Volume 75, Number 1 (2024) Winter/Spring 2024: Engines of Extremes
Complete Issue
Editor's Column
The Long Way Home: The Winds of Randomness
Christine Woodside
In This Issue
A Long Faller's Reverie: A Climber Investigates Why He Wasn't Scared on a Dangerous 1987 Fall
John Thackray
Finding Brave Blood Above a Raging River: A Via Ferrata Climb Vanquishes Fears in Colorado
Lisa Ballard
WATERMAN FUND ESSAY WINNER: Smoke Report: Lamenting Fire, and the Behaviors that Help Cause It
Austin Hagwood
Bushwhacking in the Mahoosucs: With a Compass and Laminated Map, a Patient Hiker Finds Magic
William Geller
In Every Issue
Skyline Sketches: A Hiker Called Taps Plays "Taps"
William Barrett
Skyline Sketches: The Dog Bell
Michael Keck
A Peak Ahead: Dark Places
Christine Woodside
Poetry
Cryptogram
Robin Chapman
Evolution Creek
Marcyn Del Clements
Three of Hearts
Russ Capaldi
William Preston Phelps and Mount Monadnock
David Crews
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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.