Category: state highpoints
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CO-Mount Elbert
Summit Date July 22, 2003, around 9:30 am Party Ryan Cragun, Tom Triplett, Mark Woolley Trip Report This is the fourth hike that Tom, Mark, and I did together; but only the third state highpoint. We decided on hiking Mt. Elbert because I was driving in from Ohio and this would prevent me from having to…
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OK-Black Mesa
Summit Date July 19th 2003, around 3:15 pm Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report I drove in from Oklahoma City, arriving at the trailhead at around 1:00 pm mountain time. I hadn’t originally known whether or not I was going to do this hike on the 19th or the 20th, knowing that it was supposed to…
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LA-Driskill Mountain
Summit Date July 18th, 2003 around 6:30 am Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report I had visited Mississippi’s highpoint on July 17th, 2003 and had planned on camping in Vicksburg, Mississippi that night. Though my small tent is waterproof, the campground where I had originally planned on staying was fairly waterlogged and from what I could…
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AR-Mount Magazine
Summit Date July 18th, 2003 around 3:00 pm Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report I visited Louisiana’s highpoint early this morning and drove straight from there to Mount Magazine. The area surrounding the highpoint is actually very beautiful. Also, it appears that quite a bit of time and money has been invested in the Mount Magazine…
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MS-Woodall Mountain
Summit Date July 17, 2003 around 2:30 pm Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report I left Cincinnati just after 7:00 am this morning. My only real stop was in Brentwood, TN where I stopped at REI to pick up some supplies. Other than that stop I drove directly to the highpoint. I did actually have a…
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KY-Black Mountain
Summit Date May 25, 2003, around 1:00 pm Party Ryan Cragun, Debi Cragun Trip Report Debi and I needed a break from school and all of the things that tend to take over your life when you’re at home. When Memorial Day came around and we had a three-day weekend we decided it would be…
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HI-Mauna Kea
Summit Date March 22, 2003; around 5:00 pm Party Ryan Cragun, Debi Cragun, Scott Morgan, Steve Morgan, Brent Robbins, & Rosemary Morgan Honorable Mention : Suzy Robbins & Gary Morgan Trip Report As is probably the case for most highpointers, I had no idea when I was actually going to be able to visit Hawaii…
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WV-Spruce Knob
Summit Date September 7, 2002, around 11:00 am Party Ryan Cragun, Debi Cragun Trip Report Spruce Knob was the first of three highpoints that we planned to visit this day. Debi and I left Cincinnati at 3:45 am and arrived at the parking area around 11:00 or so. There were a few other cars in…
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PA-Mount Davis
Summit Date September 7, 2002, around 3:30 pm Party Ryan Cragun, Debi Cragun Trip Report This was our third and last highpoint of the day. We left Cincinnati at 3:45 am and had visited two other highpoints already, Spruce Knob, WV and Backbone Mountain, MD. We ended up getting back to Cincinnati at around 11:00…
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MD-Backbone Mountain
Summit Date September 7, 2002, around 1:30 pm Party Ryan Cragun, Debi Cragun Trip Report This was our second highpoint of the day. We left Cincinnati at 3:45 am and visited Spruce Knob, WV just earlier. We planned on visiting Pennsylvania’s Mount Davis after this one. The trailhead (which is the beginning of an old…