Crisis, Long-Distance Hiking Saves Her Life, Shilletha Curtis Mar 2024

Dragonsky Is Born: Coming Out Of A Crisis, Long-Distance Hiking Saves Her Life, Shilletha Curtis

Appalachia

Learning of the Appalachian Trail from a stranger, a woman decides to hike it, realizing that few people of color have explored long trails.


The Long Way Home: The Winds Of Randomness, Christine Woodside Mar 2024

The Long Way Home: The Winds Of Randomness, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

A sudden, random injury clarifies how greatly luck figures in mountain walking.


Appalachia Winter/Spring 2024: Complete Issue Mar 2024

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2024: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Winter/Spring 2024 - Volume LXXV, Number 1 - Issue #257. Engines of Extremes: Stories of pushing beyond previous limits.


A Peak Ahead: Up From Devastation, Christine Woodside Mar 2024

A Peak Ahead: Up From Devastation, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Letters Mar 2024

Letters

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Books Of Note Mar 2024

Books Of Note

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Research Mar 2024

Research

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


In Memoriam Mar 2024

In Memoriam

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


News And Notes Mar 2024

News And Notes

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Alpina Mar 2024

Alpina

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Accidents Mar 2024

Accidents

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Ren Zhong Feng And The 1932 American Sikong Expedition: An Exercise In Armchair Mountaineering, Jeffery Parrette Mar 2024

Ren Zhong Feng And The 1932 American Sikong Expedition: An Exercise In Armchair Mountaineering, Jeffery Parrette

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Running The Rope Out: When Does A Climbing Career End?, Douglass P. Teschner Mar 2024

Running The Rope Out: When Does A Climbing Career End?, Douglass P. Teschner

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Quebec's Weird Frontier: Monts Groulx, An Entire Earth, Will Kemeza Mar 2024

Quebec's Weird Frontier: Monts Groulx, An Entire Earth, Will Kemeza

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Maps By Hand: The Techniques Of Two Early Map-Makers For The White Mountain Guide, Loren Johnston Mar 2024

Maps By Hand: The Techniques Of Two Early Map-Makers For The White Mountain Guide, Loren Johnston

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


A Death In Canada, 1896: How It Transformed Mountaineering, Ron Dart Mar 2024

A Death In Canada, 1896: How It Transformed Mountaineering, Ron Dart

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Everyone Who Starts Will Finish: Warren Doyle's Rules For Long-Distance Group Hikes, Christine Woodside Mar 2024

Everyone Who Starts Will Finish: Warren Doyle's Rules For Long-Distance Group Hikes, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Suckled By The Wolf: A Mother Ponders The Nature Of Wildness, Kristen Laine Mar 2024

Suckled By The Wolf: A Mother Ponders The Nature Of Wildness, Kristen Laine

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


This Counts As A School Day: Why Are Some Kids Free To Explore The Wild, And Others Aren't?, Catherine Buni Mar 2024

This Counts As A School Day: Why Are Some Kids Free To Explore The Wild, And Others Aren't?, Catherine Buni

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


The Long Way Home: Alone With The Alone, Christine Woodside Mar 2024

The Long Way Home: Alone With The Alone, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Appalachia Summer/Fall 2010: Complete Issue Mar 2024

Appalachia Summer/Fall 2010: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2010 - Volume LXI, Number 2 - issue #230. Hut, Two, Three, Four: What ignites the outdoor passion of the next generation?


A Peak Ahead: Hut, Two, Three, Four—To The Outdoors, Christine Woodside Mar 2024

A Peak Ahead: Hut, Two, Three, Four—To The Outdoors, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

No abstract provided.