Category: state highpoints
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CA-Mount Whitney
Summit Date 8/16/2011 – around 8:20 am Party Tom Triplett and Ryan Cragun Trip Report Due to a rather last minute work issue, Mark was unable to hike Mount Whitney with Tom and I. With his blessing, Tom and I decided to still hike Mount Whitney. We had decided on Mount Whitney as we had…
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DE-Ebright Azimuth
Summit Date March 5th, 2011; around 1:00pm Party Ryan Cragun (+ some random guy who was sitting on a bench and all the people who were driving past at the time) Trip Report I drove down to Ebright Azimuth from High Point, NJ, which I had visited earlier that day. This highpoint is, quite literally,…
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NJ-High Point
Summit Date March 5th, 2011; around 8:00 am Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report I drove from Hartford, CT to the highpoint. For some reason I thought highpoints in New England would be accessible and not particularly cold in early March. I was wrong. High Point was covered in snow and the entire hill was blanketed…
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RI-Jerimoth Hill
Summit Date March 4th, 2011; around 4:45 pm Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report I was doing some work in Hartford, CT, and decided I wanted to see a little bit of the surrounding area. As I hadn’t done any of the highpoint in the area, I figured I’d give it a whirl and…
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TX-Guadalupe Peak
Summit Date August 15th, 2010 Party Tom Triplett, Mark Woolley, and Ryan Cragun Trip Report We didn’t hike a state highpoint in 2009 as traveling to one from where we were all living was a bit too far. But due a recent move for Mark (to Arizona), driving to Texas to hike Guadalupe Peak made…
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NM-Wheeler Peak
Summit Date August 2nd, 2008; around 12:00 pm Party Ryan Cragun, Mark Woolley, Tom Triplett Trip Report We chose New Mexico this year as we were unable to get a permit to hike Mt. Whitney in California. We left Salt Lake on August 1st, headed for Taos Ski Valley. We planned on camping in one…
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AZ-Humphrey’s Peak
Summit Date August 12, 2007, around 11:00 am Party Ryan Cragun and Mark Woolley Trip Report Mark and I woke up around 5:45 to get ready for the hike. Tom, well, Tom had been up all night anyway with the runs and vomiting and was semi-awake when we got up. For those who don’t know…
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ID-Borah Peak
Summit Date August 27, 2006, around 1:00 pm Party Ryan Cragun, Tom Triplett, Mark Woolley Trip Report The trip began on Saturday, the 26th. My wife, Debi, dropped me off at Mark’s in-laws’ where I was meeting up with Tom and Mark to go on our annual hike. We hung out waiting for Tom for…
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FL-Britton Hill
Summit Date December 21st, 2003; around 9:30 am Party Ryan & Debi Cragun Trip Report We had driven over 700 miles the day before, visited Alabama’s highpoint, and spent the night in Elba, AL at Olde South Inn bed & breakfast. The owner was great and the accommodations were very nice. We were on our…
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AL-Cheaha Mountain
Summit Date December 20th, 2003; around 12:00 pm Party Ryan & Debi Cragun Trip Report We left Cincinnati at 4:00 am and were on our way to Orlando for a week vacation. We re-directed our route in order to stop by the last two state highpoints I had not visited in the South – Alabama…