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 2 (2022) Summer/Fall 2022: The Ubiquitous Cell Phone
Complete Issue
Editor's Column
The Long Way Home: Time as an Iron Hand Versus Time as a Shifting Wind
Christine Woodside
In This Issue
Do Cell Phones Belong in the Mountains? A 24-Mile Journey with a 1-Year-Old Suggests a Quieter Mountain Way
Stephen Kurczy
Backcountry Cell Phone Vignettes: Connected and Disconnected
Ian Ramsey and Douglas Balmain
Why Does No One Climb the Palisades? Just North of New York City, a Glacier-Exposed Cliff Tempts a Climber
Michael Levy
A Life Lesson in Denali Park: A Grizzly Bear Follows a Camper
J. Robert Harris
COVID-19 Exposes a Wilderness Myth: A Long Trail Trek is Not about Retreating from Towns and Community
Clare Dumont
A Change of Plans on the Cohos Trail: After His Mother's Death, a Hiker Faces Why He Loves the Wild
Walt McLaughlin
Pondering Graceful Aging on Table Mountain, South Africa: A Septuagenarian Rock Climber Reflects on His Past and Future
Douglass P. Teschner
In Every Issue
Valley and Skyline Sketches
Steve Fagin and Liana Tsang Cohen
A Peak Ahead: Hidden Surprises
Christine Woodside
Poetry
Liturgy of Going to Water
Michael Garrigan
Cormorant With Swimmers
Stephanie Kraft
The Traveler: North of Katahdin
David K. Leff
Pacific Creek
Francis Lunney
Morning on the River
John Smelcer
The Harvesters
Kristen Staby Rembold
Photo by Joe Klementovich. Late-day shadows seen from the Cohos Trail add drama to the cliffs in Dixville Notch in Dixville, New Hampshire.
