Mountain Passages: The Journal of the New Hampshire Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club
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Your source for outdoor adventures and “how to” articles for hiking, skiing, paddling and other outdoor activities, as well as articles about the history and natural environment of the New Hampshire forests and mountains.
The Fall Issue of Mountain Passages is available HERE: In our Fall Issue we cover a range of topics about leaf season, all things 4,000, and NH history while previewing what is in store for this winter:
- Diana Moore writes about SUSTAINABLE HIKING PRACTICES;
- Ham Mehlman recounts THE VILLAGE THAT CREATED FRANCONIA NOTCH STATE PARK;
- We detail the HISTORY OF THE 4,000-FOOTERS LIST and includes an excerpt from Keith Gentili’s book White Mountains State recalling FALL HIKING IN CRAWFORD NOTCH;
- Bob McLaughlin schools us on forest succession: OBSERVE AS YOU HIKE: FOREST SUCCESION AND “OLD GROWTH”;
- Joe D’Amore continues his series on Becoming a Hike Leader with a review of MAP & COMPASS TRAINING;
- Frances Woodward Richardson continues her series on PEOPLE OF THE WHITES: RODNEY DALLAS WOODWARD;
- Steve Zimmerman submits a trip report on the FALL WEEKEND FOR OVER 55 GROUP;
- The Ski Committee publishes its NH 2024-25 SKI CALENDER;
- And of course we conclude with another WHERE IN THE WHITES.
Enjoy! Back issues of Mountain Passages are available in the archive.
CHECK BACK AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH SEASON FOR NEW ARTICLES!
WHERE IN THE WHITES EARLY RESULTS!
Apparently the Fall Issue “Where In the Whites” photographs a well trodden and familiar path! As of November 4 the trampers listed below have recognized the scene with great detail. We will continue to list others correctly identifying the location and post the answer in January. Please continue sending answers to WitWamcnh@gmail.com. And by the way, everybody is a winner here. We are not rewarding speed this time!
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- Scott Silun
- Kathy Roseen
- Loretta Boyne (you didn’t use Peak Finder to identify the location did you? :))
- Alan Stein
- Jill Dorval Winitzer
- Mike Sullivan
- Keith Enman
- Per Frost
NOTES:
- We are DISCONTINUING DELIVERY BY REGULAR MAIL. Links to future articles will be sent by email to all members/subscribers as well as being available on the AMC-NH website . Members should check with AMC Member Services ((603) 466 2727) to see if they are signed up for email distribution and/or to update their email address.
- Articles and “Letters to the Editor” welcome! Mountain Passages is an AMC-NH member-volunteer managed and produced publication. We welcome (and need!) articles and “Letters to the Editor” from members interested in writing on topics they think relevant to the missions, activities and interests of AMC-NH members. (All submissions subject to editorial review.) Please send Word or Google Doc file to newsletterNH@amcnh.com. Be a published author!
MOUNTAIN PASSAGES
Editor: Ham Mehlman
Editorial Staff: Diana Moore and Robert McLaughlin
email: newsletternh@amcnh.org
Mountain Passages generally posts new material on this website at the beginning of each astronomical season
© 2024 by New Hampshire Chapter, Appalachian Mountain Club
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“PEAKS” INTO THE ARCHIVES:
MOUNTAIN POETRY
The Old Man in the
Mountain Wants a Wife….
I’ve lived a cold and stony life
Above earth’s bickerings and strife,
But now I want a bonny wife
To cheer my lonely hours.
I want a maiden young and fair,
With sunny eyes and silken hair,
The grandeur of my throne to share
Queen of these woodland bowers.
A low voiced maid, whose lightest word
Is sweet as note of early bird,
That I with rapture oft have heard
Among these granite hills.
A heart from artifice as free
As heart of woman e’er can be;
Smiling on all – yet true to me –
The thought my bosom thrills.
Now is such maiden can you find
And she to wed me is inclined,
My fate with her’s I’ll gladly fbind
Forever and forever.
And if to her I prove untrue
May heaven withold it’s rain and dew,
And naugth but ill my path pursue
Till death these ties shall sever.
But if this maiden young and fair
With sunny eyes and silken hair
To scale this mountain should not dare
Not even for my sake;
Then when the winds of evening sigh
Look not for me on mountain high;
You’ll find me where the shadows lie
Deep down in Profile Lake.
– Mrs. J. W. Gray, Easton NH – date unknown
A Contemplation Of Pebbles
My feet glide off the watery floor,
With an emerald patina that restores.
The cascades voicings define the gorge,
Where tumbling boulders once went forth
The roots of trees embrace the scape,
Which primeval forces did once shape.
In a million years the rocks in pools,
Were churned and smoothed to pebbled hues.
Resting at Gem Pool and cascades on the descent from Monroe
Joe D’Amore August 16, 2024