Contents * Preface * Acknowledgments * PART I. WEATHERWISE OR OTHERWISE? PRESIDENTIAL RANGE PERILS AND OTHER TALES ABOVE TREE LINE * Nature Is Unforgiving: Case Studies - Peter Crane * Winter above Tree Line - Guy Waterman * Poking the Dragon - Benjamin David Potter * Porky Gulch and Above - Landon G. Rockwell * Skiing Mount Washington - Landon G. Rockwell * A Wild Day in the Presidentials - Alan Via * Haunted - Matt Harris * The Great Gulf - Ellen McDowell Ruggles * Tragedy among the Clouds - Carol Stone White * Green in the Whites - Michael N. Kelsey * Extremes at the Top of Maine - Johnathan A. Esper * PART II. RESCUES IN THE MOUNTAINS * A Leg Up: Challenges of a Self-Rescue - Doug Mayer * Sub-Zero Weather Incapacitates - Todd Bogardus * Fall from Saddleback Cliff - Marian Zimmerman * Injury Miles from Nowhere - Arlene Heer Stefanko * A Mount Marcy Helicopter Rescue - Kimberly J. LaPorte * A Fall from Grace - Melinda Broman * Midnight Rescue - Roy R.
Schweiker * Two Lives Saved by Search and Rescue Teams - Edith Tucker * Life-Threatening Conditions Cause Fatality - Todd Bogardus * One Man Dead, One Rescued on Blackhead Mountain - Susan Campriello * Break on Panther Mountain - John Swanson * A Case of the Umbles - John C. Goding * Katahdin Ice Climber Meets Lady Luck - Susan P. Kirk * PART III. A TREACHEROUS PLACE IN THE PEAKS * The Day "Hal's Slide" Got Its Name - Keith P. Sullivan * Rescue on Hal's Slide - Marjorie LaPan Drake * Hiker and Dog Fall on Wildcat Slide - Douglas W. Hunt * Wild Days on the Wildcats - David Scott White * PART IV. DANGERS OF WATER IN THE MOUNTAINS * Waterfilled: In Which We Nearly Drown - Laura Waterman * Broken Compass - Rebecca Chapin * A Bridge to Safety? - Leonard H. Grubbs * Icy Passage through Iroquois Pass - Carol Stone White and David Scott White * A Nice Day Becomes an Ice Day - Marta Bolton Quilliam * Frostbite! - Carol Stone White and David Scott White * PART V.
ANIMAL AND AVIAN BEHAVIOR * On the Horns of a Dilemma - John Hartford * Beware Bear Appetites - Carol Stone White * Dog Days in the High Peaks - Leonard H. Grubbs * The Ravens of Bondcliff - Alan Via * PART VI. ODYSSEYS: IN PURSUIT OF THE POSSIBLE * Hiking the Appalachian Trail with a Tuba - Scott "Tuba Man" Rimm-Hewitt * Curses, Excursus: Hut-to-Hut Musings - Timothy Muskat * Descending into the Maelstrom - Teddy "Cave Dog" Keizer * Never Underestimate the Power of Pudding - Donna Brigley * Going Long with Fat Packs - Mary Ellen BaRoss * The White Mountain 4,000-Footers Direttissima - Mats Roing * Enjoying a Frozen World - Diane Duggento Sawyer * PART VII. LOST, UNPREPARED, LEADER LAPSES, AND BUSHWHACKED * Bivouac at Twenty Below - Marta Bolton Quilliam * Whiteout and Bivouac on Algonquin Peak - Dot Myer * Most Difficult of the Winter 111 - Betty Maury Heald * Well, Hale Fellow Not Met - Aaron Schoenberg * A Chocorua Curse? - Anne Norton and Steve Boheim * Democracy in Action - Steve Boheim * Don't Shoot - Marc Howes * A Well-Guarded Fort--Escape Not Guaranteed - Donna W. Dearborn * Coming Home - Martha Leb Molnar * Appendix A: Clubs and Organizations * Appendix B: Safety Guidelines * Notes * Glossary * Suggestions for Further Reading * Contributors * About the Editor * Credits.