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Alpina Sep 2021

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 Sep 2021

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 Sep 2021

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 Sep 2021

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 Sep 2021

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 Sep 2021

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 Sep 2021

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 Sep 2021

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 Sep 2021

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 Sep 2021

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 Sep 2021

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 Sep 2021

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 Sep 2021

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 Sep 2021

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 Sep 2021

A Peak Ahead: Mount Washington, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

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Books And Media Sep 2021

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 Sep 2021

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.


Letters Sep 2021

Letters

Appalachia

On “trail magic” and David Brower.


Alpina Sep 2021

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 Sep 2021

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 Sep 2021

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.


Elk In The Smokies: Adventures With A Reintroduced Herd, Lisa Densmore Ballard Sep 2021

Elk In The Smokies: Adventures With A Reintroduced Herd, Lisa Densmore Ballard

Appalachia

Photographer Lisa Densmore Ballard follows a staff member of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in search of a reintroduced herd of Cervus canadensis in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She sees two bulls near the Cataloochee Valley.


Singing Waters: Unplanned Conservation On Four Northern Maine Rivers, Lloyd C. Irland Sep 2021

Singing Waters: Unplanned Conservation On Four Northern Maine Rivers, Lloyd C. Irland

Appalachia

An essay on the conservation of Maine’s rivers, the Allagash, St. John, and East and West Branches of the Penobscot by forester and research scientist Lloyd C. Irland.


The Retired Fire Warden: On Finding Purpose, Elissa Ely Sep 2021

The Retired Fire Warden: On Finding Purpose, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

Elissa Ely encounters a fire warden in his tower on the summit of Red Hill, above Squam Lake, New Hampshire.


The Old Bridle Path: "It Is Solved By Walking", Caroline Santinelli Sep 2021

The Old Bridle Path: "It Is Solved By Walking", Caroline Santinelli

Appalachia

A member of the Greenleaf Hut crew, or “croo,” below the summit of Mount Lafayette in the White Mountains of New Hampshire connects to the natural history of the mountain through frequent foot trips on the Old Bridle Path.


Lady And The Camp: A Lost Uncle And The Found Wilderness, Erica Berry Sep 2021

Lady And The Camp: A Lost Uncle And The Found Wilderness, Erica Berry

Appalachia

The writer Erica Berry writes of the connections between the wilderness explorations of her uncle—who killed himself in Alaska before she was born—and herself. When she worked as a wilderness guide for a girls’ camp, she wanted to connect to other people and help them grow up.


The Gift: A Father's Legacy, "Free Man Past Monday", Michael Keck Sep 2021

The Gift: A Father's Legacy, "Free Man Past Monday", Michael Keck

Appalachia

Michael Keck, who thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in winter 1979–1980, reflects on his father’s lessons in the wilderness.


A Woman In The Woods, Working: A Trail Leader Learns To Trust Her Own Steady Hand, Sally Manikian Sep 2021

A Woman In The Woods, Working: A Trail Leader Learns To Trust Her Own Steady Hand, Sally Manikian

Appalachia

A trail crew leader in the White Mountains of New Hampshire learns to trust her own steady hand with tools she had once believed she could not master. “In the early months of my trail job,” Sally Manikian writes, “I held the inane idea that only men knew how to build things.”


Potsherds: A Woman Follows Willa Cather's Inspiration To A Remote New Mexico Park, Judy Benson Sep 2021

Potsherds: A Woman Follows Willa Cather's Inspiration To A Remote New Mexico Park, Judy Benson

Appalachia

Willa Cather’s novel The Song of the Lark, in particular a passage about shards of broken pottery in Mesa Verde National Park, inspires writer Judy Benson to visit both Mesa Verde and Chaco Culture National Historical Park to learn about life from 850-1250 CE.


Postcard Poetry From 1924: Hints Of A Story In Limited Space, Andrew Riely Sep 2021

Postcard Poetry From 1924: Hints Of A Story In Limited Space, Andrew Riely

Appalachia

Andrew Riely decodes some cryptic diary notes a hiker made on the back of an unmailed 1924 postcard of Lakes of Clouds Hut below Mount Washington, New Hampshire.