Somebody ought to
write this down.
Doghobble is an independent publication about the southern end of the Appalachians, where the Cumberland Plateau, the Ridge and Valley and the Blue Ridge all run into each other.
We go out, pull over more often than is reasonable, talk to whoever is there, and come back with the story.
Why here
Why a magazine, and why here.
Out West, the mountains have been written up for generations. There are magazines about them and posters of them in every coffee shop. Spend a month in Montana and you start to take it for granted.
Then you come home to a range that is older and a good deal stranger, with more kinds of salamander than anywhere else on earth and hollows full of stories nobody wrote down, and you find it mostly gets sold by the lake lot. When it isn't for sale, it gets played for a joke about moonshine and banjos.
That isn't for lack of people doing good work. Local historians, small presses, river keepers, photographers, cooks and farmers know this country better than anyone, and plenty of them already tell its story well. What it doesn't have yet is a home for the best of that work, printed at full size and paid for properly.
So that's the job. We go out and look, do the reading, and pay the writers and photographers whose work we print. The website stays free as an atlas and field guide anyone can use. The magazine is where the best of it goes on paper, at a size a phone can't manage, paid for by its readers and nobody else.
If you've wished somebody would do this properly, join the waitlist. If you'd like to help do it, here's how to contribute.
What gets us out the door
Mountains, rivers, people and the stories between them.
A given week might be a long day on Big Frog Mountain, a mountain bike ride that goes worse than planned, a cold morning in the Conasauga River with a snorkel, or a conversation at a farm in the Sequatchie Valley.
We write about the places that make this region what it is: the trails, the rivers, the forests, the farms and the small towns. We're just as interested in a great meal and a good trail as we are in what's happening to the water, the land and the communities that call these mountains home.
Credit Adventure
Good trails, long views, and the occasional hike-a-bike.
Credit People and places
Farms, restaurants, lodges and the people who make this country what it is.
Great Smoky Mountains National ParkCredit The bigger picture
Environmental reporting, conservation and the forces shaping the future.
Who's behind it
Edited in North Georgia.
Doghobble is edited by Javi, a regional naturalist, photographer, and the author of the Field Guide to the Cohutta Mountains. He photographs these mountains and writes about their natural history, and he spends more time in old newspapers and land-lot maps than is probably healthy.
He lives at the southern end of the range, and he's out here as often as he can, paying attention, talking to people, and trying to make sense of a remarkable piece of country.
Doghobble Magazine
A magazine
in the works.
Doghobble Magazine will be a large-format (11 × 14 inch), print-only magazine. Original reporting, photography, and good stories from this country. Twice a year, on paper, with room for the long pieces and the images you can actually see.
Nothing is for sale yet. The free waitlist is the first to hear when it is.
Join the waitlist
Concept rendering. The first issue is in development.
Independence
We're reader-supported and answer to nobody else.
Doghobble isn't affiliated with any agency, land manager or tourism board, and nothing on this site is sponsored. We write about places because they're worth writing about. A hosted stay or a free meal doesn't buy a story or a kind word. When a story involves a material relationship, we say so. Facts are sourced, opinions are ours, and a page that is still in development says so.
Write to us at hello@doghobblemag.com.