Published continuously since 1876, Appalachia is America’s longest-running journal of mountaineering and conservation. Each issue delivers inspired writing on mountain exploration, ecology, and conservation; news about international mountaineering expeditions; analysis of northeastern mountaineering accidents; poems by leading poets; and much more. The print journal appears twice a year, on June 15 (Summer/Fall) and December 15 (Winter/Spring).
For inquiries about getting or writing for Appalachia, contact Editor-in-Chief Christine Woodside at christine.woodside@gmail.com.
Current Issue: Volume 76, Number 1 (2025) Winter/Spring 2025: The Humanity of Machines
Complete Issue
Editor's Column
The Long Way Home: Getting Water
Christine Woodside
In This Issue
Mountain Ninjas: Today's Motorized Beasts of Burden
Justin Preisendorfer
Return to the Cuyahoga Valley: From Toxic Dump to National Park
Christopher Johnson
When Powder Skis Became a Thing: A Winter's Tale of Engineers and Unbroken Fields of White
Rick Spedden
Debacle on Mount Pierce: A Self-Rescue Story
Heidi J. Downing
WATERMAN FUND ESSAY WINNER: Old Friends in the Alpine: Field Scientists on Vermont's Highest Peak
Catherine Wessel
Skyline Sketches: Survival of the Timid
Jessica Kulynych
Skyline Sketches: Turning Around
Morgan Kennedy
In Every Issue
A Peak Ahead: Dark Places
Christine Woodside
Poetry
Articulation
Elizabeth Bradfield
After a Late Winter Rain
Todd Davis
In the Forest in Winter
Chris Hoffman
Paddling the Schenob Brook
Hilary Russell

Photo by Ryan Smith. Carl Svenson maneuvers a helicopter upslope in the White Mountains of New Hampshire for the Appalachian Mountain Club.