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 74, Number 2 (2022) Summer/Fall 2023: Risks and Adventure
Complete Issue
Editor's Column
The Long Way Home: The Forest Mermaid
Christine Woodside
In This Issue
Running the River Stupid: Swiftwater Rescue Training Proves Relevant to Leading Middle Schoolers, a Teacher Discovers
Anna Hager Loome
One New England Thread: An 800-Mile Bike and Kayak Trip through the Northeast Avoids Automobiles
Tom Fagin
The Settling of Lobster Lake: Sporting Families Built Wilderness Enclaves in a Remote Part of Maine
William Geller
Happy Birthday from Tuckerman Ravine—? A Boulder Changes the Trajectory of an Idyllic Hike
John Stifler
In Every Issue
A Peak Ahead: The Engines of Adventure: What Compels People to Go
Christine Woodside
Poetry
Red-Eyed Vireo at Work
Polly Brown
Government Peak, Trail Crew, August
Russ Capaldi
Hailstorm in Water Canyon
Robin Chapman
Tenting on Mount Morgan
Marcyn Del Clements
Accident Report
Eric Colburn
Still Life with Light Polllution
Todd Davis

Photo by Tom Fagin. Navigating the Oxbow, a channel in Northampton, Massachusetts, that was once the main channel of the Connecticut River but today is connected only by a narrow waterway.