In This Issue:

Why the World Needs the Night: A visit to the Appalachian Mountain
Club’s International Dark Sky Park. - Laura Poppick

More than Meets the Eye: Step-by-step, exploring Connecticut’s Great
Mountain Forest. - David K. Leff

Sky’s the Limit: Seeing the future in a disturbing summer storm. - Lela Stanley

Moths to a Flame: The light and dark of reading Accidents in North
American Mountaineering. · Leath Tonino

An Ocean Walk in the Ocean State: A couple covers the full width of Rhode Island. - Stephen S. Hale

Nebraska, Anyone? An avid hiker navigates around Jeep tracks and high
prairie. - Lisa Ballard

The Stranger on Moosilauke: A hiker revisits the haunting tragedy of a frigid
day. - Jeannie Oliver

Caught in a Vortex: Two hikers stumble upon a private ceremony. - Elissa Ely

Chocorua—Tomorrua: Three generations of women on Mount Chocorua,
1903–1974. - Jane English

Pilgrimage: A journey to witness climate change in the national parks. - Elise Wallace