Forest and Crag

Name: Forest and Crag | A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
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A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

Laura Waterman Guy Waterman(Autor*in)

State University of New York Press

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Intro
Contents
Figures and Tables
Illustrations
Foreword, Rebecca Oreskes
Foreword, Tony Goodwin
Changes since 1989
Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
Preface to the E-book Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
Acknowledgments to the First Edition
Abbreviations
Introduction: The mountains
The three chief ranges
The mountains of Maine
The lower hills
Part One: Mountains as "daunting terrible": Before 1830
1 Darby Field on Mount Washington
2 Ira Allen on Mount Mansfield
3 The Belknap-Cutler expedition to Mount Washington
4 Alden Partridge: The first regionwide hiker
5 The Crawfords of Crawford Notch
The coming of the Crawfords
The Crawford Paths
The Lancastrians on the Northern Presidentials
The invasion of the botanists
6 The Monument Line surveyors on Katahdin
7 Janus on the heights during the 1820s
Part Two: Mountains as sublime: 1830-1870
8 The first mountain tourists
The White Mountains
Vermont
Maine
9 Katahdin: A test for the adventurous
10 The Adirondacks at last
11 The mountain guides
12 The Austin sisters and their legacy
13 The elder Hitchcock and Arnold Guyot
14 Wintering over on Moosilauke and Washington
Winter's special challenges
Moosilauke in 1869-70
Washington in 1870-71
Part Three: Mountains as places to walk: 1870-1910
15 The pleasures of pedestrianism
16 Adirondack Murray's Fools
17 The younger Hitchcock and Verplanck Colvin
The geological survey of New Hampshire
The topographical survey of New York
18 The first hiking clubs
The Alpine Club of Williamstown, Massachusetts
New York City's earliest walking clubs
White Mountain Club of Portland, Maine
The Appalachian Mountain Club
Late nineteenth-century outdoors clubs
19 The first mountain guidebooks
20 The first trail systems
Improvements and explorations
The earliest hiking trails
Waterville Valley
Nowell, Lowe, and the AMC trail-builders
21 Three Adirondack trail centers
The Colvin survey
The Ausable region
Adirondack Lodge
Whiteface-Lake Placid
The great fires
22 Randolph
23 Other trail systems
The Grand Monadnock
Mount Desert
Mount Greylock
Other Massachusetts trails
24 Trails that failed
Maine
Vermont
The Catskills
25 Backcountry camping in the eighties and nineties
26 Psychowskas ascendant
27 Death in the Mountains
28 Trail policy issues
29 J. Rayner Edmands and Warren Hart: a study in contrast
30 The last explorers
Explorers in the White Mountains
The Big Three in the Adirondacks
Witherle in Maine
31 The conservation movement
32 The first mountain snowshoers
33 Winter pioneering on Mount Marcy
34 The first mountain skiers
Fred Harris and the Dartmouth Outing Club
Langmuir, Apperson, and the General Electric skiers
Jackrabbit Johannsen and the Lake Placid Club
On the nature of early skiing
Part Four: Mountains as escape from urban society: 1910-1950
35 The Long Trail
36 Unification of the White Mountain trails
37 The Adirondacks become one hiking center
38 Baxter State Park
39 Metropolitan trails
The Hudson Highlands before 1920
Major Welch and the Harriman Park trails
The New York hiking scene of the 1920s-1930s
Raymond H. Torrey
The noisy Trail War and the quiet Long Path
40 Connecticut's blue-blazed trail system
41 The proliferation of hiking clubs
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Upstate New York
Metropolitan New York
Southern New England
College outing clubs
Scouting groups
Summer camps
42 Backcountry camping in the twenties and thirties
43 Trail maintenance comes of age
44 Regionwide consciousness
45 The Appalachian Trail
Benton MacKaye
Arthur Perkins
Myron Avery
AT building: New York
AT building: Connecticut
AT building: Massachusetts
AT building: Vermont and New Hampshire
AT building: Maine
Characteristics of the Appalachian Trail in itsearly days
46 Superhiking
Dartmouth's long walks
The Adirondack forty-six
"Big days"
End-to-enders
Critics of Superhiking
The superhikers' response
47 The Bemis Crew
48 Katahdin in winter
49 Snowshoes versus skis: The great debate
The White Mountains
The Green Mountains
The Adirondacks
Winter camping
50 Depression, hurricanes, and war
The Great Depression
Hurricanes
World War II
Part Five: Mountains as places for recreation: Since 1950
51 The backpacking boom
52 Environmental ethics and backcountry management
The antilitter drive
1969: Year of awakening
Different approaches to backcountry management
53 Backcountry camping in the seventies and eighties
54 The clubs cope with change
55 Northeastern trail systems mature
56 New paths for trail maintenance
Paint brush and swizzle stick
Postboom trail work
57 Points of controversy
Preservation versus use
Membership growth in the clubs
Wilderness areas
Trail policy issues
Appalachian Trail protection program
58 Peakbaggers and end-to-enders
59 "The school" of winter mountaineering
60 The winter recreation boom
Epilogue
Appendix: Mountains over 4,000 feet in the Northeastern United States, their elevations, and first known ascents
Glossary
Reference Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Authors

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