Sarah Nelson is the Director of Research at the Appalachian Mountain Club. Prior to AMC, she was at the University of Maine for 21 years, most recently as an Associate Research Professor in the School…
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Maine Woods Initiative
The Maine Woods Initiative (MWI) is AMC’s multi-use recreation and land conservation project in the famed 100-Mile Wilderness. It’s an area at the heart of the largest contiguous expanse of undeveloped forest in the eastern…
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Bake Bread Like the AMC Hut Croo
Want to learn to bake like AMC’s famed hut Croo? Croo members are the seasonal staff working in the backcountry at AMC’s High Mountain Huts in the White Mountains. For each breakfast and dinner,…
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Trail Trials: How AMC Trail Crews Adjust for New Challenges
I’m standing on a 2,000-yard stretch of churned-up earth, right off the road. Sunlight filters down through the trees with just-starting-to-change color leaves, and busily working people in hard hats surround me, as well as…
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Annual Summit
Annual Summit AMC’s Annual Summit is held each January at the Four Points by Sheraton in Norwood, MA. Click here to ground yourself in the conference’s location among the region’s native lands. This one-day event…
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How Food Gets to AMC’s Backcountry Huts
Picture this: You manage logistics for a restaurant. Well, actually, it’s eight restaurants. And each one is on top of a mountain. With limited refrigerator space. Sound challenging? It’s all part of the job for AMC…
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The 2023 AMC Photo Contest
The 2023 AMC Photo Contest For more than two decades, the AMC Photo Contest has celebrated the different ways we experience the outdoors and the views we take in along the way. The contest welcomes…
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Barnard Forest in Maine’s 100 Mile Wilderness
You Can Help Us Conserve Critical Forestland in Maine’s 100-Mile Wilderness AMC is working with The Conservation Fund to protect the 29,000-acre Barnard Forest while we raise the $23 million needed for AMC to acquire…
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Fall Appeal
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