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 73, Number 1 (2021) Winter/Spring 2022: Cataclysms in the Catskills and Taconics
Complete Issue
Editor's Column
The Long Way Home: Lessons from the Chuckwalla
Christine Woodside
In This Issue
The Bluebird Chronicles: A Catskills Romance
Leslie T. Sharpe
The Passing of Northern Pass: Reflections on a Nine-Year Fight that Halted a Power Line through the White Mountains
Kenneth Kimball
A Day—and 150 Years—in the Nordmarka: Skiing Through a Norwegian Forest is Everyone's Right
Sam Martland
Be Wary of the Hind-Leg Kick: Memories of Donkey Driving in the Sandwich Notch Area of New Hampshire
William Geller
Considering the Heartache of the World: A Girl Whose Mother Never Came and One Whose Mother Did
Elissa Ely
Light Snow in the Whites: A Close Call
Rob Powers and Bill Powers
WATERMAN FUND ESSAY WINNER: Splitting Clouds at the Edge of the World: How Had I Never Noticed It Before?
Jason Mazurowski
The Tourists: Having No Memory or Relationships in a Landscape, They Make Dangerous Mistakes
Hilary Smith
In Every Issue
A Peak Ahead
Christine Woodside
Poetry
Bog Parable
Todd Davis
Shinrin-Yoku
Marcyn Del Clements
Alpine Garden
David K. Leff
Returning the Gift
John Smelcer
Shark's Fin
John Whitney Steele
Pressed Flowers
Jeffrey A. Summit
"Kaaterskill Falls," by Thomas Cole, 1826.
