What Is a Dark Sky?
When you look at the sky at night, what do you see? Until a few generations ago, people everywhere saw the same thing. A sky filled with stars, planets, and galaxies. Today, if you’re like…
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The 2023 AMC Photo Contest Winners Are Here
Being outdoors engages all five senses, so capturing these moments with a still image is a special kind of challenge. AMC celebrates the photographers in our community who do just that with our annual photo...
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AMC’s Guide to Spring Outdoors
Spring in the Northeast can be a tough time to get outdoors. Ski season is wrapping up. Trails are still covered in snow and ice, or entering the depths of mud season. Conditions can range…
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From the White Mountain Huts to the Giant Races:...
This story is a preview of the upcoming issue of Appalachia Journal. Katie Schide ran down the woodsy mountain trail from the Flégère tram station 800 meters above Chamonix, France, this past August 27, much…
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Lodge-to-Lodge Skiing in the Maine Woods: What to Expect
AMC’s Maine Woods Initiative (MWI) is a vast, ecologically significant swath of land. It’s an important carbon sink, a habitat for numerous threatened species, and home to some of the region’s most pristine…
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Conserving the Highlands
The Mid-Atlantic Highlands region encompasses 3.4 million-acres of scenic greenway, including rolling hills and green waterways, that stretch from western Connecticut, through New York and New Jersey, and across Pennsylvania. The area is brimming with…
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Community Snow Observations Come to the White Mountains
It’s 5:30am. The sun hasn’t risen over Mount Washington, but AMC Hermit Lakes Winter Caretaker Eli Hanschka is already out in the cold, looking at snow. Each morning on the job begins this way for…
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White Mountain Mysteries
White Mountain Mysteries: A Bushwhacker and His Brother Decode Remote Place Names William Geller Appalachia Winter/Spring 2023 At age 19, I bushwhacked for the first tome using a compass and map in the Pemigewasset Wilderness…
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Interviews with Bears
Interviews with Bears: Trailside, near New York City Margaret Redmond Whitehead Appalachia Winter/Spring 2023 The first time I saw a wild black bear, in 2015, I was so close to Manhattan that I could glimpse…
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Day Four: A rescuer’s account of a hiker’s baffling...
This story was originally published in the Winter/Spring 2023 issue of Appalachia Journal. On a chilly night in early May 2009, the pager sounded. New Hampshire Fish and Game (NHFG) summoned our Upper Valley Wilderness…
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