It’s my first time at an AMC High Mountain Hut and I’m standing in the middle of Lakes of the Clouds dining hall, soaking it all in: the sweeping views of the White Mountains, the bright wooden…
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Hiking the White Mountains? Here’s What Staying at an AMC Hut Is Really Like
It’s my first time at an AMC High Mountain Hut and I’m standing in the middle of Lakes of the Clouds dining hall, soaking it all in: the sweeping views of the White Mountains, the bright wooden...
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Perhaps the most iconic stretch of the Appalachian Trail is the 100 Mile Wilderness in Maine, where resupply is not easily available to the thru hiker. As an experiment, I wanted to explore whether someone…
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The Pemigewasset Loop (often called the Pemi Loop) is an iconic 31-mile loop in the Pemigewasset Wilderness, a 45,000-acre area in the center of the White Mountain National Forest. Whereas we call it a loop,…
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I can hear the yips and howls as soon as I pull into the parking lot of the Leisure Life Resort in Greenville, Maine. The snow-covered staging area is a mess of wagging tails, lolling tongues, prancing paws with little booties on them. Volunteers wearing…
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Long before chairlifts and crowded resorts defined winter recreation, skiers were climbing mountains under their own power, carving turns down forested slopes, logging roads, and alpine ravines across New England and New York. From Scandinavian…
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If you’ve listened to Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season,” you already know this time of year gets a bad reputation—bare trees, grey skies, and that limbo feeling between peak foliage and first snow. But those who…
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Did you know that AMC has a stash of canoes at remote ponds throughout the Maine Woods–and that they are free and open to the public? “When we bought the land, there was a lot…
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My mind is racing. It’s always racing. I’m the Director of Communications at the Appalachian Mountain Club, and my job is to connect the dots—which means there are a lot of thoughts rattling around my…
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Do you remember October 10th, 2024, when much of the sky over the Northeast came alive with shimmering curtains of pink, red, and green? One minute I was taking the recycling out, and the next—bam….
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