Forest and Crag
by Waterman, Laura; Waterman, GuyFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1989-10-01
Publisher(s): Appalachian Mountain Club
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Summary
The definitive history of the mountains of the Northeast is now back in print Z99 this exclusive reissue Exhaustively researched and superbly written Forest and Crag combines anecdotes and social history in the first comprehensive history of the northe
Table of Contents
| Figures and tables | p. vii |
| Illustrations | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Preface to the First Edition | p. xvii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
| Abbreviations | p. xxvii |
| Introduction: The mountains | p. xxix |
| Mountains as "daunting terrible": Before 1830 | p. 1 |
| Darby Field on Mount Washington | p. 7 |
| Ira Allen on Mount Mansfield | p. 15 |
| The Belknap-Cutler expedition to Mount Washington | p. 21 |
| Alden Partridge: The first regionwide hiker | p. 29 |
| The Crawfords of Crawford Notch | p. 37 |
| The Monument Line surveyors on Katahdin | p. 49 |
| Janus on the heights during the 1820s | p. 57 |
| Mountains as sublime: 1830-1870 | p. 69 |
| The first mountain tourists | p. 79 |
| Katahdin: A test for the adventurous | p. 93 |
| The Adirondacks at last | p. 101 |
| The mountain guides | p. 111 |
| The Austin sisters and their legacy | p. 119 |
| The elder Hitchcock and Arnold Guyot | p. 125 |
| Wintering over on Moosilauke and Washington | p. 131 |
| Mountains as places to walk: 1870-1910 | p. 145 |
| The pleasures of pedestrianism | p. 151 |
| Adirondack Murray's Fools | p. 161 |
| The younger Hitchcock and Verplanck Colvin | p. 167 |
| The first hiking clubs | p. 183 |
| The first mountain guidebooks | p. 195 |
| The first trail systems | p. 199 |
| Three Adirondack trail centers | p. 209 |
| Randolph | p. 223 |
| Other trail systems | p. 233 |
| Trails that failed | p. 243 |
| Backcountry camping in the eighties and nineties | p. 255 |
| Pychowskas ascendant | p. 261 |
| Death in the mountains | p. 273 |
| Trail policy issues | p. 279 |
| J. Rayner Edmands and Warren Hart: a study in contrast | p. 287 |
| The last explorers | p. 297 |
| The conservation movement | p. 307 |
| The first mountain snowshoers | p. 315 |
| Winter pioneering on Mount Marcy | p. 325 |
| The first mountain skiers | p. 331 |
| Mountains as escape from urban society: 1910-1950 | p. 343 |
| The Long Trail | p. 351 |
| Unification of the White Mountain trails | p. 375 |
| The Adirondacks become one hiking center | p. 391 |
| Baxter State Park | p. 401 |
| Metropolitan trails | p. 409 |
| Connecticut's blue-blazed trail system | p. 431 |
| The proliferation of hiking clubs | p. 443 |
| Backconntry camping in the twenties and thirties | p. 457 |
| Trail maintenance comes of age | p. 465 |
| Regionwide consciousness | p. 475 |
| The Appalachian Trail | p. 485 |
| Superhiking | p. 511 |
| The Bemis Crew | p. 525 |
| Katahdin in winter | p. 531 |
| Snowshoes versus skis: the great debate | p. 537 |
| Depression, hurricanes, and war | p. 547 |
| Mountains as places for recreation: Since 1950 | p. 557 |
| The backpacking boom | p. 563 |
| Environmental ethics and backcountry management | p. 575 |
| Backcountry camping in the seventies and eighties | p. 589 |
| The clubs cope with change | p. 595 |
| Northeastern trail systems mature | p. 603 |
| New paths for trail maintenance | p. 611 |
| Points of controversy | p. 627 |
| Peakbaggers and end-to-enders | p. 639 |
| The "school" of winter mountaineering | p. 651 |
| The winter recreation boom | p. 661 |
| Epilogue | p. 671 |
| Mountains over 4,000 feet in the Northeastern United States, their elevations, and first known ascents | p. 673 |
| Glossary | p. 679 |
| Reference notes | p. 687 |
| Selected bibliography | p. 859 |
| Index | p. 863 |
| About the authors | p. 885 |
| About the AMC | p. 887 |
| Leave No Trace | p. 888 |
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