Figures and Tables

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Illustrations xiii
5. Foreword xv
6. Foreword xix
7. Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition xxiii
8. Preface to the E-book Edition xxix
9. Preface to the Second Edition xxxv
10. Preface to the First Edition xxxix
11. Acknowledgments to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition xlv
12. Acknowledgments to the First Edition xlvii
13. Abbreviations li
14. Introduction: The mountains liii
15. PART ONE Mountains as "daunting terrible": Before 1830
16. Chapter 1 Darby Field on Mount Washington 1
17. Chapter 2 Ira Allen on Mount Mansfield 15
18. Chapter 3 The Belknap-Cutler expedition to Mount Washington 21
19. Chapter 4 Alden Partridge: The first regionwide hiker 29
20. Chapter 5 The Crawfords of Crawford Notch 37
21. Chapter 6 The Monument Line surveyors on Katahdin 49
22. Chapter 7 Janus on the heights during the 1820s 57
23. Part Two. Mountains as sublime: 1830-1870
24. Chapter 8 The first mountain tourists 69
25. Chapter 9 Katahdin: A test for the adventurous 93
26. Chapter 10 The Adirondacks at last 101
27. Chapter 11 The mountain guides 111
28. Chapter 12 The Austin sisters and their legacy 119
29. Chapter 13 The elder Hitchcock and Arnold Guyot 125
30. Chapter 14 Wintering over on Moosilauke and Washington 131
31. Part Three. Mountains as places to walk: 1870-1910
32. Chapter 15 The pleasures of pedestrianism 145
33. Chapter 16 Adirondack Murray's Fools 161
34. Chapter 17 The younger Hitchcock and Verplanck Colvin 167
35. Chapter 18 The first hiking clubs 183
36. Chapter 19 The first mountain guidebooks 195
37. Chapter 20 The first trail systems 199
38. Chapter 21 Three Adirondack trail centers 209
39. Chapter 22 Randolph 223
40. Chapter 23 Other trail systems 233
41. Chapter 24 Trails that failed 243
42. Chapter 25 Backcountry camping in the eighties and nineties 255
43. Chapter 26 Pychowskas ascendant 261
44. Chapter 27 Death in the mountains 273
45. Chapter 28 Trail policy issues 279
46. Chapter 29 J. Rayner Edmands and Warren Hart: A study in contrast 287
47. Chapter 30 The last explorers 297
48. Chapter 31 The conservation movement 307
49. Chapter 32 The first mountain snowshoers 315
50. Chapter 33 Winter pioneering on Mount Marcy 325
51. Chapter 34 The first mountain skiers 331
52. PART FOUR Mountains as escape from. urban society: 1910-1950
53. Chapter 35 The Long Trail 343
54. Chapter 36 Unification of the White Mountain trails 375
55. Chapter 37 The Adirondacks become one hiking center 391
56. Chapter 38 Baxter State Park 401
57. Chapter 39 Metropolitan trails 409
58. Chapter 40 Connecticut's blue-blazed trail system 431
59. Chapter 41 The proliferation of hiking clubs 443
60. Chapter 42 Backcountry camping in the twenties and thirties 457
61. Chapter 43 Trail maintenance comes of age 465
62. Chapter 44 Regionwide consciousness 475
63. Chapter 45 The Appalachian Trail 485
64. Chapter 46 Super hiking 511
65. Chapter 47 The Bemis Crew 525
66. Chapter 48 Katahdin in winter 531
67. Chapter 49 Snowshoes versus skis: The great debate 537
68. Chapter 50 Depression, hurricanes, and war 547
69. PART FIVE Mountains as places for recreation: Since 1950
70. Chapter 51 The backpacking boom 557
71. Chapter 52 Environmental ethics and backcountry management 575
72. Chapter 53 Backcountry camping in the seventies and eighties 589
73. Chapter 54 The clubs cope with change 595
74. Chapter 55 Northeastern trail systems mature 603
75. Chapter 56 New paths for trail maintenance 611
76. Chapter 57 Points of controversy 627
77. Chapter 58 Peakbaggers and end-to-enders 639
78. Chapter 59 The "school" of winter mountaineering 651
79. Chapter 60 The winter recreation boom 661
80. Epilogue 671
81. Appendix: Mountains over 4,000 feet in the Northeastern United States, their elevations, and first known ascents 673
82. Glossary 679
83. Reference notes 687
84. Selected Bibliography 859
85. Index 863
86. About the Authors 885