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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Adventure, Love, and the Land That Shapes Us: Stories from the AMC Community
It’s time to pass the mic. Earlier this year, we put out a call for AMC stories in honor of our 150th anniversary. Stories of epic adventures, sweet connections, high mountain summits, and memories from AMC huts and lodges started coming...
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Trail Trials: How AMC Trail Crews Adjust for New...
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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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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What I Did This Summer: AMC’s 2023 Research Interns
How’d you spend your summer? For AMC’s research interns, it was a busy season. Working alongside professional scientists, interns took on big projects essential to AMC’s conservation mission, from collecting data deep in the backcountry…
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AMC’s Guide to Fall Outdoors
At AMC, we love fall. It’s why we hold our annual FallFest. And it’s why we think you should use the season to springboard your next big outdoor adventure. Autumn is a great time for…
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How Much Land is Conserved in New England? Ask...
When you walk in a Northeast forest, it can feel like the woods go on forever. But we all know they don’t. Hike far enough, and you’ll cross a road or run into shops and…
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A Croo’s Comeback
The sun rises on AMC Mizpah Spring Hut, and I’m splitting breakfast with a group of singing, ukulele-playing Montréalers. Longtime friends from their running and cycling group, they first went on a hut-to-hut trip in…
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Managing Extreme Mountain Weather
If you first think about weather when a drop of rain hits you, you’re way too late. One of the great variables of any trip into the mountains of the Northeast is the weather. In…
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Backpacking for Beginners
You’ve built confidence on day hikes. You were inspired by a trip to an AMC Lodge to spend more time outdoors. Maybe you just looked at a map, pointed to place deep in the backcountry…
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