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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

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A Peak Ahead: Dark Places
Christine Woodside

Poetry

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Cryptogram
Robin Chapman

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Evolution Creek
Marcyn Del Clements

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Three of Hearts
Russ Capaldi

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Coyotes
Tim Lacy

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.