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).
Current Issue: Volume 72, Number 1 (2021) Winter/Spring 2021: Mountains in a Pandemic
Complete Issue
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In This Issue
The Long Way Home: Is It Help or Is It "Help"?
Christine Woodside
Mountains in a Pandemic: Introduction
Christine Woodside
The Vertical Mile: An Obsession of Repeated Climbs
Stephen Kurczy
Eight Weeks on Scudder: Writing from the Pandemic at the Fringes of the White Mountain National Forest
Sally Manikian
Seasonal Affective Reorder: Which Reality is Capable of a Pause?
Sarah Ruth Bates
Katahdin: Standing Above Unsettling Thoughts and Emotions
Anthony Emerson
The Hancock Loop Trail, Then and Now: Reflections from One Who Helped Build the Trail
Douglass P. Teschner
The Crawford Path in the News: White Mountain History and the Communications Revolutions
Susan Schibanoff
In Every Issue
A Peak Ahead: Off Trail
Christine Woodside
Poetry
Annotating Darwin
Polly Brown
Heron Heart
Noah Davis
Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, Photographer 1865–1931
Francis Lunney
Polar Vortex
Laurie D. Morrisey
A Raven Funeral
John Smelcer

Photo by Jamie Malcolm-Brown: A full moon over Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, mid-pandemic, May 2020.