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 75, Number 1 (2024) Winter/Spring 2024: Engines of Extremes
Complete Issue
Editor's Column
The Long Way Home: The Winds of Randomness
Christine Woodside
In This Issue
A Long Faller's Reverie: A Climber Investigates Why He Wasn't Scared on a Dangerous 1987 Fall
John Thackray
Finding Brave Blood Above a Raging River: A Via Ferrata Climb Vanquishes Fears in Colorado
Lisa Ballard
WATERMAN FUND ESSAY WINNER: Smoke Report: Lamenting Fire, and the Behaviors that Help Cause It
Austin Hagwood
Bushwhacking in the Mahoosucs: With a Compass and Laminated Map, a Patient Hiker Finds Magic
William Geller
In Every Issue
Skyline Sketches: A Hiker Called Taps Plays "Taps"
William Barrett
Skyline Sketches: The Dog Bell
Michael Keck
A Peak Ahead: Dark Places
Christine Woodside
Poetry
Cryptogram
Robin Chapman
Evolution Creek
Marcyn Del Clements
Three of Hearts
Russ Capaldi
William Preston Phelps and Mount Monadnock
David Crews
Photo by Lisa Ballard. For a break after tossing about the fast Arkansas River in Colorado's Royal Gorge, adventurers edged across this 8-inch-wide footbridge. Next they would hoist themselves up a high cliff roped to metal pieces.